When I first started teaching in 1961, I roomed at a widow's home. I paid rent for the room by the week. I stayed at her home the whole school year. I ate all of my meals at a restaurant. If you are a boarder, you pay for the use of a room and meals, either by the week or the month depending upon the agreement when you found the room. You can stay for as long as the room is available or you do not follow the rules of the house. Ruth in Blaine, Mn

http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/voliii/tEnumInstr.html Thank you for getting me to this site. It has lots of information regarding the instructions for census takers. Sure takes some of the mystery out of some of those unusual items in old census records. Sue