“ GAIETY ” ABROAD. 
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‘•AN UNEXCITING HOLIDAY.” 
food ; and the cooking, will not be so good; 
while the service will be very much worse. 
There is a band in the Kursaal — in a large 
room, in which the people are packed like 
sardines, and in which there is no ventilation. 
There are other things which represent 
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“ gaiety ” ; some of the things 
which are to be found in an old- 
fashioned English fair are offered 
to patrons at prices which suggest 
that they are worth much more in 
Holland than they are at home. 
Scheveningen is a suburb of The 
Hague. If you stay at an hotel 
in The Hague during the summer 
months, the head waiter will pro- 
bably ask you, as you are going 
out in the morning, at what hour 
you propose to dine. If you ob- 
serve that you propose to dine 
at Scheveningen you will be informed that 
that will make no difference to the hotel, 
since dinner will figure in the bill whether 
you have it or not. If you do not like 
that amusing arrangement you can take 
yourself elsewhere. 
presumably well-informed people in our daily 
papers, that what we lack is the Casino. There 
is not an English seaside town in which a 
Casino is to be found. 
The Kursaal at Scheveningen is a very large 
one ; it need be, because in the season there 
are a very large number of visitors, and at 
night they are practically all crammed into it. 
There is accommodation for people to eat and 
drink, and there is no place in England not 
excluding the smart London restaurants — 
where they charge you more, and very few 
where they charge you as much. The dinner 
which you will get. in London, say for half-a- 
guinea, will cost you in the Kursaal at 
Scheveningen at least twice that sum, and the 
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