Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-08

by ten. The bed takes up all OF the |
room that the wash stand and one chair
does not occupy. HIVE to keep my trunk
in the hall, and Its so pleasant to go and
unlock and unstrap it EVERY time j want
clean collar. And the laundry ar
rangements are SO handy. One man who
came up in May says he has so far sent
away three bundles and none returned
as vet. And to buy anything, even
toothbrush, one has to take the train to
Spirit Lake and spend whole day go
ing and coming. Still that helps a little,
one is doing something. What a dog
gasted chump was not to bring along
case of beer. The stuff here is swill
that hog would not drink. Probably
made for the Iowa trade. And over in
the woods, in a hole in the wall one has
to sneak to buy even this stuff at %
cents bottle. The table is fairly good,
but don't Just yet understand the stu
alton or the walters. These girls who
walt on the table are terribly green at
the business. And somehow they don't
seem to walt on me- as we'll as they do
the young travelling men who come up
for a day or two. / spoke to Landlord
Benedict about 1t, and he said he would
see about 1t. Now its the other way,
they pay too much attention to me.
like to be friendly to even servant girls,
they're human beings, but as soon as
remarked that 1t was pleasant morn
ing, one girl actually sat down across
the table, and entertained me during
the whole meal. happened to think of
Birdseye walking into the dining room
just then. And as / went out, another
girl said to me, "Mr. Pessimist, you
| mustn't make a mash on Mary, her fell
ler's coming tomorrow, and you'll get
| your head punched" That's nice talk
| to a sixty year-old man from a table
| waiter. Don't know whether to report
this to Benedict or not. Might make
| things worse. Gave Mary a dollar in
hopes she would understand 1t was for
bringing me that whole spring chicken,
and now when go into the dining room
every enc of those girls tumble over one
another to get to me first. Two travel
| ing men who sat at another table, act
ually laughed out aloud when they
| saw the grand rush. and .1rs. Croesus
and her two old maid daughters, who
also were in the room, raised their. eye
brows as tho was to blame. And af-
forwards when walked towards them
Il
and went around and sat down en- the
other side of the house. Wish row 1
hadn't said anything to the landlord. L
had rather be neglected than be made so
conspicuous.
Benedict House, okoboji. June TO- 1901.
Had to speak to the landlord again.
Two nights ago, five men and seven
Il not, a..
not know who they were, but do know
| they We're not respectable. The party
occupied four or five rooms on the same
| floor with me-. They ordered two cases
/ of beer from the tent" and after a
romping dance on the east porch, went
to their rooms and commenced to play
cards and drink beer. About midnight
the men Were drunk and I am afraid
| from the talk heard, some of the wo-
men were Intoxicated. They chased one
another thru the halls in and tut of
| their rooms. yelled like Comanche In
\ dams and of course couldn't sleep.
| Finally they had free for all fight,
| threw beer bottles at one another, and
| did not dare to go down stairs for fear
/ they would get me- mixed up in the
fracas. Benedict says If 1t happens
again he'll turn them all out.
/ Had an excursion here last Sunday.
Seven train loads of all kinds of people
here. Some of them came even from
| Dakota, 200 miles away. They left home
at a. M, rode till ii in hot, dusty cars.
got on the grounds about Eoon, and -
Il o'clock had eaten up everything in
\ sight Some had to eat crackers and
cheese, and If Mary had not looked out
| for me would not have got place to
sit down or thing to eat. l don't see
why the other girls all smile SO. when
!, Mary comes to my table. There's an
other girl employed here, they call Lulu.
1 Well, Lulu managed to spill plate of
soup on my left arm. and ruined for the
| time being my white flannel suit. Prob
ably when l get it back from the laun-
dry it will be SO shrunk up. can never
wear i. again. Benedict says "if Lulu
makes a break of that kind again he'll
fire her.
4 (To be continued
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