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Show 4 " ' : A HOTEL ROMANCE. r"r'- How a Newly Married Couple Were Made Happy by an Old Bachelor. There is many a sweet romance cherished cher-ished by the visitor to New York that is never dreamed of by the prosaic, everyday ev-eryday people of business. Much of this romance is necessarily connected with the hotels. In these old hotels every room is interwoven with the history of hundreds of persons, and every time one of these persons is in the city th6 interest inter-est is revived in the past One day a friend led me down Broadway on some pretext or another, and we finally paused refore the old New York hoteL i stopped there on my wedding trip," he finally blurted out "My wife wished it Her mother had skipped there in her time and on her wedding trip. My wife was anxious to occunv the same room that her mother had. We had been married that day, and this was our first hotel, just as it had been in her mother's case, and my little one's mind was surcharged with the romance of the thing. But, like all young married mar-ried folks, we had a horror of being conspicuous con-spicuous and at the first didn't like to say anything about it to the clerks. At last, however, I mustered courage enough to look over the register just to ascertain whether the room we knew the number, floor and everything, as my bride had figured it all up in her own mind was really occupied. We thought we might get into it on some excuse or another. I merely desired to gratify her. But I couldn't find the number at all You can't fool a hotel clerk very easily on such things, and in a little time he had tho whole thing out of me. " 'Confoundedly sorry, sir,' said he, 'but that particular f oom is occupied by a regular boarder and one of the cross-est cross-est old bachelors I ever knew too. ' ' 'That settled it So I went up stairs and told my wife about it There was no help for it Our room was good enough, but she thought it would be so uiee. ii wo uuum tiavu tuo tutue ouo ner ciother aud father had. There waa no time to think much about it, for a few friends came in to see us, and we were dragged off to a box parry that evening. When we came in, however, the room clerk called me into the private office and handed me a key to the cherished room. " T happened to mention the matter to Mr. , ' said he, 'not with any idea of his giving it up, of course, but as a curious circumstance, when, to my surprise, he told me to tender the use oi his room to you at once. He was going away tonight anyhow, he said, for a week and you could have the room for a week, and longer if you wanted it So there you ara No, he's gone. You're to take possession just as jt it '- "Well, when I told my wife, 6he was so excited and pleased that she cried a little, and when we found ourselves the occupants of a beautifully flitted up and decorated room a room that looked as if somebody of taste and culture lived in it, the room she wanted because in it years ago her mother staid a young bride, as she was well, old man, you couldn't blame me much for participating participat-ing somewhat in the romance," New York Herald. tu the midst of the prevailing craze for odd and bizarre styles of architeo ture it is pleasing to come across a plea for the simple and homely buildings such as contented our forefathers. William Wil-liam Henry Bishop, in an article in The Century, in which he gives his experience ex-perience while searching for a summer home in upper New England in the form of an abandoned farm, says: ' 'Two small white meeting houses show their Christopher Wren steeples complacently. complacent-ly. Time has been when all these white country meeting houses alike seemed to freeze the imagination with their coldness, cold-ness, but times change, and we with them. The charming grace and lightness light-ness of design that many of them possess pos-sess have been recognized. Their white' ness is a refreshing spot amid the greenery green-ery in short, they are coming back into in-to favor again, with the many other nice old fashioned things of the period, and the invasion of gothic chapels that suc-peeded suc-peeded them had better look well to the security of its domination. ' ' |