The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14

that's why he always stays at the Pea
! nut Inn.
| Another man will rSp what YOU think
Is perfectly nice hotel because he con-
siders 1t cold and unsociabiious. lie
likes those warm hearted Drummcrs'
, Homes where the hotel clerk, in his tall
Alishawcka collar. greets all corners
with the outStretched grpper. asks
them how business IL and introduces
them to some yobbishes who want a
, Fourth for game of Bridge.
/ Most men you meet on the Road tout
strong for the hotels that Put Up a Good
Feed. Often the rooms in these good
/ feed hotels are gay and CHEEKY like the
return trip from funeral All they
need Is coffin in the centre to har-
monte. Every time you step into one
Of them YOU feel like writing a rainy
day report to the House.
The rooms are not. however, always
shrouded in this dismal. smelly, worn
out plush business. Sometimes they are
= furnished In sprightly birdseye maple,
with the BIRDS eye pokcd out and good
part OF the varnish missing. Also they
| have little dust filed print curtains that
! have "A habit OF falling on the floor In "A
swoon every time you go To sing a
! Spring Song or reclte your Selling Talk
( TO yourself in the tin mirror.
When the Porter brings in your little
Chillicothe suit case there isn't enough
room left IN the place TO breathe
mans size breath in without blowing
something over. If you ever sneezed
, the walls would be inlaid with furnl-
! ture.
/ The hest way to find out whether
hotel is good, bad or positively fierce is
tO take q short Course at II. When you
arrive at a town go up to the line OF
] struggling Hotel porters aud ask them
in quiet. well modulated voice which
is the best hotel in the dorp.
When You have rcgaincd conscious
ness get up aud brush the mud off
your clothes and collect the small
scraps Of your baggage which tho diff
fcrent porters are still clinGing TO and
take tile Hotel Bus that Is nearest YOU.
II doesn't make any difference which
Rus YOU take Nou'll wish you had
taken one of III" others no matter
which way YOU decide.
IT YOU are the first man out of the
BUS you stand better chance Of draw
ing decent room unless some OF the
once week Boys happen to be in line
ways land the best rooms and the hot
wheatcakrs This is because they give
the Hotel Large business and always
pinch the cheek of the Proprietor's lit
! Tie daughter when they arrive
When the Hotel Clerk hands YOU the
sloppy pen and wheels the revolving
Register around for you to decorate he
generally asks YOU how long you expect
/ Ia l., vii ng
portant. both to the Hotel Clerk and
10 the world at large.
II YOU tell him you expect to he with
| us several weeks. months or years he
gives you a g, x2i.X3s inch room with
a little lin ash tray on the pine dresser
tn put your collar button on. and "A nail
back Of the door 10 hang Yourself with
lf YOU tell the Clerk You expect 10 be
with us only a day you draw the same
nUhhy little prize. II You tell him YOU
really have no idea how long IL viii
take You Ia work the town and finish up
your social dates he looks once more
AZ his Room List as stall and comes
on again with tho same sad selection.
In other words. he has got YOU sized
iip for that particular cell and YOU are
going to get II no matter what you say,
The best way is TO take the room he
gives YOU, put it in your hip pocket
and when he says he will change YOU
In the morning Just forget the matter
lie will do the same.
Before deciding upon a hotel II is n
good plan To first find out If your Gus
toner in the particular town you are
working j. running a Hotel in addition
to his legitimate business. If he is
&.
risk of scorching your chances OF sell
ing him. You will only have To serve
short sentence there any way and may
land n good fifty dollar order on the
strength of IT,
But YOU must let him know in tact
! ful way that you are STAYING at his
| Hotel You can tell him, for example.
that you believe one good turn deserves
another. and so you decided to stay at
his place instead of going to the decen;
hotel
or you can tell him that all The Boys
warned you to so elsewhere, but you
paid no attention to them and now you
are glad OF il. II when your goods
come TO hand later on he complains
that they are rotten YOU can tell him the
same thing about his Hotel. This IL
called Reciprocity.
Certain things about Hotel indicate
the character Of the man that runs It.
For instance, when YOU find a Hotel
with pens that write like rood quality
of slate pencil and stationery nice and
crumpled and dirty and thirsty ink
bottles fun OF an excellent grade OF car
pet dust and soapless Mushrooms and
good old roller towels that have lost all
interest in their personal appearance