Room service at the Ajax is of a quality befitting the newest, the largest, and the most expensive hotel in Dallas.

While the standard of excellence is uniformly high, nevertheless some extra care usually attaches to a breakfast ordered from the Governor's suite--most elegant and most expensive of all the suites--hence the waiter checked over his card and made a final, fluttering examination to be sure that the chilled fruit was chilled and that the hot plates were hot before he rapped on the door.

A voice, loud and cheery, bade him enter.
Would the gentleman wish his breakfast served in the parlor or--No, the gentleman would have it right in his bedroom; but first, where were his cigarettes?
He hoped above all things that the waiter had not forgotten his cigarettes.

Some people began their days with cold showers--nothing less than a cruel shock to a languid nervous system.

An atrocious practice, the speaker called it--a relic of barbarism--a fetish of ignorance.