The Nevada journal., 1857-06-05
THE NAN ABOUT Towr.
TAKING NINE EASE IN NINE INN


THE MAN ABOUT town.
TAKING NINE EASE IN NINE INN.
OF all the hunbngs in this great and
glorious country Of ours--and we have
good many fat little shams out at
nurse at present-the greatest and most
/ majestic is the hotel keeper. Time was
| when. if a weary traveller arrived at the
door of a hostelrg, he was NOT Of, bis
saddle before portly white-aprroned
figure filled the entry. and welcomed
him with good hearty welcome, 1t
was the jolly, well-fed bustling, atten-
tive, hospitable landlord. It was he
who saw that the traveller was well
served at table. 1t was he who, With
his own hands, brought in the bowl Of
lambs wool with which the fox-hunters'
feast WAS crowned, when the hunt had
their yearly dinner at his inn He earn
ed the money you paid him, and was
not ashamed to look as if he earned it.
This was somewhat far lack. Let us
look at the landlord Of the present day,
in the two great capitals LIBERALIZATION.
In london he is ven dressed, well to
do, quiet. reserved man, who israrely
to be seen, yet always to be found by
those stopping At his house. He is re-
spectful and anxious to please. He
charges high, and makes you exceed
ingly comfortable. In France the land
lord cannot do too much for Monsieur.
He is desolated if you find the meats i'll
cooked; and il you express any dissat-
fisfaction with his wines, nothing less
than Immediate suicide will repair the
misfortune. On the whole, the French
man manages to make your stay in his
house very pleasant. lie takes sort
of paternal interest in you, and will do
any thing that you ask him, if you ask
him politely. If rudely, there is no
more savage animal than the Partisan
hotel-keeper.
But in America! What shall / say
of the hotel keeper in American N New
York? Would you ever imagine, on on
tering the Bunkum House, that the port
ly, nt.looking man, smoking his
cigar in the public hall with his feet on
a chair, and reading the morning paper
would you ever imagine that this I'm
mense being, radiant with diamonds and
huge chain, was the landlords He is.
Go and ask him for a room, and be in
stantly withersd with glance of often
ded dignity. Speak to him at all, if you
are Stranger. and you will soon learn
better than to address this Jove ofOlyym-
plan attic rooms on short acquain-
tance. Nay, Sir, even if you hold a
high official position-if you are Mayor,
or Postmaster, or U. S. Marshal, or Com
mander-in- Chief-you will have to ad.
dress the landlord of the Bunkham
House with beftting respect. Then,
perhaps, his high mightiness will invite
you to dine in No. 1000-that being a
special room where the favorites of his
majesty are permitted to enjoy private
dinner and his company every day;
his majesty whisper the saggestioin-
finding his account in the quantity of
wines drunk at said private dinner by
his guests.
The fctions in which the American
landlord wraps himself are manifold
and very amusing. lhs proprietor of
the Bunkum House, I yefiIy believe,
persuades himself that he does not keep
a hotel at all, but merely resides in a
splendid palace, where he dispenses a
princely hospitality to all the world.
What else does he mean by that pomp-
GUS salutation? - r.
"Ah, Major! glad to see you HOWE
you bin2 Hain't seen you for a long
time. You must stop with us whenever
you're passing by. Give us GALL
That's right. Dine here to-daya" ETC.
Give you call? Dine with you?
Stop with you whenever I'm passing
by! Why, you miserable old humbug
don't you think that / know what that
means2 Don't you think that I know
it means three dollars day for board,
and q bottle of wine at dinner? that it
means wretched hole at the top of
the house, with a hard mattress il it,
called bedroom, where one has to
ring the bell the night before to insure
its being answered at reasonable hour
in the morning that it means I am to
pay you all the money yop choose to
swindle me out of for bad accommoda-
ton and CHEMICAL Champagne? and
that at the same time I am to look upon
myself as the obliged person, and my
acquaintance with you an honor, and
am to overlook or entirely ignore the
fact that you keep hotel, and that
you are deuced glad to see it as full as
it is2
In spite of your ruhled shirt, and your
diamond pin, and your laekadaiscal air;
in spite Of your team of fast horses,
and your villa in the country; in spite
of your calling your customers by the
romantic title of s..sguests," ! see moth
ing but the landlord in you, pompous
humhug that you are! know you
live by selling cooked meats and letting
out rooms. / know that you perhaps
began life as waiter, and rose to a
tavern in the country, from which you