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Show She Felt Insulted. "I think you are too stupid for anything." any-thing." "Pardon me, but it was purely a mis take." "ilake out my bill and I will leave tin-house." tin-house." 'Yes. ma'am." This is only part of a spicy dialogue ,n which a plain looking, impulsive woman and a hotel clerk were the characters. It wasspoken at the Richelieu. After the vexed guest had left the office the clerk explained the cause of tho trouble. "It's like this," he said. "When a lady unaccompanied by a male escort comet to a hotel she lends her name to tho of fice by. tho bell boy. Then she is registered regis-tered and given apartments. Sow, this woman did not have a card at hand when she came in, and I put her name down just as I understood it from the lips of the boy. She came iu here about fifteen minutes ago and, turning over the register to the date when she arrived, espied in my bold handwriting the name 'Mrs. E. B , Louisville, Ky.' "When she read that she was well nigh daft. She raved about here, called me 6tupid and threatened to go away from the hotel. I saw that I bad spelled the name improperly and felt sorry, for one hates above all things to have a misspelled mis-spelled name. ' After the tempest had somewhat subsided I ventured to say that perhaps I had written the name incorrectly. in-correctly. " 'Indeed you did, young' man,' she angrily retorted. 'My name should be written with two ss. I am a Miss and not a Mrs.' , "Then she flounced out of the office like a sailboat going with the breeze. Suppose she thought the prefix would 3poil her matrimonial chances. Some guests are cranky that way." Chicago Tribune. |