The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-14
NINETEEN COCKTAILS FOR ~.

NJ Y Sun.
The ways of woman?" repeated the
motel day clerk; yes, you get good
insight into them in a hotel, Then.
IN lower tone, with touch of re-
mlnlscence in it, he added: do you
know, they are much like the WAYS of
Providence inscrutable and past finding
out? And you are likely to jump the
wrong way in Judging a woman's mo-
tives. Now III tell you story to illus
trate that
The other day a well-groomed wom-
an drove up to the hotel in a hanson
she was becomingly dressed and look
ed city bred. She was particular to get
a good suite of rooms and paid for them
in advance, L saw to it that she was
shown up to her apartment and then
gave no further thought to her. She
was unaccompanied.
Some time later my assistant re-.
marked that the guest in AZ was doing
a land-ofice business at the bar. but :
paid no attention to his comment, be-
cause it is my policy to discourage any
seeming familiarity between employees
OF the hotel and it's guests But [
violated my own rule a few minutes
later, when the very excellent and dts
erect mixer of drinks of the house, who
has been in it's employ for twenty years
and has privileges that are denied or
binary barkeeps, came to the desk with
an apologize air in his face and asked
for a word with me-
What is it, Charles?' I said.
Excuse me, SIR he said, but l.
well, l thought sir, as how ia better
call your attention to the guest in
At
81 'Forty-seven, Char!es% said I. and
then, as l repeated the number I re-
called, dinlly, the remark the assistant
clerk had made about the guest in II
doing business with the bar.
Yes, sir. At. sir. and 1 thought I'd
tell you as how I'd sent UP nineteen
cocktails to the room within an hour,
sir
" Nineteen cocktails in an hour. mind
you! And I hold that's a whole lot too
many in respectable hotel. Yes, even
though the Woman's city bred But [
fiatter myself that I concealed the as
constituent that l felt for I'm firm be-
never in office discipline. Accordingly, l
thanked Charles for coming to me and
told him that he might leave the matter
in my hands
"A moment later found me knocking
on the door of AZ, and without delay,
such as might have been expected, the
woman of the hanson appeared and in
view of the determination l had reached,
she was proVokingly sober and self-pos-
sessed. had put all suavity aside, for
meant to deal with this case in a way
to uphold the reputation of the hotel
. am sorry to say to you, madam
L CALCULATED in a freezing tone, that
these rooms are required, and [ shall
have to ask you to give them up
THE very next minute l regretted that
/ had been quite SO hasty, for in a gentle
1iOnjfin6 CHI
enter the room that our conversation
might not be public. Still, was in TO
mood to have the wool pulled over my
eyes by woman, much less a woman
who had consumed nineteen cocktails
within an hour.
" I believe 1 recognize you as the no.
tel clerk; the little woman said and
again 1 wondered that she showed no
signs of intoxication. VIII you please
inform me why you want the rooms when
l have already paid for them?'
81 could have sworn that the woman
was perfectly sober. but the thought of
those nineteen cocktails was too over
towering and [ blurted out:
We don't care for women like you
in this hotel. A woman that drinks
nineteen cocktails in an hour can't stay
here
''Well, she Strengthened up a little and
the corners of her mouth were twitching
with the suspicion of smile as she
pointed to the mantel over the fire
place.
There, she said, are the cocktails.
Did you think that 1 drank them. I
only ordered them for the cherries Of
which 1 am very fond
do? Well, what could I do but get
down on my maFrowbones? But what
do you think of the ways of woman?'