The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-13
HOTEL LIFE.
Becoming Yearly More Popular
Among Those who Can Afford IL.

popularityP' Ventured Il journal re-
porter to Mr.. WEIGH, Of the St. Mich
olas. The conversation had turned on
hotels, their conyenicnces, the guests.
and the strange sights hotcl men see.
Eyes, sir; for those who can afford
the comfort and conveniences of hotel
life it is growing more popular year by
year. In a well-appointed, first-class
hotel people can live undisLurbed by
the various ills that housekeeping is
heir to, and the time will come when
half the well-to-do people of the city
will inhabit its iirst-class hotels.n
"And if you were asked the cause of
the growing popularity what would you
say?'
a would give two reasons promin-
ent among the many that | might
anne. The richer class OF people, who
divide their time among the south in
winter and the northern Watering
places in summer, varied with an oc-
casional trip to Europe, find that their
comings and goings can be done with
much less discomfort and less expense
by living in hotel than if they were
maintaining an establishment of their
own. With such people comfort and
convenience, the avoidance of unneces-
sary bother and aggravatiug delay,
enter more into their calculation than
does expense. "
"You mention two reasons9
"The other is that the male members
of families living in hotels are generally
mon in active business pursuits, only
home at meal-times and in the even.
ings. They do not wish to have their
wives burdcned with the innumerable
cares of household, the trouble and
veXation of servants, and the eXactions
of the family cares generally. To such
separate establishment, as rents 90
now, is more expensive and less COM
Portable. Taking rent, the cost of fine
furniture, and the expense of a corps
of servants, there is no comparison be-
tween the two modes of living"
Eyes, but that class of guests must
be very eXacting in their demands at q
hotel"
There's where you and probably
others ma G a great mistake. OF all
the people who use hotels they are the
least troublesome and eXacting. In
fact, they are the easiest to please.
They are accustomed to good living,
well-served table, finely furnished
rooms, obedient and obliging servants,
and when they find all these at their
command that is all they ask. They
know just what the service of q first
class hotel is; they know that there is
somebody always ready to satisfy their
least want and that every convenience
of the house is at their disposal. On,
no, we never have trouble with them"
Then who are the people that do
give troUble?'
"Woll, probably the most trouble
some are people from the country I'M
used to stopping at hotels. They have
an exaggerated idea of their own i'm
portancc, and think that everybody
about the house must dance attendance
on them. They seem bent on giving
all the trouble they can, and make
themselves and others uncomfortable.
But should they stay at the hotels
month or so, it's wonderful to note the
change that takes place. They soon
find out that their comfort and conven-
venience are the two things most
thought of by the proprietor, and they
fall right into the groove and find that
they have simply to 90 on living and
be happy
as there not sonic danger that the
increasing popularity Of the fashion
able flats will result injuriously to the
hotels?o
a think not. In the first place, the
expense of living in these stylish
observation-disclosures is much grc~cr In
the best of them suits for I family
range from $4,000 to $4,000 year,
and this means the bare walls-no
furniture and no meals. Still, they are
growing more popular every day, and,
as the best hotels are losing none of
their wealthy guests, can only sur
mise that the number of people able TO
live in these houses and in hotels in the
city is receiving constant accessionsn
"Do people marry from their hotel?"
"Why, certainly; that's one OF the
natural concomitants Of hotel life.
And how much pleasanter it is! The
groom has but to give single order to
the proprietor specifying just what is
wanted and an army Of servants are
ready to carry out the arrangements
without q hitch. Hotel weddings are
getting to be common il faut--so much
so that know of two to come off this
fall where the parties have their own
houses, but prefcrring the thorough
system of a hotel, have given me their
orders. IN y NOrning JolURaL
- O.
Pretty Riders in Pink.