Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-07

| ing sheets. and 90 to make a good escape
at half-past eleven in order to have one full
| hour before the closing of all public bars
| at half-past twelve.
| Too Much Hurry md Drink.
This program Is not an enticing one
from the standpoint of Paris. There is
too much hurry in it, too much drink, too
much unappreciated luxury and expense
This latter is the sore point of the whole
affair, and it runs through all of London
| living. These music halls are carpeted and
| decorated like so many palaces. The ad-
| mission prices to all but the pit and am
| phitheater are high beyond all need, the
| ''prowr' or promenade being almost regu-
| larry dollar The answer is that if the
| promenade should charge smaller en-
trance fee i. would be overwhelmed with a
! rude mob. Perhaps this is the reason also,
| Tor some other rigors, such as the ugly
armor of reserve which people of the bet
ter class throw round themselves in every
| public place. In truth, the good-natured,
muddle-headed loquacity and vulgarity of
the low-class Londoner is almost beyond
| lelief.
| 1t is understood that by half-past eleven
| everybody has taken several Grini6s May
| hap a lemon squash has alternated with
the Scotch cold, hu.. in any case, it is soon
| after dinner and the coffee habit seems to
| be unknown. The only cheap drink for
| one's meals in the great capital is a strong
| ale, called bitter beer or London lager"
| nauseous wash, or nere and there glass
| of the real Munich i,rew-whch soon be-
| gins to taste too sweet after The forced
| daily use of bitter Wine is out of price,
and is, wherever bought, so highly al
| coholized as to give an unpleasant glow
| and swelling.
| Now the music halls are emptyins, full
| half hour before their closing time. The
choice must be between: First. a restaurant
| TO eat nasty supper, for the restaurant
must close at 1870, second, French cafe.
| Ike the Royal, where you may not play
| cards or dominoes, and which must close
| at 1910; third. a hish-cass bar, such as
the Leicester, in whose real parlors you
| VIII find SO many promenoirs of music
| halls repeated. with more freedom, until
| 1880, or, fourth, a German beer hall, like
| the Monico, which has mingled life of
stohd German clerks and almost second
class debauch, again till 1870. Till Il so
| TIL l23o You may sit and talk, sit and
| drink and talk, sit and smoke and drink.
sit and eat and smoke and drink, sit and
| eat and talk and smoke and drink or
| simply sit and drink-which is, at least.
| more than to stand and drink-but what
| You cannot do is sit and think, or sit and
read, or sit and watch with calm ease.
because the noise is very great, the smell
| OF food is very strong, because the walters
| are too bustling and impudent. The peace
and mildness of the French cafe are al
ways lacking, and yet the English have
the assurance to call Frenchmen laxative
excitaDle and noisy. But it will soon be
over, and one naturally PUSHES through
whatever he is doing. In Paris you may
dill
you may go and sit till ) a M in the Cafe
American, at Julien's, Wetzers or at
SYLVAN sail well-known, large and we'll
conducted places. Then you NAV ioin the
throns of cabs and race down to the Cen
tEai Markets, where Baratte's is opening,
and soon it is fun day. No one has pushed
your elbow, saying Closing time. sir
Lights are going out, sir No one desires
to spend his days staying up all night. but
the reflection that you may is comforting
to strangers and to travellers, at the least
You may stay up in London. too. and this
Is how:
Cosmopolitan Streets.
London is large town. all full of streets
1t has been estimated that should a man
walk fifteen miles day for nineteen years
ne could not cover all these streets Well,
all these streets from 10 o'clock al night
TO l or am. are filled with demoiselles.
In great part they are seeking food, plain
food, beefsteak and onions and a cup of
oo1ee and they like to feel sure, also that
they Will not be turned out for the non
payment OF their rent. In Regent street,
in Piccadilly, and round Leicester Square
The stranger, walking, after he has been
turned out OF his cafe, at i2:So, will hear
all languages. Londoners are fond of
thinking that it is this foreign element that
scandal.zes their fair capital and makes
1t something that no city ever saw before
1t is a spectacle at which Monsieur Lepine
IN Paris-Alonsieur Lepine, who tolerates
the Moulin Rouge, the Boulevard, the Cafe
Harcourt-woulc have an apoplectic fit
Undoubtedly you will hear foreign Ian
suages on Regent street at 1 am but in
The vast Whirlpool Of nightly London they
are mere drop. And in the turned-up
faces a bind man could not but see the
delicate and melancholy prettiness of merry
England.
They nave the prettiest faces in the world,
these English girls. Shop girls, factory
girls, scrub girls and slavies. school girls,
rich and poor. aristccratic and no class
girls from the country and wan Londoners
of every class, of every rank IN virtue and
respect. And with them all, except the
ruin from the st1hdpoint of aesthetics :1e or
companionship or chic. Because of their
marvellous faces they neglect all else. They
do not learn 10 dress, or walk, or talk; and
as 1t is in proper life, so 1t is underneath
the Regent street gas lamps at night. There
is more innocence and real stupidity to the
square inch than in all Europe or the two
Americas or any chosen part thereof. They
have no chance They are thrown out. 1t
is a painful thing to wander in the London
streets by night; and one is glad when
everything is quiet at . am
At am. it is extremely quiet, the only
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