Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-13
Suit gake Democrat.
AWFUL NICE PLACES,
The Mysteries, MiserIes and De-
lights of the Consular Service.

The mysteries, MiserIes and De
lights of the Consular Service.
! HFun!" exclaimed the old diplomat
III you want fun, get the consulship a
Malta. That's one spot where man car
grow rich abroad at 81, 800 year. AND
as for amusements, you will simply be
crowded to death. Everybody on the
island works and slaves at least sixteen
! hours day, and he is fortunate indeed
who counts his weekly stipend at 81 so
: There never has been theatre or a cir
Gus or a secular holiday in Malta, and the
popular amusement is confined to fiesta
days, when the people congregate in one
place and make themselves sick on pink
candy. In the evening, when the hot,
! blistering sun goes down, you can go up
! to the basin, where the sea leaves a
! placid pool in the rocks, and indulge in
the giddy dissipation of a bath. Oh, yes,
go to Malta and get rich You can live
there in splendor for So week, but at
the end of four years you won't know
whether YOU are a catamaran or blind
fish. If that don't suit you, try Jerusa-
lem It's a great place for excitement,
and after a years trial, if you scrape to-
gether enough energy to write four-page
statement, to the State Department I'll
! eat my head. There is but one redeem
able feature about Jerusalem-plenty Of
1 olives. And as for oranges, there is no
place in the world where they grow SO
large. Jerusalem is splendid town in
which to study the antique, and consul
always gets rich there on 81, 500 year /;
but the first consul became covetous and
induced Congress to indulge in the ex-
travagance of raising his wages to 81, 900.
''Do you like music? Then get the
commercial agency at Swansea, where
/ the slate-quarrymen, the miners and the
daylaborers are all professional singers.
| Why, sir, at the last grand eistedfodd the
! laurels were carried away, not by the
trained choirs of London, but by 4 chorus
of rough Welsh quarrymen. Sing?
! Why, they Using the roofs off the houses,
and every house in the downs and the
crags contains nightingale and har-
monica. Down in the Penryn quarry the
universal occupation of the men off work
is singing, and the men have excellent
voices. IL You don't like music try
Welsh laborer on theology He is gen
orally non-conformist, ands-the only
way L have ever found to stop his re-
3ligous discourse was to take him over to
the Monmouth district, thereby evading
the Sunday law, and fill him up with
beer. In the Welsh country printers on
night work get 1912 Il week and on day
work 1888; shipwrights get 81, boiler
makers about the same, and the whole
range of mechanical skill is fashioned on
the general basis of 50 week There
fore, 60 to Wales. You may not have
much amusement, but you'll get 4 gold
mine OF experience.
Then there is Dundee, in Scotland.
Everybody drinks in that sin-cursed
town, and it is stated that its population
of 142, 92l souls annually expend 81 $780,
900 annually for spirits and beer Dun
dee, you know, is the birthplace of Hec-
tor Bruce, the historian; Halliburton, who
was the first to openly profess the re-
formed religion in Scotland, and Fergu-
son, the poet But if these worthless |
could come back to earth they wouldn't !
own Dundee. The city to-day has s, 1920 |
houses of only one room each, in which
there is a population of $3.50, and &c., !
987 houses of two rooms each, into which |
are crowded S4,374, men, women and |
children. If to these be added the three |
room houses, with the people living in
them, it shows that lis, 900 of the 10000 /
of Dundee live in houses OF |
one or three rooms. Poverty and misery |
abound, and yet it = is the principal of |
linen manufacturers, and it is an import |
ant center for sugar refining, work king
gin-iron and ship-building Dundee is |
the saddest place to me on earth. Malta
is Cremorne garden of delights beside |
thatcitY But. must say for the, wealthy
citizens Of Dundee that they have spent I
and are spending millions of money in
education, charitable and eleemosynary |
Institutions, great parks and magnificent |
churches.
''Then there is Bordeaux. Now if you
want to lead giddy, wild life, that's just |
the place for you. bordeaux is one ofthe |
most fourishing cities Of Europe in point !
of industry, commerce and the cultivation |
of the arts and sciences. That's what the |
guide book says, but, when you sift it |
right down. its principal business is
making wines and brandy and exporting
fruit IT Contains the immense theatre |
built by Louis XVI, seating 1000 people. !
The poorer classes are gay and festive, !
and die young. Every Workingnan in |
Bordeaux has a commendable vanity for |
fine clothes, generally deemed incomplete |
without pair of l1igh-heeled boots and
a watch chain and locket of gilt metal. !
The great tobacco mandatory, the gun
powder mills, the saltpetre refinery and
the shoe factory there are owned by the
which takes excellent care
OF its EMPLOYEES. There are 62, 900 female |
lahorers in Bordeaux, and it can truth
e L. - ,fx-O !
indiscreet and carelessOf their reputation:
There are ], 900 women actually employed
in the quarries, and 10000 in the open
FIELDS 1t is q beautiful city, though, and
a sIaetakd consulship. --'i
. eff you want to strike temperance
town take Fayal, in the Azores. Drunk
enness is a rarity there, and yet wines
and spirits are sold everywhere. The
clipate .tha Azores is perfectly 'del igtf[a /
ful-rarely below 50 degrees, and never
above so. The Azores are particularly
fond of dress, and very sociable, but they
are nation of cigarette Smokers and are
rapidly deteriorating in physical develop
ment. Tayal is an interesting little
town of so, 900 people, and the principal
exports are oranges, wine and oil. Ii
YOU want something romantic and Area
dian, Fayal is the place for you.
speaking of Temperance towns,
would also commend YOU to Catama,
Italy, which has population of 1oo,O 900, /
with scarcely drink Of whisky, or
brandy in the town. Everybody, high
and low, drinks the native wines at
meals, and drunken man has not been
seen in C,atania for years, except nov
and then British sailor. oh, there are
hundreds of places l could tell you about