Architect and engineer . This fireplace is not as innocent as it looks ; it smokes ! The protruding corner shelves are convenientthings to run into. TTiere are many similar fireplaces in this hot«l, but the darkness which enshrouded them eluded the camera furniture are all of diminutive size. The beds are narrow, the mosquitocanopies still narrower; a combination which produces varying condi-tions of perfect contact between the mosquitoes and choice geographicalcenters of the earthly bodies which occasionally revolve on their ownaxis, within the prescribed areas of their nocturnal orl)its. Tok
Architect and engineer . This fireplace is not as innocent as it looks ; it smokes ! The protruding corner shelves are convenientthings to run into. TTiere are many similar fireplaces in this hot«l, but the darkness which enshrouded them eluded the camera furniture are all of diminutive size. The beds are narrow, the mosquitocanopies still narrower; a combination which produces varying condi-tions of perfect contact between the mosquitoes and choice geographicalcenters of the earthly bodies which occasionally revolve on their ownaxis, within the prescribed areas of their nocturnal orl)its. Tokyo summers are not warm, luit hot, plus humid—Fahrenheitfrequently registers 90 degrees and much more; the bedroom windowsare small, the customary pivoted top sash have been carefully omittedfrom corridor partitions, and there are no screen or louver doors; brieflyexpressed there is no provision for natural circulation of air. Everyroom is a box with a few small holes punched into one side, and theannoying, but indisp
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