The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-05
A TALE OF 4 TABLE D'HOTE.

Ultra-respectable people, when they go to
Paris-as even ultra-respectable people do
should put up at Roule's Hotel Glasgow, in
the Avenue BaZaine. The Hotel Glasgow is ex-
actly house such as ultra-respectable people
would like. In the first place, it is an excu-
sively English house, so there is no danger Of
the guests being contaminated by foreign NOR
ais or manners. In the second place, it is a
temperance house-that is, instead of cheap,
wholesome wines, it supplies its guests with
dear, unwholesome mineral waters. Thirdly,
1t is such an ugly, dull, decorous street that in
1t one might imagine ones self at home in Lon
don. Everything, in short, is just such as ultra
respectable people DESIRE but hardly expect
when they go abroad to teach foreigners how
decent people should live, and to learn them
selves how naughty people do so.
AS may be opined, with such attractions as
these, the Hotel Glasgow does not want for
guests. Indeed NJ. Rouke's difficulty usually
is TO get, not guests for all his rooms but rather
rooms for all his guests. And these guests are
of the right sort; all English, you know-except
such of them as are Scotch-and as yirtuous as
tea and mineral waters can make them.
Not long ago two constant and typical guests
at the Hotel Glasgow were the Misses Mac
Sneevil, two maiden ladies who might be de-
scribed as in the second spring of their years.
They were daughters Of the late lamented
Bishop of st. Bawbee, n. b., who in his time
had been burning and shining light of the
Scotch Episcopal Church The Misses Mac
sneeyil had inherited their fathers devotion to
apostolic succession and religious millinery, and
now, in the more genial and congenial neighbor-
hood OF Clapham they were even as the right
hand Of the ritualistic vicar. All their serious
thoughts were given to the manufacture of gor-
geous embroidery to decorate that gentleman IS
angular frame and his somewhat less angular
altar. The time stolen from these occupations
the Misses MacSneeyil spent generally at the
Hotel Glasgow, from which safe retreat they
could observe the denominations of the Parisians,
and when surfeited with that they returned
home thanking God that they were not as
French people are.
1t might be thought that ladies so devoted to
things spiritual would be above mere earthly
passion such as love is; but alas, though in mind
they were angels, in heart they were only poor,
weak women, and no less proof against Cupid's
shafts than any others of their own sweet sex
And 1t was this human frailty which ultimately
put an end to their visits to the Hotel Glasgow.
1t came about in this way The Misses
MacsneeVil were stopping for brief holiday at
the Hotel Glasgow AS was their custom when
there they dlned each night at the table d'h6te.
What poor, lone women in Paris hotels would
do without that table d'h6te it passes human
comprehension TO say. 1t is the one event of
their day that brings them unaIloyed and holy
pleasure. After dreary hours spent in swelter
ing streets and in sitting churches, how pleas
ant how delightful it is to sit down in sweetly
cool room and watch the behavior of a mixed
company drawn from every corner of your ma
tive land. There are newly married couple;