Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-25
LONDON.
CHARACTERS SEEN on THE STREETS
OF THE METROPOLIS.
The Britons at Brsakfast-Clerks Going to
Business-0n the Way to Govern
ment Offices and the Bank
Of England
At NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.

Special Correspondence of the Register
LONDON, June s.
Hise o'clock A. M and London has
breakfasted. Some unconsid2red tens
of thousands have it is true already en-
joyed with what appetite they might
their pree-prandial meal. The upper
fifty thousand again have not left their
luxurious couches, and will not break
fast till ten, eleven O'Clock, noon; nay,
there shall be sundry listless, languid
members OF fast military and social
clubs, dwellers among the tents OF
Jermyn street, where once lived the
poet Tom Moore, Sir Richard Shote and
Swift, and the high.priced second floors
OF Little Ryder street, st. James, upon
whom, one, two and three o'clock in the
afternoon shall be but as dawn, and
whose broiled bones and deviled kid
news shall scarcely be laid on the da'
mask breakfast cloth before Sol is red in
the western horizon. / wish that in
this
Age. SO Enamored With statistical Infor-
nation,
that some Mccullough or Card would
tabulate the amount OF provisions,
solid and liquid, consumed at the break
fast Of London every morning. would
like 10 know how many thou
ssni eggs are daily chipped;
how many Of those embryo chickens
are poached; now many tons quartern
loayes are cut up to make bread and
bu tier, thick and thin: how many pork
ers have been sacrificed to provide the
bacon rashers, fat and streaky; what
rivers have been drained, what fuel con-
sumed, what mounds OF salt employed,
what volumes of smoke emitted to catch
and cure the 6nny haddocks and the
Yarmouth tloatsrs that grace our morn
iag repast ;lwn.t multitu nous demInds
Tor anehoy pas,e and preserved tongue,
covered With circular layer, apparent
" composed Of rancid pomatum, but
Technically known as clarified butter.
Mysteries upon mysteries are here con-
nected with
Nine O'clock Breakfasts.
Queries upon queries suggest them
selves to the inquisitive mind. so hun
cry London breakfasts, but not uniform
ly well at this time in the morning. In
quietly grim quarters, in the semi-aris-
tocratic Northwest end, the nine clock
breakfast takes place in the vast COM
fortress dining room, with the shining
side boards and the portrait oil the mas
ter of the house on the wall, and crim-
son curtains and columns on the back
ground. There Is q sort OF room where
Ihers is a Turkey carpet that has been
purchased at the East India Company's
sale rooms. The master comes downstairs
erayely with bald head, the thin, gray
hair care ully brushed over the temples,
and duffel dressing gown. He spends
five minutes In his study,
behind the breakfast dining room.
10 goodness knows, to consult the un-
cut books on the shelves. but to break
the seals OF the letters ranged Tor him on
the leather covered table-he
Reads His Correspondence at Breakfast
I unlock, perchance, one drawer, takes
,.ut his check book and give il one hasty
flutter, one loving glance, and to catch
up n itmuggled under his arm the copy
g. 4, the 1ims newspaper, erst damped,
but since aired at the kitchen fire,
which the news vendors boy dropped
An hour since down the area. The mis-
tress of the house comes down to break
fast, iingling the keys OF her little bas-
ket, and with anxious preoccuPation
Al. har
false front, for those fatal crimson house
keeping books are to be audited this
morning and she Is nervous. The girls
come down in brown Holland jacketsand
smartly dowdy skirts, dubious as to the
state OF their irizzes or back hair; the
eldest daughter frowning after her last
nights course of theology (interming-
led with the latest novel AS rule
the
The Young Ladies Are Very Ill-Tem-
pered;
and equally AS a rule there IL
ALWAYS one iuckless young
maiden in family OF grown
M daughters who c.mes 10 breakfast
With her Stockings down at the heel,
aud sterniy rtprimanded during break.
fast because one Of her shoes comes OF
under the table; he who denounced her
being her younger brother, the lOut in
the iacke', with the surreptuous peg
top in his o kst, who attends the day
schOoi of tie London University, and
cribs his sisters Berlin wood canvass to
mend his yacht sail with. The children
too Old TO breakfast in the nursery come
down yawky, awkward, tumbling and
disconnected, for they are as yet consid-
cred too young to partake OF the
Friszled Bits Of Bacon
which are curling themselves in scorch-
ell agony on the non footman before
the CRATE, the buns which sadden in
yellow butter pools in the Minton plates
on the severely creased damask table
cloth, or the dry toast which, shriveled
and forbidding, grins from between the
Sheffield plated bars of the rack. The
reporter came in, not TO morning break
last, but to morning prayers. The house
maid has just completed her morning
Irritation with the baker; the cook has
just been crying over "Fatherless
Tommy The master Of the house reads
prayers in hoarse, grating voice. The
first piano-organ grinder arrives in the
square during breakfast, and the mas
ter grimly reproyes the children
who are beginning to execute
involuntary polkss ON their chairs, and
glowers all the governess-she is such a
meek young creature, marked with
snail pox. that I did not think il worth
while To mention her beiore-who man.
iiested symptoms oi healing her sad
heart with music. How happy, at
least how relieved, everybody is when
the master exchanges his dutfel dress
ing gown for blue body.coat, takes his
umbrella. AMI
Drives OF in his Brousham to the City.
Tie children are glad ID 20 to their
lessons, though they hate them at most
times, possibly. Tie mistress finds con-
ISOLATION, too. in going down stairs and
quarr-ling with the cooks, and then up-
s.sirs and being qusrreled with by the
nurse Besides, there will be plenty Of
time for shopping before her master
Il c.D,oaa honna 'rha tirls ara dalioht.1