Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . LAWN TENNIS -AND CKOOrET ( GARDKNS, ).. J-KoKj. Rtuitll i i<jn: Sal A WEST-END DRAWING-ROOM. FROM LONDON TO MANSION. 317 Certain districts are practically given o\-erto boarding-houses and lodgings. Everypocket, every taste, every nationality iscatered for. Some boarding-houses pnnidcthe guests with every comfort which couldbe expected at an hotel, combined with agreater degree of domesticity than could behoped for in a public hostelry. The dining-room in such plac
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . LAWN TENNIS -AND CKOOrET ( GARDKNS, ).. J-KoKj. Rtuitll i i<jn: Sal A WEST-END DRAWING-ROOM. FROM LONDON TO MANSION. 317 Certain districts are practically given o\-erto boarding-houses and lodgings. Everypocket, every taste, every nationality iscatered for. Some boarding-houses pnnidcthe guests with every comfort which couldbe expected at an hotel, combined with agreater degree of domesticity than could behoped for in a public hostelry. The dining-room in such places gives the guests anopportunity of becoming acquainted witiieach other. After dinner the ladies meet inthe drawing-room, where music, cards amigossip are indulged in, while some of the menadjourn to the smoking-room, which may alsobe a billiard-room. There are boarding-houses in really desirable districts which re-ceive guests for as little as a guinea a week,this sum including the cost of at least twomeals a da}. Of course, the amount of thepension depends very much on the quality ofthe bedroom the guest happens to occupy. Itis scarcely ne
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