Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-26
GUESTS or THE HOTEL.
THE COUNTRY COUSIN AND THE
RoUNDeR ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.
The Usual Programme of a VISITOR DIFF
ference In City Guests What Country
men Are Learning Trouble
with the Kickcrs.


"Tho summer visitor is beginning to fill up
the town." said tho clork Of an uptown hotol
rs he loaned over tho doSk and twisted lot
of toothpicks into little frames and odd de-
signs. ii notice there is q great improve
inent In the manners and appearance of the
countryman since | wont into the hotol bust
ness, thirty-two years ago We no longer
find that there Is any necessity for putting
up signs in all the rooms warning the guests
not to blow ont the gas, and tho hat boy at
the entrance OF tho dning-room does not
call me over to SEQ queer collection OF
head gcar since 1871 This hat boy
on his JDth yoar, and he Is as
shrewd as they make them. He is dried
up little specimen, and thinks OF nothing
else hut hats. Ho will take 1000 guests,
und return oach hat to its proper owner
three times day for twenty years without
making mistake Prior to 1877, he would
rush out TO the dosk myatGrously and call
mo in to look at tho collection Of suburban
hats. In those days countrymen, particu.
larly southarners, foIt that they would ba
sacrificing their solf-rcSpoct II thay adopted
tho custom Of tho town and wore garments
that accorded with the prevailing mode
They wcro afraid of being considered popu-
lar swells, and preferred to bo regarded MS
guys.
All that IS changed, however Tho trav.
cling salesman who II roaly responsible for
the advance in civilization In America has
disseminated IA hionabIc hats, woll-cut gar.
mcnt,. AMI many of tho lighter knickknacts,
and the faShi' - that 90 to make up the
dress of New York mon until n change has
been wrought oyorywhcro There aro no
end of good clothing houses in New York
and PhilQlcphia who havc adopted the
systcm OF establishing branch houses in
small towns These big clothing houses
mako 10000 suit Of clothes and ship thom
oil over tho country 10 thcir agents The
clothes may be good, bad or indifferent but
tho ono unQucstionnhlc result IL that tho
cOuntrymcn learn to drosS. Thoy used t.
come here in the middle OF summer with
black brOadcloth frock coats, duo kin trous-
ers, heavy wai,tcolts and boots. Now thoy
dress more soasonahly. 1t is very rare that
n man comus to our hDuSc who is not pro.
scntahly Httircd. Even in tn, streets on,
seldom seos tho guys who formerly camn in
such vast numbers simultaneously with tho
hot woGthCr
What is tho usual programme Of
visitor;n
We'll, II there is hurlesquo show, pr
fu.ely advertised and holding forth
promise of innumonbIo pink tights, rougol
ch3eks, high-hc,led slippers low nccllol
iros ,os and the like, it will gather in the
countrymcn with IL iorco that no power ON
earth can rosiSt. 1t docs not make the
slightest difference what the other attrac-
tions in town may be, wkO tho visitor l.,
whether par,on or plowinan, he is suro to
go TO the bure,que shows. At IL o'clock he
comes in tired out and rcndy for bed. At 8
ho Is out In tho corridor or in the smoking
room, picking his tocth ami staring into the
street He mover thinks OF eating after the
theatre is over, and oats his biggest meal in
tho middle of tho day. Ho makes the best
guest that the hOtol can entertain for he is
quiet AMI unobtrusvc and content with
decent treatment He has n morbid horror
Of running in debt, and is punctuality itself
in the matter of payment Take him all in
ALL our country cousin Is pretty square
and soil sort of n man, and hc always finds
a welcome at tho bost hotels
"Thore is a good deal of difference in city
guests" tho clerk continued rolling over on
his other c!b wv and balancing the pcnhOldcr
deftly on bis fir finger "Our city guest
consist Of two distinct classes. kickcrs and
rouudors. Tho FOUNDERS arc dear t. our
hearts. 1t is rather difficult to make them
pay up at tho Oud Of tho week, but they are
literal patrons of our house, keep the serv-
ants in good humor by fooing thcm often
this by tho way, is n thing the countryman
never doas-anl incroa-o tho custom of the
bar. Two or three wel.known FOUNDERS
will do more TO pull up the business of tho
bar-room, if they reside in the house, than
you would imagine We havo a Wall-streot
operator in this house who is known
from one end of the house to the othor He
tells good stories, is jolly and has grown
rather fat We put IA big armchair in the
IN ia fpr al
dinner every night he lights mon,trous
cigar, waddlos through hero in order to
crack some joke with tho clerk, goes to tho
cafe, settles himself comfortably in tho chair
and romans there usually until it j. timo to
80 to bod. His bod time Is u. IN. II j. not
very good habit for his health, hut it is II
rafting good thing for tho house. His
friends drop in TO SEQ him during the whole
evening, and sometimes he has eight or ten
mea around the table He stands the house
in on an average about so II night.
"As a rule, the young men go outside for
their fun, while tho old FOUNDERS stay in
doors Thoy wander from tho billiard
room to tho cafo, thence to tho reading
room, make call on some of the guest in
the hotol, and finally drift oil to bod. As
say, the FOUNDERS arc our boSt Gu TONER'S
Tho kckcrs tho moro numerous. They are
of every age, si2o, and sex, but most of
them are OF tho feminine gender and about
40 year, Of ago. Some of tho women growl
because the halls arc scrubbed too carly iu
tho morning, othors because they arc not
scrubbed enough. There is continued
complaint about tho hcat in winter and the
drafts in summon, and tho table Is subject
Of mGrcilo,5 and onlluss criticism. Every
body knows that it is impossible To suit
everybody in hotel but no ono can have