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INNS OF OLD ENGLAND.

They Would Make the Philosopher Change His Mind.

Sometimes They Are Very, Very Good. Bat Store Often They Are Horrid—The Floe Art of Bill Making—Fee*, Extras,

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The American who expects „to find hotel living cheaper here than in Amer-

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ica on the average will live to own his mistake if he crosses the ocean. It is true that the tourist agcncics sell coupons on American hotels at a trifle a •day higher than for England, but the difference is more than made up by the numerous and generous fees expected here.

IIJ America one usually knows what to look for at a hotel. Here ho may try a hundred and own himself unable to prophesy about the hundred and first. Nor can he tell anything by advertisements. Many of the London hotels advertise rooflis at three shillings a day to •catch the Yankee trade. The traveler on following up the advertisement will find that for a night's lodging his bill will run up to double that sum. He pays three shillings for the room as advertised, two shillings for attendance— and fees the attendants besides—and is lucky if he gets off without a sixpence charge for the candle by whose dim and flickering light ho disrobes his manly limbs. j_.

dpightfui uncertainty exists its cost, fits will be told that ho will be charged "according to what ho has that seems fair, but if he orders what would be a very moderate meal at home the bill will surprlso him again.

Of course six shillings is not a large sum to pay for a room in a city like London, nor is two or throe shillings for a breakfast exorbitant, but that isn't the sort of thing a man expects who has been lured by an announcement of "room for thrco shillings, breakfast from one shilliug and ninepenee." In such announcements the minimum breakfast is coffee or tea and bread and butter. This may cost from one to two and a half shillings.

Out in the provinces things are still inoro uncertain. A man may find one night good accommodations at a hotel whose charges will foot up only SI.50 a -day, tho next night put up with bad quarters at S3 or 84 a day and tho next night indifferent at any imaginable price. In tourist resorts, especially where there is no competition, ho must prepare for a stiff bill, say 76 cents for a room, 35 cents for attendance, St for dinner, 05 •cents cach for limch and breakfast and "what he chooses" in fees or in the neighborhood of $3.75 or more a day. This, it must be borne in mine, does not eecurc good food, though it does secure

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The gentleman who advised his contemporaries and posterity to wonder^at nothing' has been dead for some time he never had an opportunity to realize the Impossibility of his own advice by stopping at a modern English hotel.

Nature never intended Englishmen to be hotel keepers, and they are too proud -to learn where instinct is denied them. The best public accommodation in England is furnished at a moderate rate by a few extremely old and unpretentious little country inns, 'the next best by the •expensive city houses and the worst of all, and the worst possible, by the ninetenths remaining.

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an exquisitely cleaned and comfortable room. One reason why most Americans who have been there are so fond -of Paris is that they can find food there after a course of semi-starvation hi London.

I was stopping for a night not long ago at the best hotel in a commercial town, not a tourist resort, only a few miles from London. When, before going to bed, I ordered my breakfast for the following morning, according to the idiotic English custom, I expressed a desire for a beefsteak. The elderly woman in charge seemed in distress. She called the cook out from the kitchen. "Do yon think yon can get this gentleman a beefsteak?" she asked the cook.

The cook seemed doubtful. **Oh, well," said I, retreating tipstairs, "steak preferred, but a chop would answer.

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Imagine the resplendent hotel clerk of the best hotel in Yonkers, Lowell or Trenton calling up the cook to ask if a traveler could have a steak for breakfast instead of a slightly less expensive chop! For the same money, or for 75 cents at the most, a first-rate American suburban hotel would offer its guests tho choice between a large variety of meats, eggs, omelets, .fruits of the season, oatmeal or wheat grits, breakfast cakes, in short, a meal and not an apology for one. And in Paris a breakfast of four courses, exquisitely cooked, can be had for from 40 cents up.

On one occasion an English hotel keeper, in making out a bill for me, after exhausting his ingenuity in ramming into that poor document extra charges for attendances, boots, light and the like— light is always charged for separately if gas is used, and sometimes if candles—put down this Item: "Sundries, sixpence." What the sundries were I have never discovered-

It is not Yankees alone who object to these "extra charges." Britons do not like them. I know a man in London who adopted as his motto: "No charge for attendance." Result—he has had to enlarge his house five times and rooms are only to be had by engaging them in advance. Yet his patronage is almost wholly English. He's getting rich, while his competitors plod on in the old unbusinesslike fashion.

