, 1885-09-24
LON LIFE IN ENGLAND
Amt se nents az Yarmouth PoopIs an,
Their Visitors on the beach.

Amuse nentA Of Yarmouth People and
Their Visitors On the Beach.
Joseph Hatton's London Letter.l
The railways and the steamboat com
panies periodically enter into a con
spiracy with each other TO empty the
sweepings Of the cities upon Yarmouth
heachi And what an ugly crowd it Is
1t b%lasphemes, yells, drinks, rolls in
the sand, plunges into the sea, swarms
on the piers, breaks the backs of hired
donkeys and ponies, and generally
spreads itself like "a blight over tn,
place / don't know whether the
women or the men are the worst speci
mems Of humanity. They both indulge
in the same recreations. They drink at
the bars, ride the donkeys, plunge
about on tricycles, sing and scream.
roll in the sand, and lie about on the
beach with their brutal partners IN
every kind OF vulgar pastime. They
are cheaply but eX~travagantly dressed
feathers in their bonnets, rings in their
ears. high heeled boots, and long or
short cropped hair. Their language is
rs vulgar as thai of the men, and they
speak in several dialects. The men
tell them horrid stories. at which they
roar with laughter. At night they
make it impossible for decent people to
walk either on the beach or the es-
planadc.
ne wonders how many more Years
must elapse before the influence Of the
school boards is practically shown in
the conduct and MANNER Of the com
mon people of England. Democrats re-
sent this phrase, "the common people"
and 90 wild in their denunciation of the
term lower classes" But use both
adyisedly, and unhesitatingly declare
that there is a far wider gull of feel
ing, sentiment, and moral worth be-
tween the upper middle classes Of Eng
land and these Aries and 'Arriets' OF
the summer seaside than there is be-
tween the English lower class and the
savages of the Borneo or the worst re a
Indian OF the plains. Take the people
OF England en- masse and 1t is a great,
moral, intellectual, and brave race; but
the lower strata of IL is as deprayed and
brutal as the world in its basest corners
can show.
But even on these bad days of Var
mouth, the place has its compensations.
Nothing can contaminate the wind that
comes rollicking across 800 miles of
open sea. 'Arry's oath or 'Arriets
scream are smothered in its salty
breeze, and the Aries and Arriets,
like the crows flock together. They
hate solitude. They drink and scream
in company. They only monopolize a
certain extent of the beach opposite the
terraces of fine houses on the %esplanade.
hight and left of them there are vast
sandy deserts. You can have the coun
try right and left to yourself, or you
can 20 to the most picturesque and in
tcrcsting spot on the immediate coast
the mouth OF the harbor.
This place IS called Gorleston, and it
is here the ships come and go, the tide
racing in at such speed that this is the
third or fourth harbor Yarmouth has
constructed for herself. 1t was here
that Nelson landed after the battle of
the Nile, and here to this day is ex-
hibited the prowess Of the British sailor,
for from hence no goes forth to
fight the breakers of the North sea.
sitting at the mouth of the harbor one
day I dropped into conversation with
IN american from Philadelphia.
what has most impressed you on
this side | asked in the course of our
conversation.
Its solidity, he replied; its solidity.
The English are the best builders, |
should say, in the world; they seem to
like building; where we have n fence
they have II wall where we have Il
wooden city they have n stone pier:
where We have u wooden sidewalk they
have u granite pavement; we.are in u
hurry about everything; content with
makcshitts' the English are never in a
hurry, and they hate m~akeshifts. |
reckon we lick the English in inventing
things, saving labor, aud in steamboats,;
and. except that ! admire the little gar
deus TO the humblest homes in England,
l think Philadelphia can match the old
country Tor homes but, as ] said be-
fore. solid is the word | should write
down 10 describe England.