The porter curtly informed me, "People here use only one sheet.

Down in St.Louis you folks want two sheets, but in this part of the country we ain't so nice." I appreciated my fastidiousness when I afterward saw, at a Tennessee hotel, the following notice:-- "Gentlemen who wish towels in their rooms must deposit fifty cents at the office, as security for their return." Travel in the Border and Southern States will acquaint a Northerner with strange customs.

To find an entire household occupying a single large room is not an unfrequent occurrence.

The rules of politeness require that, when bedtime has arrived, the men shall go out of doors to contemplate the stars, while the ladies disrobe and retire.

The men then return and proceed to bed.