Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-08
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

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About the most despicable thing that
one runs across at a watering or seaside
| resort il the professional masher" said
Israel Martin Of Poughkeepsfe at the Riggs
House last night. He poses for the ben
| eft OF susceptible femininity, and after a
| conquest or two of light-headed nurse girls
| or waiting maids comes to regard himself
| as Irresistible and does not hesitate to ogle
| every good-looking woman he may happen
to meet. I had the pleasure last Sunday
morning of seeing one of the gentry treat
| ed to his just deserts in the office of the
st. Denis Hotel at Atlantic City. 1t ap-
pears that the fellow had been a guest at
| the hotel for several days and took his
meals at a table which was also occupied
by Philadelphia business man. his par
| tfcularly lovely wife and their little daugh-
| ter. None of the latter had taken the
slightest notice of their table companion,
| and last Saturday morning the Philadel-
phian left for his Quaker city office to set
| tie up the affairs of the week. Along in
the afternoon, SO I was informed. his wife
was seated on the hotel piazza reading
book, when the masher came up and pro-
| ceeded to converse with her She resent
| ed his intrusion, but he coolly took no no
tice of 1t. In few moments she arose
| and angriiy informed her insulter that she
| would tell her husband of his conduct
Oh, no, you WON'T said the fellow with
| efrontery. You wouldn't dare to tell him
| anything about our Irritation
Late Saturday night the Philadelphia
| returned TO his wife and baby. The next
morning we were all startled by hearing
| bowls and shrieks coming from the hotel
office. 1t was evident that the lady had in
formed her husband When L reached the
| scene he had just knocked the masher down
| with powerful blow in the mouth, and,
| losing control of himself. had begun kick
| ing him violently about the head. Three
OF the guests jumped forward and pulled
| MIN away from his victim or he certainly
| would have killed him. When the proprie-
tor or the hotel learned the cause of the
diinculty he ordered the bruised and bat
| tered victim of his own insuffereble con-
ceit to leave the house Immediately, and
| while the latter was packing up his effects
| an officer arrived and placed both of the
parties under arrest. They were taken be-
lore a magistrate, who, upon hearing the
| evidence. Immediately dismissed the COM
plant against the Philadelphian. at the
same time taking occasion to compliment
| him upon the punishment he had inflicted
| on the insulter of his wife. 1 imagine that
| the board walk dandies who make life so
| Will be little careful this summer about
whom they distinguish with their irresis-
| tible consideration"
'"rhe bath tub is destined to become
thing of the past" said Herbert Mitchell.
a Milwaukee builder, at La Noru,andie this
morning. THE shower bath Is RAPIDLY
coming into use as household means of
bodily publication. Most new houses of
the finer variety which are being erected
| nowadays are equipped with shower rooms
as L suppose II would be well to call them,
instead of the familiar apartment containing
tub and a stationary washstand. In a
| dwelling recently erected in Milwaukee
there are two rooms such as 1 speak of. The
| walls are tiled to height of four or five
| feet, the floor is a composition of some
thing like fine asphalt, and In one corner
Is shower bath. while needle bath is
beside IT. The advantages of such an
apartment over the old bath room are mani
fold, and especially in a hygienic sense
The body Of the bather, for instance is
never touched by the water that is soiled
by coming in contact with it, as is the case
in bath room tub. The rapid spray of
water deluging the body also promotes
circulation and keeps the blood moving
While the additions are in progress. or
course. there is a drain pipe toward which
the moor gently slopes and which carries
OF the water as ii leaves the body | be-
heve the fine residences Of the future will
all be equipped with shower instead of
bath rooms"
TT is surprising how many inventors
are engaged in working out a practicable
automatic car coupler" said A. J. Wool
ridge of Boston at the E5bitt yesterday
PATENTS have been taken out on hundreds
Of the appliances which seem at first glance
|
have been fairly crying for ever since cars
were nrst Joined together to make train,
but when 1t comes to putting the articles
in practical use they fail to come up to the
requirements in one instance or another
Inere Is no telling what an immense saving
there would be in the life and limb OF rail-
way brakenen and trainmen generally If
| perfect automatic car coupler could be
made and operated. The casualty sheets
or the American railways show a terrible
sum total OF injuries caused by their EN-
ployes being caught and crushed between
cars, and the man who can lessen by his
inventive genius the big figures those sheets
Contain will not only be something of a
philanthropist in the good he will accom-
plish for his fellow-man but will also be re-
warded with wealth that Croesus might
envy"
DO 1 look very much like tendc-foot ?''
inquired well-known and popular news
paper man at the Arlington last night
well, whether 1 am so regarded by nv
friends or not l don't know, but the able
and oily ticket seller down at the Forepa1ga
show must have looked upon me in the light
Of soft and callow youth the other night,
for he didn't do anything in the world but
try to flim-fam me out of q large and lovely
| dollar. l went to the circus, acco npanied
by two ladies, for whom I had already Sc
| cured tickets uptown, and I approa ched the
| ucA oInCe van 10 get one for myself.
| handed in SO bill. and II struck me that
| the ticket vendor displayed unusual care in
counting out my change He picked UP his
silver. and said. slowly: 'Sixty-five cents
| and the ticket you got for thirty-fve cents
| makes dollar: four dollars makes Eve and
hve dollars makes your ten. Here you are
| sir! He evidently thought would shove
the money in my pocket and move on with
the ladies. but 1t struck me that the roguish
rascal might have endeavored to take adj
! vantage OF my youthful inexperience
stopped and looked over the change The IS
bill was all right, but the silver amounted
! to exactly three dollars and sixty-fve cents
l informed him with gentle softness that Re
| was exactly dollar shy In the white metal
part or his returns to me. Let me see itr
he exclaimed. quickly. / handed him the
| silver, and he looked II over. and showed IL
| back to me- saying, gruffiy: Why there
Is four sixty-f1ve there, / counted II again
and found he wss correct He had slipped
In the extra dollar that he should have put
! there In the first place, and evidently saw
| that 1t was better to cast slur upon my
mathematical accuracy than il was to with
hold the dollar from my hard-esrned saw
| inss tell you that the average ticket sell
er OF a cheap circus is about the oiliest
thing when 1t comes to smooth rsscality a
man can find outside of the ranks of the
| bunco steerers that permeste Gotham depots
! about the time that the country trains get