The landlady, says a writer in a the home paper, has never been a popular figure—even in the past, when the lodger might preserve an independent spirit by giving a week's notice and changing hu rooms as often as he pleased. Even under thos conditions the good land~ lady was always considered a fortunate discovery. Since the war has brought a reversal of the conditions the unpopularity of the landlady has sharpened; she has be~ come an almost malign figure. Her charges are spoken of as pre-pesterous, and she is thought fit for a profiteering court, Ex.service men seem particularly embittered against her. They have come back and found that rooms of which they had formed an agreeable mental image during the com-fortiess years of absence, are difficult to get, expensive to keep, and that their landladies are will no longer to conform to whims an cranks, that they will not tolerate late hours or dogs, and that they will even in some cases insist asin matter of right that lodgers should not enter the house at any odd and inconvenient hour of the day.
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