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335 It does not, however, explain why some people in America travel with no luggage at all. Some of those whom I observed entering & leaving the cars in this light and unimpeded fashion, told me they had adopted the system, because the work of the washerwomen had been advancing unclear them but have in rapidity than it had done in unclear, so that it was now cheaper to get a new article than to send one of the unclear species to the laundry of the Hotel. By acting on this idea they had escaped the necessity of taking with them bags of linen. I suppose this system must be an encouragement to the trade in paper shirt collars. The difficulty as to razors, brushes, & combs is easily met by the provision made in the barber's shop of every Hotel. The Americans are full of original ideas, & they are very great travellers; it was therefore to be expected that they wd. be the first people to organize, & perfect a system of travelling like the bird of the air. The Americans having now revolutionized throughout the whole country the method of serving Hotel drinkers?, passing at one step turn what was the wont method of all to what is greatly in advance of the [left bracket] practice in this matter of all other nations; I wd. venture to suggest another change in a matter of still greater importance. It is evident that Civilization wd. have been quite an impossibility, if people had not met together at meals for the purpose of U 289 - Sullivan