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many? I do not know — I stopped counting at number 

 seven, when I was ati bout de mes forces. 



For the benefit of intending tourists, let your own carpet- 

 bagman recommend this Hotel de France at Dol, kept by 

 Madame Raveaud, most amiable and charming of hostesses. 

 Here my step-grand-mother had a room in which she could 

 have given a ball had she been so minded, with four 

 v\^indows commanding good look-outs, and altogether of a 

 cleanliness which really ran godliness uncommonly hard. 

 This chamber was two francs a day : first floor, mind, only 

 one-and-eightpence. At an English hotel, similarly situated, 

 for less accommodation I have paid nearly three times the 

 sum. 



I find on my arrival in England that Mrs. King at the 

 British Association Meeting has been trying to induce us to 

 combine our resources, and our sauces, live in one happy 

 family, and attend more carefully to the kitchen economy. 

 Bless her heart ! we needn't live as " one harmonious 

 whole " in order to arrive at a coiisommd " devoutly to be 

 wished." 



Let every lady when travelling note down certain dishes, 

 find out how they are made, and establish her own private 

 cookery-book. A franc here and there will be well spent in 

 acquiring this knowledge. This is the advice of one who 

 has done it, and is always doing it. A combination table is 

 the result, that is, you have the pick of all countries, and if, 

 Madame, yoii will only see to it yottrself and not confide 

 in even the " most trustworthy person in the world " (nearly 

 every household is bHghted by one of these " inestimable 



