"BATHTUBS AND BORES "
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his interesting letter saying good-bye to England, my friend, Mr. Essary of the Baltimore Sun, charges me with saying that America produces nothing but " bathtubs and bores." I think he must be mistaken. No one could surpass me in admiration of American bathrooms. I have even described them as " the glory of America's art." But never could I have called those exquisite arrangements bathtubs ! That would be too ridiculous.
And as to " bores," it is really impossible that I could have accused America of producing them in excess of other countries. Liners are the places that bores most frequent, and yet on liners bound for the United States, though the number of Americans returning to their corporeal home would naturally be large, I have not found the American bores at all out of proportion to the bores of other countries, including our own ; and I hope my numerous American friends will accept this intimation, as the obituary notices say. —I am,
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