Foreign News: Cool King
Tattletale British railway officials revealed last week that George V, who has a tendency toward bronchitis, is extremely particular when he travels in winter that all cars of the Royal Train are kept at exactly the same temperature.
A thermostat in each car maintains the precise heat which His Majesty, hardy, deems healthiest—namely 60 degrees.
Generally speaking, Britons maintain their dining and living rooms at irregular temperatures, often much below 60, and millions cf British bedrooms are never heated. Hence warming pans full of hot coals are slipped up and down between glacial sheets before the sleeper snuggles in.
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