If Washington Irving came back to earth, he would have to rewrite his pictures of an English Christmas and lay the scene in a hotel, Some friends who were at a south coast seaside place a few weeks ago found in their hotel a programme of the festivities planned for the Christmas holidays and were informed that nearly the whole hotel was booked up already.
It is the same at many other seaside hotels. No doubt this partly due to our becoming a race of flat-dwellers. You can't do mud Christmas merry-making in Tounge-dining room 17 £t. x 12 ft. 6 in, with modernly equipped kitchenette." But even the few people who still occupy a whole house find it easier, and on the whole cheaper, to have fun in a hotel. in some inst wees, 1 single party has taken lover the whole of a hotel for Christmas, Social historians will no
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