The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-02
EXPENSIVE HOSPITALITY.
A Host who Put Up q Sign For the Bsne-
At of Visitors.

"Down in nearly any Of the southern |
sss toA remarked the New York drum |
mer Sundaying in Washington, "the OPP
preston of hospitality, IL may SO express
Ii, is something the northerner has no idea
Of. have travelled In New England, as
well as all over the south, and l have ac-
tual knowledge OF what / am talking
about never heard of a Yankee being
eaten out Of house and home by his friends
but know of dozen families In different
parts of the south who have continual
struggle for existence simply because they
haven't the courage 10 put up the bars ana
shut out their thoughtless visitors, who
drop in at any and all tiinss for meal or
O nights lodging, or both, or half n dozen
of them, for that matter Or course they
arc Just rs ready to extend similar cour-
tesy, but il isn't every family who can
make itself even by boarding 1t out ana
the result Is that burdens are thoughtiess-
" thrust upon many who are Kept with
their noses to the grindstone as long as
they live.
az never knew of but one who had the
nerve to inaugurato new order OF things,
and he, or sho rather, has been at it so
shortly that / cannot say how 1t will turn
out though SO far it is glittering sue
cess. This man had good farm and
raft of friends who seemed to think that
his house was theirs free of cost, and used
It accordingly. His first wife was native
of the same county, and she couldn tturn
peoplc away, though she and her husband
both felt that they were gradually being
deyoured and worked to death for their
friends Four years ago sho died, and a
year ago he married a Pennsylvania WON
an of sense and courage and with no ira
ditions and customs to observe. she SAID
| nothing for the first six months, but went
ahead keeping q FREQ hotel and listening
| to compliments on the superior kind OF o
| woman she was, and then she called for u
| change.
"She had n comfortable competence OF
| her own and out of that she took enough
to paint and enlarge the house and i'm
! prove the grounds, and in the meantime
| ehc announced that she was going to keep
hotel OF course, while the workmen were
tearing things up, the visitors had TO sta!
away, and in this way they quit Tor
| time.
"At last she opened up tho place, which
she had made very handsome, and begaI
waiting for guests. The only Indication o
a hotel there Is is an archway over tho biz
L gate Oh UDc pike, uDouo a qussA wa "a ~ 80 -
from the house, and on this Is four foo
square sign, reading:
Hotel Bountiful; best meals and beds in tn
county; everybody welcome; entertainment
for man and beast; prices, So per day up; sin
gle meals sl.50; lodging, 81 no reduction
by the week or month; dogs and children nc
admitted; come one, come all.
MIR. and Mrs. BLANK, Proprietors.
Gas said," concluded tho drummer
"I don't know how the scheme will result
hut when was in that neighborhood te
| DAVIS ago they hadn't done enough bus
ness to pay for the sign. In fact, the
| hadn't had single guest, and never SAY
two hotel proprietors as thoroughly col
tented and happy over the exceedingly ba
business they were doing. "-Washingto
| Star.