Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-12-05


the population still farther, until in 1877
the number did not exceed 34,971. Yet
Manuel II referred to London even in
400 as Ito be preferred over every city
of the west for population, opulence and
luxury" So London 500 years ago was
regarded as western city, and the star
of empire has been moving at the rate of
over 1000 miles per century ever since.
At the present time London is roughly
estimated to contain about 5000, 900 in
habitants, and may be said to have fully
recovered from the war with the United
States. In fact it is hardly referred to
now, and when l noticed the fireworks
for sale some weeks ago to be used on
Guy Fawkes' day, l said to my friend
Sladen of The Idler, Your Fourth of
July is little delayed this year. is it
not?" He said: "Oh. yes, you celebrate
the Fourth of July in America, don't you?
We. on the contrary, are trying to for
get it."
And that is strictly true. for where
does the American go when he wants a
good time, with every facility for hay
ing it? Is it not to the vast and pene-
trating welcome of England? And is it
not pleasure alone, but an education
to study the genuine Englishman in his
home, leaving the casual tourist and
European Splinter to take home the su-
perfcial and snobby features which
catch his eye?
Much has been said of the custom of
rolling up the trousers, so generally
adopted by Englishmen and followed by
the young and amateur gentry of Amer
lea, but there is no affectation about it
in London. did not do it at first, for
was green and my information in that
respect as in many others came late in
life. My inexperience cost me a pair of
bright new checkered two pound panta-
looms.
The mud of London is not deep, but it
is earnest and tenacious. 1t is brindle,
tawny, light olive tint, with shadings of
SCOT and high lights of lime and the odor
of past and poorly disinfected centuries.
Moreover, it is like n soft boiled egg,
for You cannot touch it without finding
it weeks after spattered between your
shoulder blades or elsewhere out of
sight to yourself, but fully in evidence
to the whole world.
North Carolina in January has some
times a quality of mud which if prop
erly worked by 10000, 900, 900 feet and
mixed with SCOT and the dregs of I'M
numbered and forgotten fogs could be
made to initiate the London mud, but
even then it would be better TO pay duty
on the real thing if one wanted the mud
diest mud in the whole world. England
never copies. She will succeed ON her
| own lines or not at all. This Is as true
of mud as it is of yachts.
.,s-l-., ~
smooth, and with rubber tires on even
the cheapest hanson, you can ride and
talk and DO heard with ease. What is
mud to noise after all?
l took Clarence, my valet, to see a
ballet last evening. 1t was ballet
called Chicago" No Ons in the ballet
said anything. Clarence says that is
the way it is always with ballets. Bal
lets, presume, teach not SO much by
precept as by example.
There was also another and more beau
tiful ballet, but / went 10 see the ballet
| Of Chicago" because of my loyalty and
patriotism. 1t is not regarded ~ n howl
ing success. and nearly all the perform
ers themselves have kicked about 1t al
summer.
Clarence and were placed in tbs
front row and could see distinctly tbs
motif of the ballet. 1t was, taken alto
gether, very beautiful, though the idei
conveyed regarding Chicago itself wa
that it was an opening in the sycamore
and jack oak forests of western indiana
and the lower lake regions.
Buffalo i'll enters in the first act, anC
is introduced largely for the purpose o
being guyed by two street galnins, wh'
get the best ~ Colonel Cody, one remov
ing his side ~ ms while the other engage
him in an animated conversation. TheI
the other entertains him while the frs
one smoked up Bills perfecto nearly t
the hilt.
B. Bill is worked in this way for hal
an hour till he becomes worried. On
side of his mustache falls off while he i
asleep, and his tailor made buckskil
Prince Albert coat gets wet from hos
accidentally let loose on him.
stretches out just lfse ball dress and i
more or less trodden upon till by and b.
the heat of the sun draws it mp SO tigh
that it looks like an Elton jacket.
After this the original American is lie
loose at the clarion call of the clari
net. A burst of wild, barbaric must
ushers in the Pocohontas delegation, rer
resented by talent from Whitechape
dressed in the brief, but reform, dres
supposed to be worn in the court of Sill
ting Bull. These children of the fores
are as brown as n hazel nut and hav
beautifully carved rosewood legs. The
come in with natty doeskin costumes
without whoops.
They dance gayly about a scalp erecte
ON tall pole. The scalp was secure
from q shop in Old Bond street. 1t wa
furnished by q well known ticket scalI
er there. These girls prance around thi
CORY Maypole and try to convey tn
idea that human life is not highly va
ned by them, but they do not go i
much for realism or they would toe i
more. Real squaws, even Of the huppe