Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Accommodating Landlord. [ARTICLE]

Accommodating Landlord.

A correspondent assures us that he never knew that it was possible for an innkeeper to be too accommodating to his guests until he went down to Nova Scotia recently, and put up at a pleasant little hotel in the country. The landlord of this hotel laid It down as one of his principles of action to give people a little more than they asked for—to be “extra accommodating,” as he termed it. The landlord brilliantly illustrated his adherence to this principle the very morning after our correspondent’s arrival at the hotel. The guests had to go away on the seven o'clock train that morning, and asked the proprietor to call him at six. The guest went to sleep in the calm assurance that he should be aroused at the proper hour. He seemed hardly to have fallen into a sound sleep when he heard a terrific pounding at his door. He sprang up, wide awake. “What’s the matter?” he called out. “Four o’clock! Four o'clock!” came the landlord’s voice the other side of the door; “two hours more to sleep!” It is needless to say that the guest slept no more that morning. The landlord’s anxiety to be “extra accommodating” failed of its mark that time.