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Show J THE HOTEL CLERK How He U Able to size Up the Character Char-acter of the Guests. "Yes," said the hotel clerk as ho deftly ran the blotter over tho register regis-ter and handed the guest his key. "1 suppose we're protty fair at sizing up our guests, but it's not difficult. The register is our best guide, how-Q'er. how-Q'er. The way a guest signs it usually counts with me. It's easy enough to distinguish a traveling ninn with a 'line' of pickles from the ghost who has come to the city merely mere-ly lo look at the Missouri river, "How? Well, for one thing the traveling man scribbles 'Chi,' or 'Ptg,' on the register, while the other oth-er writes Chicago or Pittsburg every time. Some guests, also, give tho information in-formation that Chicago is in Illinois and Denver in Colorado. Occasionally Occasional-ly n guest will write Mass. nftcr "Boston, "Bos-ton, but ho don't live there just came from there last. Your real Uostonian, if ho writes anything after his town, it is 'United States.' And somo I have known write their street address. Signing n hotel register reg-ister is a ceremony with them. Wow, if you U pleaso stand out ot H10 way, I'll put on iny 'front room with private bath smile for this man from Beaver Dam. I think (lint's where he's from becnuse bo's still got Chicago world's fair label? all over his valise." |