Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1882 — Guests? Never, Sir! [ARTICLE]

Guests? Never, Sir!

W hat the American people want Joseph Cook to explain is when and why hotel-keepers fell into the fashion of charging S4O a week for board, and then calmly speaking of their victims as their “guests.” No hotel of any respectability has any boarders now; they only receive “guests.” And what we want to know is, when the laws of hospitality were so amended ah to allow a host to present his “guests’’ weekly

bills. ' What profanation of the sacred name of “guest!” Let us have reform before this precious English language shall utterly lose its flavor and be trodden under foot of men. Are we the landlord’s “guests?” Never, by Heaven! we are his boarders, and no guests .—Burlington Hawkeys.