The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-01

And, by the way, the little countess, af-
ter leaving an order with the clerk for
some sweets TO be sent to her town
house, observed:
'Ah, suppose you know who ann"
Yes, madam"
Yes, / am the Countess of Craven"
The west side of Regent street is other
wise just as interesting as the east side,
but after watching that side of the street
rather curiously for several seasons, l SOL
EMMY aver that I never yet saw an Amer
lean tourist there.
Haunts of Americans
II the American you are looking for is
not on Regent street in the afternoon. Look
for him on Bond street. block further
west. That used to be the promenade OF
the beaux in BrummePs day, and even
now you will find better dressed men on
that street than any other in London ex-
cept Piccadilly and St. James It is mar
row and dngy and unpretentious, but be-
hind its shop windows are the most cost
ly wares to be found anywhere in the me-
tropolis. If your American is not saun-
tering by these shop windws. try for him
in Burlington arcade-unless he has
brought his wife with him, in which case
it is not necessary to look for him there.
In the morning the Strand, between the
Cecil and Trafalgar Square, would, in the
season, turn out Americans enough TO
populate a good sized town In conse-
quence many of the shop windows in that
region display American prices as well as
English.
For some reason, two-thirds of all the
American visitors to London who do not
stop at a hotel gravitate toward Blooms
bury, and lodge somewhere within half a
mile of the British museum. Russell
Square has lost most of the patriarchal
character II had in the days when dear,
stupid little Amelia Sedley lived there and
George Osborne made love to her, while
Becky Sharp laid snares for Joe. 1t is
running to boarding houses and hotels
as fast as anything so solemn and dig
nifed could run, and block after block of
the streets leading off from 1t are occu-
pied by an uninterrupted line OF fairly
high-priced board-houses that have be-
come hotels by virtue of a fancy name
on a large brass plate. From now till
October they will be given over wholly
TO Americans, who pay there anything
from IS to SIS a week for breakfast, tea
dinner and one comfortable room, usual
ly getting their luncheons out. I ven
ture TO say that If a straw vote were
to be taken in Bloomsbury any time this
summer between Americans and Britons
the Americans would have it by a large
majority.
For some strange reason the Baker
street region in the vicinity of Regents
Park is also becoming strongly Ameri-
canized, and when abe Queen drove that
way on the occasion Of her last visit to
London, ! counted half dozen American
flags in one block. 1t is to this region
that any one who is going to stay in Lon
don for a month should come and plunge
without preliminaries into housekeeping
If he has brought his family. The sug-
gestion may sound a llttle odd to any one
who is not familiar with one peculiar
phase of living in London, but the scheme
is perfectly practicable All you have TO
do is to take at a moments notice q
floor consisting of two or three rooms
In any one of the many houses of the
! Baker street region that are dedicated to
| this apartment life, unstrap your luggage
and proceed to be as much at home as II
| you had lived in London for an age. II
it is chilly, the maid had fire burning
for you in the CRATE, and II II is in the
afternoon she is serving tea before yau
have fairly had an opportunity to OBJ.
serve that the place is even provided
with piano. You go around the corner
! to the grocer and the green grocer Give
wholly separate personages), the butcher
| the pouNe-er and dairyman and order
| what you like for dinner. They send Il
around 90 your cook, and presently with
out your giving the matter any further
! thought, 1t is served in your own dininl
| room.
never could understand why NOR,
Americans who are going to stay a few
weeks in London do not try this plan o.
| ready-made housekeeping You have alb
eolutely no responsibility or worry, ex
cept buying whatever food you want. ant
struggling with the English currency sys
TEN. II is quite as cheap as boarding
YOU avoid the horrors OF the boarding
house tabls. hAYe two or three room