New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-09
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

CHANCES HERE AND THERE.
Hotel tyranny is subject which every Old
travelling man grows eloquent. Aside rom Ne"e''
able nusances such as beds with creahy SPRINGS
doors that won't shut windows that won't opeh anu
stoves that emit little heat and all the gaseous Fumes
of Tophet there are the constant adventures WIN
lealy gasburners rooms with baths where the plumb
ing Is defecvc and steam radiators that begin opera
tions i'm the middle of the night, waking you up 10
Turkish bath and weird, mysterious Gatherings be-
meath the floor. How is it that hotel propnctors III
general to regulate their accommodations ID
suit the habits of beings like unto nothing IN the
heavens above in the earth beneath or in the
waters under the earth Why, in of the largest
and most expensive and pretenious hostelries, are
single Of water, two stn towels ana no
tumber supposed to meet all the requirements OF the
toilet The barbaric composition of the Ordinary
bill Of fare is perhaps easily accounted Tor since inc
people Of America in general and those of Boston III
particular VIGOROUSLY unskllled a. gasirOnone'
But why, oh, why, should the French and Italian
languages be perverted and abused to the end that
culinary shams may be pcrpcGatcd by intrepid yroS
fresh from the anvil or the plough tail!
Mrs. Emma p. Ewing the well known lecturer
cookery-at present, by the way, duly recoe-
nizcd member Of the faculty Of Western university
has openly deplorcd the fact that intelligent a
race as should be i'll educated in the philosophy
of the table. Foreign nOycli-ts and paywrghtS,
from Dickens down, have stryen hard to perpetuate
certain weary llbcls concerning American table man
ncrS, which at least European as American
To-day there are undoubtedly more foreigners than
Americans who convert their napkins into neck cloths
and the of the knife food shOveller is probably
Is common in England a, it when Thackeray
dilaed on it forty years ago. Flour dumplinss are
still popular staple articles Of diet among
SUSSEX farmers, ana raw onions fill the soul of
hungry spanish peasant with delight. But doc, that
excuse such habits ao that of one of our be,tkn0Wn
culture and civilization with such appctlne dishes
a. Drowned hash and corned beef and cabbage! J.,
the practice the result Of pressing popular de
mand" or Is 1t merely striking example 10 hoteA
tyranny
Volumes might be written about the neat-handed
Phyllis OF the country hotel who blackbcrres
with soup, mixes relieves and entrcmcts de douceur,
and carnshcs the edge of pudding plates with indi
gcstbe and ocaginous hunks of ttwny cheese But,
after all she is only acting under orders There 10 no
guilt in her rustic innocence. she no more de
serves blame than the hallboy who answers every
midnight call with a pitcher Of freezing drinking
water and places writing materials on crazy legged.
marble top table, whose glacial surface send, cold
chill down the spinal column every time the hand
tonchc, H. The real criminals are the mi.crcants
who establish hotels with single eve TO the -hty
dollar 10 whom the human stomach is OF greater
durability than copper lined ret0rt' ana VINO ad,
ab"t and otherwise encourage unthinhlng emulation
OF that objectionable fowl the cormorant. Talk ahou.
the patience Of job: What patience equals that Of
tho cook ridden, clerk ridden and landlord ridden
American citizen on his traycsl
It is a Tennessee hotel and ~ a day house at
that. whose mdolsnt walters rcbuke indignant ap-
pcal- for food boy pointing to the sentence, printed
couspcuou,y the menu card, Impotence dries
the blood quicker than old disease What
number Of pseudo italian dishes or sham Venetian
hn-crbowls can compensate for mdsn.ty such As
that And Who can ever become rccOncIled 10 the
insulting inqu-ton Of the watchers at the door Of