Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-09

summer hotels, for the reason that
both mountains and lake are included
IN the attractions of the place and
the sea is less than two miles away. >
1t was the managing housekeeper of
summer hotel who made this re-
mark on the eve of departure from
New York to assume charge of her de-
partment.
why so?" the woman asked.
Because we have to deal with
women who want to show what thew
can do in mountain climbing, who are
anxious to make a record of that sort,
made from time to time By guests at
the hotel and also with women who
go in for wearing bathing suit mos.
OF the day and who when not bathing
In the lake are swimming in the ocean.
"The proprietor always starts the
season with a foreboding, which stays
right by him till the hotel shutters go
up in September. Sometimes | feel
that way myself, although / am not d.
rectly responsible for the welfare OF
guests, as he is. The cause of this ap-
prehension is the impossibility of fore
seeing what women will do.
"The proprietor never worries about
men guests. No matter how man
feels or what happens to him outside
the hotel he never dreams of blaming
the management; but with women 1t
is quite different.
Here is case in point which hap
pened about five years ago. Among
the arrivals late in July was a young
married woman who looked remark
ably well in bathing suit and who,
it turned out, had marked fondness
for swimming and for lobster cooked
in any style.
"The woman's husband escorted her
to the hotel, stayed one week and
went back to the city, leaving his wife
behind for the month of August Less
that three weeks later the man came
back summoned by telegraph, and
took his wife away on stretcher to
the train, leaving many of the other
women in the hotel looking darkly at
the proprietor and whispering about
tanned foods and bad cooking.
Dozens of women packed their
trunks the next day and left, and had
it not been near the end of the sea-
son the exodus would have been
greater and the cash account of the
proprietor would have had big fall.
AS it was, he was loser by several
hundred dollars.
This is what happened: No sooner
had the woman's husband turned his
back than she put on bathing suit
and prepared to enjoy herself, and
her daily program was something like
this:
"A hearty breakfast served in her
room little before 10 O'Clock, after
eating which she was off to the lake,
wearing one of the nattiest silk bath.
ing suits | ever saw, to spend three
hours or more swimming and sitting
on the beach. She would stay in the
WdLCI oil lOuI at a OtiCtShJ uodtih7s
swimming, diving, come out and sit
half an hour on the sand and go back
into the water.
Frequently she went late in the
afternoon for another dip, as she called
it. On some days she varied this by
driving just before noon over to the
ocean, where she would indulge in a
hearty lunch Of lobster and crabs, OF
which she was Unfortunately fond, and
then spend couple of hours in the
ocean. At the hotel she would eat
Nlobster-a whole one--for luncheon
and another for dinner if she could get
it. Her favorite nightcap was lobster
or shellfish of some sort
Now, eaten in moderation, nothing
is more healthful than lobster and
crabs; but the woman am speaking
of didn't do anything in moderation.
AS a result, after little more than
two weeks of this sort OF thing she
was taken II, very H. The house ply
stefan said 1t was the worst case OF In
digestion that he had ever encoun-
tered.
But do you think his patient would
admit that her illness was the outcome
of her own foolishness? Not she.
1T was bad food, stale shellfish'
poor cooking, she told every one who
came near her, and the unthinking be-
lieved her.
Leaving out the lobster, there were
two similar cases last summer. A
young woman and young matron
were both overload of still water and
surf bathing.
when the young woman's mother
arrived later in the season she was
shocked at her daughters looks.
Why, how thin you are was the
first thing she said. What has nap
pened to your complexion? Your skin
looks so rough. You don't appear TO
be nearly so we'll as when you left
home
THAT mother arrived none too soon
for the very next day the girl took TO