The report from Paris today that Italy has bought 3,700 tons of flour [Baer of wheat earlier in the week France, on the top of 3,000,000
Farmers Prepare for Vacationists I, should think it must be rather like living in a row of bathing machines. But there are now 150 of them in Great Britain. Also many farmers are raking in the shekels by running up rows of cheap wooden bungalows on their fields. Railway companies too, have found a profi able use for derelict carriages fitting them up with beds, tables and inks, and running them to a siding at any place you please for as long as you like to hire them In spite of so much competition hotels and boarding houses do brisk business. "But one hears a curious [complaint that they cannot get servants. Formerly it was the householder who complained that all servants went off for seaside jobs in the Summer. But the holiday crowds now are not liberal with tips. So servants find that the seaside means all work and little pay. Well one can't have it both ways. Democracy is no doubt an excellent thing. But if the well-to-do are killed off or driven away, democracy will have to get on without its "perks."
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