One Of The Hotel Clerk's Trials

The summer resort hotel clerk is beginning to find his speech after the past eeason's campaign. And if yon will let iítti teil the story he is a much abnsed individual. "For instance," says one ol them, "the clerk schedoles on getting up at 7 o'clock. Well, at 6 a boy hammers on hifi door and says a lady wanti to see him at once down in the offioe; can't wait a minute, and nobody else will do. Up jumps the clerk and falla down to the ground floor to find the oocupant of Suite A, for example, laying for him. 'Good morning, tnarlam,' says the clerk. 'Dear! how yon hr kept me waiting!' she replies. 'Very sorry,' says the clerk, wishing in MssonJ that he had kept her half an hour. Then she begins again: 'I intend to spend th day in town, and got up early to see if you thought the 10 o'clock train was better than the 10:20. What do yon think? He's just got to grit his teeth and smile, and say that the 10 train is f aster by two minntes, but that he thinks she would find less einders in and better yiews from the 10:20. Then she'll thank him