The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1919, Page 15

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919 Hotel Lifein New York In the Very Swell Hotels To-Day a Room and Bath Cost $10 a Day, Even if You Don’t Take the f Bath—A Guest Can Pinch All the Linen in His NS Room and Still Only Break Even When He Pays \ His Bill. By Neal R. O'Hara Consrigth’. 1919. by ‘The Prem Publishing Company (The New York Brening Work.) OTELS in New York to-day are like the peace treaty—filled with | reservations. Places are so crowded there's writing room only. | Guy that comes to Manhattan without a reservation these days | @iscovers that the guest is always left. The way things stand in the room- ) and-bath catacombs, a guy oughta be thankful this winter to have a roof) ower his head. And if the tourist trade keeps up, a guy'li even be thankful tebave @ roof garden over his head next summer. Hotel biz is one trade where the ulti- mate consumer don’t pay the freight. The bars are closed, which means less gravy for the hotel guys. But do they pass the the cost to the ultimate consumers? They do NOT. It's the non-consumers that pay the bills—the birds that get rooms on the eighteenth floor, where they’re sure to be high and ary. Hotels blame Europe for high prices, the same as they blamed it for the war. Claim their hotels are run on the Buropean plan. Don’t know what guys in Europe drew up this plan, but it looks like it’s the same gang that figures the war debts. Don’t even know what the Buropean plan is, except that you pay for what you get. And what you get is stuck— always and all ways. Prices are certainly awful to-day. It’s hard to enjoy a good night’s Test while you're conscious of what the room's costing you. In the very swell hotels to-day a room and bath cost $10 a day, even if you don’t take t ‘the bath. You can holler for a room without a bath, but if you get it you , till get soaked. Table d’hote with wine used to cost $1 at the moderate hotels. Now it costs $2 on account of omitting the wine. A guest can pinch aN the linen in his room and still only break even when he Days his bill. A hotel is no longer a place for a burglar unless he owns the place. The gold brick guys no longer meet the out-of-towners with a mile when they hit New York. Their places have been taken by the head waiters. European plan comes into Play as soon as you enter the restanrant. You pay for what you get, no matter when you get it. It takes less than six days’ hotel service to make a guy fighting mad in this country. A walter takes your order bat you do the waiting. And you'll have plenty of time to notice most walters are flat-footed, which seems to exempt ’em from service, Only one thing that soothes your ruffled temper. You call the head waiter and get assurance the guest is always right—which he is, The soup may be cold, the bread may be stale, the waiter may be fresh and the check may be wrong, but the guest—AH, THE GUEST IS ALWAYS RIGHT! If you don’t believe it you can hunt up another hotel. Guest arriving at a hotel runs into the hotel porter. Porter is the original quarter mecter. He gets you coming and going, whieh is always in the same place—right at the main entrance. Only thing worse than a porter is a bellhop. You can always tell a bellhop from his gold braid and his brass. He shoves out his paw palm upward and he gets your tip without turning tis hand. Only employee @ decent guest can avoid is the house detective. Only speaks when spoken to or when you utter a phoney check. House deteck i Protects the guests from robbery except when the management performs the job. Only time he ever lends you assistance is when you're being thrown out. You can always tell the house dick because he wears his hat. | He trusts nobody in the hotel—not even the hat check boys, — haps grandma needs SOMETHING FOR COUSIN JOHN . IT HAS BEEN IN OUR FAMILY For MANY Years FoR JOHN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY NEAR AND DEAR To ME A LUTTLE PRESENT FoR JOHN. A SOUVENIR OF HAPPY DAYS, nt) > | By Maurice Ketten | Copy by The Fh (Tie New THANK Your DAD SENT THIS To UNCLE JOHN HE Sain (IT Would RECALL PLEASANT MEMORIES How Sweet OF You To THIN OF HIM { EVERY Bopy (S SO GENEROUS TO JOHN THis YEAR. ONE OF MY PRIZE POSSESSIONS $$ COCKTAIL SHAKERS THE POPULAR GiFT THis JOHN HASN'T BEEN Forgorren THIS YEAR | | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919 Heaven Has Comforts of Home; There Is Joy and Laughter; Games and Sports of All Kinds SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S CONCEPTIONS By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Lvening World.) | HAT sort of place is heaven? | New interest is added to all the old