The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-28
LONDON.

Four-ffths of the sales people have
met were women. At two of the stiff
est churches have seen elderly women
act as ushers, and a woman is in charge
of the room and explains the royal re-
gala at the Tower. 1t would appear
that rights" here if this kind OF thing
can be what the agitators mean by that
indefinite word. Wages are starvingly
low, and the service pitilessly severe in
many cases. In the Postal telegraph
offices they do the telegraphing and
have complete charge Of their stations.
To the shame Of the Government, be it
said that these bright girls receive their
place at less wages than men would re-
ceive for exactly the same work and
responsibility.
The women, as l see them, bear out
the previous impression that they are
larger and ofmore rugged build than in
our cities. This is more marked with
the ladies OF the Weather classes. They
appear quite finer looking than our
ladies, but they are not so beautiful-a
distinction with difference. The fea.
ture is not so delicately carved, the form
is not so 1.-the and graceful, not SO
spirituclle, it you please, in face and fig
ure. Yet these English ladies do ap-
pear magnifcently and, | suspect, know
much less of neuralgia and nervous
headache or pains in the back and aches
in the body than our city-bred ladies.
Perhaps they less frequently meet the
Chinese doctor diagnosis of an Amer
lean lady-"too much eatee, too much
drinkee, too much dahcee, too much
settee.up-late, TOO much foolin around.
Women, of all classes, are better
workers here than at home. This |
believe to be more owing to the fact
that they have sensibly made shoes,
broad soles and broad heels, than to
their much walking, though much is
due to the latter. In no shop window
have we seen aspecimen Of the mon
strous heel our women wear. By the
way, the shops and stores are nearly all
10 the windows here. A hat store that
has finer display than Davis in the
window will not run back ten, or, at
least twenty feet. So of all the dry
goods stores. Everything is cramped
into the smallest space. Before leave
the ladies let me timidly say that l be-
lieve-you know man cannot be GER
tain on such foreign matters-that there
is much more natural hair on the heads
of the softer sex here than in America.
They display It finely, but do not
pray you, gentle reader, mark-they do
not irizz and torture their hair as our
people do, neither do they twist it in
such shapes that it will have no
shape when released, nor do
they come into public with hair all
dishelved as if they had but arisen
from their nights repose. Of these lat.
ter observations / am sure. Ofthe first
l only suppose or guess; the world OF
woman's toilet is most uncertain and
deceptive one, and a man is foreigner
there.
Men dress in multifarious style here,
as they do everywhere, with this mark
ed exception-every biped of the male
persuasion wears a silk hat; mark me,
every one; the rare exception only
proves the rule. Boys in jackets before
they reach their teens, wear the verit-
able "stove-pipe," toned down to their
years. This is no joke or figure of
speech. From the time a male is al
lowed to 60 without his maternal rela-
tive, and even before, till he shuftles off
the coil, he walks under one of these
absurd hats. All classes unite on this
l bought Times of boy, yesterday,
so attired. At first it was ridiculous in
my unsophisticated eyes to see such
doings," but now it is all right. take
satisfaction in thinking my own plug is
somewhat like the build of the plugs Of
the other fellows, though it has an In
dianapolis imprint.
/ stop at the Langham-a house as
well known as the Bates at Home. 1t
is the best, or equal to the best, in the
city. 1t is too large for comfort, and is a
pretty good type Of London throughout.
The rooms are we'll furnished, but have
neither gas nor water. The room |
occupy, though in the new part of the
house, is lacking in these essentials OF
a first class hotel in America. There is
abundance OF style in every effort. In
the eating department they subject a
man to delay of never less than half
an hour, and from that to an hour.
The custom is to send the order down
thirty minutes before coming to the
room. Every meal is given upon writ
ten order; the guest only gets a bill OF
fare when he calls for it, and then it is
Immediately taken away. The dinner
bill is framed on little stand and car
ried about thus. There is what we
would call general table at FIVE clock
when for given sum a dinner is
served. This is the table dhote, but the
guests generally prefer ordering at will,
though if the allowance would be eaten
through it would be much more ex-
peRsive. Thit dinner is very elaborate,
comprising / cannot tell how many
courses. l counted up to the neighbor-
hood OF ten, and then lost the count by
watching very respectable couple near
me. They had been favored by fortune
and had come over here to see Europe
a little and relax. The good wife did
not favor his adopting the universal
habit of drinking wine at meals, and
literally between meals. He was tell
ing her that "every one does SO; it is
foolish to be so prejudiced." well,
James," she replied, what would the
the other elders of the Sabbath school
think of your drinking wine? Ibelieve
it is Just as bad here as there, and you
know you would never think OF such
thing at home, and would not like to
have another church member do it
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