The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-19
TRAVELS OF A FUNMAKER
Charles Banen Loomis Discovers a Remedy for ~Sessckness. Learns a New
Meaning Of Kentucky" and Sets People Straight About London.

tendency Of which I have spoken, and most
stay at homes have been told about 1t, but
I can't refrain from referring again to that
spirit Of good fellowship that In ~engendered
among mere bowling acquaintance by the
act OF meeting On shore. There was a man
on the boat who had been surnamsd
the Silent, because he spoke 30 little. He
hardly over passed the time OF day with any
one.
We landed at the proper station In London
and 1t may have been a half hour later
Messenger n I were looking for a place
where he could buy a elk hat in a hat box
when we met this taoiturn fellow face to
face.
He beamed all over, his right hand swung
round heartily and grasped each Of oura
in turn and he said:
well, hel-loi George, I'm glad to see
you
And the funny part was that we were both
overjoyed to see him.
II any Of you readers Of this know couple
Of mountaineers who have been hunting
for each other with murder in their hearts,
just contrive to have them meet on foreign
shores, and they will rush into each others
arms in the most friendly manner
We met an elderly man just coming out
OF his lodging in Bloomsbury. He had been
friendly with every one all the way over,
but he looked awfully woebegone as he
walked down the steps. Awfully woe
begone until he saw us and then his face
lighted up and he said:
"Oh, hullo, boys. ! am glad to SEQ you.
Been sitting in my room all the morning
wishing I was home and l just ran out in
hopes I'd meet some Of the dear boys
knew on board ship. God bless yer both.
1t reconciles me to being here-almost.'
So it goes. It's an amiable weakness
and the man who never yields to II is At
for treason, stratagem-and graft.
Messenger has a wonderful memory for
nothing but counterfeit presentments. The
day we landed we were in the neighborhood
Of Westminster and a cab bowled by (cabs
are great at bowling).
Hello. there's William Jennings Bryan,
said he. "How de do, Mr.. Bryan?"
The occupant Of the cab, a smooth faced
man with the visage OF an actor and black
hair, smiled pleasantly and lifted his silk hat.
-Bryan's In America said I.
sThat's what l thought till I saw him,
s,id Messenger.
Ever see him beforep"
Don't need to have seen him. I know
a man at once
Now II this were leading up to a bit OF
~sfacetiousness' (hateful word used only
by persona who have no sense OF humor)
II would turn out that Ma ssenger was wrong,
but the next mornings papers said that
Bryan had made h notable speech at West
minister the day before and / decided that
Messenger should ma re been a detective.
They say that 1t is q common vice OF
travellers to generalize and have made UP
my mind not to say a country Is noted fol
this or hat or that UGH and such a custom
obtains until It has been rubbed In on pe
by the repeated evidence Of my sense
Six years ago I spent quite a little time
In London, quite a little time; and the sun
shone with an almost Californian brilliancy
seven out Of the eight days. Such a thing
as a fog would have astonished me and
London were mere travellers tales.
/ did not say 30, because that would
have been generalizing from insufficient
data.
Now when after an absence Of six years
l descend without warning upon London
and find an American July sun shining
alike upon the just and the unjust I con.
fdently assert that London is the city OF
sunshine. And my landlady assures me
that there has been no rain for four weeks.
Ira vellers are very apt to lie wantonly
about the climat tie Of country and to faster
a wrong reputation upon a locality just
because Of this habit Of genera LIKING.
I'd always supposed Dakota was a cole
place In winter until I went there and ga "
for myself that there was no snow on the
ground nor had there been, although il
was January. Now when a man says tina
Dakota is the land Of the blizzard ! winl
my unoccupied eye at him and know he IL
lying.
So, too, they told me that Texas was hot
but when I was there in Februs ~, iciolei
we're hanging from the trees and l needed
an ~overooat when I went to an ubiquitous
bull fight in Juarez, Mexico. I was IL
California, too, but there were positively
no earthquakes there. Why can't travel.
lers be honest and let US know exactly what
local conditions are?
Ma ssenger says he never saw SO much
hurry In any American city az he has il
London. He saw a woman hail a bus anc
it kept right on in quite the New York way
and 30 she, lettering the New York way
flor women), ran after It and swung herself
aboard.
Messenger says he doesn't think Londor
looks much like a city (and he's Away.
lived In G~oodspeed's Landing, Conn., J
asked him why and he said:
why, there are no skysorapers, exoep
st. Paul's, a nd q church can't ever be a rs
skyscraper, no matter how tall it is
It's not the widespreadingness but the
uprearingness that makes q placeNa big city
in Ma ssenger's estimation.
L4UNDRESS MET LIBRARIANS.