of cold ham, or cheese, rolls, butter, or small dry groceries concealed in muffs or handbags. They even had diminutive iceboxes in closets. The hotel, perforce, shut its eyes to this sort of thing. Even permitted the distribution of tiny cubes of ice by the hotel porter. It was a harmless kind of cheating. Their good dinners they ate in the hotel dining room when not invited to dine with married sons or daughters or friends.

At ten or eleven in the morning you saw them issue forth, or you saw “little” manicures going in. One spoke of these as “little” not because of their size, which was normal, but in definition of their prices. There were “little” dressmakers as well, and “little” tailors. In special session they confided to one another the names or addresses of any of