The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-01

than with the celebrated dead. The floor
of Westminster is literally paved with
Industrious bones. although there ar.
thick slabs of fiagstones above the mo-
ionless feet of the departed, and for the
ceaseless footsteps of the tourist Those
who never walked with genius, can III
awe here walk sacredly over the bodies
which clothed it. Slowly we passed
through this cathedral for the worship
of the quick and the repose of the dead.
One of the few here lying in a sar-
cophogus was Chaucer who wrote
English. now difficult to read. and
years before Columbus sited American
land. Upon the floor. with chiseIed let
tiers or names in brass to tell the in
cumbent. are Gladstone. his axe ruSted,
Darwin, possibly knowing in an instant,
what a Lifetime only theorized, Newton,
of the apple. whose fall helped Her
schel now side by side, Goldsmith Liv-
ingston, Dickens. Longfellow, Tennyson,
and long list of kings and queens and
their satellites.
The advance in the price of shave in
Topeka effective today leads to a little
comparison What costs fifteen cents
here. costs the same in New York, but
twenty cents at the waldorf; a quarter
on shipboard; twelve cents in London,
twenty-five Dutch cents, Ca dime in our
money!. at The Hague; forty pfennigs
(ten cents) in Germany; fifty centimes,
trifie less than ten cents. in Swttzer-
land. and the same in Paris.
Foreign BARRIERS expect tip which
increases the price of the shave from
two to four cents
very good shave can be obtained
by Germans, not American tourists. in
the leading cities of Germany for twenty
pfennigs and tip, that is, five cents in
our money and as much more as the
man wants to add as a little fee Many
Germans employ barber to come to
the house regularly and pay him by the
year, 20 marks that is. $500. II Is said
that in some of the smaller towns in
Germany a shave can be had for ten
pfennigs. two and one-half cents: court
plaster, it is presumed. extra.
The familiar reclining bar Der chairs
are not seen abroad. The patron sits
down in an ordinary big straight arm
chair, cane seated. with head rest
which slides up and down at the back.
Ones feet are placed squarely on the
/ floor, or on beYelled foot rest. The
barber in foreign parts does not confine
his calling to razors and shears. His
shop, I noticed in London and Holland,
is a combination of that of our tonsOrial
artist, of the pharmacist and OF the
gents furnishing goods store. His show
cases contain soaps, perfumeries, silk
hats, shirts. collars. ties and walking
sticks. In England he is hair dresser,
in Paris a coiffeur.
In the evening we went to the famous
old Adelphi theater and heard the play
of Emily" dramatized from David
Copperfield. There was a large au
dience and as the different incidents
were brought out it was plain that the
English people appreciated the genius
and revered 4the memory of Charles
Dickens. Aficawber was conspicuous
on the stage and his unique philosc by
of the happiness of man dependent
upon the annual expenditure of one
shilling less, and his salary, of one
shilling more. than his yearly income
was received with clapping of handds,
which showed that the audience knew
good advice when it heard it.
We had good seats in thu front por-
ton of the balcony. They cost us five
shillings, or SIPS each. We paid six
pence extra for the programm es. This
custom of charging for the programmes
is a prevailing one. Even Williams &
Walker, who were playing to good
houses in the old SALISBURY, followed
this practice and each. ticket holder
gave up his additional half shilling and
then wasrnot slways able to tell in this
company which was black and which
was white. f. +. M