One cannot help wondering where all the money is coming from. Certainly the prices already being offered, and in many cases refused, for accommodation seem to take one's breath away. Last week a Piccadilly Hotel received a cablegram from America offering £20,000 for one week for the board and lodging of one hundred people—n view of the procession was to be included—and the offer is still under consideration. The question is, after all the festivities are over how long will it take us to return to our ordinary prices for the staple necessaries of life—if a cabbage is to be a shilling instead of twopence, and a penny bun sixpence or more, how long will' they remain at famine prices
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