. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . Tieception Hall of a Suburban TiesiJence conditions compel us to insist upon thehigher rental. Very civil and verysuave about it was the landlord fel-low, but it wasnt hard to imagine himwinding up with, guess that will beabout all. A plain case of grin and bear it,remarked Mac Conchie. Well, we bore it all right, I assert-ed, bore it for three years running,but I dont recall the ever charged us withtelling ourselves funny course, each year, asthe notice would
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . Tieception Hall of a Suburban TiesiJence conditions compel us to insist upon thehigher rental. Very civil and verysuave about it was the landlord fel-low, but it wasnt hard to imagine himwinding up with, guess that will beabout all. A plain case of grin and bear it,remarked Mac Conchie. Well, we bore it all right, I assert-ed, bore it for three years running,but I dont recall the ever charged us withtelling ourselves funny course, each year, asthe notice would appear, Iwent on, we would say, No,Siree! We will not be im-posed on again! We willmove! We will take anotherapartment at a lower rent!But wed stultify look and look andlook—we could give Diogenescards and spades when it cameto looking, and our search wasjust about as successful. Ifwe chanced to find a flatthat was satisfactory, the rent THE SUBURBANITE. Jlnother Jlttractice Home at Westfield would be the same as the newlease demanded, or if we found arent that was not prohibitive, there wassure to be something wrong with theflat. Just to show you, we ran acrossone place in the upper nineties, bet-tween Amsterdam and Broadway, thatwas just the dandiest little layout onecould wish for, and the rent was fivedollars less a month than we were pay-ing. It was about nine oclock in theevening when we looked at it,and Mrs. W. had just remarkedthat it was quite Providential,our discovering it, when a phon-ograph started up in the ad-joining apartment. And insideof two minut5s oppositiontooted up from the roomsdirectly underneath. Great Siott, I said to thejanitor, Dont they restrictthese things in the leases? Resthrict em is it? saidthat autocrat. Faith, andthere do be noine of em inthe buildin, and its illegantmusic, we do have, whin theyall be goin at once. We a Cosey Living Tioom didnt take that place. Well, the upshot of it all was, Iresum
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