TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
SOME HOTEL NOTICES. Tlie following "directions which guests must observe" are from the "WiJd and Woolly West":— 1. 11' the mosquitoes are troublesome you'll find chloroform in a bottle on the shelf. 2. Gents going to bed with their boots on will Joe charged extra. 3. Three raps at the door means theie is murder in the house and you . niu»t get up. ! 4. Please rite your name on the j wallpaper, so we may know you have | been here. I 5. The other leg of the chair is in the bathroom, if you need it. | (j. II that hole where that pane of i glass is out is too much for you, • you'll find a pair of pants back of the , i door to stuff in it. I ! 7. The shooting of a pistol is no I cause for any alarm, i 8. If you're too cold, put the oilcloth over your bed. 9. Caroseen lamps extra; candles tree, but they mustn't burn all night. 10. Don't tare off the .wallpaper to light your pipe. Muff of that already. 11. Guests will not take out them bricks in the mattress. 12. If it rains through hole overhead —find umbrella under bed. 13. The rats won't hurt you if they do chase each other over your face. 14. Two men in a room must put up with broken chair. 15. Please don't empty the sawdust out of the pillers. Iti. 11 there's no towel handy, make use oi the karpet. IT. Go to the banks to kash drafts—plenty draughts in room«. IS. We don't lend revolvers to cowboys ; only used ,by our servants to shoot, bugs, etc. 19. Gents clean boots on grass before entry. j 20. Xo money lent to guests, male ; or female; apply at sign of three i balls.
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Otaki Mail, 2 January 1924, Page 4
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