One day a lady belonging to Central Europe's old nobility said to me:
"Well, it is getting worse every day. First they took my automobiles. Now they have taken my last horses. Taxis and cabs are hard to get. I have to travel on the street-cars now. It is most annoying."
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I ventured the opinion that street-car travel was a tribulation. The cars were always overcrowded.
"It is not that," explained the lady. "It is the smell."
"Of the unwashed multitude?"
"Yes! And—"
"And, madame?"