The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-13
ENGLISH PECuLIARITlEs.
Some Curious Customs of our English
Cousins.

Flag stats are poked out of the church
steeples. Omnibus drivers are quite dan.
dyish in dress, wear gloves, and sometimes
n rose in the button-hole. Local election
and business notices ere posted on the
church doors. Gravestones in old church
yards are laid fiat on the ground and grave
yards are paved with epitaphs. No drug
stores open on Sunday until o'clock p NJ.
single woman, after forty, is called
Mrs, out of courtesy No free loung-
ing offices or halls in the hotels. Every
bar-room is public house, Women and
men promiscuous patronizers of bars. In
dress, women are cumbrously buggy about
the skirts. Average female shoe clumsy
and ill-ftting. Sad change from the Paris
ian grisette in plain black, white collar, low
slipper and bare head. But the English
soldier is far beyond the French in build
carriage, uniform and general appearance.
Fine animals. Shops for selling cooked
food abundant; such as roasts of all kinds
corned beef and boiled vegetables. Fine
meat, too. For six pence a square meal
may be bought and carried home in a
paper also, eel skin and kidney pies for a
penny. "Noted Eel Pie Houses " all over
London. A workingman may buy his steak
or chop at the butchers and have it cooked
at the chop house. The sign "no charge
for cooking is common in chop house win
dows. A cup of tea is one penny, coffee
ditto. The tea is good the coffee villain
GUS. This is plain poor mans living. A
penny will give beggar meal, viz, bowl
of soup and bread. Shops much ornament
cd with heavy brass mouldings mounted on
wood. In this damp climate its one eter
nal scrub and polish to keep them bright
They are frequently movable and are taker
in at night otherwise they are stolen. Sing
ular sight, though, to see a shopman thus
dismounting the ornamentation of his shop
doors and windows. There are miles on
miles of small, two-story cottages. In these
live the working people. Six-story tene-
ments a Ia New York are unknown. The
poor mans street here is narrow and grimy,
but the house has more comfort than that of
Gotham. Tens of thousands in London
have their bit Of back yard and strip of
front garden. Baths, warm and cold, are
abundant. Cold, one penny; warm, two
pence. Best class, six pence, including
soap and towel. Dirt is abundant on both
men and women in East London. For
greasy and rotten rags on mon and women
London may stand A !. Thames steam
ferry boats cheap, dingy and dirty Funer-
MS cheap. Can be buried for 500 with
four hired mourners. Grape yard in length
dangling from their hats like pirates flag,
red noses, black suits, we'll linked at seams.
Don't know who you are, what you are,
where you came from, or where you're 60
ing to. No matter. Will mourn all the
same, and after funeral adjourn to nearest
public house and pray for another subject
to mourn over. More gas in the street o.
night than in New York. More life, stir,
hustle and street shows, such MS "Punch
and Judys," band of street negro Ministries,
Irish ballad singers, Highland pipers, Ital.
ian ditto German bands, pavement sketch.
ing artists with colored chalks, Bible read.
ers, performing dogs, cats, mice and birds
acrobats and tumblers.