POLITE IRONY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 7

POLITE IRONY.

A well-known Londoner took. *a suite ■of rooms -svt a Monte Carlo hotel without asking tho price of anything--and in the- restaurants of such hotels it is a common thing to find no prices even on tho menus. When this man came to pay his bill (says. "London Opinion"), it was enormous. But he paid it. Then he said: "Have you any twenty-five. centime stamps?" "Yes,-.monsieur,'.', said tho clerk. "How many do you wish?" The guest smiled blandly. "Tell me first, p*,ca*>e," he «aid, "what you charge for them here?" : ,