Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1894-08-02

station to one side, but the people got on
to it, and they marched down there about
l, 200 of them 1t was ut night, and they
carried torches made Of sticks with pieces
of peat on the end / had TO make a
speech, and then they played and sang
and danced. Everybody danced. A lot
of tho little girls were barefooted and
ragged, but they danced too.
Il gave benefit for the poor, and it
netted about ST. 600, which l turned oyor
to my uncle, who IS priest there When
1 left the streets were archcd with reen
arches, and the poor people even had illu-
minated their houses with little candles.
They took the horses from my carriage
and pulled it along Everybody kissed
me-men, women, girls, children-every-
body. / mover was so touched in my life.
"There is lot Of pretty girls in Ireland
such fine complexions, such bright eyesl
But, then, that's noted tho world over.
London Didn't Impress Him.
Il liked London in o way, and in way
/ didn't. They don't treat a man right
there-that is the upper classes. They
put two prize fighters in a ring like rats
and 81 they don't go at each other thcy
shout and urge them on.
''The best thing in London was the
music halls. They are great. But in
most ways London is not in it with New
York l don't think much of the English
girls. They can't talk to you like tho
American girls can. Give me the Amori-
can girls every time.
There wasn't much in London that
impressed me. went to see Westmin-
ster abbey. But left the sightseeing to
my wife l don't think much of this
thing Of chasing around looking at things.
passed Edinburgh castle every day for
week, but didn't care to go in, and I
didn't go in. The house Of commons is "a
big building, Of course. But London is a
slow town.
THE way they serve drinks there is
rotten. Why such a thing as ice is out
of the question. In some places If you
ask for ico they think you are crazy.
There wasn't anything flt to drink, and
didn't care much for what they had to
eat. They didn't have any fruits, and
that and the ice worried me all the time.
/ don't care much for the English hotels.
They don't seem to me to be run right.
They are all so slow If you want a sand
witch, why, they bring you in 40 courses
before you get the sandwich. 1t takes
them three hours TO cat dinner, while
only take throe-quartors Of an hour or an
hour at most. didn't get on with them
at all we'll. My ideas of things were SO
different and they and couldn't talk to-
gether
Il met several lords there but they
didn't strike mo as being anything out of
l the ordinary.
Jim Liked Paris.
"The French like the American people
| right straight through, and don't believe
/ the English do like them. 1 got on with
| the French WELL though I couldn't say a
word of their talk or they of English.
| won't everywhere in Paris. I'll say that
! didn't overlook anything and that covers
the case. ! saw everything-well, l wont
! 20 into details, but there's nothing slow
about Paris. And the women arc pretty
and we'll dressed. / was going to say they
were the prettiest and the best dressed
women in the world, but I don't think
they quite come up to the best Of our New
York girls.
Those French girls are full of ginger
They arc alive right straight through, ant
you don't have TO talk to them TO under
stand what they re about They do II al
with pantomime, and you know just wha
thoy mean And thoy get themselves NJ
so well. Their clothes fit thom, and the!
know what kind of things to wear an,
how to wear them. But l managed q
| talk 10 them. You see, / would say it q
"A man. and he would say it in French &
whoever was talking with. In that wa.
did very well. "