KEEPING BOARDERS

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

KEEPING BOARDERS

THE EXPERIENCE OF A VKT RAN LANDLADY. " Another boarding-house busted up, I se»y' sighed a venerable Detroit landlady, as she laid clown her pap^ Vv'iM, it must have h»en extravagance lon tlv.i table. That's what bankrupts S' j vt : n out of ten, and then tlie boarders : arc etyingoiit 'hash Piind coir.piaini :g of poor meals. Not, I have run a ■ hoarding house for twenty-two years, and I made money and hoard no complaints. How did Ido it? Why, i it's all iv planning. For instance, a 1 neck-piece of ni'jtton can be cut to look i like a rib roast, ar.d & iitle extra tire niak-.-cj it just aa tender. Lawd save : you 1 I likvo been complimented a thousand firms o!i my sclta-tiou of choice spii:;g k'.;b Tiheu llie nu'at was mutton four years old. a,i:d toughest , part afc that The idea of spring i chicken oil a hoard ing-hw'.ue table is> i absurd — ay] almr-si; v.iulc^d. In ray I palmy days I couid 1 1!-:<; a tough old : hen, pound the body with a potato i masher for ton tiii;";ut '.!■■>, and set before j my boarders a tVast to rna\e every heart ] glad. Now 1 11 ven*n;'t! to say th it ; there aren't ten landladies ia the city ' that can take a pig's head and slice off | the meat in a manner to moke overy- ' body believe he has the choicest cut in } a pigs' body ; and it's a wonder to me that there ain*t more failures. Lots of ladies buy nice fresh butter, aid thus tompt a man to eat five or six biscuits or half a loaf of bread. What economy ! I always had my nice butter on the table at breakfast, when we j had little but toast, and the boarders got along on old butter the other meals. It is all in the planning — in the planning. I used to have beef-steak every morning. Three mornings in the week I bought sirloin, which is very nice, you know, and the other four mornings I brought neck-pieces j and rubbed the case knives over the grindstone. Give a boarder a sharp knife and a tough steak and he'll never make a complaint — never. He'll put the blame on his teeth, ar.d the more steak he leaves on his plate the more rabbit pie you have for dinner."