Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-07
EXPENSIVE HOSPITALITY.
A Host Who Put Up a Sign for the
Benefit OF Visitors.

A Host who Put Up n Sign for the
Benefit OF Visitors.
"Down in nearly any of the South
ern States" remarked the New York
drummer Sundaying in Washington,
"the oppression Of hospitality, if l
may so express it, is something the
Northerner has no idea Of. l have
Travelled in New England, as we'll as
all over the South, and 1 have actual
knowledge of what l am talking about,
never heard of a Yankee being eaten
out of house and home by his friends,
but know of a dozen families in diff
ferent parts of the South who have a
continual struggle for existence simply
because they haven't the courage to
put up the bar and shut out their
thoughtless visitors who drop in at
any and all times for meal or a
nights lodging, or both, or half a
dozen of them, for that matter. OF
course they are just as ready to ex-
tend similar courtesy, but it isn't
every family who can make itself even
by boarding it 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.
al never knew OF but one who had
the nerve to inaugurate new order
OF things, and he, or she rather, has
been at it SO shortly that cannot say
how it will turn out, though so far il
is a glittering success. This man had
q good farm and raft of friends
who seemed to think that his house
was theirs free of cost, and used it &C.
cordingly. His first wife was native
Of the same county, and she couldn't
turn people away, though she and
her husband both felt that they were
gradually being devoured and worked
10 death for their friends. Four years
ago she died, and year ago he mar
ried Pennsylvania woman of sense
and courage, and with no traditions
and customs to observe. She said
nothing for the first six months, but
went ahead keeping q free hotel and
listening to compliments on the gu
perior kind of q woman she was, and
then she called for change.
"She had 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 o hotel. OF
course, while the workmen were tear
ing things up, the visitors had to stay
away, and in this way they quit for a
time.
"On the LIST 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 an archway over
the big gate on the pike. about quar-
ter of mile from the house, and on
this is a four-foot square sign reading
Hotel Bountiful.
Best Meals and Beds in the Coun-
try.
Everybody Welcome.
Entertainment for Man and Beast.
Prices IS per Day Up.
Single Meals $3.50.
Lodging, 81.
No Reduction by the Week or
Month.
Dogs and Children Not Admitted.
Come one. Come All.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BLANK,
Proprietors.
"As l said," concluded the drum.
mer, 81 don't know how the scheme
will result, but when 1 was in that
ncighborhood 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 so thoroughly con-
tented and happy over the exceedingly
bad business they we're doing"
0LD-TIME SWEETNESS GONE.
molasses IL Now Made Into Rum,
and RHaxEn SuxaH L. Mn mn.s