The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-28
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VIM, Archer's american Hospi tality.

Tn Washington | made the acquant-
ance of a gentleman who invited me to
lunch at the leading diplomatic and So
cial club I had no claim upon him of
any sort, beyond the most casual intro
duction. He RECALLED me with Little
Neck clans, 'terrapin, and all the dell
cacies of the season, and invited me to
meet half a dozen of the most interest
ing men in the city, all of them strang-
ers to me until that moment / found
myself seated next to an exceedingly
amiable man, whose name l had not
caught when we were introduced. one
of the first things he asked me was not
What did l think of American no one
ever asked me that-but Where was
was 1 going to put up?" l thought of
going to the T hotel. Much better
go to the - club" he replied; I've no
doubt they will be able to give you
room. AS soon as lunch is over shall
telegraph to the club and make sure
that everything is ready for YOU" I
of course thanked him warmly But
what credentials shall I present?"
asked You don't require any-just
present your card. I shall have made
it all right for YOU. This was a man
whom l met 10 minutes before, whose
name l did not know and to whom |
had been introduced by a man whom I
barely knew. And he was as good as
his word Arriving in Boston at
ing, I found my room allotted to me,
and the club servants ready to receive
me with every attention. l felt like the
prince in a fairy tale, only that i had
done nothing whatever to oblige the
good fairy.
The one drawback TO American hos
ptality is that it is apt to be too pro-
hra va n ltl1 n
offer mild protest against being en-
tertained by Woodworking journalist
on scale that would have befitted a
millionaire. The possibility of return
ing the compliment in kind affords the
canny Scot but poor consolation.
dinner three times more lavish and ex-
pensiVe than you want is not sWetened
by the thought that you many, in turn
give your host a dinner three times
more expensive and lavish than he
wants. Both parties, on this system,
suffer in digestion and in pocket, while
only Delmonico is the gamer. 1t seems
to me, on the whole, that in this coun-
try the millionaire is too commonly al
lowed to fix the standard of expendit-
ure. Society would not be less, but
more. agreeable if. instead of always
emulating the splendors Of Lucullus,
people now and then studied the art of
Horatian frugality. And | note that i'll
club life, if the plutocrat sets the stand
ard of expenditure, the artistocrat looks
to the training of the servants. Their
obSequiousness is almost painful. There
is not the slightest trace of democratic
equality in their dress, their manners.
or their speech. / speak especially of
the white servants, the negro is much
more free and easy The hardened
elubman will ring up a fellow citizen
from the basement in order to save
himself the trouble of crossing the room
TO md newspaper. I do not say or
think that lack of considera ton for ser
wants is common; but l do think that
they are in some cases encouraged to
ADOPT an off1cious servility of manner
winch ought to be un-American. What
mas become of the doctrine that in
equality is only uniauity misspelt?-
William Archer in Pail Mall Gazette.