Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-01-11
from Our Regular Correspondent.l
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng. Dec, 81. 1873

LONDON, Eng, Dec, 81, 1881.
| have been reduced to the level of IN
" Innocent Abroad " this week by having
,cted as chaperone to friends and kin who
want to see it all; aye, verify, they have
not spared me Mtdlme Tussand's and the
tower. The thing which surprises me
most about these places is that though they
have completely dropped out of my life as
resorts OF interest, and with the usual self
'uffi 'iency of humanity think, if | think
If them at ALL that all the world is of my
way of thinking concerning them. The
moment l resist them find am utterly
mistaken and that their interest to thou.
sands of people is rs keen and novel now
MS it ever Was to you or me in our green
tni salad days. Our party actually drove
away from the tower, when we htd ar
rived at the entrance gate, because there
vas such a tremendous crowd of people
waiting that we foresaw it would be dark
before our turn came. Visitors are taken
in by the beef-eaters in small squads, not
Exceeding twenty in number at time
md being the lust arrivals of several hun
ired we thought n iudcious retreat the
pest generallsm. To be sure, this was on
the Saturday half.holiday, when the tower
is thrown open free to the sons and duugh.
tiers oil the cruel, grlmy tpil. We forgot it
was not a payday, and returned subse.
qlentlv when the barrier of the shilling
entrance feesived us from undue jesting
Nevertheless the crowd was great. 1t was
composed of well dressed people, of whom
Americans we're in the minority. French
predominated and the German element
came next. 1t has become The height of
fashion, the very summit of chic among
me French, to visit England. Formerly
it was only hotel keepers and shopmen to
whom il WIS M Utter of advant zoe to
make the tempting announcement of
" English Spiked;" nov the requirements
Of etlqletIe demand that all young peo-
pie of good position in France shall know
how to parIer AngLHis. while the highest
ambition of the young French swell is 10
initiate the toggery of his E lglish Jockey.
aud if on his travels in Switzerland he is
mistaken for Il miior, then indeed is his
cup Of satisfaction full to over flowing.
SO tar rs the Germans are concerned, they
ire always present in large numbers in
England. There must be tremendous
German population in l. ,ndou But they
are very different class from the most OF
those we see IN America. The vast ann,
of Germ IN impecuniosties of good birth
from the micl oscopic grand duke who
tsplres to the hand of AN English princess
down to university student, whose highest
am is good situation in some solid En-
glish house Of business-look forward
almost from their birth, to the day when
they shall seek for happiness and fortune
in England. Their presence here is moi
unreSented, whether rs princess or plod
'iers. the one pop liar feature about the
L)rne Louise marriage is that at least one
princess has not welded German petty
sovereign, or something less; while ON all
hands | hear complaints of the ubiquitous
German Clerk in business houses, whose
employment leaves IN EngIishmln out in
the cold How can Que wonder at the
preference given to the foreigner-if for.
eigner II German can b. called in country
ruled by queen whose proudest hosst is
that she is the reigning representative and
lineal descendant of the house of Hanover
These Germans are men Of good birth,
gentlemanly in manner. skilled account
ants and wonderfully fluent linguists.