Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-01-11

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Iancing GREATNESS Hanson?
! Julie (panting) very kind OF you
! to say so. LORD l4anclng.
| I.ancing docking back anxiouslyl u
mean. will You have one?
/ Juliet all depends ON what mamma
says.
Lancing with a gaspy laugh)-I mean,
viii you have a cab, not Il husband?
JuIie-O. why, yes. Say, I'm sorry
/ hadn't a notion you called these choco-
late boxes on two wheels by such ms
nomer Uglys, | should call them. tShe
steps into one reckiessly.(
| Cabby-Where to, sir?
Lancing-Anywhere you like, ana be
quick BY Jove. YOU ought TO
be in command of the Russian forces.
Miss Carryl!
Julie taking a peep at herself in a
+, battered piece OF looking glass y e.
IIow's that, anyway?
Lanoing-The Wpu you managed t.
convey to me by one look that you were
going TO put your hat on and leave that
gang to your mother was superb. \
mastery retreat, ii ever | saw one.
congratulate you.
Julie giving Lancing both her eyes,
wide with amusement and admirationl-
Well, say, that's fine, just tine! You
congratulate me on something | never
did
Lancing-Well, we won't pursue the
subject. What ripping day!
Julie-Just a minute before you com
NIT a tangent. You came up those staTs
seven at a time, leaving all our Min
neapolis friends constructing schemes,
and absolutely laid down this piaE CT ac-
ton. l congratulate you, Lord Lanclng.
1t was perfectly darling.
Lancing (gravely )-It's very kind OF
you to say so.
Julie Cooking about her Say, where
are we now?
Lancing is Trafalgar Square
Julie-Who's the poor fellow with his
head stuck in cloud? A sky-pilot?
Lancing-No, that's Nelson.
Julie-O, say, how bully. | used his
soap for years. And what's that ram
bling building with the bee-hives on the
roof! | guess that's reformatory or 4
lunatic asylum!
l.ancing we call it the National Cal
lery.
.fulie--Why call it that?
l.ancing 1t contains all the best works
of art collected from other countries.
Jnlie-t see. On the same system rs
the one you have of putting red splashe
on foreign maps and calling them Brit
ISL. And. Q. look at the lions Why
are they there? And why do they turn
their backs on the fountains?
Lancing latter a moments hard think
ing}-So that they shan't see the aliens
washing free Of charge.
Julie-And what's that nice white
building?
Lancing-Cox's bank
julie see-the place where those
dear little men who steer your univer-
sity boats put their money.
| Lancing-Very possibly they do. Bat
primarily it's the place into which stint
ing parents pay in their hard earned
money in order that their sons may play
at soldiering-a quite expensive English
hobby This is Whitehall.
Julie Cooking at the filthy looking
houses on each de)-Which?
Lancing-All Of IL.
Julie-Well, say, you have queer ways
Of calling things on this side What goes
on III those houses?
Lancing-Nothing. They're govern
1
little to the left
} Julie--At the Dutch looking building
with the high tower? Is it a water
works?
Lancing No, the St Stephens gas
works It's still called the House OF
. Commons.
Julie-Oh, your Senate? Say, I'm gla(
to see it. Are the members sitting now
} Lansing this is the entr'acte Tn,
company are waking up for the next
scene. And there's the Abbey
Julie with a little catch in her voice
% say, it makes a stir in my heart
| 70 think that it's Just stood there al
r these years without moving. It's fan
l away better than anything 've ever seen
: 1t makes rings around the Astoria. Die
Pierpont Morgan buy it!
lanclng-NO; he wanted to do so tt
turn it into a private Turkish bath; but
the government were afraid the ''Tee
. graph would start correspondence OF
the sub cct. and Sc they reluctantly re-
fused his offer This is Birdcage Walk
Julie (wide-eved againl What nica
place for it! On our side we haven't
any special place devoted to that kind Of
dance the musical theaters, anc
in those they do it all the time All.
, this IS a park. anyway?
Lancng--A Lind Of park. It's really
the place Tic London county council run:
for men wlo won't work. They sleeI
here, y'know. an. have picnics under the
i trees. You see the place we're coming tc
} now, through that archway?
Julie O that's fine.
Lancng- another county coun-
Gil playground, only it is mainly devoted
to soldiers for flirting purposes and act
ors who run theaters, III order TO be able
TO hire very old horses.
. .ulie-Don't we 90 inside?
iancing-No, Cubs aren't allowed
They flighten the motors. This is PAR;
Lane, Or, as some people call it, Johan.
neshurg Alley.
Julie-O there's a bully place.