Cold Comfort
SIR,—During the recent cold weather I had to go to Salisbury to meet a train which was an hour late owing to the snow. • I thought that I might find a cup of tea and a little comfort in the refreshment-room while I was waiting. However I was soon undeceived about the latter. It was a bitterly cold day, but there was no fire in the room, and an icy draught blew through it. The floor was filthy, and, to add to the general squalor, it was freely littered with cigarette-cartons, &c. In the bad old.. days of private enterprise a fire used to be provided, and it was someone's job to go round with a broom and make the place a little less unappetising. What must foreigners think of such refreshment-rooms ?—Yours faithfully, ALGERNON B. DALE. 'von House, Broad Chalke Salisbury.
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