Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-10

We drove TO Browns Hotel on Dover
street, and | was soon assigned TO the
| room which seemed to match my steer
age trunk and Ellis Island bag. 1t was
nine shillings a day, but that did not
include amount brought forward, at
tendance, use Of electric light, bath,
use of poker and fire shovel, use OF fire
! escape, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea
| and coffee, sugar, milk, use OF sugar
| tongs, desserts, ices, suppers, wear and
tear OF napkin, children's boAd, board
OF valet, sherry, madeira, Norkage,
port, use Of corkscrew, %claret, sauterne,
burgundy, chaDlis, hook, moselle, cham
pagne, use of nut crackers, liquors,
spirits (of just men rectihed, j pre-
sume), ale and stout, aerated waters,
cigars, sundries and ~breakage.
did not remember that broke any
thing. so I asked about II. No bill at a
hotel is correct without an item for
b~reakage.
"Beq pardon" said I. with wonderful
grace and ciyIlity, but ! cannot re-
member that / have broken anything
except the she'll OF a soft boiled egg the
day before Yesterday, and that Is a
ommon oiIense."
every true, indeed" said the cashier,
a beautiful, long wasted girl, with a
voice like a meadow lark, "but you for
get that the egg was a surprise and
shock TO you, sir, and that you broke
one OF the commandments at the time"
l was so Knocked out that she stood
with her watch 10 her hand aud count
ed me out ~accotding TO ring rules. /
did not even venture TO say what was
true, that they were not her command
ments, but l paid the charge, which
was W and six.
Yet Browns is a good hotel, and the
price OF board and lodging there Is not
high. II IS when you ask whether IL Is
likely to rain or not, or use the inkstand
or door mat that the bill runs up. Your
recelpted oil also has a stamp on IL,
which l presume you pay for under the
heading Of lick yours QiqueueTs) (Sco.-
land Yard joke.
Yesterday most all day | played golf.
took Clarence along 70 carry my golf
swatters. These swatters are a COM
promise between a street car hook and
a crop. Clarence 10 the umbrella
stand foil Of these things-a receptacle
made for the purpose Of hOlding six or
seven kind Of swatters.
The field consisted OF a paddock
owned by the Duke OF Dsyonshire con-
tanning 40 acres Of ground and seven
decayed horses. II might have been
one OF the decaYed nobility, but when /
Jaw the wind was from that quarter I
could not help noticing H.
l wore my new golf clothes, aud Clar-
euce cheered me with his presence. The
CAV was cold and kept me active. Car
suce told me Of bis past life aud order
ed a lunch to be brought TO me al the
end OF the link. The link is the round
one has 70 make, & sort OF tour over the
cath. as Clarence calls il, with gopher
holes so far apart, which you 90 for
with your ball. The winner IL the man
who gets his ball 10 these gopher holes
with the lest number Of sWats. That's
swat's the mater.
You hit the ball as hard as possible
In getting from one hole 70 another.
and the game is fraught with as much
excitement as kicking a frozen fried
cake along 3 wintry road. When yon
get near the hole, however, you must
be more careful. OF you will miss. You
must also get your ball out Of any bad
place, too, where you have driven IL.
and must use the golf club to do It with
too.
Iou a imagine how MELT when I
drove my ball into the midst Of q picnic
here, and it landed in the marmalsde