Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-07-27

men travelling algrs 5'Scofs
go to the public = eofee-footr ''-ss the din
ing-room is always called and there eat
whenever and whatever they choose. Gene
raj meals, where the guests of the hotel all
meet, are not to the English taste, and are
only found where Americans and French
have travelled much and in such places few
of the guests come to the COMMON meals. ex-
cept at quiet summer resorts where people
like 10 be social
An American. if verdahs snd modest, is
quite likely TO be appalled, by the aspect of
the walters, who are invariably dressed in
swallow-tailed black coats and white neck
ties and one feels at fret a vague sense of
dread ia ha@irg to propose any orders for
such trfes as coffee and chops 10 50 Ininiste-
rial a functionary. who looks, often, for all
the world, az dignifed as bishop. But the
trouble soon passes away.
4 In every town there are multitude Of
little inns, with perhspe only two floors, and
two front windows TO each,--that would
hardly be large enough for respectable
boarding house in a New England village,
and yet, dininutiYe as they are, have the
complete furnishing. and 60 the daily BUSH
ness Of tavern. They generally hare some
odd antique name over the door, or sometimes
indicated by a rude painting, as the Red
Horse the Maggie and stump the Wheatsheaf,
! Crown and Anchor. the Angel, Half-Moon
the Grares, the Star and Garter, Bell and
Feathers, the Green Man, the Turks Head.
the Haycock, etc. Ia every one, beside the
full dre.eed waiter before mentioned, and
perhaps several, there is q rough looking
youngster who does miscellaneous work and
- chores, and is always spoken Of and ad'
dressed SIMPLY as - Boots In large tay-
ems, another, generally q Iaan Of some mus
Gle, docs the beaver work, especially the
/ carving 1t bausraae To and fro and ~ known
as E" Port@" Bat in small inns - Boots >
does the work Of a porter
The English idea Of an inn Is quiet, do
nestle house, where you can be as retired
aud unknown as in your own home. Haw-
thorne says ,ha; an American for the first
time in an English inn feels that he must
certainly be intrudlng on private family.
II you 90 into the cofIee-room, the passage
ways, the narrow entries, the smoking room,
when thsre is one, you seldom meet any one,
though the house fuag bg full Of guests.
Everybody keeps 10 has own rooms. You are
seldom asked your name. You are known
as No X, or whatever your room may be
and your own brother might live week next
room to you. without your knowledge
| have been surprised to notice. as Illus
trating ,he greater freedom with which wo-
men take part in basiness here than IA Amer
lea, that many Of the sm Her innr are owned
and inanaged by women. and that in all bui
the largest c ty hotels all the office work is
done by good looking young ladics, who keep
all the aesounts. assign the rooms, recei pt
the bills and answer gnestions-the full-dress
WATERS running on all the errands up and
down stairs. In many cases the lady of the
house las We should say receives the dusty,
weary traveller at the door with profound
responsiveness. and sends him up to a room
in the charge Of waiter or porter. and when
he takes his leave she follows him TO the door
with some courteous goodbye
| could gocn thus, telling you about scores
of peeuliarities in English life, that strike
an educated American with special interest
because they make a great deal in English
literature and history go much more viv.t
and Ineligible, and constantly bring bacl
to memory some allusion or description O
dramatist or novelist which had been bu
half eomprehended, and not at all made real
For instance, SCOTS descriptions of feuda
castles, IN -}vanhoe ~fSrTsRcreh, Sh&
speare's dramatic pictures of sieges, and hi
sketches of town life and household affairs IL
such comedies as the Merry Wives, and man!
of Dickens scenes, are lighted up with thei
full meaning only when one has seen the ru
ined castles and city walls, the old marrow
streets and the quaint houses, the crowie'
manufacturing towns, the poverty and mis-
cry, as well as the beauty and lordly wealth
Of old England