Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18

gagged in free for all dance, and they
dance very gracefully too, with just n
suggestion of high kicking.
1t was Just such an aggregation of
Londoners that gathered on Hampstead
Heath on the night of the fifth to wit
ness the annual parade. bonfire and
fireworks that are held there. Whoop!
there they go In squads, twenty coster
girls, with their arms lovingly inter
twined around their Immediate neigh
boris noclss. stretched in a row COM
pletely across the road, yelling the
chorus of the latest popular dittyi
Nothing, nothing, nothing to spend
but guilds,
II you want to be family man there's
nothing to have but kids"
Whoop, down go their heads stimuli
taneously. apparently aimed for the
, fourth button of ones vest. Just when
you deem humiliation inevitable, up
comes phantom of millinery and
twenty shattered wrecks of erstwise
four and eleven penny shoes are shaken
definitely at the horizon.
Dancing In it's barbaric fashion seems
| to be strictly confined to the girls or
| 'Arriets as they are designated by
| scoffers. whilst the Arry's content them
| selves with making night hideous with
! catcolls, concertanas and hnrmonicas.
, To such an extent do the 'Arriets throw
| themselves into the laazy measure that
girls are SO held toner.er with pins and
| SO generally vent, I'd between the
pins, that one mig. truthtully say
| that their costumes cape and yawn at
| every point. Suddenly Arriet ap-
parently breaks in two at the waist.
| She severely pulls herself together and
| complacently remarks: BLOW II,
give us a pin, Liza and continues in
| her mad career. Yet Max O'Rell SAYS
| the English take their pleasure sadly!
t-.. .ta
Woodworking set and although their
vocabulary is anything but refined,
| they are possessed of moral code or
virtue.
one parade is much like another:
| There are the same blatant brassy
bands with plenty OF drum. floats.
| rank and file, etc; one bonfire great
| ly resembles another and as the sky
| rockets ascend skywards. as in Amer
! lea so in England, q long drawn pro-
| longed O-O-Ohl goes up from the up
| turned faces. AS the parade started
| on its tour of the Heath. a general
bombardment on the part of the crowd
| ensued in the form of squibs and
crackers hurled with telling effect at
| the occupants of the coal wagons de-
signed as floats. Britannia. who hap
| pened on this occasion to be of the
sterner sex, manfully rose to the oc-
casion, upon receiving an explosive
| firework upon the apex of the helmet,
| delivered a 9Th of November ora
| ton with great eclat. the reproduction
| of which in cold type would seriously
| ieopardlze the successful running of
/ the linotype; confetti scattered to the
| four winds and settling over every
| thing and everybody. down ones neck,
and in ones hair: whilst AIRY armed
| with squibs and lady tormentors
| tsqurts) made life n dreary blank to
4 any who had the hardwood to wear
\ silk hat.
| Lord Mayors Day was but q repeti-
| tion of four days previous, although
| from the fact that the route of the
procession was In the heart of the
| staid old city, possibly things did not
assume such a boisterous turn In
| the streets set apart for the parade
| traffic was entirely suspended at an
| early hour. the thoroughfares being
| given over to the throngs of sightseers
| who patiently waited for hours to see
| the time honored pageant. OF course
the aforesaid crowd had to be amused,
I, so battalions of young medical stu
| dents with charming graciousness con-
descended to furnish gratis entertain
ment. by way of humorously smashing
| hats defytng the ever-patient police
and making life a burden to those In
the immediate vicinity. The occu-
| pants of the windows overlooking the
streets further INDUCED in the time
honored custom of heating pennies I'M
on n SnoNel over IRE until req not
| and then hurting them promiscuously
amongst the crowd below. As they
| were too hot to handle. the street
urchins promptly threw themselves
| upor the coins. whilst more of that illS
piled on ton like n football scrimmage:
! when sufficient time elapsed for the
| cooling process, the boy at the bottom,
n still alive, secured the prize; If hors
du combat was rolled over and the
penny secured by other adventurous
spirits. In either case there was des-
perate scramble. much hilerity on the
part of lockers on. and much profanity
on the part of ENTHUSIASTICALLY to
the victor belonged the spolls. Above
the din Is heard the intermittent
strains of bands of music and four
mounted policemen appear at the end
of the street. Instantly a scene of con-
fusion occurs: there is n mad rush for
the center of the street and the horse /.
men approach in the. form of n wedge
and literally force the crowd back.
Thus those In the center of the crowd
who escape being thrown down are
ultimately happy in being In the front
rank and having an uninterrupted
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