The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-06-15
INEVITABLE BERTH.
WIFE OF HOTEL MANAGER MARX
FOR WOMEN QUESTS.
When Anything Goes Wrong Mrs.
Boniface Becomes Receiver
General for All the
"Kicks."

"1f you have tears, shed them out of
pity for hotel managers wife who
lives in the hotel that her husband
manages" drearily said the wife Of the
manager of an apartment hotel to her
party of luncheon guests the other day
reports the New York Sun. THE
women living in the hotel carry all
their grievances to her and take 1t
out on her. My private apartment
has become a sort of general kickers'
bureau.
the hotel my husband manages got out
of order and the water looked a bit
roily and muddy. Well, 1t seemed as
If every blessed woman in the hotel to
whom I had been casually introduced
rushed to my rooms to hold me per-
sonally accountable.
why, wouldn't even bathe my
dog in such looking water!" half a
dozen of them told me. with the sour
est Imaginable faces-as IL 1t concerned
me in the least what kind of water
they used to bathe their dogs.
IT told them that my faucets gushed
roily water, too. but that myself had
to bathe in 1t or go unbathed until the
filtering apparatus was repaired. That
didn't appease them in the least
didn't want to he rude, and I couldn't
come out plainly and tell them that
the state of the water was a circum-
stance over which | exercised no con
troll whatever. and that the breakdown
of the filtering plant was matter
with which had absolutely nothing to
do: and so Just had to sit and listen
to their walls and do the best I could
to comfort them.
"The fish at dinner one day wasn't
exactly up to the mark. Five of the
women guests. with whom I was upon
mere noddi-g terms. hustled straight
to my rooms after dinner.
"'Where did the house get such
dreadful fish, they asked me breath.
lessly. impaling me with reproachful
gazes.
Il told them that the fish had been
purchased by the steward. probably
d" But he shouldn't have purchased
bad fish, they all shrieked at me
There ought to be somebody to see
that such fish doesn't get on the
tablet l couldn't tell them that ] had
absolutely nothing to do with the man.
agement Of the hotel; that had never
set foot in the kitchen. II ] had told
them that they would have gone of
among themselves and called me snip
py' and stuck up Women In fam
ily hotel, you see, don't consider that
the hotel managers wife has any right
or license to live in the hotel as guest
They take it that she ought naturally
to do something for her board and keep
and the something that they expec,
her to do is to stand for all Of theiI
walls and means over the grievous and
awful mismanagement Of the house.
81 was at dinner in the hotel dining
room the other evening, when one ol
the new tabby guests, woman whom
had only met once, left her table and
came over to mine.
"Do you know she asked me, mos
resentfully. that the girl hasn't put an!
| towels in my room yet to-day, and herr
It is seven o'clock in the evening?
wish you would bring some towels up t
my room or have somebody bring them,
and then she Haunted back to her owl
table, giving me no opportunity to tel
her-as ! surely should have told her
that any time she found me running
around a hotel corridor with a pile o
towels on my arm distributing them
that time would be contemporaneou
with the fall Of two feet Of purple snoy
In mid-August.
"And the worst of 1t Is, that every tim
tell my husband how all the wome
in the house hold me personally re
sponsible for everything that goe
wrong in the house. he only grins an
then Fuckers up his lips and plaintivel
whistles the first few bars Of that ia
miliar air, Somebody Has Got to be tn
Patsy"