Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Western Hospitality. [ARTICLE]

Western Hospitality.

People in the Eastern cities know not the,,meaning of the word "hospitality”' as it is written in the dictionary of the Western ranchman. "Why,” said Senator Warren, of Wy~ omlugvsduttm&dng some otkiMe cha raeteristies of the Western people, with a. representative of the Washington Post the other day, "I would regard It as a personal insult If I went to a house on, any ranch and found the door The first Impulse of the average Western man on such an occasion would ho to break the door down.” "But how about locking up when the. inmates go away?” Senator Warren laughed. “It would make no difference at all,” lie said. “We all go on the general supposition that a man traveling through the country is hungry. If he has i any food in his haversack, and finds nobody at home, lie goes In the liouse, takes possession of the kitchen, and cooks Ids. meal. If he lias nothing, he helps himself to what lie ,cail find. He does it as a matter of course, and the family would feel that lie was worse than a dude if he declined to share with them even the smallest bit of food that they happened to have in store.”