Show V yV tt WS W D B TIT TITI I yV I KT l B M HOW THE TI I FASHIONABLE 10 N 1 Bit SOUVENIR HUNTERS ARt ARE S. S RO ROBBING HOTELS I Brooklyn E Eagle le At tho next meeting of hotel men to tobo tobo bo be held to discuss matters pert pertaining to tho the welfare re of or tho fraternity the important question of how to deal with the souvenir hunter bunter will bo be discussed with an earnestness that is the tho outcome of or a a. condition of ot things that is rapidly driving the to despair From one daring venture to another tho the guests of the rummer summer hotels have proceeded to tho the point where the balance balanco sheet of or some of tho the hotels is threatened with a loss through the necessity to replace table silverware lin linen fl n. n towels and overt even sheets and blankets that havo been spirited away by visitors The most amazing stories Ar are arc told by hotel men concerning tho the len length th to which women and nd mon men as well will go goto 0 o oto to add to their souvenir sou collections From attaching such mich trifles triBes as u salt and pepper boxes these queer hunters have ha proceeded to rob tho the bedrooms bedrooms bedrooms bed bed- rooms of water pitchers and even pillow pile pil low lov eases cases nse 0 One of the mo most t audacious attempts to get ct away awny with a souvenir said one of the thc hotel to tho the writer 1 was that of a woman who stepped steppe 1 up to the hotel desk to pay her ber berbin bin bill wearing a long lone linen inen coat such as asIs asis asis is Is in VO vogue O amon among automobilists She would have ba gotten gotton safely away without with without out arousing suspicion had not the end cud of something odd looking lookin peered Jeered coyly corly from beneath her ber coat I r stepped up and lifted the tho end of ot the coat without attracting her ber attention and would you rou believe o it she had wound around her rather attenuated frame one ono of the blankets of tho the hotel botch f She She almost cried when I made her give vc it up un She was a woman with mono money mone enough to bu buy tho the hotel hote but she had set let her heart on get on-get get getting et tin ting that souvenir blanket For or some occult reason it is not nt the same thin thins thing at all to purchase a souvenir It must bo be d to pOl possess esI the charm that attaches attaches at at- to such things in the estimation of the souvenir hunter C 0 c On On another occasion a a. party of women were ero lea in leaving the tho hotel They rhey were wealth wealthy women omen and good customers custom ers and I was wall bowin bowing them out as aR gracefully as I could and thc they were returning returning re turning my courteous obeisance when from somewhere or someone there tinkled tin tinkled kled to tho the floor Boor three thres or four lour spoons that unmistakably boro bore the stamp of the tho hotel botel I Bupp suppose se they had been concealed concealed con somewhere about the tho wardrobe of one of Ute the wom women n and the bowing process had detached thorn them from their theix anchorage e. e Anyhow there they thc were I and a 3 most awkward condition o of ot things ensued Of course not ono one of ot the women women would oven even look in the direction direction tion of tho the spoons and I had to pro tend I did pot lot see seo them There they ther lay those innocent spoons until the women had departed depart cd probably with various other articles belon belonging tf to tho hotel bote hidden bidden in in their ba bags s and aud in the many curious receptacles lc that women us use for tor purposes o of f concealment What can wo we do dot It is a t question that the hotel keepers must thrash h out thoroughly hl or some of us will have hn-e to give up business We cant can't have havo a guest searched on mero mere suspicion We cant can't be bo watching nJ them all the time But it is i dreadful to have havo to renew the furnishing CH every fi live fior or six years rears as we havo to do merely to provide souvenirs souvenirs sou sou- for our guests ests of tho the souvenir hunter hunt bunt er Cr is is worthy of all She will f. f deftly remove tho the salt sail cellar from th table and hide it in her Iter handkerchief until the time comes to it more secure secure- securely Sho She is merely toying w with th tho the salt snIt cellar while whilo en engaged 1 in earnest t conversation conversation con con- with her vis visa should the tho waiter hap happen n to glance that wn wey Another Another An An- Ap- Ap other trick is to drop some article iu in in inthe the parasol that is held re ready dy to receive it Any novice can do 10 this tins trick It requires only an average crato amount of nerve for even ell if jf detected the souvenir fiend ran can pretend it was dropped acci dentally and then we have havo to pretend we believe o e her A smooth idea is is to slip lip a n spoon up the tho alcove BI while apparently appa appa- rubbing u a fancied blemish from its silver surface sur This is always good for one spoon for or spoons aro ca easily con con- u Cups arc are not so easy to get ot away awn awn- with for they have bave to be handled handle gingerly gingerly gin Jin gerly cr or they thoy break ano anti and the souvenir fiend has hat no use me for broken cups Tho The only safe receptacle for the cups and saucers i is tho the referred to A A. Acup cup can be dropped without fear fe-ar of it br breaking But Dut the collector must not make a mistake and try to drop a second second sec see ond cup into the same receptacle atthe atthe at atthe the same sitting or there thero will be a climax climax cli cli- max not on tho the hunters hunter's program The tasso demi-tasso is the tho favorite fa souvenir with the average o collector It is a dainty little cup easy to dispose of and it makes nn an attractive addition to t the e homo home collection when the vacation trunk is unpacked But it is absolutely nee that tho the name of the tho hotel be bo stomped stamped on the cup or no souvenir hunter bunter would stoop to such Euch fon folly as taking it So that t the stamp intended to our property in ip r reality becomes be comes tho the menus means of our losing loam it Questions Questions Ques Ques- ues' ues Hons to be broll brought bt before the tho next convention con of hotel men Should wo we remove re reo re- re mo niece move o the tho hotel stamp from rom our silverware silver ware and linen and take our chance with the tho real thieves thie rather than place temptation in the W way y of these souvenir collectors b by displaying ms the name and nd mono monogram of tho the hostelry conspicuously 1 It seems that tile the hotel botel men have tried various expedients to check this evil E Thc They have havo oven even had souvenir spoons e especially p made to present to every ev cv- Cf cry ery guest so that there should be bo no reason for attaching the regular silverware silverware silver silver- ware are of the establishment Did tho the souvenir sou hunter thank the lund kind unto hotel hotelman man mart and consider sacred the table furnishings fur fur- Not for a moment The souvenir souvenir sou venir spoon was accented but sniffed at just as one OM purchased would have bave been bCD The rho subtle charm of in ha having lifted it from the hotel table was H. H missing Anyone Any Any- one ono could collect free souvenir o spoons |