The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-18

pleasure. HE them to Hampstead
Heath. If you said Hampstead
Heath" to one Of them. however, he
would look at you as at one putting on
airs. To hit the vernacular and be III
fashion you must say 'Ampstead
Faith" Then would you be hailed as
a man and brother. If the American
wishes to get a perfect view of the
lower class English at their best and
worst, let him by all means take IN
Hampstead Heath on bank holiday.
The heath Is simply huge hillside,
with more or less grass and few trees
growing upon t. a steep street leads
to II out of great thOroughfare from
the heart of London. as you walk up
the steep street you see at 4 corner of
the pavement. and very, close te.-a con-
venient ale and beer house. of coufsss.
stone bearing an inscription. 1t tells
you that ON the very spot marked by the
stone little orphan Dick Wilmington
sat down to rest himself. with his cat
IN his arms, when he was running
away from London. and as he sat
heard the bells of the city Ginning
Turn again. Wilmington. thrice
mayor of London" Matter of fact
persons say no mortal ear could have
heard the bells of the London of 1880
Ginning at Hampstead Heath. because
the town was then so small and so far
away, but what would these have?
We cannot spoil good story.
Millions Of feet have since pressed
the spot where weary Dick Whiting
ton and his cat rested that day. and
many thousands press 1t still every
August bank holiday.
Upper class England stays strictly
away from Hampstead Heath on bank
holiday That is the very reason for
going there. You want to see the Brit
ish nature with its stays of. Well. you
see 1t. 1t throngs TO the heath in u
hundred thousand specimens, on foot
by omnibus, and by what these speci-
mems call 1.-THE tram" which is one OF
the two or three electric car lines the
whole city Of London boasts. There
are thousands of children with the
prettiest compilations Of any young
ones in the world. English children
that get enough to eat are prcttier than
American children. but as they grow
to maturity they lose this beauty. and
then Americans have the advantage ia
| looks. Again. an English lower class
crowd does not begin to be so wei
dressed as a French one. Its clothing
l. al oil Nft.lcf
skirts and shirt waists are not well
| joined. Men. even young men, appear
| to have come TO the picnic In their
working clothes.
Here atop of an omnibus you see a
young fellow and his best girl She,
though pale faced, like most English
working girls. Is neatly dressed and
| clean. The unwashed youth who is
with her is evidently fireman or coal
HEAVIER, hands and face still covered
with black and cease. He has one
dirty arm squeezed tight around the
| girl. Moreo er, be is drunk. and his
head half Tolls over her shoulder. She
does not seem to mind. although she is
clean and sober and looks respectable
| The fact is men are so scarce in Eng
land that when a working girl gets
even a drinking beau she is pleased as
| possible, 70 most of her friends have
none. Any sort Of man Is better than
no man at ali. thinks she.
II an American were to sum up in q
few words his impression Of this
Hampstead .eath Outpouring. it would
be. "Ill bred Ill dressed. III fed. under
sized and having the prettiest complex
ions and worst teeth of any white peo
pie ] ever saw" 1t is rare to see
among the Indon poor even q young
person that Las good teeth. Boys and
girls Of II run about grinning witt
snagw gums. front teeth all gone, ant