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Our Landlady by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - L. Frank Baum
The Complete Works of
L. FRANK BAUM
VOLUME 60 OF 76
Our Landlady
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This eBook is Part 60 of the Delphi Classics edition of L. Frank Baum in 76 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Our Landlady from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of L. Frank Baum, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.
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L. FRANK BAUM
IN 76 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Oz Works
1, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2, The Marvelous Land of Oz
3, The Woggle-Bug Book
4, Ozma of Oz
5, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
6, The Road to Oz
7, The Emerald City of Oz
8, The Patchwork Girl of Oz
9, Little Wizard Stories of Oz
10, Tik-Tok of Oz
11, The Scarecrow of Oz
12, Rinkitink in Oz
13, The Lost Princess of Oz
14, The Tin Woodman of Oz
15, The Magic of Oz
16, Glinda of Oz
17, The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Other Fantasy Works
18, The Magical Monarch of Mo
19, Dot and Tot of Merryland
20, American Fairy Tales
21, The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale
22, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
23, The Enchanted Island of Yew
24, Queen Zixi of Ix
25, John Dough and the Cherub
26, The Sea Fairies
27, Sky Island
Non-Fantasy Works Under Baum’s Name
28, The Daring Twins
29, Phoebe Daring
The Pseudonym Works – Fantasy
30, Twinkle and Chubbins
31, Policeman Bluejay
The Pseudonym Works – Non-Fantasy
32, Aunt Jane’s Nieces
33, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad
34, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
35, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Work
36, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society
37, Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John
38, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on Vacation
39, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on the Ranch
40, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West
41, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross
42, The Flying Girl
43, The Flying Girl and Her Chum
44, Mary Louise
45, Mary Louise in the Country
46, Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
47, Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
48, Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier
49, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska
50, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama
51, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt
52, The Boy Fortune Hunters in China
53, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan
54, The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas
55, The Fate of a Crown
56, Daughters of Destiny
57, Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy
58, Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk
59, The Last Egyptian
Shorter Fiction
60, Our Landlady
61, Mother Goose in Prose
62, Animal Fairy Tales
63, Uncollected Short Stories
The Poetry Collections
64, By the Candelabra’s Glare
65, Father Goose: His Book
66, The Army Alphabet
67, The Navy Alphabet
68, Father Goose’s Year Book
The Poems
69, List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Plays
70, The Maid of Arran
71, The Wizard of Oz
72, The Maid of Athens
73, The King of Gee-Whiz
74, The Pipes O’ Pan
Baumiana
75, Baum Related Articles and Pieces
The Biography
76, In Other Lands Than Ours by Maud Gage-Baum
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Our Landlady
Contributions to ‘The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer’
In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, where they opened a store, which they called Baum’s Bazaar. However, Baum’s habit of imprudently giving credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store. Therefore, he turned to editing a local newspaper, The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, in which he wrote a column titled Our Landlady. The following weekly narratives ran from January 1890 until February 1891, and they concerned the humorous interactions of the titular landlady and her three regular lodgers, as well as several other residents of Aberdeen. The topics discussed are often controversial, especially by today’s standards, and they give a detailed panorama of life in a small town in late Nineteenth Century America. These biting works are among Baum’s very earliest writings and reveal traces of his later skill in satirical works.
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer faced financial barriers, just as experienced previously with Baum’s Bazaar. The failure of the wheat crop in 1889 and 1890 sent the entire regional economy into a steep decline, affecting virtually every business in town. Baum’s subscriber list dropped from 3500 customers to 1400, and many of those who remained could not pay their bills. The last known edition of Baum’s paper was dated 21 March 1891; when he turned the paper over to the previous owner, who sold it on to someone else.
