The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-15
AMERICANS TRIALS IN LONDON.
Made Miserable by Too Much Tower,
WestIninster and Other Sights.

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Ny, but it does feel good to get back to
woman who lived in London the last two
go to London to live and endeavor to en-
terrain your friends who come over for
brief stays. I'll guarantee that in less than
three months you'll wish you'd never. seen
the big English city; and yet, despite this,
one has to admit that it's just the lovliest
and most interesting old place in the world
York.
tunate American women who takes up a
residence in London both hates and loves
the city at the same time. If she could do
as she likes she would never have cause for
complaint, but she can't. That is a posi-
tive fact. She cannot do as she likes just
tain her friends from America. She is made
a perfect slave, and no one will! ever know
be a mine of information when I
waala So have eluf iiked and to b borsf od that int !
Born and brought up in America, she makes
hundreds OF friends, and when business
take up his residence in London and she
goes with him, she has got to receive and
may come over on visits. London is strange
to them, but of course she is supposed to
know all about it. And SO they come one
after another all through tn summer and
winter, each one armed with a list of the
historical places she wants to see and al
ways expecting me to go around with them
POAat 49, SHN Isl
through Westminster Abbey a million
times, and l don't think there's an inScrip-
ton on a tomb there that / don't know by
heart. Poets Corner is easy for me, and
| can tell the location of every tomb there;
The chapels are what We Americans would
call a cinch. l know them all The burying
places of all the famous beings l can point
out with my eyes blindfolded, and any little
interesting facts connected with certain
tombS l have at my tongue'S END. The
warders who show strangers through the
class at all. / am so sick and tired of go
ing through that place. that l almost wish
l I were were a w man - an vis; fGuaa in aw london egef Saws siit to
me, And now, dear, will you go to the Abb
bey to-day, and you'll show me everything.
sn,iia md saw. .Of course. dear when all
the while | feel as though I'd rather get
hit with a club than go around the pace
land then they all want to go to the
Tower next. Dear me- they'll say when l
try to get out u o DIa Il py the ,enia Tower is. GO
u uwaJ @jtheut p seeing where the Princes
we're smot I a,e s oh; then Ta never np eom noIs ms
stock smile, and I tell them how delighted
Id be to take them through the Tower
them from an embarrassing trip when l
suggested emitting this visit. And then
when they've seen r u now h sasp .roxer i ny
most interesting place of all. But to poor
me it is a dreadful bore. l feel faint when
i think OF the liiieS ' HdihCa hiOu5u
those old galleries and tried to say interest,"
ing things about the old weapons. the
that line the walls. And the blood stains
beside the beheading block; I've told the
story of those stains SO often that six
months ago / compiled a little history of
nv own, and now 1 tell that instead of the
true story. It's a diversion. and when a
poor woman is on her five hundredth trip
to the Tower, with a companion who has
never been there before, and who Is simply
bubbliEg over with enthusiasm, what does
she care how much she lies il she can get
a little amusement out OF it, ! don't, and
I'm a church member. too. And then there
is st. Paups. the National Gallery. and a
dozen or SO museums and other galleries.
Visitors think they must STE all Of these
stock sights, and every, friend I've got
with her. What a lovely time / could have
in lear London If my friends would only
let me alone; but they won't, and that's
why I'm indulging in this little kick"