Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-24
LONDON'S ODD CORNERS.
cOvENT GARDEN, ITS PAST AND
ITS PRESENT.
Far Back I'm the Thirteenth Century It
Was Really the Garden Of q Convent,
but 1t Is Now a Garden In Name Only.
The Flowers and Other Matters.
Special Correspondence I

| Especial Correspondence.
LONDON. March 2-It is not alone the first
days of the pilgrims wanderings in London
that are filed with the curious sense of home
| coming, that makes up the consciousness of
many an American. 1t is as if an old story
were told again, and the heir, stolen In child
| hood, returned, unrecognized by those about
him, but recalling with more and more fresh
ness and certainty the scenes of which he
was once part. The years slip away. Two
hundred and more of them lie between, it is
true, but not two hundred nor ten times two
hundred can blot out the lines of record in
which the struggle and the hope of all Eng
lish speaking people was one For past or
present alike, London stands as the fountain
head and thus, whatever pain may come
from the oppressive sense of crowded,
swarming life, pent up in these dull gray
walls-whatever conviction that such mon
ster mass of human energy and human pain
needs diffusion and not concentration-Lon-
don holds and will hold the fascination that
is quite apart from the mere outward aspect
To go to point determined upon before
hand is good. To lose oneself in the laby-
rinth of lanes and alleys, and come suddenly
upon something quite as desirable, is even
better, and this losing is as inevitable as the
finding also becomes The first perplexity
arises from the fact that London street is
everything by turns and nothing long, y end
that solitary block of buildings owns often
name as long as itself. The line of street
which, on the map, appears continuous, gives
dozen changes TO the mile, and the pilgrim
discovers quickly that he is ALWAYS scme-
where else than at or on the point determined
upon. Then the temptation to add to this
complication by sudden excursions into
shadowy courts and dark little passages is
irresistible, not to mention the desire, equally
pressing, of discovering at once if Violet
lane and Hop Vine alley and Myrtle court
have really any relation TO their names. or
are simply the reaching out of their inhabi-
tants for some touch of natures benefac-
tious. Violet lane may have had its hedge
rows and violets in day long dead, precisely
as hop vines may have flung their pale green
bells over cottage paling, for both are far
outside the old city limits, but today they
are simply the narrowest of passages between
the grimiest of buildings, given over to trade
in its most sordid form, and hops have no
place save in the pots of beer that come from
the dirty public at the end of the cart
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