Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-02-13

day OF sightseeing took in enough for
a week. In the morning we left
birmingham by sail for Stratford-on-
Avon. There we took a wagonette
and visited the Anne Hathaway cot
tage--the lineal descendant giving us
permission to gather plnks in the gar
en--shakespeare birthplace, and the
church where he lies buried. It was
a fine day and we drove for thirty
miles over rolling and pleasant
country, visiting Warwick Castle and
the ruins of Renitworth Abbey. There
we took luncheon in q tiny housewhere
our hostess and her kindred had lived
for $50 years, and it was a very or
binary house, too, with no striking pc
cullar'itles.
Then by rail we came to oxford,
where we visited number Of the col
leges. Their gray Old walls we're gay
with window boxes full and running
over with the brightest flowers. They
fairly ran riot, and l fear drew our
eyes from the architectural features.
By that time we were very tired and
sat down on the stone coping border
ing the sidewalks while waiting for a
tram. The passing world gazed and
Uttered, recognizing our calling, but
we still sat, calmly superior, though
tired And we walked, and walked,
and climbed stairs, and sat in high
places and looked over grey roofs.
And we visited the dining room in
Christ Church College, where students
pay prices that would bankrupt most
of the Marietta boys, though they sit
at such tables with coarse linen and
the plainest of china and cutlery.
They pay for present good fellowship
and the glory of the past And we
went down into the kitchen where
! they roasted the meat before big fires,
or told us of it, am not sure which
and that night we slept in London!
There we were on Holborn street.
There is an L in Holborn, but you
would not think it. London Is almost
too big to talk about, and we were on
one of the busy streets where in the
press CT the day crossing the street
was quite an undertaking. But the
people have so wholesome respect for
law and that 1 at least
never felt timed. The law of
the road was sure to be kept, and
one only looks in one direction TO
avoid the teams. And how the driv-
ers on the buses can drive. 1t was a
liberal education to watch them. And
how afmillar the names Of the streets;
it was like reading Dickens to recog-
nize them. One thing peculiar was
the frequency with which a street
changed its name. Oxford Road, Ok
ford, New Oxford, High Holborn, Hol-
born, Holborn Hill, Holborn Viaduct,
Newgate Cheapside, Poultry and
few others, all apparently simply a
continuation, and they appear to have
no system of numbering Many
long ride did we have on the omni-
buses-they have no tramcars in the
heart of the city-and we always went
On top and sat near the driver if pos
sible. BiR. alas, it was long time be-
fore we learned that the proper thing
to do when said driver had chatted
with you, was to give him tip, that
politeness and tips are cause and eff
feet under nearly all circumstances.
The conductor on giving you your
ticket-they give you tickets every
where over there, and the streets are
so Uttered with them that our Village
Improvement Society would have fit
-the conductor always said thank you
but | don't think he expected one.
The elevator boy, excuse me, the lift
boy, On letting you out said thank
you" and it was so habitual a re-
sponse on rendering any service that
we unsophisticated Americans were
sometimes embarrassed. On trans in
Vienna l saw working people ,appar-
emily quite poor, giving small coins in
addition to their fare to the conductor,
and he took them as though he eX-
pected them. In Paris the cab driver
has legal right to his fee, and the
waiter in restaurant will ask for his
if it is not given him. They get no
other wages, and the porter in hotel
pays for his position. These things
were novel to us, and the vexed ques-
tion of how much one should give was
seldom satisfactory settled.
1t will have to go without saying
that in all the cities we visited as
many churches, galleries, museums
and other places of interest as time
and strength permitted; but you
are so familiar with better des-
criptions than any could at
tempt, that / will only speak
of things that seemed strange to
us. We spent three weeks in London,
one with our party and two by our
'Si'S9' anu oO "SlS aOiS " NA9l' many
places twice or thrice. One can go to
London alcne and after seeing its fine
galleries and museums, collections
all times and peoples,
feel that one has trayelled extensive
ly. In our boarding place in Upper
Bedford Place, Americans, Canadians,
French, Germans and Hungarians sat
al tahla all snanzinp ENGLISH We