You haven't even got silk shoe-laces.

I actually had to use a cloth-of-gold sandal strap to lace my oxfords, and when I lost a cuff-link I was obliged to make shift with two sides of one of Queen Agothonike's ear-rings that I found in the museum at the palace.

And that isn't all," went on the lady, wrong kindling wrong, "what do you do for paper and envelopes?
There is not a quire to be found in Med.

They offered me _wireless blanks_--an ultra form that Mr.Hastings would never have considered in good taste.

And how about visiting cards?
I tried to have a plate made, and they showed me a wireless apparatus for flashing from the doorstep the name of the visitor--an electrical entrance which Mr.Hastings would have considered most inelegant.