The sun., 1908-12-06

rs WEARY OF MEANING THE
WOMEN GUESTS KICK.

WOMEN GUESTS KICK. +
she's Only Q Guest Herself, but They All
hun 80 Her with TheiP CompIsints
and She Can't Make Them Under
stand ThAt II Isn't Her Business
The wife Of the manager Of big up
town apartment hotel was ,unbosorainG
herself TO party Of women friends.
SThe next time that live In the hotel
of which my husband 10 tho manager
well. I won't" was her plant. 'The wife
of hotel manager who lives In the hotel
10 what my husband calls in bad The
women guests carry all Of their little
grievances To her instead Of TO the hotel
desk and take 1t out on her II the grew
ances are not fixed up instanter My
apartment has become a sort of kick
bureau to which all OF the women In the
house promptly repair whom things don't
happen just 10 suit them.
aFor example. the hotels altering
apparatus got out of order q while ago
and the water game out OF the spigots
rather roily and unpIeasant looking.
Well every blessed woman In the house
TO whom Lhad been introduced and few
that I hadn't met at all rushed here to
my apartment TO hold me personally
responsible for the trouble.
"Why. wouldn't even bathe my dog
in such looking water half a dozen Of
them told me. as II / cared what they
batbed their dogs in.
Il told them that perceived that the
water was bit roily, but that myself
had TO wash In II or go unwashed; but
that didn't appease them.
Il didn't want to be rude and couldn't
come out plainly and tell them that the
roiliness OF the water was circumstance
over which had no more control than
over the revolutions Of the planet Saturn.
and go had to just sit and listen to their
walls and do the best could to COM
fort them.
eat dinner the other day the fish " asn't
exactly up to the mark. No less than nine
of the women guests hurtled straight TO
nv room rihgt after the meal.
swhere on earth did you get such per-
fectiy dreadful fish?' they all asked me
breathlessly, impaling me with their re-
proachful eyes.
aI told them that no doubt the fish had
accidentally escaped the inspection OF
the hotel steward.
@'But that's no excuse at ALL! they
fairly shrieked at me. There ought to
be somebody 10 see that the fiah served
here isn't- oh. well. ahall spare you
what they said about the fsh: From the
pinning glanoes that they all bestow cd
upon me II was perfectly obvious that
they thought that fought to be that some
body to inspect the fish.
sNo use In my telling them that l had
absolutely nothing to do with the manage
set foot In the hotel kitchen, and 30 on.
II had told them those things they would
have gone of among themselves and
called me snippy and stuck up. Women
living IN an apartment hotel. you seer
don't consider. II seems. that the hotel
managers wife has any right or license
to live in the hotel as guest, They take
IL that she ought to do something for her
board and keep. and the 'somsthing' that
they plainly expect her to do u 10 stand
for all Of their means and wafls Over the
terrible mismanagement.
The hall outside my door ha1p't been
swept this weekP q testy old lady hurried
| was taking breakfast In my room the
keeper about III couldn't tAslp but
ask. and she flared up instantly.
a'No. haven't seen the houhekeeperl'
she retorted. 1 am not accustomed
to making complaints TO servsns..,
ment Of the chambermaids In her hands.
I told her as gently as could.
swell, the housekeeper doesn't attend
to her business then.' she came back at
me. and there ought to be somebody
around here'-fxing me with her bird
like eyes-'to see that she does attend to
her duties
Perhaps. then,' suggested, 'it might
be we'll for you to make complaint at the
What should do that for2' she asked
me. with every evidence Of amazement
in her expression. Am not making my
complaint here to your
"'But. madam I had to say to her.
L have nothing whatever to. do with
the management Of this hotel have
no more to do with its supervision than
YOU have. / live here simply because
my husband happens to be the man.
eyer of the house. But he considers my
health too fragile to allow me to work
around here in any capacity; Even 4
my health were rugged doubt IL he would
permit me TO serve as an attache OF the
house,
aBut all the same she went of mutter-
ing tart things about the women Of these
days never helping their husbands, but
sitting around all day with their hands Ia
their laps or reading novels. and she has
been quite distressingly austere toward
me ever since.
sThe other evening ! was at dinner in
the dining room when one OF the new
tabby guests, woman whom ] had only
met once, left her table and swished over
to mine. !,
Are you aware OF the fact. she asked
me in q most resentful tone, that the
maid on my floor hasn't put any towels
In nv room vet to-day, and here it 10