Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — Beating Hotels. [ARTICLE]

Beating Hotels.

The most successful hotel deadbeat usually takes hjs “wife” with him. This is done to throw the hotel man off his track, on the supposition that. a_mau. who takes his wife with him on hisjtravels has money enough to pay his bills, and it also enables the successful working of the old dodge of leaving the “wife” at the hotdl while going to some other town to “attend to some business,” and “return in a few days,” which means “skip,” and a broken-hearted (?V“wife” to collect the bill from. —Hotel lieporter. . -'