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Show "WOMEN EASY TO WAKE. "It is immeasurably harder to awaken awak-en men in the morning than it is women," wo-men," a hotel proprietor informs me. "A tap or two at a woman's door in the morning is sufficient. No matter how late she may have retired, no matter how exhausted she may have been, no matter how faint the 'yes'' that comes from the bed In answer to the knock, you can bank on it that within a half hour or so that woman will walk hto the dining-room, bright-eyed and cheerful, cheer-ful, but with a man well, it's different. differ-ent. "A man may leave a call for 7 o'clock In the morning,- with the warning that he must be up at that hour. A few minutes before 7 you detail a boy for the purpose and tell him not to stop pounding until the man awakes. The room may be on the top floor, but you can hear the thump, thump, thump on the door 'way down in the office. Does the man wake with a faint 'yes' and scramble out of bed? Not he. The boy knocks until his knuckles are sore, and then suddenly a stentorian voice roars from the room, 'Yes, yes! What In blazes Is the matter with you? Do you think I'm dead?' The boy retires, turns in his report at the office and goes to ease his hand in cold water. "Three hours later a swollen-eyed individual, in-dividual, with wrinkles in his brow, walks up to the desk. 'I thought I left a call here for 7 o'clock In the morning.' 'You did, and the bellboy woke yon promptly at 7. "That's a-r little too strong,' Is the answer, and after you've argued with him for half. an hour you haven't convinced him that he was actually ac-tually awakened as he had ordered. So it goes day after day. The women get up promptly in response to a call, while the men invariably turn over to have another nap." St, Louis Globe-Demo-orat. |