speculations, new satie | faction is offered to the old curiosities since the oulja board Bag | become our most Popular indoor sport, and out of the spent tides of war has arison a great wave of attempts at communication with the dead. After the grief stricken, or the merely idenufied the strange automatic writing or the medium, naturally the first question ts, “In what sort of place do you now exist?” As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most intelligent and seat hearted defenders of modern spiritualism, points out, “What sane man has ever believed in such a heaven, as is depicted tn our hymn books, a lind of musiosd {dleness and barren, monotonous adoration?” it is Sir Arthur himself who gives us one of the Most engaging descriptions of the future life in bis new book, “The Vital Message,” just brought out by George H. Doran Company. For several years he has been investigating those psychic phenomena which he accepts as proof of personal survival, and his conela- y sions are based not only on information he himself hag leaned from forces communicating through mediums but from the study of @ great deal of existing testimony. Here is the new, exceedingly UnCOBe ventional heaven, as depicted by the creator of Sherlock Holmes: “They «ay (the dead) that they are exceedingly happy, and that they do not wish to return, They are among the friends whom they had loved ‘and lost, who meet them when they dic and continue their careers together. | They ure very busy on all forms of congenial work. The world in which they find themselves is very much like that which they have quitted, but everything keyed to a higher octave. Fvery earthly thing has its equtva- lent. Scoffers have guffawed over alcohol and tobacco, but if all. things | @re reproduced it would be a flaw if these were not reproduced also.” So, notwithstanding the Anti-Saloon League, there is hope for us here+ after, if not here. It will NOT be the sweet dry-and-dry. Almost tho persuadest us to become spiritualists, Sir Arthur. ‘To continue: “There is deop, sympathetic friendship and comradeship between the sexes, Every man or woman finds a soul mate sooner or later, “The child grows wp to the nermal, so that the mother who lost @ babe of two years old, and dies herself twenty years later, finds @ grown-ap daughter of twenty-two awaiting her coming. ‘Age, which is produced chiefly by the mechanical presence of lime im our arteries, disappears, and the individual reverts to the full normad growth and appearince of completed man or womanhood. Let no woman mourn her lost beauty, and no man his lost strength or weakening Drain. It all awaits them once more upon the other side. Nor is any deformity or bodily weakness there, for all is normal and at its best. ‘The first worde uttered by a returnable spirit were, ‘I have got my left arm again’ The same applies to all birth marks, deformities, blindness and other imper= fections, None of them are permanent, and all will vanish in that happier life that awaits us.” Apparently heaven is to have all the comforts of home. Sir Arthur does not prophesy explicitly a spiritual divorce court, yet it is clear some such inatitution must exist. For he writes in “The Vital Message": “It is a world of sympathy. Only those who have this tie foregather, The sullen husband, the flighty wife, are no longer there to plague the in= nocent spouse. Ail is sweet and peaceful, It is the lone rest cure after ¢he nerve strain of life, and before new experiences in the future. believ behind the naquisitive fore they have “Happy circles live in pleasant homesteads with every amenity beauty and of music. Beautiful gardens, Jovely flowers, green pleasant lakes, domestic pets—all of these things are fully described in the messages of the pioneer travellers who have at last got news back to those who loiter in the old dingy home. There are no poor and no The craftaman may still pursue his craft, but he does it for the joy of work. There is action for the man of aation, intellectual work for thinker, artistic, Iterary, dramatic and religious, for those whose God given powers lie that way, What we have both in brain and character ee. carry over with us. ‘There are games and sports of all “It is a place of Joy and laughter. sorts, though none which cause pain to lower life. Food and drink im the € seem to be pleasures of taste.” grosser sense do not exist, but th and it is a kindly, human philosophy It is a kindly, human heaven makes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle close his description with the prom- rom all that we learn there are indeed phaces of outer darkness, as these uncomfortable waiting rooms may be, they all admit to deaven In the end. That is the final destination of the human race, and it would indeed be a reproach to the Almighty if it were not so.” The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell solema | Copyrigbt, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ePay oe * ,AN to over to Mrs. cut out the Indians and guns and few Bat let’s get back to the high cost of i WA Socata Bailes e'll drop | Volvers,” said Master Willie, Stryver’s and see if she'll drop] ¥olvs t a 9 hotel living, Skyscraper hotel's what as to what she's going SH Sous COUSR.. 