Flowing Gold

Room service at the Ajax is of a quality befitting the newest the largest and the most expensive hotel in Dallas. While the standard of excellence is uniformly high nevertheless some extra care usually attaches to a breakfast ordered from the Governor's suite-most elegant and most expensive of all the suites-hence the waiter checked over his card and made a final fluttering examination to be sure that the chilled fruit was chilled and that the hot plates were hot before he rapped on the door. A voice loud and cheery bade him enter. Would the gentleman wish his breakfast served in the parlor or -No the gentleman would have it right in his bedroom; but first where were his cigarettes? He hoped above all things that the waiter had not forgotten his cigarettes. Some people began their days with cold showers-nothing less than a cruel shock to a languid nervous system. An atrocious practice the speaker called it-a relic of barbarism-a fetish of ignorance. Much preferable was a hygienic stimulating cigarette which served the same purpose and left no deleterious aftereffects.