Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Cranky Cuests. [ARTICLE]

Cranky Cuests.

“I cannot sleep in that room,” said a guest at a hotel in this city lust evening. as lie walked to the desk in the office and threw the key upon it. “What is the matter with it?” nskeil the clerk. “There is nothing the matter with it, except that the bed is in the wrong place,” the guest replied. “For more than twenty years I have slept in a bed with the head toward the north, and it lias become such a habit with me that it would be actually impossible for mo to sleep with the bead in any other direetion.” “It will be impossible for me to give you a room containing a bed with the head in that direction,” said the clerk, “The hotel is well filled to-night, and 1 have only two vacant rooms, but I will have the bed turned for you.” Calling a porter, the clerk Instructed him to turn the bed In the gentleman's room, so that the head would be to the north. The guest followed the porter upstairs, and as nothing further was heard from

him it is presumed that he retired and slept peacefully. "There Is no accounting for tastes." said the clerk turning to the reporter, "and the funny experiences we have la the hotel business would till a volante. Before tin- night is over we may have calls for beds with their heads turned to every 'point of the compass, and. of course, we are obliged to accommodata every one. ”1 remember an instance like this sc\(ml years ago. A man slightly inebriated came iuio tlie hotel one night and. producing a pocket compass, said that lie wished a room where the head of tile bed should lie placed to thenorthcast. We sent two liovs with him. and they turned the lied as requested. The joke was that tlie compass was furnished with a little stop, which held tlu> indicator in a certain position. It so happened Hint the gentleman's bed. which had been carefully placed northeast according to the compass, was iu reality with the bend to the south. The man discovered his mistake next morning and was cured of the fad."- -I’htlndclphiu Bulletin.