700m) Baa a bint as to wh New magazines, you bad boy, and I'm _ » f makes the rooms so high. Skyscrapers | to give myself and the children for] going to te anta Claus if your = ‘ have also eliminated jumping hotel bills. sible unre a ee Christmas, But I'm afrald to go out | mother doesn't.” warned Gortenae, N BIL clerk is the only one that can jump an oi ee ° and leave you children! But, remem?) , Stind your ibnsiness! = Mind your . ¢ f] ste i owe "st may sym the Novel Xmas Games Add Zest to the Holiday Supper: 220.00 ees seis yes 8 he a Sale 1\ fifth or the twenty-fifth floor, but it's the OEE OI OU Ee bat the ratte rt Genta ae 4 a same story when he gets the bill, Out-of- | ow. Ty Mrs. Jarre stoc aoe + tes nal ing driven off Gertrude, routed ‘ town folks come to New York to spend eS af a, 5 ae oe vein rec anand Polat children, with an ¥ ‘ 0! r ae MBt- beta " Of ‘a contests t their money and the hotel guys certainly x ser her new just-before Christmas| what pictures cut from the magaxtien { 1 accommodate ‘em—they’re taken in, good reas, her new pre-Christinas furs) Were individual property, ssed tl } and plenty, et cute: coRnusied Uo moRusalvA |G ! ured paper dolls.” ‘When, « {) what she expected to eavin ro LS Hotel guys have only one excuse. Claim Christmas day itself was something | yreuting ors cutting sealleee a the operating cost has doubled, which ex- else aguin. : ee curtain, | foe eee Plains why a 5-cent phone call costs a dime The children stood eine sabi vlpe coatmandeering the tegvedinae, in every hotel. And wrong numbers cost the viniration at aia Rt pita nadunad ht rocouded to make taffy, same—Dut will you please excuse it? Some piled Perea fi g maid to |jented be catty Tt hogan to Gal i hotels sive a newspaper gratis and some of ‘em give a 2-cent paper for 3 ies Dee enlceiar wae stil dazed | in glassap @f water, and had all the ! #* cents. But in most hotels the wall paper still is free. ‘There's only one noe ero ce ' he Aiegarehasrt Het. B tip for the hotel guests these days—you get a fresh cake of soap every | ‘Vm mure you ought to te good.” | at the front window, was diverted by } / morning, which shows the management is doing its best to clean you. | | mre, Jarr continued to the childr ln passing funeral,” th vy burnt the { ea cae alli cal Abel dicate bak alta wheel Js sheipganl PRES Affy and upset it on the stove, In n ‘Just before Christmas too! Met jthe ght with the flames four of the f Xmas Gifts That 50 Cents Will Buy cer nt i ent ate tae ae | mas Gifts Tha ents Will Buy ten iit what you Bt 2M AIT ee he en en eae ei Coperight, 1919, by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) drawers, Emma, and cut up my ribe|tumned? they been?” was Mra, | " 66] HAVE some forty gifts to buy | This gift may obviate the necessity of |bons and lace to make things for | Jarr’s first question. ‘They look suss | has ; i to play a game, Sixty-five cents will] y : could find | Gertrude, Santa S won't bring | ; cents per gift. Can T get Huy a nice plies mustard dan with MADE OF | put those keys? If 1 only could ar eh eal | thing worth giving at this price?"| silver cover and a glass spoon CREPE PAPER | them go Teould lock up my things! ‘Oh, they been as good as gold, queried a woman At 50 there are incense | “The children will Ge good. Ob, Lj ma'am!” said the faithful Gertrude. eed you can. For the ma ere | burners, 1 clasps. ttes, good, ain,” said | A he slipped to the kitchen to ae ou Canr eae Ria i wg) Pretty, bird ping in br lors, «| know they nee it sya very good| burke ail evilence of juvenile @ee Are ash trays, cigar ¢ 1B BOG! ge hatpins and cham money : J . trude, who wis alwa rquency 3 pipes. A bottle of some good shay-| huge, ‘The housewite nish we Xmas Day Should Con- Peggy Engelman Flas|{s whe ae — - - yn would ike a prac , bber gloves | . : : Fr not so sure of that!” suid Mra, e neta aoe ty | in the boxed gift mentioned thore| Clude With Some Designed Specially} “=: ee neat ADVERTISEMENT. { an! ft. Some lather brushes are only | e ivan ; ; | | darr, drawing on her gov | are veg le ing sets, measuring ja : 2 saws all the enna Aes Sr mano ay ahs |epcons, orange peclers and wilver mot! Form of Novel Enter- for