The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-28

A writer in the Christian al Work says:
II you want TO see some Of the curious
phases OF every day life, go to the hotels.
Strange mixtures these places are of com:
fort and discomfort OF happy and odd
people; o! people who ore busy, and oil
those who have no other business than 10
pick their fellow dodgers to pieces.
But, for the most part, the people who
lodge at hotels are as good as any other
people, and many hotel has, TO u great
extent, the advantages Of o home
When man goes TO hotel by him.
sell, il is not an event Of any great import.
aOCe in the worlds history One in
crowd counts very little, except 10 him.
self 1t is related that a man who had
not travelled very much, came 10 one oil
the great city hotels and took lodging
Alter breakfast he asked the clerk what
time dinner would be ready. That pomp.
Gus person informed him that il would be
ready at II o'clock. He said: well, I'm
going out, and may not be in till after
that time, but tell them that they needn't
wait dinner tor me" The hotel dinner
was not kept waiting for him.
When you see people at a hotel order
ing the servants about in q naughty man
ner or complaining that the food is p0Or,
or that there ia not enough o! 1t, set them
down for selfish, i'll bred people. 1t
more than likely what they are eating is
. great deal better than they have at
home. When you see people who call for
three times as much as they can eat, and
mangle and waste what they leave, be
sure they are inConsiderate creatures,
who have no idea OF the golden rule.
Some people think that because the hotel
man charges them a good desl, therefore
they have right 10 waste and destroy ell
they eau lay their hands on. They think
ii shows evidence OF a noble mind and
fine bringing up to order servant about,
especially il he has O chocolate co!ored
skin.
l have seen spoiled little girls order
walters TO bring them for breakfast food
enough 10 feed whole family, telling
the waiter 10 be sure and have each dish
to suit them exactly. The toast must be
done just 10 q certain shade OF brown
ness; the eggs boiled midway between
hard and soft, not too soft nor too hard,
but 'just as like them you know, john"
the steak done just 10 a turn; and So
through o catalogue OF orders which the
waiter taxes his memory TO the utmost to
carry TO the kitchen. OF the great array
OF dishes set before such little maiden
in response to her elaborate orders, she
would peck at few, partially consume
others, and waste the rest. The foolish
child was but initiating her mother and
other grown,up people who were in the
habit Of doing the same thing. But l
have wondered what kind of wives,
mothers and housekeepers such girls will
make when they shall be women.
How the hotel walters must laugh in
their sleeves at some OF the fine young
men and boys who do big things in the
way o. ordering them around There
are some young people land old ones too)
who are imperiouS in their ways al q
hotel table as the Shah Of Persia or the
Gar OF Russia could be expected to be.
II these folks could see themselves as 9th.
ers see them, what a taking down there
would be OF lofty msnnersI There is no
place like hotel to expose empty pre-
tensions, to prick the bubble Of pride and
pompositY. Be natural, and have an eye
open to the golden rule.