Show n 1 4 aniz 1 aw 21 2 1 04 1 V X 1 I 1 J V X t 1 V e A 1 1 K t 4 al it i zel IN V A 1 V vt V t I 1 V 4 it t 1 I 1 Y 4 CLY PUY VERY summer bummer thousands ol of E americans make cleir initial trips across the atlantic to tour europe all ali bad sailors know the moment when it is best to seek a chair and keep still if the situation 1 Is to be saved 1 ahe I he man in the picture has reached this stage all would probably be well had bad not the woman noman with the baby dropped the feeding bottle her maid in the background Is past hope the mans duty Is clear but then if he moves one of the most f features of an americans American 8 first Ein emodean tour Is the com pailon of transatlantic cus toms toma in hotel and railway with those of the land of the brave and the home of the free many things that to the seasoned traveler have become corn com mun place long ago strike the tourist on oil tits hla initial trip as highly amusing col Brot brotherman hertan of kentucky for in stance had been recommended to a quiet italian hotel returning late from san carlo where almost every tourist goes on hla his first night in na ples pies he be was amazed in pissing passing along the corridor to see outside nearly ev ery cry door in addition to the boots on the floor sundry dress skirts shirts and trousers hung upon large branching brass hooks books A garcon who was sitting in the corridor tried in broken english to explain it was the custom for tray trav elers to leave the clothing they had worn during the day outside their doors to be brushed but the colonel wis was incredulous never saw anything like it in america he be sold said likely as not it s some sort of skin game and all those fools will wake up in the morning and find their clothes stolen not 11 I 1 ill brush my own leave her key miss clarissa Clarl ssi blythe of vermont was perfectly astounded at having her chambermaid rush after her as she carefully deposited the key hey of her room in her beaded reticule and ex claimed but madam please leave your key beside the door I 1 must have it to go in and do your room but where ts Is your passkey she demanded I 1 have none the maid replied see she said pointing to the hook at the side bide of the door the same hook dedicated to skirts shirts and trousers you must liang hang hiir bour key hey here when you go out an englishman who was sailing from boston not long ago was vas reduced to one pair of really comfortable boots these he placed outside his door to be polished on the eve of his departure and lio lie woke noke in the cold gray dawn to find his boots gone and not a porter in the hotel who ulio could trace them ile he was forced to descend in his slip peik and buy a new pair of stiff uncomfortable boots to wear to the steamer and to this day he has not ceased to curse american hotels in germany one of the up to date hotels has a little locker in every guest room between the bedroom and the corridor with a door on either side ile he opens the door in his room puts in his trousers and boots or what ever clothing needs attention the valet passes along the corridor opens each door with his own pass key and removes the clothing to brush it re turning it and locking the door care fully upon it and when the owner oner awakes he has only to open his bis little door and there are hla his clothes all ready for him the european bed always strikes the uninitiated american traveler as a huge joke in france they commence to impress him with their height and narrowness and he looks dubiously at the enormous turkey red cotton coudre pied of eiderdown eider down which looks something like a mountain and he be wonders how bow he is ever going to bear all that extra weight eight on his per son eon but when he has slipped between the sheets and the grateful warmth communicates itself to his bla cold bones if it Is winter they are sure to be like icicles he dis discovers coers that it is deceptively ight and dell piously comfortable in switzerland the beds attain a little more height but it is in germany that they become of such an altitude tItI tude as to nece il ii a pair qa steps to mount them tricks played on the traveler sometimes in european hotels cotela the tourist la Is taken solemnly to one side and told that by paying a few francs franca or lire more hei be can have tho royal bedchamber A certain hotel in sor 1 lento where a doyen or more royal heads hao haic lain in one season Is even more gene ious for if the rooms are empty they make no extra charge and the traveler lives to recount when nhen lie he la Is back on his native heath liow how tits hla aff pressed the sime same pillow that i had b used by tl e little queen of holland or the king icing of saxony hut but that Is not a european custom for to this day in i i certain doston boston ito ho tel the chamber occupied by otince henry of prussia la Is listed at about gibout 10 a da dav more than any other toom loom in the house mot alot Ameil can triv acis on their int in t nips dips abroad lire are astounded when ill on the he day of their del rtuh e fro from in S i q hotel they are pre dented with their bill ba b the held head waiter listeid of by bv the landlord lind lord ot 01 by bv his chief clerk cherl but it Is IR the custom and this important in Is thus assured of tits his up tip I 1 llie lie traveler thinks it a little strange that coffee 1 Is always alays edtia tia at luncheon and dinner but when he orders coffee at in of I 1 or 6 cents extra tho the cup it is fleshly made zo zoa S A expressly for him and Is not the cor cof fee that has stood for hours in the pot another thing that strikes him as funny Is the fact that there are pie cle gators to go up but that lie he cannot use them to go down one european sign in a small hotel reads no one Is al allowed loed to descend in the elevator but invalids and the aged in the larger hotels the lifts are used as they are in america but so BO leisurely aie they that one usually prefers to run doAn downstairs stairs on shanks mare economy in lights Is another trait and where as usual there are two electric bigl ts in the room one over the bed to read by and another in the ceiling one cannot he turned on without turning the other oft off but a young oung american engineer solved the difficulty by unscrewing the porcelain cap of the switch and sticking in a hairpin to make the connection ile he had two lights and no onedas ever the wiser and his conscience it never troubled him at all it was one of those elastic ones you read about it does not take long to remember after you once know that if you want to buy salt in italy you must go to a tobacco shop to get it for both sot salt and tobacco are government monopolies no and it Is a pleasure to learn that in france you can buy stamps and postcards at tobacco shops which ire are under government jurisdiction there as well also that in both countries you can send telegrams at as low a rate as 14 cents tor for ten words and that special delivery letters will go for 6 cents in parts paris it if you remember to write across your envelope ma macique matl tique que which means that the letter will be shunted through a pneumatic tube in no time at all and delivered almost as soon as a telegram |