The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-29
English Decisions
Hbodt america
They Expect Yankees to Near Iona
Hair and Bowie Knives.
HAY IDEAS OF OUR POLITICS
wherever Miss Kaiser Goes She Is Impor.
tuned TO Diagram the American pollt.
ical Situation and Explain Away Nh.
merous Anglican Misconce ptions.

special Correspondence of The Tribune.
London, Dec. 13-I most sincerely
nope you didn't publish that prosy old
letter which 1 sent last week 1t was
| dreadfully gossipy and mean to the
| queen TO say all those uncharitable
thlngs about her that / did | am
ashamed of myself, indeed, for writing
them, even If they are true. But only
meant to show you, by what / said,
that the reigning families do not have
such a very good time in this world
atter all. They really do not have
nearly so entertaining and pleasing and
nappy a life as one of us blessed United
States people, who do what we please
and are, really and actually, every one
OF us, the bona fide kings and queens.
get gladder every day that / hail from
the great United States, for | think we
are the people who progress.
have just returned from the Royal
Academy, where, as it happens, | have
been having quite long talk with Miss
May John and Miss Bessie Evans, who
are also studying there, and who will
be remembered by many Scrantonians
| ana Wilkes -Barreans as the principal
| soprano and cOntralto of the Welsh
Ladies' choir when they were in Amer
lea. Miss John, you recollect, had the
extreme good luck to carry off the
| Worlds fair soprano prize at Chicago.
She asked me after many Scranton peo-
pie, chief among whom were Judge and
Mrs Edwards, by whom she says she
was so delightfully."- entertained that she
can never forget it, Miss Evans and
she were enthusiastic over America and
the good time they had while there, and
|, in my turn, could not forbear singing
| the praises of their own dear little
| Wales, whose people had been so very
kind and hospitable to us that,I cannot
forget them either. Only last week
there came a perfectly lovely big box of
| flowers up to me from Wales to
brighten my little den here, and make
me think lovingly of the big hearted
| friends who could find time to go out
| into their flower gardens and strip the
late rose bushes and the holly trees and
the chrysanthemums And then the
violets, too Oh, how lovely they were.
welsh Girls in London.
Speaking of the Welsh girls, to whom
| was talking about home today, there
are great many dear friends that /
have made at the Academy and quite a
number Of them are bright, brainy
Welsh girls, some of whom / met this
summer, down in Wales, and whom,
when came up and entered the acad-
emy late in October, / was overjoyed to
| find already there. So it was not so
| strange as If had no friends there at
all. There are great many Welsh
| girls and men up in London studying
music and the other arts; and, by the
| way, the most distinguished pupil at
| the Royal Academy at the present time
Is dear little Welsh young lady named
Miss Llewella Davies. She Is a wonder
| fully clever girl and composes and
| plays most charmingly. j wonder if
she has any relatives on our side Of the
| water. If she has, they can be right
| proud of her, / am sure. She holds
numerous prizes, medals and scholar
ships, and though a wonderfully hard
student, yet finds time to fill many en-
gagements in the city here. Misses May
John and Bessie Evans are among the
promising students here also. Of
course, they do not belong to Mrs.
| Clara Davies Welsh Ladies' choir any
| longer, as they left it, much to the dis
| appointment and chagrin of its fair
leader, for the purpose of study. They
tell me that Mrs. Dayies parted with
| them in very high dudgeon, as they
were her show singers, so to speak,
and she became very angry when they
| spoke of leaving the organization,
which, of course, was not doing any
thing in the way of advancement in
their studies for them, and which GER
tainly was not a paying investment for
| any one but the leader. 1t seems to
me that 1t is great thing for these
gifted young Welshmen and Welsh
women to have London and all its ad-
vantages so near to their doors. They
bring such unquestionable talent, such
fine physique and voice, up to the
teachers here that the rapid progress
made by them as class is proverbial
Possessed with the most emotional ma
ture, many of them become splendid
| eXponents of the dramatic art, and
blessed with the love of literature, many
are the successes achieved by them in
all its branches; while in the realms of
music, both the composers and singers
| of note who come from the land of the
Cymri are too many, to be counted
do not wonder that the Welsh-Amer-
leans have done so much toward the
general spreading of an appreciation
for music among the masses in our
country. Their eisteddfods are most
wonderful assistance in this respect
We realize this when we consider that
at every succeeding one as many as
| from fifty TO a hundred people, say.
who never before took any active in
terest in music of any kind, become so
deeply interested In what they have
heard that they are moved to begin
the study of some instrument or other
while many of those who before had
some knowledge of the subject are
spurred on to still greater efforts in
their work or to the study of yet DIFF
ferent branches of that art which Is
tllN NlhCob anu uNNBNpl anu ullDBtllltI
the most boundless of all the arts.
Chapels and Churches
l went to church with one of the
girls here last Sunday. All the
churches over here which are not Epis-
copal, or English, are called "chapels,"
not churches. When l spoke one Sum
day morning of finding a church near,
they asked me if l were high or low
church. and upon my telling them that
was neither, they all chorused: "Why,
then, you aren't church at all, are
you? You want a, chapel" So all
Presbyterians, Methodists. Lutherans,
and so forth, are chapel folks"
Chapels are scarce in our neghborhood,
50 l went to church near by with one of
the girls who lent me church service
for my own particular use all this year
until / go home again, They have no
ushers in the church here to come and
politely escort stranger to seat, but
visitors must stand in the aisles, near
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