The following complaint reaches us from one who has been more than a little unfortunate in choice of a boarding-house.
A woman who has been living in a boarding house not a hundred" miles from the Nanking Road had been paying $150 for a single room and bath, without hot water, and with practically, no conveniences for personal comfort. A few days ago the landlord demanded $190 despite the fact that $150 had een agreed upon. She refused to pay it and as a consequence she now is nob served with meals, and has no hot water brought to her, regardless of the fact that she has offered to pay for the water, and she is not provided with a fire, She offered the boy $5 to go out and get some coal and build a fire. The boy said, "No. master say no can do."? This woman gives lessons all day and when she come homes at night there is no fire and no food. It seems that the food has never been anything to rush home for but it at at least possessed preserving calories, Suche this could perhaps be heard every day by those who had time to listen. The rare woman who keeps a hoarding house or a home for paying quests" and has been square to her boarders through the present anparalelled crisis, will certainly be repaid when that. crisis has passed.
Not all owners of boarding-houses, though a common target of abuse, are like that. But this story, well authenticated, makes one boil. The worst of it is, the lady has no remedy but to move, if she can.
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