The American hotel clerk runs his eye down the register and says "seven fifty," the guest flips out a ten-dollar bill, the clerk flips back the change and the thing is over. The English clerk, always a woman, says: "Will you be seated, sir?" Then she draws up a bill in writing and rings for a waiter. The waiter presents the bill on a tray, takes the coin or bank note to the desk, gets the change and expects a fee for his service.

The bigger the hotel the greater nuisance are the fees. The waiter, the porter, the boots, the chambermaid and the head waiter all expect them. In a small house these functionaries may all be combined in one individual well content with a modest expense.

A considerable experience of English inns, not confined to the regions usually frequented by tourists, leads me to believe that the following rules will be found useful in estimating the charges at them: 1. A small room in a' big house will come high a big room in a small house will be charged for at" a reasonable rate. 3. If the waiter is a pretty girl, the cookery good and the appointment modest the bill will be low if the wait-

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er is a flunkey in a spiketail coat and the food bad tho bill will be high. 8. If the bedstead in the room is of carved mahogany, $ hundred years old, with mattresses three feet thick and a gorgeous canopy and curtains, the bill will bo low if the bedstead is a cheap new iron one with brass knobs you'll pay in, gold. 4. If you get a napkin without asking for it telegraph your banker for more funds at once. Fortunately, this does not happen often. Forty-nine hotels out of fifty in Britain are guiltless of napkins. 5. If tho dining-room has a bay window, look out for an extra ninepenee. If the house is new, two shillings extra. 0. None of these rules will hold in exceptional cases, and nearly all the inns in England arc exceptional.

The small house, remote from the railroad, the inn with its quaint old sign, its low beamed roof, broad hearths, perfect quiet and simple abundance is almost the sole exception to tho rule of badness. All over the country, wherever there is travel enough to call for more than a cross roads groggery, yet not sufficient trade to bring in modern improvements, one finds these splendid old (nns, whieh date back beyond the days of the coach to those of the pack horse and are kept by tho descendants many generations removed of the builder. There is seldom more th^n one guest at a time, his meals are set in the family parlor and he mounts at night the stone stairway whose steps are deep-worn by the tread of those who have lain leng in the dust, through a low doorway, where ho bows his head to avoid a bump, into a room where generations of guests have slept before him. Across the one street of the hamlet is the little church, its arched windows and rude capitals suggesting a Norman origin. The door stands open all day long and he can see at the back the squire's pew a little higher than the others. In the churchyard sleep the rude forefathers of the hamlet from the days when William the Conqueror was a baby. A boy comes to draw a pail of water at the well, and two or three neighbors drop in to sing a song with a rousing chorus over a mug of ale in the taproom, hnt*by nine o'clock all is quite still. Then the drowsy traveler flings half a dozen pillows off the bed, mounts with difficulty its commanding height and sinks into its fathomless depths wondering whether the Lord will ever forgive 1dm for suggesting that there can be anything on earth so delightful as an Knglish inn at its best.

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Very Littlo Jewelry Always in Good Taste.

What It Is Proper to Wear Without E** citing Comment The Style „Jn Sleeve-Buttons and Scarf"

Fins—Peculiar Fads.

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Jewelry, a very little of it, is always in fashion. Few men can resist the fascination of a sparkling- diamond pin any more than can a woman that of a brilliant necklace, for the trait that exhibits itself in the painted aboriginal, in the lip-pierced Kaffir, in the ringnosed Hottentot, has come down into modern American and English life, modified by the influence of civilization, but still the old traitc the old desire to shine.

Few men of fashion know how much to wear or just what to wear. .A visit to the Hoffman house, to the corridors of the Fifth Avenue or to the cardrooms of some of the New York clubs will show you a variety of be jeweled individuals. You will see the' man, with the thousand-dollar stone in his shirt front and a chain and fob that were bought by the pound. Then, again, you will see the man without a

UNIQUE DESIGNS IN SLEEVE BUTTONS. particle of jewelry, without even a simple band on the finger which had been encircled only on his wedding day. You can put both of these men down as cranks. Neither of them can be properly classed as a man of fashion. The first one may be warm-hearted, goodnatured and rich, but the elegant man of fashion would no more tolerate him in his parlor or reception-room than he would imitate his showiness. The mat' without jewelry is, perhaps, a cold, dispassionate observer of men and thinjps a cynic, a man who would rail at any' display, even tho. slightegt,Jin his male companions.

