Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-14


provoked and decided to teach him les
son."
"Oh," said as Mrs. John hesitated.
Yes, we planned it while he was gone
for the soup, and we ordered apollinaris
water right away, first one bottle, then an
other, just to show him we were accustomed
to extras
"Ah!" interrupted, but no attention
was paid to it.
"And at the end we dubbed together
and gave him dollar. You should have
/, seen his face, and we watched those men
too They didn't order u thing extra, and
they gave the waiter a quarter between
them"
'Miscreants!' felt bound to calculate.
"Oh, you're laughing at me, but we
wanted to show that waiter we could fee
even If we were women. Such a shabby
thing as that wink was!"
sit seems to have brought him rather q
good RETURN" ventured.
Mrs. John deigncd no reply. She was
dressing the salad, an operation which al
ways absorbs her. Presently she resumed:
Going out, you know, we staid all
night at Buffalo, and, by tho way" this
little scornfully, 81 should think mans
/ ingenuity could devise some means to
waken one person in a hotel without rous-
ing whole floor of sleepors."
Can woman's?" l asked, with what
was meant for an engaging smile.
ut can indeed. Helen and talked it
over. There could be bell touched in tho
office to ring at the head Of the bed, or
whistle might be fitted to the keyhole
which would sound only in the ROOM
4 "Or a bomb might be gently waited
\ through the transom warranted to [ plodo
/ only on the left pillow" added
Mrs. John laughed. "If you no going
to be flippant, 1 shan't give you any more
Of my suggestions. I'm going to submit
( them to some one interested. 1t was bar
barous the way Helen and were disturb
\ ed. At 6, at $3.50 and at 7:15 the whole
corridor was aroused because three persons
/ wished to be called.
I "Therc was another thing we objected
/ to, too, ON the sleeping car on tho way
homo, and that was tho berth curtains.
/ There certainly could DO something better
provided to screen tho berths than those
/ thick, creepy curtains"
/ "Name it, promptly cried.
4 "Well, 1 believe can. Why couldn't
sort of venetian blind be let down that
could be regulated from the inside? 1t
could be weighted to hang firm, and there
would be chance for n little ventilation,
and that annoying catching of dresses and
clothes when any one is walking through
the car would be done away with. Such
screens would be much more sanitary and
clearly, too, than the stuffy draperies that
gather dust and what not from every
nights service, and only half lose the &C
emulation at their cleaning"
Mrs John was SO serious that 1 only
dared to suggest that she communicate
her ideas at once to some sleeping car otli
cial
II may" she quickly rejoincd, "and
when l do 1 shall right some other things
too The ventilation of the car, for OK
ample After we were all up yesterday
morning the Car remained sitting in its
closcness and impurity. l spoke to the
porter, and he knocked open every vcnti-
lator and shut off the heat. Pretty soon
the air became very cold. ventured an
other suggestion, and, with n cross look,
he knocked shut every vcntilator and turn
ed on the heat. In ashort time we were
baking"
Il didn't dare say anything more, but
presently some one did, and again every
thing was opened, and the temperature
suddenly lowered 20 degrees. These proc
csscs were repeated all day and all of tho
time there was IA thermometer hanging on
a rod across the aisle of the car that almost
hit the porter's woody head every time he
passed it. l watched it anxiously, hoping
it would But it always swung just above
him and he never once glanced in its di-
rcction."
Mrs. John paused, and I lighted aNga-
rctte
my dear" said indulgcntly as the
first whiffs began their agreeable work, IF
you can reform the parlor or sleeping car
porter, relieve his Grass stupidity, inocu-
late him with few hairs of industry or
in any way mitigate or abate his intolera-
bic good for nothingness, your name will
be writ upon tablets of brass by a grateful
travelling public
II shouldn't try to reform him., was
her quick reply, HE is hopeless. l should
abolish him"
looked my surprise through wreaths OF
smoke.
YES" she went on earnestly, land 1
should replace him with strong, trim,
neat handed quick witted woman"
| And Mrs John evidently meant what
she said.-New York Times.