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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

For Their Personal Comfort. -Paris is trying an experiment, which has long been found to answer in Italy. On one °of the boulevards a new establishment has been opened for the persona! comfort of the Parisians. You can wash your hands, have your clothes brushed, your boots cleaned. You can write your letters. Paper, pens, ink, etc., are at your disposal. In one room are all the newspapers, not merely of Paris and the Provinces, but of all the great Continentai capitals. A third room is devoted to works of reference, encyclopedias, dictionaries and directories. There is a telephone and a post-office, and all this is open to any passer-by who pays halta-frane admission.

The Italian idea did not go quite so far but in some respects if was more useful, It was not a private speculation, but a government concern. In fact, it was part of the working of the postal system of the country. Von paid a penny entrance fee and found all the means of writing and all the information you might need to hand. Vou buy paner at price, and have (he u-e of writing ma-t'-naG gratuitously, ine i'lvneb in-titution i< n sp •cal-timi and it (lie buildin" .q .-n. ,! ■b 'h" P- I M uiurotr- ■ i-v.- W do.il.’ \v. ■siel ■! s . (ti v- . ■■' (a o’; -1 .ia i! ~ vit the capital.