The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-17
COOP FOAM IN ENGLAND.
Numerous Ways In which British Gus
soma DIifsr from American Ones.


TO adequately indicate the diver
.ences between the ways Of English So
cipty and our own would require a
volume, says the N. Y. Ledger, but
some striking examples may be given
In n few paragraphs. To begin with
the names applied to servants. In
England there is no such this us a
''dining.ro girl She is caued n
''parlor- maid" Whnt we term nm
'up-stairs girl" il house-maid." !"
There are no ''chambermaidsn or
walters" in nu English private house.
They are found only in hotels and
restaurants To speak of coachmau
as "iriver" would be very bad form. Z"
Coachmen, buffers, housekeepers, and
ladies' maids nre called by their SUR
names only, never by their Christian
names.
Americans who ape English usages
almost always blunder in the use of
crests. In England only men put
crests on their paper. silver, clothing.
carriages, etc. For lady, especially
young lady to put crest on any
thing would be considered bad form.
To speak to n man OF his wife as your
wife" would not be tolerated.; YOU
must say Mrs. So-and-So." The use
of sir" in conversation between equals
railway terms In England differ mark
edly from ours. The ''traek" Is a
line; n "depotn Is a station; n
''ticket-oiiice" Is "bookiug-oflice''
conductor" is the guard" the
engineer" Is the driver; the carr
is "a carriage; baggage" is lug
gage" aud baggage carr Is n
van" In English iheaters what we
call orchestra seats" are stalls" and
the 'parquet" Is termed the ''pit." +"
English newspapers you do not sub
scribe for" but take in" An "ed-
itorial" is always IA ''leader."
1t is not good form for young lady
to go to school. She must be educated
at home. We may also note that the
abbrevation used for bachelor of arts
and masters of arts" are ''B. A." aud
M. A." whereas in this country they
are "A. b." and IA. NJ" What we
call public schools" are termed ma
tional schools" in England. An En-
lish public school" corresponds 10
such American institutions ms the Phil
lips academies Mt Exeter aud Audover.
AT Oxford and Cambridge the term
graduate" is not used ns verb to
express the taking of a university de-
gree. CHANGING at games. we may re-
mark that in England billiards Is al
ways played on pocket table. You
do not, however, say that YOU pocket
bail; you hole il. A ''carrom" is
''cannon;" scratch Is "1uke;"
''Idn" is break" aud "shot" is
n stroke" Cruquct. which once was
popular. is no longer regarded as good
form.
In England shooting is never called
cunning or ''hunting." The .ntter
term is applied exclusively To fox hunt
ing. A horse gesd at jumping is call
ell a goo! fencer." All jumps except
bitches and water (brools) are call
Ell fences On the other hand. what
we call fences are termed timber. ="
All races" in England are running
races. There are no truttiug races.
All English races are run. not upon II
dirt track. but upon grass; hence the
expression. the turf"
A word about the etiuuet of calls aud
cards. In England /. would be the
worst possible form for gentleman to
call on an unmarried lady aud ask the
servant If sine is at home. He must al
ways ask for tue mother only. A gen.
tleman is never asked to ''call again
soou." but he is told: Il hope we
shall see ii good deal OF YOU"
In England cards are left only when
the person cnlied ON il out. They
are never sent in before the caller
if the person called on is at
home. For husband aud wife to have
both names on one card. as MIR. and
Mrs. Jones'" is very bad form. So it
is Tor unmarried itIies to have sep
arnte visiting cards of their own.
Their names should be engraved uu-
der the name of their mother or of
some other married female relation.
In England ones address should al
h., .,.I In lat
ters, in the right lower corner.
We might eEumerate thousand
other pecuIiarigies. but we have cited
enough to show that an American citi-
zen could not easily acquire what in
England is called good form" without
an expenditure of time that could be
put to better purpose.