The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-20

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1t is never of the least use to rise
early in order to get in good days
work. The streets of London at 8
o'clock resemble those of America at
Z. Stores are being opened, traffic
barely commencing, lines of employees
going to their business. the city just
beginning to stir. Banks and the va
rious offices do not open until 10 o'clock
and the heads of firms do not go down
town until-that time. They move slow
ly everywhere. and for all purposes.
Nobody ever hurries. 1 often took
bundle away from a salesman and
carried it home without being tied
not that was in any special haste
myself, but I felt that 1 should lose
my mind If I watched his movements
any longer. One really ought to car
ry a book to improve his mind as he
rides UP and down in the elevators.
One day when I had waited in the up
per story of a large dry goods store
till patience was worn out I asked the
elevator man what made him so long
coming. IT was just waiting for the
lift to fill up" he said. Invariably
they will tell you, 1--WE have tried the
rapid lifts and our people won't have
them" Everywhere you see two or
three persons doing what one does cas-
lily in the United States. If we had
York would still be a frontier fur trad
ing post.
In America the people want the lat
est and best. In England they resent
an innovation of any kind. There is
great cutlery whenever an ancient
building is pulled down. They would
much rather see an old block patched
and propped up than replaced by a
new one, no matter how elegant. The
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ering gas jets, because the people pre-
fer it to electricity. You see a rumor
occasionally that some American COM
pany is going to put in electric street
railways here. 1t will-when the New
Zealander sits on London Bridge.
There was a statement to this effect
short time ago, and the Pail Mall Ga
zette, our late William Waldorf AS
tors paper, came out at once with
leading editorial in opposition, saying:
I'VE CD are perfectly satisfied with
the omnibus system which has served
us so many years" 1t then went on
to show how in case of a fire the street
cars could not get out of the way,
while the 'busses, RUNNING on more
flexible lines" can easily do so! They
will continue to run for many years
yet, but not for this reason. There
are 1900 of these vehicles, slow, shah
Oys luIIlDcIIllS
side and difficult to mount outside,
improved but little in half a century.
The last semi annual meeting of the
company showed that during the past
six months they had carried 81
006 900 passengers. Fares range from
2 cents to IL cents, and outside the
city rs cents. A yearly dividend of
1o16 per cent. is paid. The company it.
self will hardly move to abolish the
system, and it will never occur to the
people to demand anything better.
There is. however. a measure of SAL
walton in the "hansoms," or two-wheel-
ers, of which there are about 100000
They make a trip of two miles for a
shilling, and it goes decidedly against
the grain when one returns to the
United States to pay the carriage hire
demanded there.
An ancient idea, which has no foun-
dation now, whatever it might have
had in the past, is that the English
people are stiff, unsocial and difficult
to become acquainted with. They are
quite as approachable as well-bred
Americans. In travelling they are al
ways ready to begin a conversation,
and in hotels and boarding houses they
meet one fully half way and are even
more cordial than people of the United
States in giving their addresses and
urging that you visit them If in their
locality. Among the lower stratum
there is no such general intelligence
as among a similar class in America.
They can not convey information, be-
cause they do not possess it, and while
they seem stupid, reticent and dis
agreeable, this may be partly because
we do not understand them.
The educated and cultured English
people are delightful to know. The men
doubtless mean to be irreproachable in
manners, but they have not
that quick, responsive courtesy
which characterizes American
men in their acquaintance with
women. There is not so much COM
radeship and sympathy between the
sexes. In self-reliance and independ-
ence the English woman is about where
her sister across the sea was thirty
years ago. / may say sub-rosa that ]
think she would not be very attractive
to the American man. He would miss
something, indefinable perhaps. which
appeals to him in his own country
woman. Her voice is lower pitched
and fuller, but not by any means sc
TO believe. The loudest voices l ever
heard were those of English women
and there is also a certain type OF
them more aggressive and determined
than can be found anywhere else in the
world. AS rule, however, they are
extremely subservient to men, and
since the latter are rather a scarce
commodity, they place a remarkably
high estimate upon themselves, which
the women accept. The young English
girl is very pretty, especially as to
complexion, and has many charming
little ways, but she is utterly without
the poise and cleverness and piquancy
which render the American girl so at.
tractive. And yet it it must be con-
fessed that the latter has some things
to learn, from her English cousin, OF
old-faShioned modesty, dignified re-
serve and courteous regard for the
older persons.
No one can meet and talk with the
English people and not be thoroughly
convinced of their admiration ano
friendship for Americans. They have
really an exaggerated idea of our capa-
bilities and achievements, and of the
wealth and power of the country. I'm.
Gle Sam has proved an equal match in
what John Bull considers the great
est objects Of life-malxing money and
winning battles. He regards America
as one does poor relation who has
come into fortune. The ties OF kin
England fears but one dangers
coalition of European powers. France
and Germany or Russia and France
might threaten her supremacy. "Ir
that easel heard this said again and
again-"of course we should expect the
United States to come to our assist
ance and fight by our side"
Things Not Say.