Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03

And this Is strictly true, for where
does the American go when he wants a
good time, with every facility for hav-
ing itP Is it not 10 the vast and pene-
trating welcome Of England? And IL is
not a pleasure alone, but an education
to study the genuine Englishman in his
home, leaving the casual tourist and
European sprinter TO take home the
superficial and snobby features which
catch his eye?
Much has been said OF the custom OF
rolling up the trousers, so generally
adopted by Englishmen aud followed
by the young and amateur gentry OF
America, but there is no affectatlon
about II In London. ] did not do IL at
first, for | was green and my informa-
tion in that respect as In many others
came late In life. My inexperience cost
me a pair of bright new c%heckered two
pound pantaloons.
The mud OF London is not deep, bnt
IL Is earnest and tenacious. II Is a
brindle, tawny, light olive tint, with
shadings of SCOT and high lights OF lime
and the odor Of past and poorly disin-
fected centuries.
Moreover, il is like a soft boiled egg,
for you cannot touch IL without finding
it weeks after spattered between your
shoulder blades or elsewhere out of
sight 10 yourself, but fully In evidence
to the whole world.
North Carolina In January has some
times a quality Of mud which II proper
" worked by 10, 900, 900 feet and mixed
with SCOT and the dregs OF u~nnumbered
and forgotten fogs could be made TO i'm
itate the London mud, but even then IL
would be better TO pay duty on the real
thing If one wanted the muddiest 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 1t Is Of yachts.
The streets, however, are remarkably
smooth, and with rubber tires on even
the cheapest hanson, you can ride and
talk and be heard with ease. What is
mud to noise after all?
I TOOK Clarence, my valet, to see o
ballet last evening. 1t was a ballet
called Chicago" No one In the ballet
said ANYTHING. Clarence say that Is
the way it is always with ballots. Bal
lets, / presume, teach not so much by
precept as by example.
There was also another and more
beautiful ballet but / went TO see the
ballet OF "Chicago" because Of my 10y
ally and patriotism. 1t is not regarded
as a bowling success, and nearly ali the
performers themselves have kicked
about e. all summer.
Clarence and | were placed 10 the
front row and could see distinctly the
motif OF the ballet. 1t was. taken al
together, very beautiful. though the
idea conveyed regarding Chicago Itself
was that it was an opening in the syca-
more and jack oak forests Of western
Indiana and the lower lake regions.
Buffalo Bill enters In the first act,
and is introduced largely for the pur-
pose Of being guyed by two street
gamins, who get the best Of Colonel
Cody, one removing his side arms while
the other engages him In an animated
conversation. Then the other enter
tains him while the first one smokes up
Bilrs perfecto nearly to the hilt
b Bill Is worked 10 this way for half
an hour till be becomes worried. One
side of his mustacne falls of while be
is asleep. and his tailor-made buckskin
Prince Albert coat gets wet fron a hose
accidentally let loose on him. It
stretches out just like q bali dress and
Is more or less trodden upon till By and
by the heat Of the sun draws It up so
tight that il looks like an Eton jacket.
After this the original American Is
let loose at the clarion call Of the clarl-
net. A burst OF wild, barbaric lmusIc
ushers In the Pocohontas dedication,
represented by talent from Whitaehapei
dressed in the brief, bat reform,dress
supposed to be worn 10 the court Of Sit
ling Boil. These children Of the forest