“No Children Allowed.”—The “Solid Comfort” will answer for the occasion to designate an elegant apartment house opened about two years ago in a suburb of Boston. It was finished with all modern conveniences and inconveniences. There were electric bells in a row at the door, so that the afternoon caller could ring up nine different and peaceful maid servants before getting into communication with the family she came to see; there were fire escapes and telephones, and elevators and speaking tubes; and, in all probability, safety valves and submarine cables. But the crowning joy of all was the fact that no children were allowed within its walls. It was built for the accommodation of childless couples, and to ten childless couples were the suites let. How great was the quiet and calm of that sheltered retreat, until one ill-starred morning, when the cry of an infant, shrilly and piteously, broke the stillness! Horror and indignation upon the part of nine guiltless couples! And yet, so weak is humanity, that before the end of the second year there were children in seven of the ten families. The childless young couples were childless no more; and when the owner of the building complained to his friends of the unfair treatment he had received at the hands of his tenants, they all laughed in his face and advised him to let his apartments to bachelors.—Sanitarian for November, 1885.
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