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Show HOTEL'S GOOD POINTS. These Are the Ideas of a Alan Who Kuoft-s, Too. "I have a record of over 700 hotels where I have stopped," volunteered a well-known and popular minstrel performer per-former to a Washington Star reportr; "which are scattered all over our glorious glo-rious country, from Maine to tlw Rio Grande, and it is to be presumed that I know something of hotel life after living in them and in hotels alone nine months out of every year for the past twenty-five years. Besides the 700 and over I have a record of, I have stopped at some hotels where I did not make a record. At many of the 700 I have stopped from ten to ' twenty times, generally from one to six days each tinfe. Now, what I am getting at is that those who complain most of hotel life in this country are ' those who know the least about it. ! During three months of each year I live at my own home. I come in con- ! tact with wanderers, traveling people like myself, and associates, by th( i thousand, and I hear what they hav 1 to say about hotels and hotel life. The ; professional traveler has no kick like j the amateur or occasional traveler; he knows enough to know that he is as a rule better fed at even the second grade hotels than in the ordinary private pri-vate house; that is, he has more to eat if he desires and a larger selection selec-tion to choose from. As far as the room is concerned, the traveling man only has it to sleep in, and, provided the bed is good, he does not care a Tap about the other furniture, or whether the room is papered or whitewashed white-washed or not, so that it is clean In the minstrel business a ballad singer is generally the hardest man to please and if we find that he likes a place' it suits all the rest of the company' My opinion that the hotels feed well' goes with thorn all, north, south east and west. Now and then some are specially good. The ditiiculty witn tha so-called poor hotels is that the waters are bad-it is not the food. A poor sleeper likewise makes a very noo hed. The ballad singers say tWs w what they say goes for all it is worth |