The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-09

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never saw equaied. he finally told how
many rooms they wanted, 70 which he
added private din.ng-rooEn-
Everything was ordered sent 10 the din
ing roorns-Wines, canyasoack duck, etc.
IN the morning the two gentlemen Lett
early. They paid their own bills. The
clerk took their word for what was theirs
and what vas not.
When Mrs Stanley came 70 leave she
found Of course wine she did not order,
and had 10 pay for blacking the boots OF
TINS Keen critic Of American manners and
cookery, this able hybrid Of British cold
Flcta1s4s, this bright young savant whose
surprised and delighted third stomach was
tossed across the sro1bled deep within the
year now only half gone by.
4 nat ID the reason why Mrs. Tenant
aItersard spoke 50 bitterly of her bill AZ
the Nendome. Her guest had done her
up, IS We say here in America, especially
among the lower classes, Il one may speak
IN that way here, and ! think one may If
one pays ones bills
Hamilton suffered most severely IN the
west he found no congenial society
there, all the Englishmen of his stripe
having been hanged on their arrival, or on
most anything else in fact that came
handy In q prairie country where timber
I
he bears down especially hard on Col
orado Springs and Denver, two Of the
most delightful cities in the world. for
know, having visited Paris, London and
East Saginaw within the past two wears.
paying my hotel bills and either blscking
my own boots or gladly putting up for il.
| call the attention OF every crowned
head in Europe to the fact that while at
their tables [ did not ask what was coming
next or what their yictuais cost when laid
down. | am not regarded as a stickier for
social high church or monkey business
when | make formal call on q monarch
or q z. z. G. call on royalty, but when /
cease TO pay for the polish that giints and
Cutters on my bright young bunions, or
fork over my liquor bills for w. C. /. q.
TO put up for. may my right hand cleave
70 the roof Of my mouth, and an incensed
people play shinney DER my forgotten
grave.
Mr.. Aide did not like the surprise
party" of the rancho out West. He viii
ike il less the next time he is invited.
Western people are informal, but their
hearts are warm. They are hospitable TO
degree that would naturally surprise
and unman real man for the moment. It
would not affect M. Aide especially, how
ever.
But the West hates TO have an honored
guest walk on its wishbone with Mexican
spurs. 1t feels hurt and resents il. /
have lived nearly all my life in the West,
and / say without fear of successful con-
tradiction that any mani do not refer
now TO Mr.. Aide-who has been the guest
Of the west, and who then seeks to earn
S845 by running down his host, Is not only
q cad and triumphant ass, but he is UNI
worthy in every possible way on earth,
and totally disappointing except in the
way of stimulation 10 q tardy tomato
crop.
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''parlour" he turns to and seeks TO bemire
and besmirch, by satire AMI such things,
the furniture and decorations of his i'll
guided hostess, whose error was in not
showing him TO the sty and letting him
look over the album.
Possibly / may be charged with speak
ing too directly on this subject but il is
only my own opinion 1 do not hold the
paper esponsibie, and if Mr.. Aide does
not like it he may readily reach me by
post.
He says we pronounce vase as we do
gaze. This is not true, / have not pro-
nounced it that way now for over year.
Mr.. Aide Is too severe on u.s. He saw our
beautiful Scenery whenever the railroad
gave him passes. and he was entertained
by those who had never seen that kind of
fauna before, and he went home and tried
TO make q Rudyard Kipling of himself,
thinking that he was 9 critic when 1t was
He did not like it because our ladies did
not allow him to see them work This was
in Difference TO him, for no one ever saw
him work. He says he presumes that Ia
dies here do secretly work, but ne missed
''the pleasant litter Of employment"
II he viii come among Us again at some
time in the future he will probably notice
the pleasant litter of employment. and he
viii furnish the most of il himself. At
terward a detected Englishman may be
seen going home with his pancreas in the
morning paper.
He did not like our theaters, especially
those, Judge, who did not remember him
AZ the door, and who did not feel like CIV
ing him q box because he contemplated
| roasting the republic In future piece.
He SAYS that our comedies and comic ope-
ras are bad and our taste vitiatsd. wig
orous horseplay. comic songs, breakdowns
and funny man satisfy the American,
he says. and if the lonesome managers of
| the dives who gave the bright young
snoozer passes do not feel pleased with the
above notice they must be more careful in
future regarding whom they admit.
He then turns his little dyeing and re-
pairing works on the preSs. As rule
the press" ne says, sis utterly indifferent
TO the truth or falsehood Of statement. !"
paper (price 2jkd.), and there are many
who read nothing but that paper every
day. Habituating the mind thus 10 its
morning mess Of naStiness is q great na-
tionai misfortune"
That Is true, Hamilton, but il is not so
bad as TO live IN a town where the nobility
do things so nasty that even the London
press dare not print them.
As Americans, Mr.. Aide, we have our
faults. We know il and we are trying 10
do better. When the people of your coun-
try we're of our age they had not vet be-
gun TO walk on their hind legs steadily at
ali. and most OF your titled people were
sguealing in the branches Of the umbra-
geous forest.
We know that we are still crude. One OF
our greatest weaknesses consists IN being
picked up and done up" by every iTnita-
ton man who gets letter Of introduction
from an English barber and comes here
with an appetite and hat box 70 frlghten
the food supply, founder himself. write
piece and go home. We have done that
good deal. and we ought TO know better;
but We do not We 60 right on doing il,
because We desire to encourage foreign
emigration. But il Is being OTerdone.
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