Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-10

food and the sudden hospitality of his
i'll advised hosts, wrote what he evil
IDENTIFY deemed a scathing criticism Of
certain social aspects of American life,
drew his lay for it and disappeared.
His name was Hamilton Aide.
He says among other things that the
love Of privacy, so prominent feature
in the English character, is unknown
here, the privilege Of exclusion so rigid
~ enforced in the walls and fences of
our gardens, the closed doors of our
withdrawing rooms, on the first floor. is
rarely enforced here" But it is going
TO be, Mr. Aide. We are going to be
more par ocular in the future We are
getting acquainted with your methods.
and we shall be more careful in the years
to come.
If your nobility cannot play a fair
game OF cards Of an evening or over
come the peruicious correspondent com
plant what may we expect of one who
is not noble at all, and who visits in our
country only what is free. and who then
imaglnes he is familiar with American
society?
do not know Mr.. AIDE very well, but
1t has been my misfortune to cross his
plague stricken trail once or twice to
gnaw at the closely cropped heritage
among the hills where yet still fingered
the echo OF his bray.
Judging by the sentiment expressed
by the low, coarse innkeepers along the
chicken feather trimmed orbit through
which he passed, it will be money in his
g - ~.
more. If he should, there are intima-
! tons that a good recipe for removing
egg stains from wearing apparel viii he
great cor veuience to him ON his steamer
ride home
Mr.. Aide, whose signature shows that
! he neglected to put up his fly screens
| until too late in the season, says that
| manners among servants of both sexes
are peculiar, as indeed they are in all
! the lower orders If one may be allowed
| such an expression about Americans"
Judging from Mr.. AIDES familiarity
| with American society. the article he
has written should have been entitled.
''Some Aspects of Life Among Ameri-
can Servants Then this gentle criti-
| cism of mine would have been unneces-
| sary and unwritteu.
Dinners" he says, ''as a rule. In pri-
vate houses, are less good and less well
! served than | expected to find them.
You will notice a great falling off even
| from this, Hamilton, if You will come
| back here next season. There will be a
very noticeable favor of pounded glass
III your Die. and every bed quilt in our
broad and beautiful land will contain a
| little checkered sample of your loud and
vociferous panties pried from the I'M
willing jaws of the household dog.
"Some IF the dishes are excellent,
! but" he adds, as he dips his trenchant
pen in the bluing bottle at his coy little
hall bedroom in Whitechapel street.
''the prevalent taste for uncooking can
vasback duck generally renders that
admirable bird forbidden fruit to me. "
But that is not what renders 1t "a for
hidden fruit TO him at home.
The reason he does not keep his fabby
being continually upholstered with can
vasback duck at home is probably the
same one that prompted him to have his
/ wine and the backing Of his boots
charged to Mrs. Stanley at San Jose,
Cal, in the spring of the present year of
our Lord and of the freedom of the
United States from the rule of Great
Britain the one hundred and fifteenth
Mr.. Aide accompanied Mrs. Stanley,
Mrs. Tenant and Captain Jephson to
San Jose, where he registered as Mrs.
Stanley and party" They stopped at the
Vendome, a first class, tip top hotel,
which had preserved blameless reputa-
ton up to that time. Mr. Aide, the new
Rudyard Kipling, who will doubtless
lecture here by and by, was asked to
register for the party, which he would
have done if he had ever travelled before
He few into a beastly passion and re-
fused to register or give names of any of
the party, insisting that it was piece of
American impertinence on the part of
the hotel that he never saw equaled.
He finally told how many rooms they
wanted, to which he added private
dining room.
Everything was ordered sent to the