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Show HOTEL LIFE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES COUN-TRIES I remember somebody once saying to me a long time ago that the Americans had attained to luxury by jumping over comfort. I think there Is a certain amount of truth in this, I and yet It would be foolish to call I American hotels uncomfortable. They are not uncomfortable. Only there is this to be said. That to some people all hotel life is uncomfortable Thev hate living in a crowd. They hate bustle, confusion, noise, the arrival 1 and departure of people, etc. And i there is certainly more hotel life In America than in other countries And yet what a saving to the nerves, and Lassa to the temper, are so many of the devices de-vices and the arrangements in American Amer-ican hotels. The telephone, for Instance, In-stance, if you want a nice test of Proper try to get a number at tho Hotel cil in London, or better still, 6pcnd a happy morning In ringing up people on the telephone in Paris. I |