A votary of the simple life seeking a modest shelter
from life's storms advertises her needs (she is a Lady C.) in a contemporary. I am glad to make them still further known —for nothing. What is wanted is One of the Stately Homes of England. It should be Tudor, Jacobean or Elizabethan, and " must contain ample accommodation for a FAMILY OF DISTINCTION " ; the capitals are not mine. Dis- tinction clearly demands elbow-room, for among the requisites are " from fifty to sixty bedrooms, with propor- tionate number of bathrooms." This raises some nice, not to say delicate, questions. How many bathrooms to a bed- room, or vice versa, does a FAMILY OF DISTINCTION need ? And is Lady C., I wonder, adequately acquainted with the sanitary Inbits of the Tudors and the provision made for them in Tudor mansions ? If the fifty to sixty bedrooms are all charged with their complement, and the bathroom accommodation is proportionate (in the Tudor sense), Lady C. will find a formidable queue outside its door on Saturday nights.
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