MANNERS IN HOTELS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 14

MANNERS IN HOTELS

XEKU VOR "BOUNDERS' ROOM" ".Many arc othe ■ bins of omission and cummissiou of hotel managers accordI ing to guests, but what of the failings iof the guests themselves? 1' asks a wnler in the London "Daily Mail." 'Recently I have travelled through a largo part I of England and Scotland, and, I have found much discomfort,not through bad management, but because of bad mauneis. Hotels bores are bad enough, but hotel bounders make the best-man-aged establishments uncomfortable. There are the bounders who sit up until the small hours' and' then wander about the bedroom corridors bounding blithely at the expense of other people's sleep. There is the bounder who is never satisfied with his food and keeps on saying so, the bonnde,r who is always looking for mistakes in his bill and angry because he cannot find any, and the bounder who drags his customer into the ladies' drawing-room to talk business 'because it is nice and quiet.'

A DIETARY REBUKE. ; "Not exactly .a. bounder but nevertheless a source of' irritation, is the man who can. drink • nothing but milk, and cut nothing but baked, apples and salad. There are' moro- 'Of his kind than is ! generally known. . With, his slops and his salads' he makes the>rest. of us ,f eel like, gluttons, if. not.cannibals.. "Always there Js the mail who needs .something—a hot-water bottle, an additional; blanket, or an-aspirin at two | .o'clock-in |ho, morning, and;rings until he gets what he wants. '•'.. ' , . ! "Also we have, the feminine bounder who cannot sit dowu to a meal unless her pet; dog occupies a seat,at the table. Worse stillia-the.gushing bounder who rushes over to the grill .and screams ecstatically:. 'Oh, just.let.me learn, how you frizzle these nice things!' "And there is the motoring .bounder who sails into the- lounge; during teatime and in a loud-voice ;informs the. universe of all the details of her tour.' She is usually; accompanied by a silent and oil-stained man. , . , . THE "GOOD" OF ONE'S HEALTH. "There' is, .top, . the..: flapper bounder who smokes,cigarettes until she is : dazed and drinks cocktails until she is muzzy. She is generally a local resident, and she uses the hotel to "learn all about life." Again,', ive« have, the severe, austere,..forbidding.sort, of woman who knits, at you; the..woman who shouts, 'Waitah, I 'cawh't drink this coffah'; and the confirmed, invalid who is travelling for. the;good of her own health .and the injury^of .everybody's else's. "Why can't every up-to:date hotel,bo provided with- a. 'bounders' room,' in which, the bounders of both' sexes can bo: assembled and- permitted joyously to.bound together? Good,manners are as necessary as ; good management in the ideal hotel."- ' ■.'!.■: . ,''