Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-06
Anglo-Mauia IL, New = olk.
etters to San Francisco Argonaut.

Letters to San francisco Argonaut
Anglomania has arrived at such a
point in New York that it has invaded
all branches of trade. Next 70 Del
monico's there is o tailor VINO announce
es on his gilt sign that he is favored
with the patronage of His Royal High.
ness the Prince of Wales; around the
corner on Fifth Avenue is wine shop,
the windows OF which are belaubed
with the arms Of Victoria, followed by
the merchants name with the legend,
Caterer to Her Imperial Highness";
all of the yellow cabs are decorated with
the three plumes and crest OF the
Prince of Walas down to half q dozen
dukelings, lettered in gilt upon their
windows, and probably the most popn-
lar boot makes uptown displays the
sign, Nothing but English made boots
and shoes here,' over the door
of his shop. All the fashion
able dress makers, men and wom-
en-, pretend to have branch estab-
lishments III London, and nothing
but English tllburys, dog carts, gigs,
mail phaetons, and coaches are seen Oh
the avenue. English actors are the
idols of the dudes about town, and Eng
fish fashions in dinners, clothes, and
even in yachting uniforms and names,
are supreme. Every four dollar week
clerk who can afford the expense has q
crest printed al the head of his note
paper, and New Workers, from William
X. Vanderbilt down to the cheap swells
who attend dancing schools and live IN
boarding houses affect dialect which
is supposed TO be English, has cockney
tendencies, a,ld is very difficult to I'M
derstand. ! VAS thinking of this yes-
terdav when ! went into gun-shop on
Broadway TO buy collar for dog.
hadn't been in the shop for year or
more, and was rather surprised to see
that one side OF it was taken up with pho
tographs. Two rather weary looking
clerks with banged hair and soiled
hands waited upon the customers, and
showed out box after box of photo
graphs with an air of utter WEAKNESS.
The proprietor wanted me to look at a
new gun which he had just received
from the other side, and while he was
getting it out OF the case, asked him
about the photographs.
"tHhat branch Of the business" he
said, unpacking the gun carefully "as-
tonishes me by its growth considerably
more than it does you. I came here with
the idea Of selling higher class sporting
goods, and got into the photograph
business unintentionally. 4 cousin
Of mine in London sent me &
dozen pictures of Lady Ions
dale, as al example Of what he
could do in copying photographs.
/ put one Of them in my window merely
in the WAY of ornamentation, and had
fifty applications Tor it within day. !
had labeled it Lady Lonsdale, the
English beauty and that was unques~
tionably what caught the crowd. 1 sent
over to the other side for q complete
assortment, and now sixty people como
in to bny AL English beauty where one
asks for anything else. [ keep photo
graphs Of actresses and eminent men
but by far the greatest sale is done IN
English beauties. The peculiar thing
about it is" he added, with smile,
that very few Of the beauties are beautl-
full. What DO you think Of that gum"
I was in the shop for half an hour,
and during that time thirty or forty
girls came in and pottercd over the
photographs. They We're oil we'll
dressed. straight shoulueced, erect,
and hi gh -colore,l women. most Of them
far more beautiful than the pictures
they bought, and all OF them
very EngliSl, III manner and speech-at
least they thought they We're. Nearly
all OF them asked the clerk If he had any
of Miss Chamberlain, and the clerk al
ways answered that Ter father was I'M
willing to have her photograps sold. A
great many pictures Of the Princess Ct
Wales were sold, and not y few OF the
Prince himself.
Just as I went ont one Of the single
eyeglassed fraternity with bob tailed
coat came in, and approaching the clerk,
murmured:
"Give me the pwince."
"What Prince?" said the clerk, who
was evidently not an Anglomaniac.
Him Of Wales, of G purse" Was the
answer.