, 1889-02-21

the negroes are anKe At a glance. 1t requIres
as much perspicadty to tell one from another
as It does to distinguish one French gendarme
from another French gendarme.
never met with such memories as some Of
those darkies have.
Is ! have said, the hotels of Florida are be
sieged during the winter months. At dinner
time, you may see from six hundred TO a thou
sand people at table. The black head waiter
knows each Of the guests. The second time
they enter tho dining room, he conducts them
to their places without making a mistake in
one instance If you stop but q day, you
may return q month after, and not only will
he r~ecollect your face, but he viii DO able to
tell you which little table you sat at, and
which place at that table was yours.
At the door of the dining room a young
negro Of 10 or IS takes your hat and puts it
on a hat rack. / have seen hundreds thus in
his care at a time. You leave the dining
room and, without a moments hesitation, he
singles out your hat and hands it to you It
is wonderful when one thinks of 1t. / give
you the problem TO solve. Several hundred
men, most of whom you have not seen moro
than once or twice before, pass into a room,
handing you their chimney pots or wide
awnkes to take caro- of. They come out of
the room in no sort of order, and you have to
give each the hat that belongs to him. /
have tried hard and often, but never succeed
ed in finding out how it is done.
Another negro in the hall goes and gets
your key when he secs you return from a
walk. No need to tell him the number of
your room-he knows it. He may have seen
you but once before, but that is all sufficient
he never errs.
And the negressesl good, merry looking
creatures with buxom faces and forms, sup
Pile, light, graceful gnit and slender Waists,
aping the fashion, and having very pretty
fashions of their own, coquetting and mine
ing, rs they walk out with their "~tic'larsn
particulars. The enjoyment of life is writ
ten on their faces, and one ends by thinking
some of them quite pretty. l have seen some
splendid figures amongst them. You should
sec them on Sundays, dressed in scarlet or
some other bright color, with great hats
jauntily turned up on one side, and tanning
themselves with the ease and grace of Bel
gravian ladies.
Negresses are not employed hs chamber
maids in hotels. They go into service only
as nurses, and Of course children love them.
Unhappily for you, 1t is the Objectionable
duchess" that you find again, up stairs this
time. The evil is not so great Us it is In the
smaller towns where these young persons
wait at table also. In the best hotels their
only duty is to keep the bedrooms tidy. You
must not ask any service of them beyond
that. If you desire anything brought to
your bedroom, you ring, and a negro comes
to answer the bell and receive your order.
remember having ono day insulted one of
these women-certainly Internationally, but
the crime was mono tho less abominable for
that.
This was 1t.
l was dressing to go out to dinner, and
wanted some hot water to shave with. Hav-
ing rung three times and received no answer,
l grew impatient and opened the door, in the
hope of seeing some servant who would be
obliging enough to fetch me the water in
question. A chambermaid was passing my
door.
Gould you please get me some hot waterr'
1 said.
What do you sayr' was the reply, accom-
panied by a frowna and n look of contempt.
Would you DO SO good rs to get me some
hot waterf' 1 timldly repeated.
"What do you think l amt Haven't you a
bell in your roomT said the harpy.
And she passed along indignant.
withdrew into my room in fear and trem-
bling, and for a few minutes was half afraid
of receiving a request to quit the hotel i'm
mediately.
shaved with cold water that day.
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