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Show Pretty Girl Arouses Sleepy Hotel Patrons r i ; ; i i ;:A MP Csthorlno downright alarmed. He was saying. "Oh say. give OS another ft " when bla volos trailed off utterly and a deep sUenco reimod. The telephone) operator rang and rang, bat there was no answer. Then she osJIed tha floor clerk. The floor clerk called tho lyu semen. When tha houseman broke In tho door tho man waa aleeplng peacefully aeries tha bed, -the telephone clasped tightly tight-ly to hla cheat. ee,; says Catherine, "men are terribly hard to eat up. but once they're thoroughly awake they're the nlceet thlneg IrnayinaMS. "Only once I remember I got a 'calling down.' One of IBs regulars had checked out and a traveling man had come In about o'clock in the morning and I didn't know It, so I rang at tho regular hour." " And the language that man used, saya Cathsrlaa, no lady would oars repeat. i . i, j i ' CATHERINE MARTIN. fey JOSEPHINE VAN DE 0R1T. NBA Servloe Staff WHtor. NEW YORK, July SI. For four years Catherine Martin has sea human hu-man nature at Its worst. She has encountered men rankling with venom, women torn with melancholia, melancho-lia, city rounders-worn with nights of dlaalpation. And yet, she has ut to speak and the rancor van la he, tho melancholia Ufia, tho world wen rineae dlaappeara. Tho magic 'formula which Catherine Cath-erine uavs Is: 'Mood morning, Mr. Juhnaon, It's half past ?. bhe's ths official getter-up at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Every morning via telephone she roueea too individuals indi-viduals from their beds and sees them start the day right. Btae tolls them about the weather, tolls 'am if they ask what klad of clothes to wear, what time to take their medicine, what time to keep their appointments. a And hero, according to Catherine, are some of tho things that come back over tho wire when aha says, "Oood morning." "Well, my dear, ordinarily I'd bo In a very bad humor this morning, but at the aound of your sweet voice K can't say a thing except thank you very much and I'll get light up." Oh "Aw well, awright-ugh-ugh I s pose I'll haft but say, how's the weather thla morning? Think X better wear my rubbers? 1 Or Oh, say be a good kfd and give us another five minutes. Now you call me In five minutes and 1'U get rlRht up." It s this last class, says Catherine, that tries a . woman's sou,!, Klrst they want five minutes and than another an-other five minutes and sometimes you'll bo ring in 'em till o'clock and still they don't seem 0 bo able to ne got fate the distance between the footboard and the fur rug. Once there wtas a man that gtt |