Hotels Are Their Homes.
The custom which exists amongst many wealthy American personages of living and bringing up their children in hotels has been, and is, continually deprecated. An Englishwoman, recently returned from the States, relates how she saw a little girl of six take her place at the table. On being asked by the waiter if she ought to be there without her parents, she coolly answered : " I guess I pay my way." A writer also tells a story of a child whom he once saw seated alone at the crowded table of an hotel. She called first for soup, then ice-cream^then more soup. "Isn't your mamma coming to dinner?" asked the amazed "waiter as he served her. " No," replied the young lady. " She don't want none. She's dead." The late George Augustus Sala, speaking on the subject, once observed : "I object but to two things in America: the pie and the hotel child. Not until that child is made into the pie will I tolerate either." It is argued, and justly, it will be admitted, that a private and reserved . life is essential to the mental and physical growth of a child.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 52
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Hotels Are Their Homes.
Otago Witness, Issue 2375, 7 September 1899, Page 52
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