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Show Tor Traveling Wtimen. Of special interest to lady travelers in England is the establishment of the lady guides in Oookspnr street This venturs is only about a year old, nnd tho enterprising enter-prising ladies who started it were roundly laughed at by their friends, who thought the project a visionary one. lint tha success of the plan has been abundantly proven. The ladies in charge undertake to do everything that a stranger in London Lon-don would wish to have done. They recommend hotels and lodging houses, and will engage rooms for you in advance, ad-vance, if you so desire. Von have only to name the location, price and general features of a stopping place, and they can be relied on to procure it for you. They shop for you, engage servants, meet friends at the station, take care of the children while you go pleasuring, or entertain them at. Mine. Tussaud's or any other place of amusement that you j may elect; show you about picture gal- j leries, get tickets of admission to all tho j difficult places, nnd, in general, supply j you with what you lack to make your j visit comfortable, with the exception of a contented mind, the traveler's most j necessary commodity. At the head- j quarters of the Lady Guides thero are I reception rooms supplied with news- j papers and writing materials, dressing rooms, private rooms in which to inter- ' view servants, aud a modest restaurant, j As a correspondent says: "The over- ; worked, the shiftless, the lazy, the j hi ranger, all go to the Lady Ouide" ; il.-leu Alar-hall North iu New York : Ledger. |