The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-01-25
J AMERICAN HOTELS.
An English View Of our BOO Blackinr
and Waiting.

Va OOK l3OOG" ol8CkxNS
and WaAhtns.
Much has been said of the Ameri-
can hotels, on which of course we
nave based our modern English hotel
system, says Mr.. Clement Scott.
there is much to admire in both. no
doubt. There are certain details of
american hotel life which would be
~lntolerable to the average English
traveller. | don't think that the
men would like to black their own
boots or to have them BACKED on
their feet coram populo in the base
ment; but there is not a oma in
the kingdom who would not weep
with Joy when the Washing basket
came home with the clean and fine
linen washed and finished as it is in
California. No washing in Paris or
Brussels a compete with the art
OF linen washing as shown in Frisco;
and yet Chit.amen do it all, SO thew
tell me. At least, l see them taking
the washing home attired in pot
hats and pigtails! Here is a dis
met instance of Western civilization.
In Hong Kong and Canton your
native, homeDred Chinaman beat nv
shirts into fragments and my silk
hankerchiefs into rags. There was
no, a buttonhole %unfrayed. But in
Frisco the civilized Chinaman, gives
me shirts sc glazed and white that
they might be taken for mirrors at
the dinner table; and then there is
the suite Of apartments, or .outside
ROOM" in an American hotel that
commends itself sincerely to the
English traveller. When we are
going round the world we are in
clined to long for our metropolitan
caravanseries or, best of all, the
watmest welcome of al old fashioned
English provincial inn. But il the
art of waiting was known in Amer
ica-which it is not-there would be
few fair comparisons made with the
hotels at Frisco; the art of waiting
is not a lost one; it is an unknown
n in America. You dine at the
hotel restaurant, and you have to
wait half an hour for the first course,
and on the average Is minutes be-
tween every other one. Onfa certain
occasion we stopped at the best res
taurant in San Francisco, and the
supper, good as it a and the com
pany, charming as it was, were both
ruined by idle, naughty, and indif-
ferent waiting. If the servants are
too fine to wait, let them say so and
go. But why should they conde-
scend to wait and spoil our dinners
and our suppers? Let them give it
up and call on the faithful Swiss, the
industrious German. and, if needs be,
the patient Chinaman. The modern
! Englishman and American cannot
wait. Let them own it, and retire to
other duties which they can fill infn-
itely better.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu.
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from repu.
table physicians, as the damage they will
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactured by f. j. Cheney & Co..
Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is
taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. 1t is taken internally, and
made in Toledo, Ohio, by f.. j. Cheney &
Co.. Testimonials free.
~ Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills, Csc.
CORN. TOBACCO AND BEANS.