The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-27
LONDON WOMEN HAVE A WEAK
NESS FOR SCOTCH WHISKY.
Some of the Discomforts of Suburban
Travel-London County Council
Places Expensive Regulations
Upon Barnum & Bailey's Big
Honesty Enforced By the
Courts.
Especial Correspondence.

shop they call it here-everything is a
'shoD'-and asked for a can of tomatoes
in my fat Chicagoway, you know. No
one could understand me. 1 had to point
it out
And everybody laughed at me. They
Use tinnned' for canned. wanted some
napkins and they thought they were Tor
the baby You mustn't say napkins
it is serviettes, you know She 1augheo
merrily as she recounted her experiences;
ST was accustomed to a steam-hea1eo
fat. and though it seldom freezes here
am never warm in winter, except Wnen
I am in bed. These soft coal hres are d
snare and an abomination. l wanted TO
know where they kept the ice:
''Icer' screamed my maid of all works
who was looking at the nat Win me-
Icei What do you want ice forE
all the wear round She almost dropped
dead Nobody seems to take ICE mere:
even in summer, and nobody thinks Oh
drinking ice water or heard OF lce Geo. Tea "a
Coming across from Liverpool Salo 10
my husband: I would as lei go second
class. if there is much difference IN tne
cost He looked at me with the aston-
fshment of the Londoner- -
Why. I've already bought third, said
sfFrom a Pullman to third-class was a
big Jump, / thought; but BOOKING Oh
fees take IT for granted that you want
third-class unless you ask Tor better. II
is the rule. 4
you always pay 80 cents pint bottle Tor
at home. We get it in jugs at one anu
six a gallon You see, there are some
advantages in living mere. II Is , nIosolS
drinking however, I'm. bound to OBSERVE
Fish and vegetables are cheap; chlcken-
fowl they call it's very dear Mhen I
think of the turkey and fried chicken OF
home / almost weep. American beef IS
cheaper and poorer than the English peer.
Fruit is poor and out of reach But. Gu
riously enough, all kinds OF preserves,
pickles, nnarmaladeS, etc. are cheaper anu
better than anything we get at nome.
When ! think of the abundance and su-
perior quality of fruit at home ana the
of nv countrvmen. Nothing is adulter-
ated here, and one is practlca4ly sure 10
get what one pays for. II Lonuohers
could only talk plain, stralsnt, eNeiy- tIiSS
Fnglish. life here would not be absolutely
intolera BILE"
ENFORCED HONESTY.
II &c certainly a commemorate thing.
this honesty and square dealing among
English tradesmen. but 1t must pc aooeu
that il is enforced by stringent laws
There was a case in court recently Illus
fratiye of their operation. A clerk of
certain tradesman sold customer nam,
representing it to be an Irish nam IL
was so labelled. But 1t proved 10 pc an
Arnericau ham. and the customer, eXer-
cising the Briton's proud prero2atIVe OF
slxicbiDe' got a summons for the proprl-
1T dlQnI soften Inc IlldLlO1 eNiiy
that it was shown to be a Canadian man,
It was not Irish-not what had been rep
resented to be. Nor did II aVall Ine
tradesman to repudiate the act Oh ms
clerk. The Judge, in fixing the line,
sravely intimated that such cases might
come under the criminal law as obtaining
money under false pretencest heavens!
Think of such an application OF law 70
our enterprising manufacturers and
tradesmen at. home! But, there-the SUB
1ect is too painful. Yet, why should a
man be allowed to cheat innocent people
with bogus food adulterated drugs, spu-
rious wines etc. short measures, light
Weights-any more than to cheat at cards
or swindle with bogus bank checks! we
have p mild law in New York that gives
good results in the exposure and ruin OF
The rnillSrnan who is caught selling adul-
terated or SKINNED milk. And New \ ork
has about the best milk OF any CITY OF
the Union, But about everything else is
adulterated ADMINISTRATION pepper to
champagne
ENGLISH WAYS.
Next to the difficulty experienced by
ths ordinary American in compromising
the English language in London, the Eng
fish way monopolizes a good portion of
his time and patience. The fair Julia
M, lles my bill out Ito Wednesday when
I came on Thursday. She says there can't
be two Thursdays in one week, winch
would be the case II the account ran
from Thursday to Thursday L worked
on Julia for half an hour IN the ef1ort TO
show that she was wrong, only to leave
f1er more positive than at the beginning
of the argument According to the well
known rule that those who disagree with
YOU are pig-headed, it would certainly ap-
pear that Julia is pig-headed. l regret
to say this, as otherwise Julia is all right
In the curve OF our saloon bar she is even
srtistic-and she can say Really with
more Quavers. trillS. infections and
ferni-serni-CuaVerS than an ordinary bu-
gler can get out of reVeille. But artless-
ness is in every movement of my maid.
who puts the poker standing upward in
the CRATE to make the fire burn.
thought is was carelessness at first, but
when [ saw the same thing in an Eng
lishman's house / was told that it was
one of the English maid servants ways.
One of the early troubles is getting ac-
customed to the door knobs or levers that
usually supplant that useful article. They
invariably turn the wrong way. No
amount of experience with given door
will enable Won to turn the crank the
right way the first thing You throw
your weight on it to the right, when it
is made to operate in the opposite direc-
ton. And people on the street collide
with YOU for the same reason. I've been
knocking against everybody in London.
The train you want is over on the other
track-the wrong track, of course. You
find this out after getting left. The right
is left and the left is right. That is one
req son the United States was founded.
People wanted to escape these hardships.
THE BARNARD HAND.
The barrnaid hand is unknown in Amer
ica We have the baseball hand, the
f,iano hand. the typewriter hand, etc, DuC
his barrnaid hand is q distinct type. 1t is
big. and resembles somewhat the graceful
lines of a shoulder of mutton. Then it is
red. and as rough as sandpaper. The
finger ENDS are stumpy and the nails are
The nails of coal HEAVIER. 1t seems to
hang on the woman wrong side 'front.' in
any old way. The mere idea of asking for
such a hand in marriage seems mon
strous Pretty barnaids are largely a
myth in London, but the barmaid hand
is a practical entity. II comes from work.
ing beer pumps, washing bottles, yanking
cosks and scrubbing bars. There are
from 10 to IS of these pump handles work.
ing downward and downward. like a rail-
road switch: and when a customer calls
Tor .-bittah' the barmaid grabs one of
these ornamental handles and throws her
weight on it. She does this about ten
times q minute from morning till night
and half of the night. Hence the barmaid
hand For when it comes to swilling
liquors of al sorts these English
beat the Dutch. We. are not in any
on election nights. Scotch whisky. gin
and brandy are consumed by wholesale
and retail by male and female. An Eng
iisl lady-that's what the maid called her
-emptied a great bottle Of Scotch in our
coffee room at one sitting the other day,
then called cab and went DOWN town
shopping. l saw hundreds of women in
the St James restaurant last night. al
most every one drinking Scotch whisky
or gin in some form. From tuppence to
six pence a dring would be dog cheap
in the states. Beer. as we know it, is
compa atiVelv unknown here. They say