National Republican., 1878-04-18
Hotel Life.

as much right to say what / want to about
things as a boy. hate boys; they're 30 mean
They always grab all the Strawberries at tho
dinner-table, and never tell us when they are
going to have any fun. Only I like Gus
Rogers. The other day Gus told me he WIS
going to let of some fire works, and he les
Bessie Nettle and me 20 aud look at them.
All of us live in hotel and his motberh
room has n window with balcony, and it was
there we had tho freworks-right on the bal
cony.
His mother was gone out to buy some cre-s
dc lis to put ON her face, and he'd went and got
eleven boxes of lucifer matches and ever 70
many pieces OF CASTLE soap; he stealed them
from the hOuscKeoper just when she was 20
ing to put them in her closet, Gus went and
told her Mrs. Nettle wanted her n minute, and
while she was gono he grabbed the soap and
matches and when she came back we watched
her, and she scolded Dela-thats the cham
bermaid-and said she knowed she did il ; and
was real glad, because when l was
turning somersets on my mothers bed
the other day, Della slapped me. and
SAID she wasn't going to make tho
| bed two times to please mo; then Bessie and
me sticked tho match in the soap like tcnpins
and Gus fired them oil, aud they blazed like
anything and they made an awful smell, and
Gus went and turned II little of gas on SOS his
mother would think it was that. We get our
dinner with the nurses, cause tho man thai
| keeps the hotel charges full price for children
If they sit at the table In the big dining. room;
once my mother let me go there with her, and
talked heap at the table, and o gen.
| tlcman that sat next to us said Little girls
| should he seen and not heard" The mean old
| thing died last week, and was real glad, and
| l told Della so, and she said if went and
said things like that couldn't 20 to Heaven.
| Much she knows about 1t. | wouldn't want
to go II dirty old things like sh. Is went there.
Yesterday Mary, our nurse told Bessie Net
| tl" nurse, that she heard Larry FinnegAn
was going to marry her. Larry ia one " the
walters, and he saves candies for me from the
big dining-room. And Bessie Nettle's nurss
said: "Oh, Lord what lie aud Bessie
Nettle went In her mothers room, and hsr
little brother said she nipped him, and Bessie
said oh, Lord what le?" and you should
hcavo heard how her mother did talk to her,
and went and shut her up in a dark room
where she kept her trunks, and didn't let her
have nothing hut bread and water, and Gus
Rogers went and yelled through the key hole
and said Bessie, the devil Is coming to fetch
you, and Bessie screamed and almost had .
fit. And her mother told Mrs. Rogers, and
got Gus licked, and Gus SAYS he's n good mind
to set the house on fire some day and burn her
out.
One day went in the parlor and creeped
under a sofa, and there wasn't nobody thero.
| They don let dogs nor children go in the parlor,
and think it's real mcan-and creeped
| under the sofa, SOS nobody could see me and
Mr.. BOycc came in and Miss Jackson; | don't
| like Miss Jackson she said one day children
was worse nuisance than dogs was. And
Mr.. Boyce and Miss Jackson came and sitted
down on the sofa, and he said 80 Louisa, | do
love yOu so much" and then he kissed her.
heard II smack. And she said 80 Thomas
wish could believe you; don't you never
kiss anybody else ?" and he said. "No; dear
est, and called out, 80 what big story for
saw him kiss Bessie Ncttle's nurse in the hall
one night when the gas was turned down"
| Didn't he jump up, You bct--Gus always says
YOU bet-and he pulled me out and tored my
lrock, and said 20 you wicked child, where
do you expect to go for telling stories ?" aud
told him, You shut up; | amt going any
where with you" | wish that man would die
like the other did, so | do, and don't care
whether he goes to heaven or not.
tius Rogers mother had lunch party in her
parlors, and they had champagne and they
never gave him any, and when his mother
wasn't looking ho founded bottle half full on
the sideboard and he steeled 1t and took il in
our nursery. and Mary wasn't there, and Gus
and Inc drinkCd II out of the glass Mary
brushes her teeth ill., and it was real nice aud
We looked in Mary's wardrobe and fnded her
irock she goes to church in, aud Gus put it on,
and Marys bonnet, too, and We went in tho
hall and we tumbled down and tOred Mary's
irock, and made my nUse bleed, and Gus said,
20, theresa earthquake cause we CUuldn't
stand up and you should SEQ how the house
did go up and down, awful and Gus and mo
laid down on the carpet and the huusekceper
picked me up and looked me to my
mother, and my mother said 20.
my, whatever have you been doing"
and said, 20, Lord. | drinkcd champagne
out of Gus Rogers mothers bottle in the glass
Mary brushes her teeth ill.," Aud the house.
keeper said, 80. my goodness gracious! That
chid's ns tight rs bricks" And said, "You
bet Bully for you" and then | was awful
sick. and have forgotten what else.