The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-13
Anrlo-Mania II, New York.


letters to San Francisco Argonaut
Anglomania has arrived at such q
point in New York that it has invaded
all branches of trade. Next to Del
monico's there is q tailor Who
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 a wine shop.
the windows of which are bedaubed
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 popu-
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 IN London, and nothing
but English tilburys, dog-carts, gigs,
mail phaetons, and coaches are seen on
the avenue. English actors are tho
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-a-week
clerk who can afford the expense has u
crest printed ut 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 a dialect which
is supposed to be English, has cockney
tendencies, and is very difficult to un.
derstand. I was thinking OF this yes
terday when | went into a gun-shop on
Broadway to buy collar for a dog. I
hadn't been in the shop for a 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 weariness.
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, l asked him
about the photographs.
"That branch of the business" he
said, %unpacking She 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. A cousin
of mine in London sent me a
dozen pictures of Lady Ions
dale, as m example of what he
could do in copying photographs.
[ put one Of them in my window merely
in the way of ornamentation, and l had
fifty applications for it within a day. /
had labeled it Lady Lonsdale, the
English beauty and that was unques-
tionably what caught the crowd. Isent
over to the other side for o complete
assortment, and now sixty people como
in to buy an English beauty where one
asks for anything else. I 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 q smile,
that very few of the beauties are beauti-
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 pottered over the
photographs. They were all we'll
dressed, straight shouldered, erect,
and h~igh-colored women, most of them
far more beautiful than the pictures
they bought, and all of them
very English in manner and speech--at
least they thought they were. Nearly
all of them asked the clerk if he had any
of Miss Chamberlain, and the clerk al
ways answered that her father was I'M
willing to have her photographs sold. A
great many pictures Of the Princess Of
Wales were sold, and not a few of the
Prince himself.
just as I went out one Of the single
eye-glassed fraternity with q bob-tailed
coat came in, and approaching the clerk,
murmured:
Give me the pwince."
What Prince?" said the clerk, who
was evidently not m Anglomaniac.
Him of Wales, Of course" was the