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

we should sim be looking FOR Corsenside
People Of whom we inquired on the road
had never heard or 1t, and we changed our
minds and Corsenside FOR a wayside inn which
like many of our American country road
houses. represented tire village of Horslev and
was at once the pos. office the store and the gin
mill Happy combination The prospect was
pleasing; crackers to eat, ale TO drink, and
postage stamps to lick! But our host did better
than this, and we were treated b our first gen
uiue, unadulteratea. unsifted cream sipce ar
irving IN the United kingdom.
At DURHAM.
Durham. Durhamshire, with thy cathedral
and narrow slippery streets, how glad We were
to find thee Thy rural inhabitants seemed 30
ignorant OF thy whereabouts when we spoke
tiny name IN our own vernacular that We would
lain think thee a second Corsenside. We were
under the impression when we paid our sturdy
host his sturdy bin and left our Horsfey inn
that we were wen out of the hills The impress
slon was soon corrected. We rose and fell for
the better part Of the day over the abrupt as
cents and descerts of the old Roman road,
waiting street, crossing en- route tire 1ne OF
the wall of Severus buiit from Newcastle on
the east to Carlisle on the west during the
period of Roman occupation Of England to
keep the Picts ana Scots TO the north at home.
At the point Of our crossing REMAINS Of the
wall were still TO be seen IN the form Of q sue
cession OF irregular, grassy mounds Of consid-
cradle height.
AMERrcASTsMs.
At our quiet little Temperance and CONNER
cial Hotel in Durham we found a quondam
Canadian farmer in the person Of an English
commercial traveller. who some years ago went
to Americans he said, though the accepted
meaning over here of America is United States
on an unsuccessful farming venture in the pro-
vince OF Quebec He had guessed we were
Americans as they say-when he
overheard us guessing" about something.
With a series of hysterlcsl chuckles he enumer-
ated our many. to him, odd and amusing ex-
pressions. They were sure they would, he
said, speaking of some American neighbors OF
his farming days, '.yet they always guessed.
Then our habit OF fixing everything, that
wis very amusing indeed. and our All right
but AL right we are hearing Enghshmen use
nowadays. much As they may have laughed at
1t heretofore. and in Devonshire In the south
west OF England, we understand 1t Ii COM
mon provincial expression.
Our acquaintance commented upon the su-
perior position of the American farm hand
who gets his Il so or 80 day and eats ut the
same table with you"-the latter part Of which
proposition seemed rather to disgust our &C
Quxintance-while the English farm hand lis
doing well if he gets his shiIlinss and finds
himself. One distressing detail OF the Quon-
dams farming experience appeared to be the
fact that his farm WIS fifteen miles from the
item he emphasized his taste for generous
drop of bitter" by requesting our landlady to
send across the way to the pub" and get him
pint.
TEMPERANCE aorELs.
These temperance hotels are to be found in
all the large towns not only of England. but Of
Scotland, Wales and Ireland as we'll. In prices
they are always cheaper than the others. and
many of them are large. quite elegant establish
ments, yet without much of that stiffness and
formality usual to most pretentious English
hostelries. AS their name implies. 10 lntoxi-
cants are sold: there is no bar, side door or
otherwise, and if you must have your ''bitters'
you must go out for it, unless, as was she OF
Durham's temperance hotel your landlady is
an accommodating body and will ''send OUT
for 1t. or what is more, go for it herself Gener-
ally the temperance hotel is a small affair, neat
and comfortable; just the place for ladies
travelling alone. Some of them are bad, very
bad; and then the maid who serves you at table
will have an apron-we were about to say
white apron-but it has not been washed since
it was new. and that was long ago. And the
table linen, and linen in general, is changed
not oftener than once week, come what may.
Z. E s.