KEEPING BOARDERS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 24 October 1882, Page 2

KEEPING BOARDERS.

"Another boarding-house busted up, I see," sighed a venerable Detroit land- ." lady, as she laid down her paper. " VVell, it must hare been extravagance : on the table. That's what bankrupts seven out of. ten, and then the boarders -\ are crying out 'hash!' and complaining "■ of poor meaU.Now, I hare run a boarding-house for twenty«two yea«ji«ndr I made money and heard no complaints. , Why, it's all in planning. For instance a ! neck piece of mutton can be cut ta look like a rib roast, and a little extra fire makes it just «s tender* ,-'■ 4 Lawd save you! I've been complimented a thousand times on my selection df * choice spring lamb when the meat was ;... mutton four years old, and toughest part v * at that. The idea of spring ohicken on * boarding house table is < absurd—•jtl almost wicked. In my palmy days I could ',' take a tough old hen, pound the body/with a potato masher for ten minutes, arid set < ' before my boarders a, ftast to make er«y_ heart glad- Now I'll'venture that there aren't ten landladies in the city that can take a pig's head and slice off the meat in ' a manner to make everybody believe he has the choicest * cut in a . pig* body; and it's a wonder to me Ltbat there ain't more failures. Lots tof landladies buy nice fresh batter, and thus tempt a man to eat fire or six biscuits or half a loaf of. bread. What economy! J . always had my nice butter on the table •'" -' > breakfast, when we had little bat toast, and the boarders got afaig on old batter < < the other two meals. It-is all in the plan- { " ning—in the planning, to nave beef steak every morning. Three mornings , ; in the week I bougfrt «|rloin, which is Wfity', \ nice, you know, and the other four morn* {r ■;" ings I bought neck pieces, and rubbed the case knives over the grindstone. GiTe a boarder a sharp knife and a tough steak r ..,. and -he'll never;make a complaint—never. He'll put'ihe blame on his teeth, and the more steak he leaves on his plate the more rabbit pie you have fordinner."