Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — Appalling Salubrity. [ARTICLE]

Appalling Salubrity.

Boston Sunday Times. A young gentleman and his blushing bride, who were recently married in Philadelphia called the pext week at an apartment-house and were shown the flat that was to let by the loquacious person who officiates as janitor. This estimable woman, who would appear to be a good motherly soul, went on to illustrate how very healthy the house happened to be. “There was Airs. on the first floor; she came here a bride and went away with three children, as pretty little things as ever I saw, mem. And there was Mrs.- , the second, who had a little son born to her here, mem, and fourteen months after a little daughter. And, mem, Mrs. , the third floor, she was a bride too, mem, and it was twins, mem, within a year. If you please, mem, I am the mother of four of the darlingest ” “Thanks,” said the bridegroom, from whom I gleaned this interesting anecdote, “after all, I think it wpuld be better a little further up town.” And he led the bride—“blushing again”—into the open air out of the healthy neighborhood.