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Show ABOUT MISS ABBOTT And Her Little dnpectltloni for a Certain Room at a Hotel. The late Miss Emma Abbott was superstitious su-perstitious in many little ways. The first room she had at the Coates house, Kansas City, was No. 76, and she had a superstition that it would be unlucky for her to have any other. When the old hotel was being torn down she insisted in-sisted in still having this room, even though it was full of drafts. The bane of her life was a draft, and before she came the servants were kept busy in shutting off drafts from her room. The windows were never opened, and the room was not swept during the week that she was in it. She was fond of a railroad dinner, and, though she was wealthy, she never got over her fondness for the chicken and gravy, which is the common fare at the railroad eating house. She always al-ways on the road had the conductor telegraph ahead for chicken and gravy for her dinner. |