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European correspondent writes:
ma mosr expensive thing and the
hardast thing 10 get in Europe IS plain
matsr At the hotels even in Switzer-
~ wbare the i~ce-orowned Alps arein
l l;aht tIey charge you for ice water To-
ars;nI There is no water On the cars
and At the stations they look Of you in
amazememt II you ask for It. To pro-
tact myself I now carry asbottleo of va
tar strapped to my carpet bag. One
sar IN the Bon Marchs in Paris, where
thsy employ st least 200 clerks, my
a1;fs Who was making purchases, asked
tha clark to be kind enough to give hes
q glass of water.
IA what2" he exclaimed in uttel
"a glass Of wster-plain, wet water,s
repeated my wife.
RRTbere isn't such a thing IN the store,s
=. aBut in this great store what do you
do when you, get thirsty" asked my
wife.
drink q bottle Of wine."
But if it is hard to get q glass Of
water in France, Switzerland or Ger.
many to drink, how much harder it i,
to Get enough for 4 bath, The idea o.
water enough to battle in all over sets
them wild. At Dresden, the boasted
art center Of Europe, my wife wanted
hot bath. in Ameriea, when d guest
wants q hot bath, he rings for the
chambermaid, turns on the hot water,
takes il, and finds % cents charged fol
il in his bill. Well, I went down ia
the office and saw the clerk about il.
He seemed half dazed at the idea of .
hath. and went off to see the pro.
prietor. The proprietor came putting
back to the office and asked me what !
wanted.
INV wife wants a bath,nI said.
"All over-bath all oyer?n he asked.
eyes, all over, in hot water"
"Hot water-hot water all over.
meme Colt in himmelp he exclaimed
throwing up his hands.
eyes, q hot water bath" I said, atell
the girl to turn on the hot and the cold
water"
sBut there isn't any hot water,
said the landlord; I've will have
to send q commissioner to the BATH
house on Frederick Strasse and have il
brought here"
"Whatr / said in surprise, asend FOX
q bath tub and hot water send out FOX
it,"
eyes, he said. handing the commits.
sioner a note, SIT will be brought here
in an hour
I went up to the room and awaited
results. The hotel was III an uproar.
It was o great event to take a bath in
Dresden, and I've experienced the
sam trouble and surprise in Der.
lin and Cologne. After waiting
an hour there was q great noise
and clatter in the hall. Pretty soon q
man and his wife came to the door.
They were CARRYING something that
looked like o coffin. It proved to be q
long, black, rusty bath tub. They
placed it in the middle Of the room.
Then they went down two pair of stairs
to a wagon standing in front of the
hotel and commenced bringing up hot
water in large tin buckets. This water
had been heated in the bath house hall
a mile away. They soon had the bath
tub full, and my wife took her bath.
Then the thing was carried down stairs
again.
When ] paid my bill I was charged
three marks (75 cents) for this bath
and thirty cents for the commission
er. You Gun never get q hot bath
in Europe for less than sixty cents.
1t is 5 cents even for . drink of ice
water even with, your dinner in q Paris
restaurant ard from 2 to 5 cents fol
going into o cabinet pour DANES or
cabinet pour hommes iwater closet.
The ether day l felt smoky and sticky
on the train and looked around at the
station for q chance to wash. The big
Seine river was running the other side
OF the depot. An old woman in the
wash room had q pint OF water in a tin
basin and wanted half a franc for the
use Of it. told her I was not going to
destroy the water but would simply
use it q moment. She was inexorable,
and paid the tax that cleanliness al.
ways has to pay in barbarous Europe.
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