The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-17
TOTHER SIDE.

TOTHER SIDE.
Instruction to En0lishmess by One Who ha
Ltred iss the United States.
The Philadelphia exhibition is the
forerunner of vast amount of nonsense
to be written by our foreign visitors a,
well as by our domestic scribes. Every
Englishman and a great many French.
men will surely get to work upon
us on principle. The American
with national enterprise, has got
ahead Of these contributors to cen.
tennial literature, and has blossomed out
already in hints to the English public,
In an article in Temple Bar, one OF the
best of English magazines, and one
which does not appear until the day OF
its publication, entitled "Tother side
O. the water, by one who knows the this
SIDE" is a good beginning. We call him
an American abroad because he shows
such keen observation and genuine good
sense, and fair way of dealing with our
peculiarities, by no means English. He
commences his bill of instructions to the
Londoner with a wholesome abuse of the
New York hack system, and the dis
agreeable duty Of looking after baggage.
But having once conveyed his reader to
Philadelphia, he lets him slip with this
warning:
"You will hear of hotels Conducted
on the English plan;' avoid them as you
would pestilence. 1 could make a
large fortune by telling you where to 60,
but as the proprietor of this magazine adj
mits advertisements only on the outer
leaves, must refrain. Go to an American
hotel. The young man at the office will
be serene, imposing, diamond studded,
mystic, wonderful but far more obliging
than the duchesses with ginger hair, who
infest the bars of lesser establishments at
home. Write down your name in the
book, and if you have title suppress it.
1t is better to be seen as Russell, or STAN
ley, than to be called Mr.. Bedford or Mr..
Derby, 1 think. You will be told that
the American system ties you down to
breakfast, lunch and dinner at fixed
hours, and that this is a horrid bore.
Don't believe it. There are not four
hours in the day during which some meal
is not being served, in first-class Amer
lean hotel, and with the most moderate
of nous you can make breakfast
at luncheon, and dinner at supper (if
your engagements do not allow you to
join the regular meals), and fare better
for your four dollars a day than you
could even in your London club for a
guinea. But you don't want to live so
high. There is the rub. You cannot
be content with ham and eggs for break
fast and the joint for dinner at an Amer
lean hotel. Let us sit down and count
the relative cost and sum up the relative
return. British hotel: Bed, three and
six; breakfast, two and six dinner, four
and six /; attendance, one and six lunch
BON OF supper, two shillings-total;
fourteen shillings. American hotel:
Lodging; what you please (out of twenty
choices) for breakfast; what you please
out of as many for luncheon; what
you please tout of forty) for dinner, with
ices and fruit to wind up with what you
ike, again for superficial: four dol
ars, equal to (say) fifteen shilling. a
lay. You can have second-rate &C.
,ommodations Every good) for three
dollars. l have calculated the British
'ates upon the ham and eggs, and
oint style of living. Go in beyond
his, and how far will your fifteen shil-
ings go?"
Not very far, we are afraid. If the
ate of living in Philadelphia is to be on
! pcrpetually ascending scale, fifty shil-
ings will not carry our visitor quite the
ength of his taste.
1.-The Americans are the politest peo-
lie the writer has met in rather extern
i've life march, but the Englishman need
Tot expect to find them models of breed
n.y."
After the words will you join me in
he south, you may eat, and drink, and
rive, and visit the theatre, and do any
hing you please-exceptp put your hand |
n your pocket. Be good enough to re-
member this when you return to the land |
# your birth, and meet with an Ameri-
an. Should your vanity load you to |
oppose that the reception given to you |
" ladies is the result of your overpow
ring attractions, remark how the fair
Features greet the stranger next pre-
ented, and correct your notions. They
ne IN to put you at your ease-no more. |
resume, and you will be very quickly |
'laced in different position. You are
'ot to suppoae that being addressed con-
family as "Sir" implies bad breeding,
r subserviency; and you will do well to
eason your own conversation with that |
vord and Madam" Bear in mind that
n the ears of your American friends
you are speaking English with an &C
ent;" 10 have some consideration for |
hose who-as you fancy-are talking