they were
typical of all the hotels she had seen.

On the train back to New York she formulated her suggestions for hotels,
among which, in her own words, were the following:

"(1) Make the offices decent rooms--rem. living-room at Gray Wolf Lodge.
Take out desks--guests to register and pay bills in small office off
living-room--keep letters there, too. Not much room needed and can't
make pleasant room with miserable old 'desk' sticking out into it.

"(2) Cut out the cuspidors. Have special room where drummers can play
cards and tell stories and _spit_. Allow smoking in 'office,' but make
it pleasant. Rem. chintz and wicker chairs at $3 each. Small round
tables with reading-lamps. Maybe fireplace.

"(3) Better pastry and soup and keep coffee up to standard. One surprise
in each meal--for example, novel form of eggs, good salad, or canned
lobster cocktail. Rem. the same old pork, beans, cornbeef, steak, deadly
cold boiled potato everywhere I went.

"(4) More attractive dining-rooms. Esp. small tables for 2 and 4. Cater
more to local customers with a la carte menus--not long but good.

"(5) Women housekeepers and pay 'em good.

"(6) Hygienic kitchens and advertise 'em.

"(7) Train employees, as rem. trav. man told me United Cigar Stores do.

"(8) Better accom. for women. Rem. several traveling men's wives told me
they would go on many trips w. husbands if they could get decent hotels
in all these towns.

"(9) Not ape N. Y. hotels. Nix on gilt and palms and marble. But clean
and tasty food, and don't have things like desks just because most
hotels do."

Sec. 4

Three hours after Una reached New York she telephoned to the object of
her secret commercial affections, the unconscious Mr. Robert Sidney, at
the White Line Hotels office. She was so excited that she took ten
minutes for calming herself before she telephoned. Every time she lifted
the receiver from its hook she thrust it back and mentally apologized to
the operator. But when she got the office and heard Mr. Bob Sidney's raw
voice shouting, "Yas? This 's Mist' Sidney," Una was very cool.

"This is Mrs. Schwirtz, realty salesman for Truax & Fein. I've just been
through Pennsylvania, and I stayed at your White Line Hotels. Of course
I have to be an expert on different sorts of accommodations, and I made
some notes on your hotels--some suggestions you might be glad to have.
If you care to, we might have lunch together to-morrow, and I'll give
you the