Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-10-28
THE INNS OF NORWAY
PLAIN AND WHOLESOME AND WITH. t OUT ANY FRlllS.
The Meals Are Formidable Affairs,
 and salmon Is Always Served. Guests Are Expected to Eat Heart. fly and to Wait on ThemseIyes
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1t intervals of eight or ten miles
 along the public highway, usually in
 connection witA the skyds stations. are
 inns where the traveigr will invariably
 ind the comforts ie aot the luxuries
 Of life-p.enty of food and shelter. bed
 and board. There is 70 upholstered
 furniture or velvet earIslt ts or ceesheIl
 china, but always heat lace cs.rtaina at
 every window. sometimes in tie Win.
 doWs Of tne stables
 \ luxurious American VI have te
 deny himself much tEat Ee is accus.
 toned to at hone a#d-will encounter
 experiences and customs tat are new
 and novel to llll Blt if Le is reason.
 able ill his requirements and behaves
 himself like q @entleEal Le will al.
 ways meet with 2 hospitahle although homely welcome The Norwegian l0r tel keepers measure Cur capacities by their own and give you so much to eat, particularly at the Aoen dinner, tEat you are stupid and sleepy all the rest of the day ana snoo2e in your carriage when you ought to be admrins the scenery
 TEere is no style about tie hotels. and the service is poor The houselold work is all done by the landlord and his wife and daughters. There are no electric bells, and if you walt any thing you usually have to hunt ft. it ! and help yourself. It is the custom of the country for the travellers to make | themselves at Lome and you are some times compelled to look after your own ! luggage or it K liable to be left. But you will recover it ;,z-ai:i after q time. [ l ..e people are honest. cunsidcrate and | unseltish. but rnprotcntious in tneir hospitality. There are 10 loclis on their doors, for none is needed. Burglars and thieves are absolutely unknown.
 The bedrooms are barren of orua- ments. ald easy chairs tl,qt We are ac. tuston1cd tc ct home. Itt.c~e are no carpets and no rugs on the floor. All the appurtenanccs are plain and sub without any effort tt show and very little idea of convenience. The beds are good, but gsually the only cover is comfortable seven CT eight inches thick and as leayy and un- wieldy as a feather bed. You can't tuck 1t in at the bottom or at the sides. and 1t is always sliding eff to the floor. IL is too much covering for an ordinary sleeper, and when tie nights are warm, IS they often are, you are compelled to choose between a chill and suffocatiou.
 The pillows are another nuisance. There are usually bolster of feathers about the size of a barrel and a little bit of by 9 pillow an inch or two thick, with pretty trimmings upon it. The big pillow is too big, and the lit- He ohe is two small, and y0u selve the !llemma hy rolling up your overcoat Dto ball and using that instead. There Is plenty of fresh heavy, home made lineh-large, square towels that nave been woven under the same root turing the long winter days
 The breakfast :s abundant and often certifying. You are at first confronted with five or six different kinds of 1 , 'heese, an equal variety of cold meats, inned fish, smoked herring and salm. i, III. cold boiled ham, three or four kinds ,