Show HOTEL CHILDREN I 1 fa fancy ner that in no other country than this are re the of respectable and well ell to do parents brought up in hotels writes john G timer gilmer speed la in the tha new york herald in the united states many families who would be astounded to lie be called wanderers or even to be classed with them live season after season in city and seaside hotels knowing no other homo home and apparently caring tor for no other at hotels tho the children ot of such parents tire arc reared to manhood an aal I 1 womanhood and upon each from early infancy the stamp of the peculiar life Is plainly to be soen seen it Is ia not difficult to determine why the parents select such a life it Is no motive of economy that takes taken them to the hotel tor for hotel life is not cheap in any sense it Is dear in the mere money cost and in the sacrifice of privacy it to Is expensive beyond calculation cu but in hotel life the troubles about servants and other household cares aro are reduced to a minimum A bad manager or an indolent woman as the mother of a family finds relief in hotel life that to Is denied to her in her own house unless she cultivate more tact with servants or cast off a great measure of her debilitating sloth the father should he be a selfish fellow and also have such a wile wife will assally do anything to escape fron from the Ale comforts of tactless management at home an so eo such parents go with their children to live in hotels in doing this they shirk the y which they have brought upon themselves and to use a phrase borrowed from the porting world they handicap their children with a weight which only the nery ery sturdiest diest can carry in childhood simplicity and innocence are the loveliest of traits trails and a child robbed of thebe is despoiled of that which returns not ever again in auth modesty and unconsciousness of soil are the cloera flo iNers that mark gentle breeding and indicate a capacity tor for the development of the high virtues which are founded in unselfishness and which only ripen in manhood it if simplicity and innocence be destroyed in infancy then la in either the youth of man or malden maiden will not be found that highbred high bred modesty and forgetfulness of belt in terest without which there can be neither lady nor gentleman whatever their pretensions may be however distinguished their lineage or great their wealth it has ban been said that it takes three generations to make a gentleman a and nd I 1 sm am persuaded that this perfect product of humanity can biow in no less time but I 1 am just as well persuaded that one generation of hotel life will spoil the best beat breeding ot of which we know anything when I 1 vaa as a young man I 1 lived in a hotel tor for several years si since nee then my profession has made it desirable that I 1 should travel a good deal and 14 4 I 1 ON PARADE therefore I 1 have had bad a good ty to study hotels anti anil the people who live in them I 1 have learned that it Is possible to live in a hotel with great privacy by using a pi li ate dining room having private sitting rooms and drawing rooms and by always alaya being served by the same but this la is not hotel life and auch would involve an ex expense beyond the means of any but the very rich the usual bonoll life Is that of people who ho take their ideals in the ordinary lining dining rooms and in that way ate aie more or less on parade times a day such a life wears oft off all that timid in noreace and simplicity which Is 0 so 0 charming in loung children and the hotel bred child nine times out of ten becomes a forward little prig with a halt half knowledge of matters about which it ought never to have heard beard who has not seen such a child as this I 1 remember two beautiful little girls who fifteen ears or so ago raced about the halla balls of the hotel in which I 1 lived I 1 have never seen t two wo more beautiful ful children but they were only beautiful in appearance they knew the slang of the boys who answered the bells they had bad some inkling of the goo goa alp and the scandal of the house they knew no reserve and had bad lost all timidity their father nos oa a man of means indeed a man of cultivation and if he had not kept on living with these there children in a hotel I 1 should have said he was a man of great good sense but in reality he was as both silly and selfish and what of the girls well poor cr creatures ea tures they are women now radiantly beautiful women a superficial critic would say isay but their father lived long enough to wish that they had never been born and when he realized as aa he did that theia undoing was the indirect result of his indulgence in the selfishness of hotel life he be wished that he had never been born to brin bring g them into the world 1 this I his certainly was an extreme ex case but when the bloom Is rubbed off a peach only a little more handling will bruise the fruit I 1 have just had to observe two little girls 9 and il years old they ba have ve lived nearly always in hotels they have the com composure kosure and belt possession of women ot of 40 women of ct the th world of 40 10 they have opinions on this and that they know whether their friends are rich or poor or only well to do and they value them according to accor arding such a classification they know th slang blang of the street and the boings of the variety stage they speak out upon whatever be tin tbt topic of conversation they are conscious cons cloua ot of their clothes proud when they are fine and ashamed when they are tumble humble to sum gum up these little girls wha ought to have been and would have been had they lived amid wholesome surroundings dear little children un im affected simple Ir ople innocent modest and aad shy are vulgar little code v aho vho ho with all their little minds and little souls soula admire mean things meanly it Is impossible to be fond of such children and still it Is in very hard bard that our affection should be denied to them mr elbridge gerry a society tor for the prevention of cruelty to children with the th sanction of the law rescues children from the cruelty of parents and other guardians who through prevent children from having a chance to elect to be virtuous and good this li in praiseworthy work now it may not be a min eln not to be a lady riot hot to be a gentleman but surely it la Is a most moat sad ead pity for a girl not to have a chance to become the one or a boy the tha other and the chance that hotel bred children have to develop into any fine fruit of gentility Is so BO small as not to be worth considering |