Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — APPEALED TO HOTEL CLERK [ARTICLE]

APPEALED TO HOTEL CLERK

Fair 6ue«t Applied for Object Not Usually Supplied by Hoetelrles, but She Got It. To be a successful hotel clerk you must have an even temper. There Is no man under the sun who has so much to try his temper as a hotel clerk. The night clerk of a certain Baltimore hotel is a young man with the most polished manner*. He Is especially polite to the ladles, but a few evenings ago he nearly lost his equilibrium when a pretty guest asked him to loan her an alarm clock. “I must get up very early tomorrow morning,” said the fair guest; "can't you loan me an alarm clock—one that I can depend on?” “I will have you called at any hour you wish,” replied the clerk. "That won’t do. You might forget It, and besides, I have no watch, and If I wake up during the night I like to know the time.” The clerk suggested that there was a telephone In the room, but that would not do, so he called the housekeeper, who loaned the fair guegt an alarm clock.