The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-12
SOME ODD SIGHTS
OF LONDON TOWN
Miss Kaiser Tells Of Her J0urneyings To
and Fro.
THE ORIGINAL CURIOSITY SHOP
Something About the Fine Old Cathe.
dral Town Of Canterbury, Its Won.
derfal Crypt, the Shrine of Thomas
a. Beckett and Other Notable Sights.
Words Of Advice to Pupils in Voice
Culture.

Special Correspondence Of The Tribune.
London. Nov. 3O.--I was down in tnat
part Of town the other day. where the
gentlemen of the law most do congre-
gate, and what do you think l saw:
Well, just the cutest, sweetest little
thing in all London, l believe. Was 1t
the barristers and solicitors, striding
about in their gathered gowns and their
funny wigs? you ask. Well, some Of
their fussy, old gowns can hardly be
called cute, nor do the keen, sharp faces
of their wearers strike the observer as
exactly sweet. so it couldn't be that.
But some of you who have been to
London and done" it--Alas for POOR
London!-in a week, may be guessing
by this time, so l must tell. Well, it
WAS the one and only really genuine
Old Curiosity Shop, stuck costly in a
little alley--lke turning and looking
out upon the world like sweet little
ever-young old lady, sitting in her
chair. contemplating rather WONDER
ingly the hurry and scurry of the today
world, which ruShes on so madly, grow
ing old, weary and blase, while time
with her seems to stand still, and her
eyes are as bright and her cheeks as
pink as they ever We're in her lrst
youth.
! am rather an explorer, whenever
have any time for it. and having, as
my friends are kind enough To say. the
bump of locality very largely developed
] often, when in II strange locality
try to determine whereabouts in Lon
don / am, and then essay some original
short cuts to where l wish 70 so. Some
times l am successful and emerge in
to the thoroughfare | hoped to find
quite inflated with concet over my own
.,f fin lin. Nx.nx httt ~
are times-I blush to have to say So
when the kindly offices of policeman
are necessary for my successful extri-
cation from the confusing maze of
slums into which l have blundered, out
into the kings highway once more.
HOW ONE FINDS 1T.
But to proceed. was down in Hol-
born the other day as | said when |
started telling you this, and had an
other errand which took me over TO the
Strand. Now, instead of taking busses
ad libitum, and going in a roundabout
way, l thought ! would strike through
Holborn. and see where l was at" So
in l went at little Turrstile street,
through the famous old Lincoln's Inn
Fields. and down an inviting looking
little street, when, behold! before me
stood a low, little corner shop, calso-
mined outside in pale pink. and sur
mounted by the curious curved Dutch
tiling that is still left on some of the
oldest London houses In the city or
thereabouts. On the front of 1t, in let
ters Of old English script ran this le-
gend "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. immor-
talized by Charles Dickens" 1t was
oh! SO sweet and tiny and quaint con-
sisting of only two stories and both of
them low, possessing three or four VIM
dows only, 1t snuggles close up to the
larger houses next it as il for bit Of
protection.
l looked inside, fondly hoping that
perhaps there might be a replica of the
dear old grandfather there, to remind
one of the times when Little Nell play
ed at it's doorstep. happy and careful
little one. before the two poor. homeless
wanderers fled out into the world only
to find there weariness and sorrow and
death But l might have known better,
FOR very matter Of fact and up-to-date