The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15

1 had to receive a generous tip The res taurant prices were not printed on the menu, and ones check usually proved to be about four times his estimate. The prices at the Waldorf and sherry,s in New York were like railroad eating houses compared to this. But one soon gets used to being robbed. He takes his med icine because he can't help it, and usually cuts his trip somewhat shorter than he had expected.
 London theatre tickets are higher than in New York. Eleven shillings, or about $2.75 is the demand for the best seats. Pro- grammes are not given away, but one must pay twelve and half cents each Tor them. The one good and cheap thing In London is the cab system. Cabs are cheaper there than anywhere else in the world. There are no trolley cars in Lon don and no surface street railways. One must travel in the underground or on 'busses. Every street has its innumerabe omnibus lines with double deck 'busses; and really this Is the best way to see Lon- don. The fares vary as to distances the minimum fare being two cents for mile or two. The bus horses are large, fat and fast. There is a rule, or a city law, governing the use of these horses; fourteen miles being the maximum dis tanee they can be driven a day.
 The one very cheap thing one gets in London is clothing. There are practically no ready-made clothing stores in Lon don. Tailor shops are on every block and one gets the very best sack suits made for from fifteen to twenty-five dollars It is true the London fit is not up to that style to be found in New York, but as a whole, the men of London are considered the best dressed men in the world
 The city of London has no regularity. It is a mass of lanes and roads running in every direction. No two streets are parallel But there are great parks all over the city which go to make 1t an at tractive place of residence. And by the way, this park matter is something that Birmingham should be seriously consider ing, for this Is getting to be a big town and it is practically devoid of parks.
 From London to Paris is a seven hour trip by the quickest route. That is, via Dover and Calais. It is something like two hours from London to Dover. Then one finds an hour of serious trouble in crossing the English channel which is about twenty miles wide there The boats are small and swift. The channel Is usually rough. The boats ply through the waves at a tremendous speed, rock ing and rolling and pitching and tossing until one knows not whether he Is right side up or upside down. He soon doesn't care. Almost everybody gets seasick Sailors are standing all about holding little bowls and looking for one to get sick. A dapper looking sailor with a new and highly polished bowl and sympathetic smile seemed to pay partic- countenance as the waves washed over the deck There was something about the whole thing which made me wish I was not there. But 1 determined not to surrender to that sailor, although the sea reaped It's reward and everyone I saw was a party to the equalization.
 Landing at Calais, one finds only French. but there Is restaurant on the dock and one has forty minutes for lunch con before the train leaves for Paris Cold chicken, a salad and small bottle of champagne reinstates one in his own good graces and the trip from there to Paris is not bad by any means, though