Richland beacon., 1873-06-21
4 Raw American.

A WRITER in LiDpincott, for June, says:
London at present abounds in Americans
on their way to the Vienna Exposition.
Many of them are commissioners from va
rious States. Some have lands to sell or
other financial axes to grind. Of such
the Langham Hotel is full. The Lsngham
is the nearest approach 10 an American
hotel in London. There, though guest,
YOU NAV pass in and out without explain
ing TO the hall-pOrter who you are, what
YOU are, where you come from, or what
YOU want you may there enter and re-
tire without giving your pedigree, natu-
raliZation papers, or certificate OF good
character. At other English hotels some
thing analogous TO this is commonly re-
quired.
year, look down with an air of superiority
on tie raw. the newly-arl ivsd American.
We are quite English. We have worn
out our American clothes. We have on
English hats with tightly-curled rims, and
| English Stub-toed boots. We know the
! intricacies of London street navigation.
and Islington, Blacktriars, Camden Town,
! Hackney, the " Surrey Side" Piccadilly.
Regent. and Oxford streets, the Strand
and Fleet street. are all mapped out dis
tinctly in our minds eye. We are skilled
| in English money, and no longer pass off
ha!f.crowns for twO-shilling pieces. We
are real AnglO-Americans.
But the raw American. only arrived a
week. is in maze, a confusion. a hurry.
He is excited and mystiiied. He tries to
appear cool and uncOncerned, and Is
simply ridiculous. His cards, bear
inu his name, title, and official status,
he distributes as freely as doth the winter
wind the snow-ilakes. Inquire at the
Lanoham office for Mr.. Smith, and you
find he has b!ossomed into General
Smith.
lie is always partaking or about to par
take of official dinners. He te Is that the
ewes of all England are upon him. He is
dressed a Ia bandbOx-hat immaculate II
its pristine gloss, white cravat: umbreili
of the slimmest encased in silken wrap
per, A speck of mud on his boots wOulC
tarnish the national honor. Commonly
he is taken for head butler. He drink:
mnch stout. He eats a whitehall dinner
before being forty-eight hours in London
and tells of it. Nll this makes him fee
= English.
! You meet him. He is overjoyed. III
, would talk of everything-yOur mutua
: experience i'm America, his sensations ant
r impressions since arriving in England
e He talks intelligibly of nothing. iii
h brain is a mere rag bag, shreddy. con
: fused. parti- -colOred. Thus he empties il
!, ..Passage over rough;" London wonder
q full - 'Dined with the Earl of -: yes
terday:n 'sDine with Sir - to-day;
/ sTO the Tower" Westminster" "Ne'
- York crowing;'' 'Saint Paul's"-goinp
l. going, gone! and he shakes hands wit
= you. and is off at Broadway gait straigh
e towards the East End Of London for hi
e hotel, which lies at the West End.
IS In reality, the man is not in his rigf
mind. He is undergoing the mental a!
n climatization fever. Should he stay
n London for three months, he might r.
Is cover and begin to find out where he i
,r But six months hence he will have n
a turned to America, fancying he has see
E. London, Paris, Rome, Geneva. Vienn
le and whatever other places his body h;
st been hurried through, not his mind; ft
le that, in the excitement and rapldlty
J. his flight. has streamed behind him iii
at the tail of a comet, light, attenuate
IN vapory, catching nothing, absorbing not
III ing.
ne Occasionally this fever takes an abusi'
III phase. He finds in England nothing
er like, nothing to admire. Sometimes
ne wishes Immediately to revolutiOniZe q
IT, government. He is incensed at the CO
Us of ROYALTY. He sees on every side indie
nd tons of political upheaval., Or he !
as comes culinarily disgusted. Becau
er there are no buckwheat cakes,
r. Goldfish cakes, no hot bread.
of pork and beans, no mammoth Oyste
ot stewed. fried, and roasted, he can fl
ut nothing fit to eat. The English canr
on cook. Because he can find no noisy, cl
IN tering, dish-smashing restaurant, full
of acrobatic walters racing and balancing !
lg, der immense piles of plates, and shout
at jargon untranslatable, unintelliglble,,
en unprOnounceable, down into the low
es, kitchen, he cannot, cannot eat.
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