The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16

rooms vacant, and suggested the ~neighbor-
ing village. II looks could have killed l
should never AVE survived her glances
az the driver put the trunk back on the
blackboard. IL was not until a week after
ward that I learned that she did know a
woman who had been in the house, but had
zone away because she did not find the COM
pany very congenial. In fact when she had
complained to me Of her isolation / had sug-
gested that she might be more agreeably
situated somewhere else. Her friend knew
that this woman's name would be even OF
less assistance to her than the syndicate OF
managers and had tried them instead.
There are always difficulties o the
persons one takes when a house Ia TO pre-
serve n character for exclusiveness and
that is very necessary TO the woman who
wants to keep on making money IN the
business. In New York the woman VINO
keeps a boarding house up TO a certain
standard in the winter can afford to let
il run down a little bit in the summer and
take in anybody who seems respectable
and will occupy her rooms. In an Inn,
however, that is different, and the summer
crowd must be up to the standard. Once
a clergyman whom l knew wrote me that
he wanted 20 se nd to my house two young
ladies' for whom he would vouch.
Il had never seen them. but knew him,
and In the course OF LlH1c Jnty dTTlNcus
They were very ladylike looking girls and
behaved themselves properly. Somebody
Immediately recognized them, however, as
telephone operators in a much frequented
hotel. Now. they we're quite %unobJec-
tionable, but I am not running a hotel for
telephone girls. II l did it would have been
| quite a different kind OF a place. Nice
as they were / did not want them,
there are places in which they would have
had a much better time. They wanted TO
- L1,,a. -,ArolU hap1NGn ~ IVA =
a difficult place for them to get into. No
sooner had they been recognized by sew
eral persons than a woman came 10 me IN
a great state. 1 knew what was coming
when I saw how excited she was.
~ brought my son here she began,
because 1 UNDERWOOD that you were to be
very particular as to the persons who came
| to your houae. NV son, who Ia only 20
and inclined to be wild, has been out riding
all day with a young lady who is, am
avenue. I have just heard him ask her
10 a hop down the beach tonight, and
they are arranging to go sailing tomorrow
with her friend and a chum OF his. DO
you suppose that / brought him here to
make friends of this kin as his summer
~companionsT
@Itold her I didn't think that the young
woman would do her son any harm. .
Possibly not, from your point OF view
she answered. but you are not a mother;
\ Il OOuDL II YOU WOulu INN SIG 10Y $50 AZ
him il she married him. But / should
Il had to admit that she had right or her
side and explained that telephone girls had
very short vacations and that this par
ticular pair were to depart in a day or two.
That did not prevent me from having to
listen to complaints from half a dozen other
persons on the same score.
There are all sorts OF constant kicks
to listen to and / got used TO them, but II
was hard TO keep silent when a woman
L 4-A;uoakoI that - waa haNaN1aa her hIfGhan6
took no interest in me that l practically
nut them out. He weighed 900 pounds
IL he weighed one. He had a habit OF put
ting his bathing suit on in his own room
and not in tho bathing house provided
for the men where all Of the rest Of the men
went to. That was bad enough, but he
made il worse by coming into the ONCE
after he was dressed for a bath and ak
ing 10 everybody just as II he were dressed
IA he should be. Sometimes he would
pass half an hour there leaning over the
counter and talking to the women who
came there for any business with me OF
my secretary.
[SeveraI women and more men did NOT
like il at all, and l had TO 10 something. ]
mentioned u to his wife as delicately as ]
could, Instead of taking the matter az
a Joke, which / tried to make Of it to conceaL
her own modification, she grew very in
diRnant. She told everybody in the house
that would listen to her that | had done
that because Mr.. Smith had never taken
any notice Of me and that l took that re-
Venge put OF pique.
Il didn't restrain my wrath 80 we'll on
another occasion. One woman who was
constantly complaining Of her food sud
denly rushed across the dining room to the
table at which l sat and stuck a chicken
bone directly into my face. l moved back
supposing hat she was seized with mad
ness; but her tone was quite reasonable.
You see now she said, that the CHECKER
given TO the guests is Just AZ bad as / tolC
you it was. I complained often, but yoI
never believed me. Now you can see fol
yourself. Yet the servants say IL is the
best there is in the house
Now. l leave it to anybody-wouldn'
such an experience have upset the patienc,