My companion and I made excuses to go downstairs and wash our hands in the public washroom, just for the pleasure of doing so without fear of being attacked by a swarthy brigand with a brush 35 I was prepared to take the field against all comers, not only in favor of simplicity, but in favor of anything and everything which was favored by my hostess 38 Chamber of Commerce representatives were with us all the first day and until we went to our rooms, late at night 43 It is an Elizabethan building, with a heavy timbered front, suggesting some ancient, hospitable, London coffee house where wits of old were used to meet 46 In this charming, homelike old building, with its grandfather's clock, its Windsor chairs, and its open wood fires, a visitor finds it hard to realize that he is in the "west" 53 Down by the docks we saw gigantic, strange machines, expressive of Cleveland's lake commerce--machines for loading and unloading ships in the space of a few hours 60 In midstream passes a continual parade of freighters ... and in their swell you may see, teetering, all kinds of craft, from proud white yachts to canoes 71 The automobile has not only changed Detroit from a quiet old town into a rich, active city, but upon the drowsy romance of the old days it has superimposed the romance of modern business 74 Of course there was order in that place, of course there was system--relentless system--terrible "efficiency"--but to my mind it expressed but one thing, and that thing was delirium 97 Never, since then, have I heard men jeering over women as they look in dishabille, without wondering if those same men have ever seen themselves clearly in the mirrored washroom of a sleeping car 112 "Can that stuff," admonished Miss Buck in her easy, offhand manner 117 She was saying to herself (and, unconsciously, to us, through the window): "If _I_ had played that hand, I never should have done it _that_ way!" 124 Rodin's "Thinker" 145 Chicago's skyline from the docks.... A city which rebuilt itself after the fire; in the next decade doubled its size; and now has a population of two million, plus a city of about the size of San Francisco 160 Two rabbis, old bearded men, performed the rites with long, slim, shiny blades 177