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Not only is the servant difficulty acute, but 

 the world is in too great a hurry nowadays for 

 such leisurely experiments. But the number 

 of strangers who pay a visit for a few weeks 

 or a month or two is ever growing. There 

 was a period this winter when the hotel accom- 

 modation was strained to the utmost. The 

 hordes of strangers which now swarm in the 

 more attractive parts of the earth's surface, in 

 their due season, suggest a question as to the 

 future of these resorts. These crowds tend 

 to destroy the very amenities of which they 

 are in search, to reduce everything to the same 

 dead level of vulgarity. Perhaps in a better 

 organized world the choicest spots will be 

 reserved for those who can prove that they 

 possess an aesthetic faculty of duly appreciating 

 the beauties of the earth, and an inclination 

 to treat them reverently. It is sad to think 

 of the Victoria Falls becoming a second Niagara. 

 Here the absence of roads, the expense of 

 travel, and the want of enterprise of the country 

 folk in the matter of accommodation act as 

 a natural protection to the mountain fastnesses, 

 a fact which the lover of primitive nature will 

 not deplore. And doubtless the " Casino 



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