San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-28
THE LINEN ROOM GIRL.
A PORTION of the Hotel which the Ave-
rage Traveller Seldom Sees.

rage TfSveler Seldom Sees.
"Yss," said tle presiding genius of the linen
room, as she glahced up complacently at the
brecpitous white mountains on all sides of
her, nobody ever catches things out of order
IN this room wt,ile l am around, which is
from z in the morning till 6 in the evening
Of course, can answer for it before come
down and after leave it. 1t is unlocked at
8 o'clock in tie morning, and not locked
again till l2 O'Clock at night. The watch
girl takes charge of it from to Z, and again
In the evening. Ny girls mean well-there
are five OF them that l boss-but they amt
always SO particular as they might be, and
sometimes find towels and napkins, cleaned
and soiled, thrown around every which way
when come In.
'Now, was brought up in the country,
where folks do try to keep things sort clean,
and 50 l can't sit down as long as there is any
dirt or confusion in the room. For that mat
ter, though, there is precious little sitting
down for me anyway, for just as soon as one
waiter gets out with his tablecloths and nap
kins here will come a chambermaid for sheets
aud towels. Keep 'em in hundreds! Thou
sands, you had better say. have five thou
sand napkins, old and new, down onmy books,
mud, as for towels, | amt never yet had pa
UIence to add 'em all up. There is continual
stream of 'em, or, you may say, two streams
running in opposite directions between here
sud the laundry, and | count, count count
TIL sometimes my head is all in a wnirl. 1t
wouldn't be so confusing if | didn't
have to look every way at once, but,
il l am not on the watch, some of
them sassy walters will come and help
tn hot ha lin
irg room, without saying with your leave,
Or by your leave, to me; and then, if the
housekeeper finds it out, she comes tearing in
here, and takes my head of. Looks good ma
tdred, you say! Oh, she's good natured
enough, outside of business amt got moth
ing against her-that is, nothing more than
I'd have against any woman that tried to
boss me- but having a big hotel on her shout
Gers will make most any woman more or less
Cranky in dealing with them that has to take
their orders from her.
Does she scold when articles come up
missing from the WASN'T Not me- | only
report 'em to her and then get out of the
gay and let her have it out with the laun-
dresses. The more blowing up them women
get the better, for in spite of everything |
can say they will persist in saving themselves
york by using washing fluid or other things
tNat rot out the linen in just half the time it
VIght to last.
Did you ask was they linen or cottonl We
teep both kinds, so if the guests want linen
sheets land most of 'em do in summer time
they can have 'em. There are some that wants
tnem all the year round. There was a man
from down south-he was a corporal or a
general or something of the kind-and as the
weather was cold, naturally there was cotton
sheets put on his bed. Ugh says he to the
housekeeper the next morning, i felt last
night as if had been packed away in pile
o. seed cotton in the loft Of gin house He
vas different from a western man who
Stopped here one summer. By an accident
lie got linen sheets on his bed, and he com
pained the next day that he had come near
slipping out on the floor half dozen times
daring the night
However, | don't hear much talk Of sheets.
IFS towels that there is the most grumbling
aud growing about among the guests There
are folks who, ] know from the looks of 'em,
makes one towel land that one crash last 'em
a week at home, that will make fuss if they
don't find at least two clean ones on their
waShstand every time they happen to go in
their rooms during the day. 1t beats every
thing the airs they put on when they find
themselves paying their 81 day at the hotel,
so much afraid they won't get the worth of
their money in everything that's going.
Them's the sort that accuse the walters of
giving them napkins that has already been
used, and that come pushing into here to see
us they say if we are really Sc bad off for
such things as we seem to be. And my, the
tnwelS that ara called for i'm them bathrOOmSI
It's silly, that's what it is, to order so many,
Just because they can be had for the asking
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