I asked Mr. Creighton Webb how much his jewelry was worth the other day, and he told me that aside from the watch, which was worth something like five hundred dollars, he believed that three hundred dollars woiild cover all the exper^e he and his relatives had gone to in tile purchase of the jewels is

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man. of fashion ought to go to in the line of jewelry: Scarf-pin.... $100 Two diamond studs, to cost net more than.. 150 Two pairs of sleeve buttons with diamond or sapphire setting, to cost not more than— 200 Eight diamond collar and wrist buttons 200 Ring, with diamond or other stone setting.. 200 Watchcharm

Total— This table is by no means to be followed exactly, for it gives merely a list of the things a man of fashion must have in the way of jewelry, and the prices attached are just below the extravagantly showy. Of course, a man may have a ring with a very peculiar setting, the cost of which may be far beyond the figures here given# and so it may be with other jewelry, but as long as he keeps within the rule that bars any extraordinary display, he may be said to be in fashion.

The styles for 1892 are just out, and give the purchaser of jewels splendid opportunities for selection. The fad seems to be a very pretty combination of opals and diamonds, and the designers have shown exquisite taste in setting off the sparkling white of the. diamond by the delicate milk color of the opal. The tiger-eye cameo and the sardonyx eameo are also much in favor for rings just now.

In addition to the articles mentioned and which really do not come under the head of jewelry, bat whieh it is expected that a man of fashion should have about him, are such things as penholders, pencils, pencil cases, cigarette and cigar cases, and in the selection of

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these things he should make it a point to show only the most exquisite of tastes. Sterling silver is in style for all cases. As a rule such freaks as a diatifond head to pencil or pen should be avoided. In the way of canes and umbrella heads a finely chased bit of gold is always a neat addition to the make-up of a man of fashion. Avoid anything large and unwieldy.

This is leap year, and the jewelry freak has already come to thesnrface. Some years ago the bracelet fad took possession of the youth of the country, and the fealty of a young man was tested by his willingness to adorn his wrist with a plain hand. And now this fad has come to the surface again, and If you will look up the sleeve of the next fashionable man jou meet, depend upon it yon will see a shining bit of silvei glistening against the white of

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his arm. These are as a rule gifts from admiring young ladies, and it may be appropriate for me to say to them, for they all read this column, that nothing but silver is in style for a man's bracelet. It must be plain, moreover, and not too large, so that it will not slip down from the arm and show up suddenly just when the young man is transacting an important business matter. There is nothing so embarrassing to a young man as to be caught a party to a fad, and particularly to such a fad.

And right hero the young lady might as well be given a pointer as to what she can buy if she is very anxious to take advantage of her leap-year privileges. If you are buying a pair of sleeve-buttons be sure and get something in the nature of a plain link, for that is all the style now if you are buying a scarfpin buy something that has the diamond or the sapphire in some peculiar "animal" setting. Owls, horse heads, birds, bees, snails, turtles, snakes, deer and even elephant heads are the latest in the jewelry world of fashion. The designs are all very plain and small but exceedingly pretty.

Many men of fashion have taken up another peculiar fad this year, and that is what they call "surprise" jewelry. •You meet a friend on the street or in the club, and as he takes out his little silver cigarette case it opens and two tiny fingers hand you a cigarette. He takes out a match case, and as he opens it two little silver picks hand you a burning match and all you need do is to smoke. There is no contrivance that will do that for you. Another freak in the line of jewelry that is again coming to the surface is what they call "that man at the theater." It is simply a little cigar-case, with the words "dry as a" on one side and a fish on the other. When the case opens you will at once "see the man" you are in the habit of seeing on previous occasions on the outside of the theater.

It might not be inapropos in speaking of jewelry that fashion permits its devotees to indulge in without going to the extreme of vulgarity, to refer to the jeweled odds to be found on the desk of many a business man, as well as on his writing-table at home., It is usually unsafe for the business desk to have upon its surface too lavish a display of precious metallic odds and ends. And that is not because it is indelicate to make such display, but simply because it is dangerous and injudicious. At the hour when jumping stocks are taking you in and out of your office, you cannot always stop to close your desk, so diamond-studded paper-knives will not only cause you much anxiety, but will be objects of temptation to office boys and casual visiting strangers. Oxidized silver is such a happy combination of elegance and inexpensiveoess, that it

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has largely supplanted gold as a new material for paper-cutter handles, etc. An inkstand in the shape of a Lame for the photograph of a favorite young lady is a fad with some of those men of fashion who are also men of business.

