The House
Breakfast Is Maintained On A Similar Footing.
Huge boilers of tea
and coffee are stewed down and kept hot.
To me those meals were
odious. It is of course open to any one to have separate dinners
and separate breakfasts in his own rooms; but by this little is
gained and much is lost. He or she who is so exclusive pays twice
over for such meals - as they are charged as extras on the bill - and,
after all, receives the advantage of no exclusive cooking.
Particles from the public dinners are brought to the private room,
and the same odious little dishes make their appearance.
But the most striking peculiarity of the American hotels is in their
public rooms. Of the ladies' drawing-room I have spoken. There are
two, and sometimes three, in one hotel, and they are generally
furnished at any rate expensively. It seems to me that the space
and the furniture are almost thrown away. At watering-places and
sea-side summer hotels they are, I presume, used; but at ordinary
hotels they are empty deserts. The intention is good, for they are
established with the view of giving to ladies at hotels the comforts
of ordinary domestic life; but they fail in their effect. Ladies
will not make themselves happy in any room, or with ever so much
gilded furniture, unless some means of happiness are provided for
them. Into these rooms no book is ever brought, no needle-work is
introduced; from them no clatter of many tongues is ever heard.
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