The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
Silent City Hunor

the outside; even McClintock's, or
Delmonico's. There is no tipping
the head waiter for the privilege of
a palm shaded nook in a cozy corner
of the dining room. We are not
troubled with gum chewing waitress
es wearing a drug store completion,
who make eyes at ore and arrange
for future date. We are not con-
fronted 10y an array Of limp and
wrinkled table napkins bearing the
"Bertillon'' marks of two or three
former users. Our hotel" being,
as it is, run on the American plan"
with Table d. Hote" dining room
service, is a boon to those of our
guests who would be at loss if the
service was "A La Carte;" for it is
no: every one that has the ability to
order good and wholesome dinner
from a long list of French names on
menu card. Thus your stomach
is protected from the necessity of
performing the stupendous CASTRO
nomical feats that might devolve
upon it if one with lack of know
ledge of things culinary, was left
free to wreak ignorant diabolism
upon their self because of an UNI
learned dietetic selection.
Our guests" are selected" with
great care; there are no shilly-snally
methods of pen and ink registering
at our hvteP'. There is certain
class of individuals who will engage
entertainment at first class esta blish-
ments, sign their name on the reg
lister and talk glibly of the Brown
Palace, Fontanelle, Waldorf Astoria
and other hotels of more or less ex-
elusive patronage, and after abusing
all the privileges of the hotel, they
finally take their departure like
wise their personal belongings. with
out the formality of stopping at the
desk to ascertain and liquidate their
obligations. The respective estab-
lishments where they have been en-
tertained are the losers because of
this delinquency on the part of
these unpaying guests; but in our
'hoteP' there is more stringent
method of determining as to wheth-
er or not the prospective guest" is
fully eligible for membership in the
exclusive circles of our city that
"lieth four-square" on the banks of
the Blue Danube" or | should say
the St. Croix. No fallible pen and
ink signatures qualify you here; but
you must also make digitarial regis
tration. with apologies to Mons.
Bertillon). Thus your social status
l-penalogically speaking-is readily
ascertained. Are duplicate records
of your digital signature" found in
the induces of other hotels" of an
excluslveness similar to ours, as for
instance, the Hotel d. Sing-Sung,"
the Castle De Colombo" or the
Villa Du Son Quentoon;"there re-
mains then, no doubt in the mind of
mine host" as to your character
qualifications, and the same will en-
title you to all the privileges of the
city" and "hotel;'' said privileges
being extended or curtailed acco rd-
ing to your respective class.
In the snobbish outside world you
must be a person of conside rable
note before there is any particular
notice taken of you, but so democrat
is our system of government that
every act of even the most insig-
nificant of our "cisizens'' is made
note" of. Public men on the out
side put forth much effort in their
endeavor to have their utterances
properly reported. and even then
they murt have enunciated some
thing particularly striking or bril-
liant before they receive newspaper
acknowledgement. Here again, we
as citizens of the Silent City" are
more fortunate? than they, in this,
that our "reportOrial staff" ia 40