THE COMPLEXION-ROOM.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 3

THE COMPLEXION-ROOM.

THE XfiWEdT YANKEE FAD. Tlic American lady consternated tiio London hotel manager by assuring' him that his establishment was a long way behind the times. The manager had heard that sort of thing before. In fact, he lived in a perpetual atmosphere of it, but he meekly asked for a bill oi particulars. "Why," replied his irate guest, "you actually have no complexionrooms. I have to receive my callers in a chamber that makes me look positively hideous. There is hardly a colour in the room that. I can dare to use as a background. I idmit. that it is well furnished and tastefully decorated. but how can vou expect a. single reception-room to seive lor dark women as well as fair, for blondes as well as for brunettes ?" The hotel man was stagu'Ted. He bad not heard oi the latest New Yuri; hi i.stelries v. iih iheir -aires of reception-rooms designed and decorated to suit ail kinds of complexions and all kinds oi to.lets. Lint lie lias heard of them now. and ■ t report from London sa.. ■- thai 'he hotel men have been in conclave, and will probably ieel compelled to lake another step in meet the requirement-; oi their American L'ue.-^vs. For the > ompi;-xiou-ruom is already a ia'l in -he newest New York hoteis. The moms ale illuminated by special 1 v coloured lights, so arranged as to jive the most youthful possible appeata tee to women of all age.- .ml to match toilets of al" vai I'M i->---' 1 .vel'i'otd I'ost."