The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-09-26
NEWS, VIEWS, AND GOSSIP
FRESH FROM BIG METROPOLIS

DuS IhO hiSh BLK nat Is LIKELY 10 re-
main the proper headgear for formal
evening wear for many years to come
Eva Won't Wed.
mo Wedding Bells For Me-" is the
very latest song in the repertoire Of
the inimitable vaudevillian ana
Salomer, Miss Eva Tanguay. Some
time ago it was announced that Miss
Tanguay was to wed Julian Eltinge,
the female impersonator, and for a
time Broadway was plunged into
deepest despair, lest its fair head
liner should find matrimonial duties
so insistent as to cause her retire.
ment from the stage. After a con-
siderable period of this heart-rending
suspense, Miss Tanguay has definitely
and finally, once and for all, announc-
ed that married life is not for her
The engagement has been broken,
and the members of the prospective
team are still dancing in single bless
edness.
at would interfere with my work."
declares Miss Tanguay, land so have
decided to forget this marriage bust
ness" Mr.. Eltinge is saying nothing,
but busily saving wood in his own
particular line, and If his heart is
broken, it is not visible to the nude
eye. And so, let us hope, they will
live happily ever afterward.
A Pipe Dream.
A pleasant press agent pipe dream
which has been published in nearly
every newspaper in the United States,
Delaware and foreign parts deals
with the experience of a gentle old
lady from the country who was visit
ing in New York. According to this
veracious tale, the consuming ambi-
ton of the aged woman was to dine
at the Jimdorf-Hysteria Hotel. I'm
fortunately she possessed only, so
cents, and that sum, while it might
serve for tip, would hardly make
any great inroads on a Jimdrof-Hys-
terra bill OF fare.
Confiding her desires to the genial
general manager of the hotel-who is
always hanging about, anxious to lis
ten to the tales of the hungry but
mproverished-tha worthy gentle.
man Immediately assured her that
the sum she possessed would be quite
adequate. So the gentle old lady
from us-state was seated at the best
table in the DINING room. and served
with everything on the menu, from
soup to nuts, all for 25cents. And
the waiter refused a tip
Now, that is a nice story, very
excellent yarn, and I am no icono-
clast, that I would willingly deny
that it is a veracious record of actual
facts. Yet few days ago, I saw an
aged woman, clad in shabby black
dress. enter the corridor of famous
New York hotel and overheard her
ask for something to eat. Did the
solicitous clerk escort her to the din
ing room? Not noticeably. He threat
ened to call a policeman, and bell
boy escorted the aged woman, none
too gently, to the street.
agent of big hotel that caused all
the trouble" explained the clerk.
NOW every old woman who comes
to New York thinks she can spring
story that will get her a free feed at
any of the best hotels, and we are
pestered by them. They
are almost as bad as the hotel shop
pers."
"The hotel shoppers?" I inquired,
Interrogatively.
Sure" said his nibs, "Never
heard of them? They are home
grown products, mostly the wives Of
clerks who live in Har-
ltIn anu DlOOhlyn hdto, buI WhO
drift in here with a great flourish of
trumpets and announce haughtily
that they wish to look at some OF our
best apartments. They spend an hour
or two sightseeing about the hotel,
and then decide that our shack is
hardly up to their standard. They
have an eye on a thousand-a week
apartment at the st. Vitus, but IL
that has been taken, they may come
back. But they never do. With
some women, hotel shopping is a
habit, and we've got next to these
chronics. But there is always new
crop springing up, and in the aggre-
gate they cost lot in the time given
them by employees"