BOARDERS AND THEIR LANDLADIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2399, 24 November 1880, Page 2

BOARDERS AND THEIR LANDLADIES.

An Auckland boarder of quiet and studious habits, thus ventilates his grievances in the Auckland “ Star.’' Boarders in this town, as in all others, are subject to a variety of annoyances. The tyranny of their Landladies—for these worthies exercise an amount of petty oppression (particularly when their boarders are numerous) undreamed of by the uninitiated; the excessive charges ; the discomfort caused by the drunken habits of other boarders, who by their stumbles on their way to bed, break the rest of their unfortunate early-to - bed neighbours; all these matters and various others tend to make the lot of the quiet boarder a pitiable one. If he wishes to

read quietly in his own room he is fold that he burns too much candle. If he tries to read in the general sitting-room, either “he extravagantly flares the gas away,” or the snoi’es, or the loud talk of his less industrious comrades effectually render his attempts of no avail. If he mildly remonstrates with bad cooking, or with the sameness of the victuals, he is haughtily told to move to some hotel, where he gets better fare, perhaps, but at a greatly advanced price. And lastly if the quiet young man in question has the misfortune to he associated under the same roof with a model lodger, the landlady’s pet, whom she coddles and favours before all the rest, then is his cup of unhappiness full to overflowing.