- vere one. I have no doubt that all the hotels where I
have lately been a guest use the best coffee obtainable, but their way of making it is not my way. You get the best coffee at home because it is made your way. . . . As in coffee, so it is in politics, religion, the choice of a wife, and a hundred other things: what suits others does not suit you. You want coffee made your way; and you are entitled to it. . . . I do not say my way of making coffee is the best, but I do say it suits me better than any other way I have ever tried. I venture to say that nine out of ten guests at every hotel abuse the coffee. . . . Every morning at 6:30 there is a rap on my door. I look out, and find a Hindu servant with tea. I tell him I do not want tea, but would appreciate hot water for shaving. This the Hindu cannot understand, so I now take the tea, and shave with it. . . . I was on the "Anchises" so long that I almost used up a cake of shaving-soap. I wonder I didn't get the scurvy; they say that is the scourge of a long sea voyage.
Tuesday, March 4.—This day opened with genuine
inauguration weather; the storm of yesterday continued
all night, and seemed as fierce as ever at 8 A. M.. . .
The Natal Mercury of this morning devoted
a full page to the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, as
president. It also printed an editorial of a column and
a quarter entitled, "The Future of America," which
was funny because of absurd statements. "Rural
America," the editorial says, "knows little of decent
