Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-15
A LONDON BUS.

The London bus, with its multiplicity of
signs, is one Of the sights of London. For
tunately there are varying degrees of multi
plicity, and the stranger is not always dazzle6
with such an array OF glazing advertising signs
that that conveying the information he desires,
the destination of the bus, is lost TO him. As
you stand upon the curb and watch tbe unend-
ing procession of the mountainous vehicles
passing in either direction, you might think
but for the passengers they carry tLat you
were contemplating advertising enterprise
of the Hilarity Theater, or Bitem's mustard. or
Goodenoughs cocoa As you ascend by the
little stairway to the seats top. you come fac.
to face with Good morning. Have you used
Peachs soap?" and you start guilty as you
remember that your additions were brief
and hasty and without that luxury. The
conductor you notice carries a satchel sus-
pended from his shoulder by a strap. He
looks Like a patent medicine fakir, but
instead of Philadelphia cough drops,
five package! For coughs, for colds, &C., ~
he says: Ere you are, sir! Ugh 'olburn,
then, ma am, Hup you come ~ as he receives
the fare and let's passenger off. or deftly
seizes lady and swings her up on to his little
platform. while the bus barely slackens speed.
His constant opening and shutting of the satchel
you have noticed and the occasional
jingle Of metal soon supplies the ex-
PLANTATION that this is his purse, contain
ing the fares he has collected mostly in penny
and half-penny pieces The British govern
ment has not yet reached the point long since
arrived at by our own, that q small token Of
light weight, as in our one-cent piece, is Just
as satisfactory in fractional coinage of
| the baser metals as is something larger
| and more cumbersome. Everything large
in copper and brass is to the Englishman's
taste. Huge badges for everybody, the bus
men. the cabbies, the various kinds OF porte rs
except those in liquid form; copper and brass
for all. They stop short at the policeman.
however, and instead of making him a
copper" they make him ''bobby." That
puts him on a silver basis, at par with the
shilling, which ID of silver, and called bob"
THE SANDWICH MEN.
Advertising is an active industry. and hun
dreds of men earn their bread and beer-we
should say butter, but Englishmen will have
their beer-by paradiug about the streets be-
tween advertising boards, one on the back an d
| the other in front The sandwich men they
are, and they amble along with steady,
| undisturbed gait, plodding through the cutters,
| lodging carts and cabs and pedestrians alike
Here comes "A string now There are six Of
| them. They all proclaim that Hand-me-downs
| is the place for summer suits. Poor fellows.
they need one badly. And there goes another
Of seven! They give the week program at one
of Londons favorite variety theaters
| BY all means acqusint yourself with the lead
| ing advertisements when you visit London
| Charlie s. did not. He thought he could
pick out the name of the station from great
variety of advertising signs with which the
| walls were plastered from top to bottom at a
stopping place of the London underground
| railway. He said it was BovriL He didn' {
know then that it was the fancy name Of a hot
| drink, sort Of beef tea. He does now though
/ EUGENE IL. STFyFva