Japanese ornaments in bronze and onyx are popular for paper-weights. One well-known member of an exclusive set eompels a little Chinese deity to sit stolidly on his loose papers.

But greater indulgence can be al lowed the man of fashion at his dresser. There he can/if he chooses, open the flood-gates of his yearning for metallic and jewelled bijouterie. There all is safe under the watchful eye of his trusty valet. His glove case, brush holder, toilet set, shoe and glove buttoners and all the other little indispensable conveniences may have an intrinsic value of from ten dollars to one thousand dollars, and propriety will smile her approval, because if there is a place in the world where lavish display, even Oriental gorgeousnes, can flourish without fear that the genius of good taste will point its finger of scorn at it, it is in that sanctum sanctorum, the sleeping apartment. A visit to some of those splendidly arranged apartments will convince anyone that the New York bachelor and man of fashion thinks nothing of drinkmg his coffee or toddy out of a solid gold cup or taking his evening smoke through a chased gold, ivory and meerschaum cigar-holder, and everuof having within easy reach a sterling silver wanamaker.

ALBERT EDWARD TYRRELL.

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The hired girl is human. That is one point that often seems to be forgotten by those who complain about her. If it were always remembered possibly the servant girl question would settle itself. Bridget and Gretchen never are wholly insensible. They have their woman's pride, their feminine instincts and contradictions, and where they are not taken into, account trouble is bound to follow.

It is to be noted that our great-great-grandmothers had precious little worry with their help. Hannah was in the habit of living in the same family till she got married, and about as often as not she married one of her mistress' boys. In any event she was a "help" and not a "servant." She resented the latter appellation and bore herself independently and worthily before the eyes of m§L Her education was defective, of course, but so was that of her mistress, and the two read the Bible together with the same uncertainty as to the big words and the long name? of the mighty men of old. When they died and went to heaven we are taught that thoy were not there separated by any .line of caste or favor.

But it's different nowadays, to bo sure. It is impossible for tho hired girl to be taken into the family as one of the family. Yet her lot might well be softened and brightened by a little human sympathy and friendly interest. If she is a gpod girl it will make her better, and if she is bad it will tend to restrain her from Incoming worse. And she is not likely to leave a place where she seems to be appreciated.— Chicago News. '. li 0 7 & After the Grip ... And after typhoid f*ver, diphtheria, pneumonia, or other pi iting, diseases, Hood's Sarsaparilla is JustV^ftt is needed to restore the strength and vigor so much described, and to expel all poison from the blood. It has had wonderful succcss In many such cases.

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powerful physique and'&ltrfiti'g, stiffid]? nerves, Wonders at his feeling of weakness, dullness, exhaustion. There Is an extremely nervous condition, a dull, cloudy sensation, disagreeable feelings in head and eyes, bad taste in mouth mornings, the vision becomes dim, memory is impaired, and there is frequent dizziness, despondency and depression of mind. The nerves become so weakened that the least shock will flush the face or bring on a trembling with palpitation.

Luckily, there is a great and wonderful restorative, Dr. Greene's Nervura which will give back to the weakened and exhausted system the strength it has lost, imparts vigor to brain and nerves, vitalizes and invigorates

the physical powers, dispels despondency and restores again that grand degree of lusty strength and power which in ignorance or folly we have exhausted. Druggists sell It, SL Purely vegetable and harmless. Try it and you will never regret U. "I deem it say duty to the public to state the wonderful effects of Dr. Greene's Nervura In my case. My improvement has been most gratifying, and language cannot describe the change in my feelings and prospects. Where all vxu gloom and despondency, there i* now light and hope. I gained 13 pounds, and am still gaining. Not alone myself,butlknowmany others who can testify to the merits of Dr. Greene's Nervura.

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The servant girl question is still a burning one in nearly every center of population and it is likely to remain a question of paramount interest to housewives for some little time to come.

A good many more or loss foolish solutions of it have been proposed and abandoned and still social philosophers are worrying over it without material result. In the first place they can't agree among themselves what the question really is, and those who do agree upon that point can't agree upon any other except that the hired girl is an uncertain quantity and a source of infinite vexation to housekeepers.

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