The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-05-31

1850
for S22. A handsome black silk. fn,I.
trimmed with the same material ana
rasntow or clair dc lame beads, for $40.
Now. let us take peep into the thea.
ters. will not talk about the plays or
the players, except 10 say that | have
seen very much better acting at home
But there are several impositions that
are so dreadful that am Glad
TO say we have none 81
them In America. Under a rule inex-
orably enforced, no lady is permitted
to take seat In the Royal Opera-house
or any Of the first-class theaters. in
boxes or stalls, without removing her
bonnet. This practice leads TO MANY
Inconvenience some ladies come with
their bonnets, which they must take of
In dressing-room before admission.
and pay the woman in charge an extor.
tionate fee; others must leave their
coats, and pay for them. But your
troubles are only beginning; as YOU ad-
vance to your seat a bill Of the play, or
programme, Is forced into your hand:
remembering the courtesy Of theatrical
attendants at home, and also that Won
paid about twice as much for ticket as
you do in Philadelphia or New York.
you innocently accept the programme,
but when you are told you are 10
pay sixpence for it (12i cents Of our
money! and try to return it, you are in
suited by the remark that YOU must
keep 1t, because you received it. This
nuisance has become so intolerablc that
several of the theatrical managers have
taken arms against II, one Of them with
great success-Mr. Henderson (the hus-
band Of Lydia Thompson), the pro-
prietor of the Criterion and the Folly.
From the theaters we 20 to the res
taurants. Here find the same system
Of swindling.
Beware of cheap dining-rooms. Sup
pose we 60 for IS. Cd. dinner (about
SD cents Of our money! cheap enough,
and yet enough, especially il you have
q demi bottle of claret at IS, which
makes your meal Sl.37A. This is fair
price, but you are surprised, when you
pay your bill, to find I'd. added for at
which brings your bill up to
$3.50. But il Is not all over, for as YOU
go out the waiter stands and quietly says,
" Something for the waiter" but you
soy, ~ paid for attendance in my bill;"
when he tells you that he never receives
any of that, but it goes to compensate
the orchestra; and you drop him a six
pence, and try another place the next
day, only TO be swindled again.
Of course you can get shilling din
ners, and dinners for Is. 3d., but they
are not for ladies'; and even for men
hAx "a .r4Ix {t.I IL L.s n.
man who economies in his food gener-
lilly starves for his pains. The truth is,
England Is the land Of the "almighty
shilling" and the system of getting il
has been reduced TO science; it is mt
,nce curse and custom. You 90 to
,hurch, and the jani,ress looks for q
'ixpencc as she shows you to the pew;
7ou hire cab, and ruffian rushesfrom
he sidewalk to open the door, and holds
,ut his dirty hand for penny; you
ross street, and the beggar who
wceps II demands his tribute; you ride
n the railway, and the well-dressed
yuide looks for his fee as he points YOU
0 your carriage. In the hotels you are
literally bssieged; even the landlady
Who sees you are indisposed visits you
n your chamber, proffers you her be-
levolence, insists upon sending you
and at the end Of the
week, after you have praised her to all
our friends as model of her kind,
'ou find her hospitality put into the bill
I double the cost il you had bought it
or yourself. These are some Of the
'eculiarities which are sure to strike the
tranger. Very rich and very luxurious
nd iastidious as these English are sup
'osed to be, and really advanced rs
hey are in the arts Of civilization, there
re some things in which we surpass
hem. We live better, cheaper, and,
indeed, more luxurious in the United
tates than they do.
OF course do not mean what are call
d the superior classes, with their pal
ces, their retinucs. and their banquets,
nd all the other results of constantly
revenues. / mean England
8 far rs have seen her in her hotels,
estaurants, and private houses. They
re not good cooks. There Is not in
ondon single hotel or restaurant
1hich can equal the best hotels in New
'ork and Philadelphia, and in the mat
sr Of cafes there Is nothing that APP
reaches Delmonico's. This general
emark applies all over England, and
ie same may be said of cooking in the
rivate houses.
The English cuisine proceeds upon
ne assumption that food must not be
sasoned, and so no luncheon and his
lidnight supper; and you have only to
'ok at his strong, sturdy, red-cheeked
life and daughters to realize that their
are the same. Harper's
ozGr.
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