This is an extremely large and heavy suitcase containing public notices from all around the world. A note in Tulse's hand is visible on the back of each, represented here in italic.
From a Tokyo Hotel
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do
such thing is please not to read notis.
From a Bucharest hotel lobby
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that
you will be unbearable.
From a Leipzig elevator
Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
From a Belgrade hotel elevator
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons,
each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically
by national order.
From a Paris hotel elevator
Please leave your values at the front desk.
From a hotel in Athens
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and
11 A.M. daily.
From a Yugoslavian hotel
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
From a Japanese hotel
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
From the lobby of a Moscow hotel across the road from a Russian Orthodox monastery You are welcome
to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers
are buried daily except Thursday.
From an Austrian hotel catering to skiers Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours
of repose in the boots of ascension.
On a menu taken from a Swiss restaurant
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On a menu taken from a Polish hotel
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the
form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's
fashion.
From outside a Hong Kong tailor shop
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
From a Bangkok dry cleaner
Drop your trousers here for best results.
From the facade of a Paris dress shop
Dresses for street walking.
From a Rhodes tailor shop
Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in
strict rotation.
A cutting from The Soviet Weekly
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors.
These were executed over the past two years.
A sign posted in Germany's Black forest It is strictly forbidden on our black forest
camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together
in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.
From the VFI's guest house in Bognor
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom,
it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
An advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist found in a newspaper Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
From a Rome laundry
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
An advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand Would you like to ride on your own ass?
From a Swiss mountain inn
Special today -- no ice cream.
From a Bangkok temple
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
From the BFI's bar, London
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
From a Copenhagen airline ticket office
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
From the door of a Moscow hotel room
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
From a Norwegian cocktail lounge
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
From a ZOO
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to
the guard on duty.
From the office of a Roman doctor
Specialist in women and other diseases.
From an Acapulco hotel
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
Cutting from a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please
control yourself.
From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at
first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.
Two signs taken from a Majorcan shop entrance English well talking.
Here speeching American
