ABSTRACT
The larger a community of casual acquaintances, the more readily does every person find his own level, and adhere to associates of his own class. Even in America there is always in every large hotel one salon frequented only by the “upper ten” of the passing or resident ten thousand, guarded by some sort of indefinable barrier from the intrusion of the nobodies. Many a speculation fails to pay, or barely pays, expenses, and so gets what is one of the best classes of enterprise a bad name, because Anglo-Saxon one-ideadness insists on what it terms “substantiality;” “adaptability for every emergency;” no gimcrackery; in short, refuses to accept the conditions on which alone the undertaking can be expected to prove successful. It is hardly necessary to advocate the use of iron bedsteads, jointed iron chairs with cane bottoms, and spring mattresses, unless where the latter are specially prohibited.
