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of ideas with a shrewd Yankee will be 

 agreeable to both of you. 



Now, as to washing. You will swim 

 and bathe often, and shake and brush your 

 clothing every night ; yet walking is a 

 dusty business, and you will require fre- 

 quent service from a laundry. Some ho- 

 tels are so well provided that you can have 

 clothing washed, dried, and ironed over- 

 night, and ready when you rise. In other 

 places where you are to stop for a day or 

 two, the work can be done better at more 

 leisure. You can wash small articles, like 

 handkerchiefs and stockings, at a pinch, 

 yourself. Stockings wear out so quickly 

 that it is not a bad idea to take about three 

 pairs of your oldest, and discard them as 

 they become ragged. Or, buy a pair at a 

 time of the cheapest kind and throw them 

 away as they are used up. Little jobs, 

 like mending, will usually be done for you 

 by servants at the inns ; for it is an odd 

 fact, in respect of hotels, that the more 

 you pay the less you get. There are 

 caravansaries in New York in which ten 

 dollars a day is the charge for a room, 



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