The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-30
NJ cMAn1ns sArrxLL LOOMS.

.aems even hotter than 1t 10.
One hundred and twenty-nine in the
snn Yesterday on the strand And o. In
the shade!
II ia often hot in New York, but We don't
,.Ik about what Il IL In tho sun, and 30 We
don't feel so hot. ] used to pity mon con-
damned 70 work In brass mills before blast
furnaces at q tempersture OF 12s, but at
least they we're clothed for It and dis
rensed with everything OF q sartorial nature
executing a pair Of flannel trousers; but
hare in London, while &he Thermometer
was leaping with extraordinary agility,
considering the heat, London business
men walked the streets on the sunny side,
frock coats, waistooats and silk hats.
When Braddock refused to adapt himself
TO altered conditions he was defeated:
but these modern Englishmen seem to DO
able to stand anything without turning q
hair.
They still tell me that England Ii q damp
country and that London IL celebrated for
is fogs.
simply refuse 10 believe either state
ment. / have now been on her hospitablo
sh~ores-oonnting London az the shores
Of the Thames more than six weeks, and
nOl n TNAlN .h0y huNO We ~ ="
time. And the sun stares down on London
much as that ~un OF which Dickens wrote
stared down on Marseilles. showing up
everything in p~itiless brilliaDcy.
Let me set right still smother matter
in the interests Of truth. Englishmen in
New York used to tell me that London
simply would not stand the tearing up OF
the streets that makes New York 50 New
Yorky, but again I was misinfomed.
London is now in the throes Of -upness'
and there is no rioting. They simply say
the city is up and climb over the obstrlc-
tons in a patient way amusinRly reminiscent
Of New York.
Block after block OF buildings has
been RACED on tho Strand to make way for
American skyscrapers that will be fully
fifteen stories Hight And the streets are hul,
Of ~vestless, straw hated Americans, and
every other restaurant advertises long
American drinks" But l think they have
not long been American drinks.
While I'm on London topics let me tell
Of the amusing way OF treating hens out
in the country districts. l recommend
it to our farmers.
A farmer here may cultivate q couple
Of hundred acres. He has perhaps a hun
dred head Of poultry.
We will say that to-day they are hunt
ing for grain and the absolutely noiseless
English insects in a moved Geld just back
Of the farmhouse.
Night falls and they 60 into their hen
houses hard by and rOost after the manner
Of ~Ralinacious birds from time immemorial.
Now the farmer has learned something
from his visits to the seashore and his use
Of the British bathing machine, and his
ben houses are all mounted on wheels.
Very early in the morning be harnesses
his stocky, heavy fetlocked horses to those
henhouses and they are dragged to fresh
, fields and pastures new, and when the hens
Nopen their eyes and stretch their legs and.
yawning sleepily, fly down to the ground
they may be half a mile from the scene Of
their operations Of the day before. The
farmer has had them removed to afield thai
be has just reaped. and they range over two
or three acres and clear the ground OF the
dropped grain M again hunt for the absO-
lutely noiseless English insect.
People have often remarked upon the
peacefulness Of the English countryside
The thing that mainly conduces to that peact
is the absence Of our chatty crickets ant
g~rasshoppers and locusts. I have heard
Just ona cricket since 1 came to England
and that was in LondOn-on somebody
hearth, l suppose.
The English landscape is all that the mos
euloGistio writer ever painted it and ever
hour reveals new beauties OF color, but
would give a good dealt to hear a few million
grasshoppers and crick cts n locusts anC
katydids delivering their various musica
messages. And not the least cheering In
this heat would be the one ITS six week.
to frost"
I've been rambling a good deal-On foot
| near - and I find myself constantly
changing my mind in regard to English
customs and men. Often, very often, Eng
lishmen don't look the part for which they
have been celebrated in other countries.
Yesterday while seeking for some COO
spot where they did not advertise "lonl
American drinks I came on Westminsteo
Abbey and sought ito shade by way OF tb'
cool cloisters.
Wandering around and being newly
touched by the sight Of Longfellow's eng
among such q company Of literary me
Glanced or a remarkably able pieoe o
statuary. 1t depicted Voltaire or Maohia
velli or Mephistopheles or Lord Steyr
evidently.
He was al elderly gentleman, long. lank
hs legs crossed as he sat In his easy chat
In q most devil may care attitude. Sucl
sharp, wicked eyes as he had, with eye
brows Of the truly devilIsh upward slant
a long, powerful, sarcastic nose and THU
lips with a humorously diabolioal twist
The gentleman might have been saying:
Let me zee. Suppose you pull his toe
out, one By che, and then you might bast
him with a few Cupfuls Of flaming oil and
And-why, you might run his eyeballs
through a stamp p~erforating machine
That will be all thih mofning. oh, yov
might serve lunch a. soon a l have wit
messed the torture. I shall doubtless fee
hungry"
II vas a marvellous marble by q soulpto
named Joseph, a bit OF diGbJeTie in endurinI
stone.
And the name Of the EnkIiSh gentIemal
Who carried this mask Of Satan stretches
% bis headpiece was william Wilberforce
phlanthropist and genuinely good mar
what ancestor q his served him such o.
ugly turn5
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