The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23
SHE RAN THE HOTEL.

A little story which is going about is
worth telling in print if only because it
illustrates the fact that a girl who has
money may possibly have good sense also.
Not far out of New York is sleepy little
town where the members of certain family
OF many dollars have been in the habit of
rusticating for some months every summer.
This year their stately old frame house,
famous for its revolutionary memories,
was untenanted. The roses ran wild
and the box hedges went IN
trimmed. In October the tall blonde
daughter who in previous seasons, had aston
ished the whole countryside with her frocks
and her pony trap and her head of curls.
alighted quietly one day from the afternoon
train. Instead, however, of opening the
familiar door and taking down the barred
shutters, the gossips were lifted off their
feet by the intelligence that she had come
to manage the village hotel. This not very
prosperous place of entertainment under
went, in fact, in the next few
bling ard curtain hanging that not passer
but rubbed his eyes. Could iG be the -
fortune had gone down in Wall street and
was the belle and the beauty thus reduced
to earn her living! All sorts of rumors af-
fecting the family finances became current,
and few of the holder spirits among the
women found errands to take them to the
quaint little parlor of the hostelry to con-
dole with the young innkeeper, If SC
they found opportunity. They reporte
her calm, self-possessed, uncommunicative.
Neither to the ladies who had been on call
| ing terms with her mother nor to the village
| girls with whom she had played tennis
| would she say anything. She had brought
| with her slight, pale-faced woman to be
her bookkeeper, aud these two soon had the
establishment running as if they had beer
used all their lives to making travellers com
| Portable.
The young Iandlady's lover heard of her
| occupation, ran out from the city, reasoned
with her, ouarreled. A second young man
| penniless, who had despaired of her mon
| eyed favor, came TO ask if she wanted helI
that he could render. Three villages and 6
city circle whispered of the family smash-ur
and the girls quixotism.
La two or three weeks came the father
He took the hotels best chamber. He was
seen about the streets, but said nothing
Presently the village became aware that i'll
vitations were out for a Halloween party
These included such households as had bee
entertained in former seasons at the great
shut-up mansion. The chestnut roasting
and the fortune telling came off in the
freshened and furnished hotel dining-room
Everybody felt awkward, and nothing
went with merriment until the tall. sol
dlerly father OF the little hotel mistress
rose, patted her shoulder, offered q health
to the house aud bowed-to a quiet, middle
aged lady, who was stranger to the entire
assembly.
The secret was simple one. The hote
| had fallen by foreclosure of mortgage to thu
| soldierly father. The little landlady haC
begged him to put in her former governess
| a woman of considerable executive ability
as manager. He had answered that q
woman could not run a hot.l. She had
urged the contrary. and had cnal
| Ienged her father to let her prove hei
proposition. In jest he had consented
| in earnest she had set out rex
morning, in CONSERVATION he had written
after her, but in pride of possession she has
kept on the even tenor of her way. IL
wrath he had pursued. In gentleness sh'
| had conquered. With her fathers hardwoI
consent she had cleaned, and painted, anc
| made ready to turn over a spick and spar
| house to the friend whose eyes were failing
and who must give up books or become
| blind.