The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-21
SUCH BIG IIPPERS!.
How Kansas Club Women Feed
Mattresses at Their Hotel.
A NICKEL SEEMED TO BE THE LIMIT
Some Funny Stories Picked Up at
the Recent Federation
Biennial.

All sorts of memories will be held by
Los AngeleSianS regarding the women
who attended the meeting Of the Fedora
ton OF Woman's Clubs recently held in
Los Angeles, and perhaps none will be
more interesting than those Of the walt
ers and mattresses of the hotels with re-
gard to those little fees that brighten the
lives of hotel servants and strengthen
their faith in the goodness of men and
women. Some of those given = by the
women frightened lives, but only because
they were SO ludicrously small as to force
a laugh from the recipient.
William Allen White who has been do
ing sout heTn California and writing arti-
cles giving his impressions, has met some
rlutocrats. Men, he says, only play at
the game Of being plutocrats, and seem to
dread detection. Women he adds, ARE
the only real plutocrats; they only seem
to court invest igatiOn.'
Had Mr.. White been at one of the quiet
but very nice hotels of Los Angeles. at
which a Journal man was staying through
the recent biennial, he would have
learned that his stat ement about women
plutOcrats did not apply to the women of
Kansas. Perhaps Mr.. White did not in
tend that it should knowing we'll the hab-
It's Of thrift that Kansas past hard times
have forced upon kaDsans. He might have
said, however, that the Kansas women
knew it was CUSTOMARY with plutocrats
to fee walters, but did not know that the
real plutocrat set no limit to his feees;
otherwise they would not have allowed
that Kansas habit of economy to make
them the objects Of good deal of quiet
laughter on the part Of Los AngeIesians
NOW, the mattresses at the hotel in
question were particularly thoughtful
lot. They were deserving. if ever hotel
dining-room girls were, and that makes
1t all the more funny
A sample CT the way in which Gins,
were handed out by the generous women
at the hotel in question follows-and this
was an Iowa woman. by the way-a trim
little old maid, who seemed to have plenty
OF money and a larger heart than her tin
would Indicate. She was particularly fond
OF lettuce and wanted bunch of it at
each meal, and so informed her waitress
She was told that her request would he
granted and at each meal thereafter there
appeared by her plate the desired dish
FOR nearly two weeks the waitress was
faithful. Then the trim little old maids
heart was moved to reward the faithful
servant. So one morning she announced
TO the girl that she appreciated her faith
fulness and desired to reward it where
upon she placed upon the cloth beside her
"a nickel.
Perhaps the commit tee of entertain
ment OF the federation assigned the dele
gates according to the size Of TIE tins
they~thought they would give. If thew
did so the- did an Injustice to the hotel
In question. sor it is ore of tie hest of
the smaller hotels in Los Angeles At
any rate, a nickel seemed to be the limit
with the delegates there. Hence the
IoWan had plenty of MONEY.
It was KansaD. who one morning
when about 20 leave and desiring 10 re-
ward tie diring-room girl who had waited
on her table, olaced penny beside her
plate. This seems to have been mis-
take Or else rhe woman's conscience
smote her after she left the room, for on
meeting the proprietor of the hotel she
exclaimed: "Oh. I believe I only gave
that girl penny: here are four pennies ;
will you kindly give them to her and tell
her made mistake
Another Kansas woman placed a nickel
uron the table for the girl waiting upon
her table and then her conscience seemed
to give her trouble, for fumbling about in
her purse she brought W a penny and
placed it upon the nickel-all to be given
to- the girl.
Another woman seemed to be torn by
conflicting emotions on the tip question
Apparently she wanted 10 be generous