Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
Fortunes Are Made at the Expense
ofthe Health of Guests.
A BAD PLACE FOB AN INVALID
The Toothpick Habit Is One Of tho Wors'
Refined People Know.
AN INCOME OF TWO HUNDRED A YEAR
WRITTEN FOR THE p1srAToH.l


their eyes shut, and then to be absolutely
destitute of employment the remaining loo
| hours of the week. unless other people
kindly make demands upon them to keep
them from monotony.
Those demands at present do not lack
variety. One man out in Kansas wants ms
place sold for him, as home for SORT Oh
brotherhood and sisterhood community, like
the Mennonites. A Southern lady wants
also knit lace sold for her and orders OBJ
tanned. Another wants to know OF good,
low priced boarding house for an invalid at
the seaside. I wish knew one myself, ana
so do great many other people. The most
that can be said with truth of average sum-
mer resports is that some are not as bad as
others, but when it comes to sending IN in
valid to the seaside for quiet, thoroughly
wholesome fare, and enough of it to gain
strength upon, with decent cleanliness and
comfort, at reasonable rates, 1 dare not risk
my reputation for trustworthiness by pre-
tending to know anything of the kind.
ARealth Resort by the Sen.
The next man or woman who wants to de-
vote fortune to the good of suffering hu-
manity needs to buy a strip of sea beach and
found health resort for people OF limited
means A summer at the coast means life
and strength to many overworked persons
from the interior-teachers or small busi-
ness people, who cannot afford to pay even
the S. week of the Jersey coast
The only indispensables for such resort
would be good beds, scrupulously clean
rooms, plenty of good food and chance at
all outdoors fine days-yes, and fire for
-. 11 " ha IN
advertise that board could be had at such a
place, with nothing going on, )" to have it
filled to overfowing.
If some person really wanted to do good
I in the most thoroughgoing manner, SUCH a
place could be kept for S3 to S5 week
! board, and he could reap to per cent
profit. No business under heaven pays such
| terrific interest, when successful at all, as
your summer boarding house. In what
| other business can one expect in three
months to make years income and lay up
fortune? Your sharp business woman will
rent furnished house at a popular resort,
| pay the outrageous rent asked for such
things, buy every morsel that goes on the
table at correspondingly high rates, pay
servants extra wages and clear enough from
| her boarders to live on and lay by capital
/! for enlarging her house next year.
AT tno Expense Oh oOpleS StOLnhchSs
In all that time probably no one at her
table ever had enough to eat, with the e1-
ception of the "setting hens" who line the
verandas and the young women who devour
a pound of candy unvaryingly between
meals That shrewd business woman wants
to supplement her counting up of summer s
gain by reflections like these:
'T have made good thing this season. I
eho1l hou tyrn IN
town in time for theaters and concerts in
the fall to recruit and have pretty penny
laid by. But the young teachers off on their
vacations and the invalid women away from
| their families to regain health go home
with half the benefit they might have from
the sea air if had given them just little
more to eat. The effect of the sea air is to
make people hungry; it stimulates them so
they can digest more and lay up strength
from the food. They didn't lay up much
from my table, I'll engage. They had to
gain on Jobs dessert. He filled himself on
the east wind. If I had allowed those
boarders third of those miserable small
slices of bread or minute biscuit, a second
help of vegetables or half gill more Of
berries it might have given them strength
to last into the winter and helped them to
get the better of disease that is sapping
their lives.
A Mackerel for Boy.
''That young mother will go home and
have hemorrhages by October, and some of
the blood will be on the bills bank away
snugly. Those young clerks who take their
fresh air in lump for the year would have
been better prepared for work the next IL
months if they could have had enough fish
and potatoes for breakfast at my house.
Mackerel were three cents apiece, and I
might have let them have a whole one-it
isn't much for a boy to eat But instead I
shifted at people who always wanted more
| boarding than they ever have at home, and
put up the smart, silly girls to sneer at
| them for asking for fish and chops for
breakfast after they had been out three
hours rowing.
'Tf they get to taking glass of beer or
punch every day to keep off the wretched,
| all-gone feeling, I suppose 1 have had a
hand in it. have traficked in nervousness,
furnishing and faintness Two or three of
my boarders 60 home to die this year. Be-
yond doubt, good nourishment, with our
| fine air, would have saved them, but that is
no matter to me. have had good season,
and there will be plenty in their places to
take the rooms next year.
There will, unless people happen to get
over being fools, as they may sooner or
later. But how does it look in black and
white, this soliloquy which takes place in
the inner consciousness of nearly every
boarding house keeper?
The Use and Abuse of Toothpicls
A sprightly letter from Chicago saws: 1T
won't ask you to let me thank you for your
article, but will tell you that my finger
came near being broken also by one of those
swing doors. Ny finger was, as Ko-Ko
says, 'as good as dead for a long time.
'There is another breach of good manners
which makes me begin to think our youth
full rules of good behavior were all mis-
take. One of them said, Never use tooth
pick in presence of your food In pres
ence of anyone was added by our monitors.
If those rules were a mistake, it explains
the far-reaching, all-pervading, in doors and
out of doors, patrician, plebian, black,
white, brazen, modest, universal public use
of the hateful little splinter.
'But if the rules were right, why in the
name of decency must those who never Of
fend by any personal act be put to torture
and nausea by well-dressed brutes armed
with this weapon? If any one could give
me good reason for using toothpick at
the table, before others have begun the
meal, sometimes I might be pacified lit
tie. How would it do to ask hotel keepers
and restaurant men not to supply the nuis-
ance? l hesitate to go to restaurant, SO
sickening has the practice become.
Might as Well Supply Toothbrushes.
Many will sympathize heartily with the
writer of this spirited note, but we can only
remind her that using toothpicks, twiddiing
of keys in pockets, scratching of whiskers
and wobbling of umbrella sticks supply the
mental vacancy in place of thought. The
less mind the more certain are these auto