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Updated: June 21, 2025
The hand-organs still played "In the Good Old Summertime," with their December vivacity and expression. Men began to make thirty-day notes to buy Easter dresses. Janitors shut off steam. And when these things happen one may know that the city is still in the clutches of winter.
A snowball rolling uphill toward God and gathering furious dimensions, it has escaped the shrewd janitors of orthodoxy who from age to age were able to keep it within bounds.
The little Julia flitted about everywhere: watching janitors as they hosed down the sidewalks outside the saloons, or rinsed cuspidors; watching grocers set out their big signs for the day; watching little restaurants open, and first comers sit down to great cups of coffee and plates of hot cakes.
Up went her head, and the look that she gave me took all the majesty out of me, and left me feeling more like the palace janitor if palaces have janitors. "As you told me to do!" she cried, stamping her little foot. "I do as I please. I am the daughter of a king, and furthermore, I hate you." I was dumbfounded this was my thanks for saving her from Jubal! I turned and looked at the corpse.
Even I would have trouble in holding them. Nothin' less than a judge on the bench is good enough for them. Dan does the dignity act with the janitors, and when he is with the boys he hangs up the ermine in the closet and becomes a jolly good fellow. Big Tom Foley, leader of the Second District, fits in exactly, too.
This coöperation is increasing; more and more houses have janitors, more and more houses furnish heat. In the highest class of apartment house the trend is toward permanent hotel life, with the exception that individual housekeeping is possible.
And yet, phoenix-like, from these same ashes would spring up a new fire a fire in the hearts that would never die out. Such are school friendships. Of course there were forbidden little feasts in the various rooms to mark the close of the term spreads to which monitors, janitors and professors discreetly closed their eyes. Andy and his friends gathered in his apartment for a last chat.
But my sole possessions in the way of outer clothing are one pair of too-ancient trousers, one pair of tattered slippers, one fez, and one poor old dressing-gown. My estimable Uncle round the corner has the rest. Perhaps I am less a hermit than a prisoner a prisoner over whom that sternest of janitors, Poverty, holds the key.
The courtiers and grand ladies from 'the west' felt themselves the guests of the lawyers; and the humbler folk, who by special grant had acquired the privilege of entry, or whose decent attire and aspect satisfied the janitors of their respectability, moved about with watchfulness and gravity, surveying the counsellors and their ladies with admiring eyes, and extolling the benchers whose benevolence permitted simple tradespeople to take the air side by side with 'the quality. In 1736, James Ralph, in his 'New Critical Review of the Publick Buildings, wrote about the square and gardens of Lincoln's Inn in a manner which testifies to the respectful gratitude of the public for the liberality which permitted all outwardly decent persons to walk in the grounds.
Goin' around alone and not havin' his thoughts sidetracked by some one taggin' along is what he likes better'n anything else. He's always done it in Bubble Creek and never got into any trouble before that is, none to speak of. But he'll promise to cut out janitors and cab drivers. As for the ear muffs, he couldn't think of partin' with them.
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