TRUST HOUSES .
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR_.] Sin,—I am, like Janus, a frequent visitor to Trust Houses, and until the last few days should gratefully have agreed with him in all that he claimed for them that " One can always count on getting from a Trust House all that a good hotel may- reasonably be asked to offer,- and that " you know in advance that it will not let you down." Now, alas, I have a different experience to record. Attracted to a certain lintel on the East Coast by what proved to be a flattering, not to say a disingenuous photograph, I found it not only beneath the standard of the least up-to-date Trust House. I had previously encountered—and it was considerably more expensive than several in which I had stayed—but quite one of the least attractive hostelries of any'sOrt I had met with in this country. A dingy interior, ruthless beds, -indifferent food, wines that bore the marks of maltreatment, inadequate lighting (is a bedside light still really too much to expect ?), and some bedraoina Without 'any- means of heatingthese, all present in a single inn; did considerable violence to the confidence T had 'previously felt. It 'Would be foolish of me to protest that never again shall I entrust .my person to a Trust house, but, for my own part at least, I feel that the time has certainly not yet come when we can commit ourselves to them without previous experience or recommendatioa.—I aria, Sir, &c.,.
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