Evening World)te tougut takes away all ine ° 9 ng stick might be appreciated. Then| ishing cloths. A Wire dish drainen is F ' | Sees st Or a & ; W. Ik D | thege ave a gane uf embbase, an ad-| enh b0 cena: sovare the shiminum | tainment, W hic h| Readers a Buffet Sup-} fer." een alkin 0. f sisscleaant hone list, pocket peneil | Jelly moulds and a nice salt box is the : a | e wrraigniment the chi This dot) ects reas book, ji pocket penell | Jui'y monn | adiates the i r 1 ith Ap- I that they wauld | natural that she Poa busin mar lendar, One)" “you cun get on he new n w | adiates the 2 u: Pp wou of tb ather key cas: hold four! belts at 60 con A leather se fo Spirit propriate Games. tell me everything 7 sy oant holding pins and needles would su Pp . * was Mrs, Jurr’s ) pid hie, ' tak | the traveller, ux would also the mt | ——-- j Ss mand. “Now, remem cloths, one ro" leather rolls holding cotton, needle 5 f least THING shoes, comé in a b appro* | and thimble | By Peggy Engelman | ; given will show how simple they are | b« Be erie ta van sit <bay ria s also| House expense hooks ma Rahie two Pees Publi | to cut. Many beautiful costumes can| goby hepave like little hatubs! yeu | come PhGaR Tirade tlie mamor citer i‘ ua New York Evening World, | be made by using red, pink oF biue| hear that, Master Willie and Mas | De, ba eal Her | shoe tre IH save foot we a games and sepper for the] — crepe paper for the foundation and a new spectack ‘ a reading ‘gli All these} articles are 60 cent | Then there are Indian elubs and | Jumbbells which mig rgirl Bor the handkerchief and pin boxes set of colored crayons might the embryo artist. The juvenih | necessary. article Sprinkler uttach butile or ; i pout at he the b articles and are only 35 cents, Then at the or } game pr are shaving pads, also k 4 and th ady tool Grated stationery usually ple: ch can be used fe many pure | dren. yal 1 " u to pay| Among the toys are animal ana poses. | floral stencil outfits, a box of suf. a little mor ne t AU ficient furniture for three rooms, a 65 cents J ey work bas- | little village of toy houses to be eut . ia eey you can get| out and serving sets to keep litte , table | Birls busy AR attractive by: For the baby there are bootees, soft mat. soled , pretty yokes and ‘bibs, At 59 cents there are play cards en- toy-filled baskete and stockings, soft closed in a leather case that clasps, dollies and rubber animals, Christinas party are the most trimming with flowers cut from important f are With ehil-} crepe paper and pasted in place) 4 | with library paste. A sash or girdle SER AS Bel AY: BRON URE PUA AL |of paper finishes the costume, pba bee on Md esd ae ae The serving table will radiate where every one | turn at be-] Christmas cheer if a paper snow ing blindfolded and test ng his skill] man or Santa Claus hold sway, Place CANDLE TO GO WITH GAME in putting an object where it belongs | HAT TO GO wiTH PARTY him in the centre of the table, Min- is always popular. Jand pasted around the outside of the) Paper hate always add to the fun,|iatore Christmas trees and candle A large bell of r eardboard cylinder is anotner idea and is en They are easy to make, and many|sticks with bright red shades took | tacked to the wall will make one! tertainin it can be suspended clever effects ean be made with crepe | well amorg the silver and plates of game if a clapper of dboard $8) from a centre widelier, and there paper of Christmas design. jsalads and sandwiches Biven the blindfolded one to pin in| are three places where the candle of; Crepe paper slipover costumes are| A crepe paper winter scene pinned Place. A cylinder of cardboard with | the lantern can be pinned, |nice favors, easy to make and cost|to the wall back of the serving tabi: three janterns cut from crepe paper Gut the cangags of red cardboard, | less than 50 cents each, ‘The pattern, ‘completes the picture, se abe 4 upon such by the hand and she he wore a cap and] is ready to promen- t befure or during the | ude, 28 inches. n—say, Ju idays, And t hus, after more solemn) iM real bomen hair arnings, threats, promis nd | ticae “at eines ene 5 ¢xacted from all, Mrs, Jare nt The Voice of Conselence Speaks. | heurts “of thousaate “Goody!” cried the little girl, as she | of kiddies and growme. ups. turned from the window where they | with ousiey aa all were waving goodby to pretty mamma, “Goody! Now I'll get the | scissors ‘and cut out paper dolls!” “Your mamma 1 you were to touch be * cried 0 not Voice of Conscience, as personated by OTE. ey Mays will s 1 will!” cried Little toys, games and playthings, : Daring. “"" || MANHATTAN DOLL CO. INC, “Papa's got a couple of new - 741 Fifth Avenue, New York ‘simes, You-cutout tho ladies and I'll 4