New Toulouse

The Green-eyed Fairy Hotel and Bar
New Toulouse

Dear Madam,

I am responding to the letter from Mrs Ethel Varnish.

I note with amusement the address from which she writes, and would suggest that the nearest she came to the Palace Hotel was when she sneaked in through the kitchens to purloin the stationery on which she wrote. She is surely more at home among the gambling dens of the Barbary Coast, where doubtless she is even now trying to win another flophouse in a poker game.

Talcum powder could, I suppose, be loosely described as a “medicinal substance,” and since it is this which makes up at least 70 percent of her product, it explains why she is able to supply the lower echelons of New Toulouse society so cheaply. My customers prefer to pay that little bit extra, knowing they will receive the highest quality and purest imported product.

Leave the fleshpots of Frisco, Miz Ethel, and return to New Toulouse to face the music (and we have plenty of music in New Toulouse).

Francesca Alva
Hotelier