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Show MISTAKE IN THE LOCATION Despite Waiter's Assertion, Traveler Was Convinced They Were in the Wrong Room. The late William Dean Howells was very fond of traveling in Spain. He once said on his return from Andalusia: Anda-lusia: "The Spaniards, especially the southern Spaniards, have enormous families. Eight children is the average aver-age and families of 16 and 17 children chil-dren are quite common. "But they don't know how to raise these children. They take babies of three or four months traveling with them. In every hotel and train there are sure to be as many babies as adults. "I was ushered one evening by a Malaga waiter into the lofty marble and bronze restaurant of a sumptuous hotel. The restaurant was crowded with babies. " 'This is our dining hall, senor,' said the waiter, complacently. "I put my hands over my ears. "'Your dining hall?' I said. 'Don't you mean your bawd room?'" Papa Missed Hor, Too. Priscilla had been to school a few days for the first time in her life when she met a friend on the street one day, who inquired about how she was getting get-ting along. "Mamma does not like to have me go very well," she said, "because she misses me at home." "But what does your papa say about It?" inquired the friend. "Oh, he is kind of uneasy in his mind, too," answered Priscilla. |