. La Côte d'Émeraude. From the millionaire to the thriftytripper, every one can get what they want, and willhave every facility in finding it. We hesitated a good deal as to where on the CotedEmeraude we should locate ourselves for these fewmonths ; there were places that, it must be confessed,had more picturesque and romantic appeal thanDinard, but the practical sex decided for Dinardwith a level-headed judgment and prevision so amplyjustified by results that it suggests a strong presumptionfor the case of the suffragettes. But I will not mixmyself in such high matters ; in the little domesti
. La Côte d'Émeraude. From the millionaire to the thriftytripper, every one can get what they want, and willhave every facility in finding it. We hesitated a good deal as to where on the CotedEmeraude we should locate ourselves for these fewmonths ; there were places that, it must be confessed,had more picturesque and romantic appeal thanDinard, but the practical sex decided for Dinardwith a level-headed judgment and prevision so amplyjustified by results that it suggests a strong presumptionfor the case of the suffragettes. But I will not mixmyself in such high matters ; in the little domesticpolity with which I am concerned there can be nodoubt in whom deliberative functions can be mostsafely vested. House agency is one of the admirably organizedthings in which, as I have said, Dinard is part of the population of the Cote dEmeraudeappear to subsist by letting other peoples houses,and their advertisements form a salient feature of the 46 MOLE DES XOIRES AND DINARD, FROM ST. MALO BEACH -. ri Dinard scenery. The Maison Rouge was the agency thattook us in hand. There can be no missing it ; itsflaming front challenges attention for the wholelength of the Rue Levavasseur. You enter half ex-pecting to see Mephistopheles installed amid infernalconditions, but are welcomed by courteous and efficientgentlemen, who readily undertake to get you anythingyou want from a house to the most trifling article init. They so exactly gauged our taste and purse that itwas unnecessary to go beyond the first house to whichone of them took us. It was as commonplace, ascomfortable, as conveniently arranged and pleasantlysituated, and the owner as obliging and ready to meetour wishes, as a house and its owner could be. At thesame time they let the next house to a charmingAmerico-Canadian family party, and the threenationalities—if the Empire League will permit theexpression—live in a neighbourly reciprocity that ishappily independent of elections across the
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