Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
LONDON BY GAsLIGHT
SATURDAY NIGHT STREET SCENES IN
 THE CITY OF THE LOCKERS.

last nlShG or the week the great, not 1 streets are filled with the pentup life of 1 5O0,OO0 houses lone cannot call them ! homes), and all the varied phases of this | hand to hand struggle for existence ap- ! pear. The docker is prodigal of his few | shillings on Saturday night, the maxi I mum of his hberality being shown | most often ill the public house and on , the catch penny street conjurer, while i the minimum is apparent at the stalls ot the grocer and butcher. But men. wom- ! en and children are out on the streets, | and, whatever else it be, Saturday night is something of break in the fearful dreariness that marks the life of the east London toiling thousands.
 The people love music. Their 4nter pretation of music is rather rough and loud. The bass drum of every band that parades i'll labor demonstration of a Sunday gets terribly punished before the day is over, but it commands grelt fol- lowing. and on Saturday night the street musicians and singers easily gather their crowds and reap an abundant harvest. ! The barrel organ is found everywhere. and wherever it is rattling out the popu- lar Daisy" or The Man Who Broke tine Bank at Monte Carlo the sidewalks | couples of little girls dance on the flag stones.
 Nearly every girl of can dance, many
 of them have already appeared in public at the cheap concert halls, and as one
 watches them, hatless. dirty. but with faces beaming with delight. he does not
 know whether to be glad of their joy or i to pity their hollow present and hopeless fY1f1 fl,a .l n hose street dances will be taken by the older | girls, factory girls, as they are all called
 in east London. who are out in crowds
 on Saturday night. They are an un- l tanned, fantastic lot. All wear enormous | hats, adorned with feathers, and train
 their hair about the forehead by curling
 it forward quite fiercelN. They are in
 tensely loyal to the customs and tradi-
 tions of their own set" and forced as
 they are to subsist on an income of to i s shillings per week they are vcXing
 problem to the cast London philanthro-
 pist and reformer.
 Besides the barrel organs, there are
 violins, accordions and any number of
 soloists unaccompanied by an instru-
 ment. Blind women. old men and the
 poor wrecks of this awful struggle for
 existence here stand at the curbstone
 and in weak. thin voices sing their song The restless crowd moves on. save when | some one more curious or more kindly
 than the rest stands near to look or lis
 ten. \ bent woman. whose thin shawl
 was thrown over her shoulders. was
 feebly singing some old song in the
 midst of the jostling throng around a
 public house. l saw a strong young girl
 of IA come kindly toward her, drop a
 penny in the little box held by the feeble
 hand and then hurry away out of sight.
 Happy will the strong young lass be If
 the swirl of the turbid stream of east
 London life does not bring her some time
 to the place of the Curbstone singer. In
 deed there is no place that have ever
 seen where mirth and pathos, vice and
 virtue, meet and mingle as on these
 streets in q night like this.
 One sees very little begging. There is
 not much street begging anyway
 there's no use begging: the people are
 too poor. The mcndicant flees Canning
 town for the wealthier residential quar-
 terS. Of course the children beset one.
 The sidewalk artist Is sometimes found,
 but tho most common form of appeal Is from the ragged little fellows who turn handsprings or stand on their heads for you. They really do their athletics very nicely, and there iS something so appealing and old maunish" ill their
 looks that it is hard to resist them. l was hurrying through the crowds in Victoria docks one night about 10 when q boy of camo ont and ran beside me.
 relating some sort of verse. thought. [ Three repctitions made it clear:
 , Ha'p'ny won't wit yer,
 Penny won't break yer.
 Tu'p'nCc won't send yer | the work'us. $ He was evidently working on grad, uated scale of benevolenCe adapted tC
 the abilities of tho donor" 1 believe by
 the emphasis laid on the last item that
 he estimated me from my gold bowed spectaCles at tu'pence.
 The barrows of east London delicacie: abound in tke streets where marketing goes on. The woman who sells colo pickled pigs feet is in fair demand. Tn, man who retails shrimps at a penny 1 bag gets q good trade. but the couple who preside at the barrow filled witt : 'cockles and wrinkles" have their hand full The delectable mollusks are dis played on little dishes as large as ''indi . vidual butters, with bit of garnishin: l of parsley. and are eaten with vinegar ol
 the spot.
 ) These barrows are found especially n the entrance of Victoria Docks road, s great marketing place in Canning tow on Saturday night. Clothing (very cheal ? and shoddy and called ''slopsO, Ettl l tools for household use, cheap laces, il B berts, red bandanna" handkerchief l and horn combs are some of the man, ? articles sold from barrows in the street 1 outside the regular shops for meat, frui . and fish. On the whole, trade is carrie, on with great briskness, but more Qui
 etly than in market streets at home s The butchers are the most noisy. The, - delight in wearing tall hats and scream Y ing odd calls at the full of their lungs A penny is the standard unit here il '' C rnning town. The buyers are poor n and everything that can be called at s penny is. A common cry is:
 Tenny pun, pun a penny, s at the barrows, where a pound of any e thing can be sold at this low rate. e How to Make GIycerIn Soap. 2 Shave fine d pound of bar soap COT r taining olive oil and put it into kettl
 containing pint of water and the sam l. of alcohol over the fire. When the soa s is dissolved and most of the alcohol hs h evaporated, add a pound of glyceriI @ stir for few minutes, add any desire n perfume and set aside to cool.
 f How to Make Pressed Chicken. P Boil the chicken till tender, take ou . the bones and gristle, remove the ski f and fat. Boil the gravy down to on
 cupful to a chicken. Add little butte - and season with salt and pepper. Ad - one-half cupful of gelatin dissolved i water. Pick. not chop. the chicken int t small pieces. Heat thoroughly with th s gravy, then pour into a pan and put