Show t NO MERRY CHRISTMAS i I FOR HOTEL HOm PROPRIETOR Drummers and Their Expense Ac Accounts AccoUnts Accounts counts Are Sadly Missed at This Time of Year No season of ot the year Tear ear Is more dread dreaded ed by the hotel men throughout the country than the he the month preceding the Christmas holidays Their business at this time of ot the year drops of at an au alarming rate and it t keeps the hotel proprietor hustling to make both ends me mett t Commercial salesmen make it a point to finish up their routes early earl in December and travel a straight line for home to spend svend the tM holidays with their families The tourist travel is Is exceed exceedingly exceedIngly exceedIngly light and only those whose busi business busIness business ness makes maks it absolutely necessary for them to be away auay from home are arc to be bo found in the hotels during the month of ot December and early in January Instead of or bearing signatures of men from New York Chicago and other eastern east rn cities the register shows the signatures of persons living In the lit little U Utie littie tie tle country villages in Utah Nevada Ne yada and Wyoming This Is the time of the year when whon the people who are re able to come conic to town to do their Christmas shopping visit the cities They come In small numbers however how er for generally one person in a small town to n does the i shopping for tor the whole village i While hUe the season is hard on the man who owns the hotel the tIte porters and other help are arc enjoying a little vaca vacation vacation vacation tion on the bosses time There are no heavy heay drummers trunks for tor them to haul upstairs to be hauled out again in ina Ina Ina a few days They arc are not afraid of oC be being beIng being ing laid off during the dull season be because because because cause some stray drummer might happen hap happen happen pen In and the porter must mut be on hand The bellboys are not in love with the dull month before Christmas then the house Js Is empty vand but few Quests guests are arriving there are arc but few tips given Of course the regular patron of the hotel will be on hand Christmas morning and give the boy on or oft the bench bencha a little present In kindly remembrance for his services during the year The clerk behind the desk is relieved of much work but it is now necessary for tor to buy his cigars The girl at the money window is try ing hard to figure out why h she is forced to stay on duty until when not a soul has asked as ed her to cash a check checkor or offered to pay his bill in fn four hours The only money she has taken hold of during the day da is from a n man who wants two quarters for a half dollar doUar so he be can telephone to his wife in Springville The girl at the cigar stand could give it to him just as well as sheso she sheso sheso so why wh should she remain until 70 The girl at ht t the telephone switchboard has not answered a call can in two hours from any of the rooms in the house The people veople from the country are arc not familiar with the new devices Installed in the hotels and nod finding no bell feell to ring for the boy the humble tiller of the th soil takes Wu s the pitcher in hand and goes out in search of the water tap and the cracked ed ice while the bellboy Is asleep on the bench and the tele telo telephone telePhone phone operator is reading a story of The Jilted Revenge or something equally as bad |