They Are Content To Look Forward
And To Hope That Such Means Will Come.
In so doing they are guilty
of no imprudence.
It is the way of the country, and, if the man be
useful for anything, employment will certainly come to him. But he
must live on the fruits of that employment, and can only pay his way
from week to week and from day to day. And as a third reason, I
think I may allege that the mode of life found in these hotels is
liked by the people who frequent them. It is to their taste. They
are happy, or at any rate contented, at these hotels, and do not
wish for household cares. As to the two first reasons which I have
given, I can agree as to the necessity of the case, and quite concur
as to the expediency of marriage under such circumstances. But as
to that matter of taste, I cannot concur at all. Anything more
forlorn than a young married woman at an American hotel, it is
impossible to conceive.
Such are the guests expected for those two hundred bedrooms. The
chance travelers are but chance additions to these, and are not
generally the mainstay of the house. As a matter of course the
accommodation for travelers which these hotels afford increases and
creates traveling. Men come because they know they will be fed and
bedded at a moderate cost, and in an easy way, suited to their
tastes. With us, and throughout Europe, inquiry is made before an
unaccustomed journey is commenced, on that serious question of
wayside food and shelter.
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