Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-12-22
EXPENSIVE HOSPITALITY
A Host Who Put Up n Sign for Siae
Benefit of Visitors,

HOST Who Put Up Sign for Siaa
Benefit of Visitors.
Down In nearly any of the Southern
States" remarked the New York di um-
mer Sundaying in Washington, .'the
oppression of hospitality, II | may SO
express 1t, Is something the Northern
er has no Idea of. | have Travelled in
New England as we'll as all over the
South, and have actual knowledge Of
what am talking about. never heard
OF Yankee being eaten out of house
and home by his friends, but | know of
dozen families In different parts of
the South who have a continual strug-
gle for existence simply because they
haven't the courage to put up the bars
ana shut out their thoughtless visitors,
who drop In at any and all times for a
meal or nights lodging, or both or
half-a-dozen of them, for that matter
VI course they are Just as ready to ex-
tend similar courtesy but 1t isn't
every family who can make itself even
by boarding 1t out, and the result Is
that burdens are thoughtlessly thrust
upon many who are kept with their
noses to the grindstone as long as they
| live.
Il never knew OF but one who had
the nerve to lnaugurate new order of
things, and he or she rather, has been
at 1t 30 shortly that cannot say how
1t Will turn out, though so far 1t is a
glittering success. This man had a
good farm and raft of friends who
seemed to think that his house was
theirs free of cost, and used 1t accord.
ingly. His first wife was native OF
the same county, and she couldn't turn
people away, though she and her hus-
band both felt that they were gradual
ly being devoured and worked to death
for their friends. Four years ago she
died, and Il year ago he married "A
pennsylvania woman OF sense anu
courage, and with no traditions and
customs TO observe. She said nothing
for the first six months, but went
ahead keeping free hotel and llstc4
ing to compliments on the superior
kind of woman she was, and then she
called for change.
"She had a comfortable competence
of her own, and out of that she took
enough to paint and enlarge the house
and improve the grounds, and In the
meantime she announced that she was
going to keep a hotel. OF course, while
the workmen were tearing things up,
the visitors had to stay away, and in
this way they quit for a time.
ION the 1st of September last she
! opened up the place, which she had
| made very handsome, and began wait
ing for guests. The only indication of
hotel there Is is an archway over the
big gate on the pike, about a quarter
OF mile from the house, and on this Is
a four-foot square sign reading:
Hotel Bountiful.
Best Meals and Beds In the County,
! Everybody Welcome.
Entertainment for Man and Beast.
Prices $5 per Day Up
Single Meals, $1.50.
Lodging, 50.
No Reduction by the Week or Month
Dogs and Children Not Admitted.
| Come one. Come All.
MIR. AND MRS. BLANK, Proprietors.
"As l said" concluded the drummer,
II don't know how the scheme will re-
suit, but when was in that neighbor-
hood ten days ago they hadn't done
enough business to pay for the sign.
In fact, they hadn't had single guest.
and l never saw two hotel proprietors
as thoroughly contented and happy
| ovar tho aynaadin p1v had huSinfeS they
were doing"