| Show THE FOLDING BED it Is still an oween of suspicion to nany many hotel visitors im sorry sir said the polito young up town hotel clerk to the grum looking guest but I 1 another room in the house tonight if you yon could use this till morning ill fix fis you yon up right for tomorrow but the inducement persuasively delivered failed to work and the grum gram looking man went away when ho be had bad got over tho the threshold the suave clerk smiled a sort of pensive smile and said you ion cant do anything any thing with these fellows it beats the world how a man will let bi his prejudices drive him out into the night to seek inferior accommodations and yet this man looked liko like ho be knew better too what t was it dissatisfied him f iNot nothing bing in the world except that in the only room boom hed have there was a folding bed you yon see wo we are crowded now and there are but few vacant apartments he is a crank on the subject of folding beds because in modern times two or three human beings have been caught in them when they folded up inopportunely and had bad their lives crushed out I 1 pleaded with him that no such disaster could happen here for nowadays folding beds are made with patent catches that absolutely prevent them from manslaughter no matter how sorely a bed such a ns as wo we have bave should yearn to close upon up on its slumbering victim those catches forbid I 1 told him all this but it had no effect are most people imbued with this prejudice yes I 1 think a majority of the trav cling publio public has that feeling and I 1 do not believe the time will ever come when tho the folding bedwell bed will gain tho the full confidence much less the affection of the american people washington |
