The Craft Of Those Who Are Cunning Is Shown, I Think, In
Little Internal Washings, By Which The Cambric Handkerchiefs
Are
kept out of the list, while the muslin dresses are placed upon it.
I am led to this surmise
By the energetic measures taken by the
hotelkeepers to prevent such domestic washings, and by the
denunciations which in every hotel are pasted up in every room
against the practice. I could not at first understand why I was
always warned against washing my own clothes in my own bed-room, and
told that no foreign laundress could on any account be admitted into
the house. The injunctions given on this head are almost frantic in
their energy, and therefore I conceive that hotel-keepers find
themselves exposed to much suffering in the matter. At these hotels
they wash with great rapidity, sending you back your clothes in four
or five hours if you desire it.
Another very stringent order is placed before the face of all
visitors at American hotels, desiring them on no account to have
valuable property in their rooms. I presume that there must have
been some difficulty in this matter in bygone years; for in every
State a law has been passed declaring that hotel-keepers shall not
be held responsible for money or jewels stolen out of rooms in their
houses, provided that they are furnished with safes for keeping such
money and give due caution to their guests on the subject. The due
caution is always given, but I have seldom myself taken any notice
of it.
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