CONTENTS
She Remarks Emphatically on Some Timely and Truthful Topics
25 January 1890
She Remonstrates on the Giddiness of Church Socials
1 February 1890
She Goes to a Ball and Lets a Cat out of the Bag
8 February 1890
She outdoes Nellie Bly and Makes a Trip around Aberdeen in 72 minutes and 6 seconds
15 February 1890
She Insists on Her Boarders Keeping Lent, With Indifferent Success
22 February 1890
She Gets a Letter from her Brother in Harriman that Nearly Breaks up the Establishment
1 March 1890
She Dabbles in Politics and Aspires to a Great Office
8 March 1890
She Worries over Seed Wheat, and Gets Lectured by the Boarders
15 March 1890
She Discusses the Disadvantages of Prohibition, and Invents a New Method of Baking Pies
22 March 1890
She Makes a Terrible Mistake and Quotes a Proverb
29 March 1890
She Tells Why Farmers Should be Happy and Displays Remarkable Forethought
5 April 1890
She Aspires to Rival Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Concocts Another Scheme
12 April 1890
She Lectures the Boarders for Unseemly Conduct and Feeds Them a Green Apple Pie
19 April 1890
Her Experiences in Attempting to Photograph a Baby, and the Severe Mental Strain that Ensued
26 April 1890
She Discourses on Many Topics and tells how Alley deals out the Corn
3 May 1890
She Gives Away the Initiation Ceremonies of the United Workmen and has a Fruitless Search for the Chief of Police
10 May 1890
She Investigates the Original Package Deal With Doubtful Results
17 May 1890
She Raises the Price of Board, but Lowers it Again Through Stern Necessity
24 May 1890
She Manufactures Hash and Gives the Boarders a few Pointers on the Aberdeen Guards
31 May 1890
She Tackles Religion and Gives Her Ideas of the Sunday Enforcement Law
7 June 1890
She Prepares a Treat for the Boarders Which Leads to a Strange Comedy of Errors
21 June 1890
She Announces Her Birthday and Makes an Even Exchange With the Boarders
28 June 1890
She Celebrates the Fourth and Relates Her Varied Experiences
5 July 1890
She Discourses upon Love and Politics
12 July 1890
She Buys a Cow and the Boarders Help Her Milk it
19 July 1890
She Talks About Railroads and Various Minor Matters
26 July 1890
Our Landlady (1)
2 August 1890
She Exposes a Practical Joke and Tells About the Goose Quill Kiss
9 August 1890
Our Landlady (2)
16 August 1890
She gives a Picnic to the Boarders and Writes a Proclamation
23 August 1890
She Attends the Convention and is Disgusted with Politics
30 August 1890
She returns from her Vacation and Visits the Fair
20 September 1890
She Discusses Timely Topics and Criticises some Aberdeen People
4 October 1890
She Discourses on the Hard Times Club,
and tells a Story
11 October 1890
She Confides to the Boarders a Deal to Advance the Cause of Equal Suffrage
18 October 1890
She Relates some Exciting Ancedotes and Attends the Independent Barbecue
25 October 1890
She Gets Her Dander up and Goes Back on Politics
1 November 1890
She has her Last Say concerning Politics, and Criticises a Society Event
8 November 1890
She Organizes a Reading Club in the Most Approved Style of the Art
15 November 1890
She gives the Boarders a Thanksgiving Dinner and Discusses her Blessings
29 November 1890
Our Landlady (3)
6 December 1890
She Enjoys a pleasant chat with the Boarders
20 December 1890
She Fills the Colonel’s Stocking and Talks of the Charity Ball
27 December 1890
She Visits the Great Downditch Farm and tells the Boarders of its Wonders
3 January 1891
She Tells the Boarders How to Make a fortune
10 January 1891
Choice Selections from Her Rambling Remarks
17 January 1891
She Reads a Chapter in Looking Backward
to the Astonished and Interested Boarders
31 January 1891
She Discusses New Inventions with the Boarders
8 February 1891
She Remarks Emphatically on Some Timely and Truthful Topics
25 January 1890
It beats all,
said our landlady, as she threw down the plate of pancakes and wiped the turner on her apron, it beats all how hard the times really is. There’s no end to the sufferin’, right here in our own neighborhood — excuse me, colonel, but your a butterin’ of that cake the second time! Why, only yesterday a poor woman from the country was beggin’ the grocery man to trust her for a pint o’ kerosene, and he wouldn’t let her have it. It made my heart bleed, that’s what it did, and if any o’ you boarders had a paid up lately I’d have gin it to her myself.
Here Tom looked rather red, and said hastily, But Mrs. Bilkins, she might have been an impostor.
Nonsense,
replied the landlady, moving the syrup out of the colonel’s reach, the country people hain’t got a cent — nor the city ones neither for that matter! Even the hotels is economizing. Don’t it look bad for Al. Ward to eat at the Sherman House and Jim Ringrose go sneakin’ down to Ward’s for lunch?
Mrs. Bilkins!
cried the colonel, are you trying to starve us? Let me tell you ma’am, that I for one won’t be economized on. Fetch on the cakes!
The landlady darted a wicked look at him and retired to the kitchen.
The times are bad,
said the doctor, thoughtfully, as he removed the grounds from his coffee, "any one would think the prevailing epidemic would help my business, but it don’t. Nine out of ten who declare they have la grippe are impostors, and the other one suffers tortures rather than pay for a prescription because he thinks the desease isn’t fatal.
That’s false economy.
Economy!
shrieked the landlady, reappearing with the hot cakes, everybody’s economizin’! What do you think o’ Nat. Wendell’s chewin’ both ends of his toothpick, and Frank Beard blackin’ of his own boots, an’ Skip Salisbury refusin’ to shake for the cigars, and Cholly Brockway’s stayin’ at Columbia three weeks rather than pay the fare home to see his girl? There’s economy for you!
The colonel picked his teeth with a ruminating air.
If,
said he, I had any money, I too would economize. But it’s impossible to economize on nothing.
Why, gendemen;
continued the landlady, sitting down across the arms of the baby’s high chair, and waving the empty pancake plate with the air of a newly elected speaker to a brand new House, "why see how the uncommon council is economizin’! Ain’t they hired a lot o’ poor men to plant sign posts in the snow, so as to keep them from starvin’ and obligin’ the city