The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-08
TOPICS EUROPE TALKS ABOUT
az MEAN IN SAY' a NATIONAL
DISEASE IN ENGLAND.

mon or more grating to the u-naccustomed
ear. or all expressions with which the
Englishman punctuates every bit Of con-
vsraation which contains two or more
consecutive sentences. his inevitable Il
mean to say" is the most irritating.
He is seldom a fluent talker. Afew years
ago his little stumblings and hesitations
were marked with a liberal sprinkling Of
err. ah-h, um." &c. He has come to
realize that these inaTticulate s~trugglings
for the translation Of his thoughts are, to
say the least. inartistic, and now, instead Of
INN IL is Il mean to say or the time hon
ored but happily disappearing Don't you
know"
But this growing national disease OF
CT mean to say" has at last been discovered
and condemned by one Of the Englishmen
themselves, so it. is permissible perhaps for
a foreigner to speak Of il. The discoverer
has written TO the papers warning his
countrymen Of the dangers OF this insidious
national obsession.
He did not notice il at home. put he has
been travelling abroad. and he writes all
the way from Japan to tell his compatriots
that all Englishmen whom he has met on
his travels are Il mean to saymiacs." He
has been shut up in trains and carriages
with them, and he protests that the effect
has been -preiudicial to both morals and
health"
Imagine" he says, being confined In a
railway carriage with six persons all talking
something like this:
At mean TO say. don't yoU know. hat
Jones walked up that mountain by himself;
you know. that is OF purse I mea TO say.
nobody I'm his senses should try to climb up
q place like that without a guide. Do you
follow me? ! near to say. a fellow should
always take a guide up n mountain in the
event Of getting lost, don't you know;
that Is. l mean to say, a fellows people
get very anxious II he gets lost in the noun
tsins in that way; besides it's very foolish.
/ mean - and 50 on.
we have asyIums for other kinds OF luna
tics. and don't you think. I mean to sa-
Horrorl the cursed things contagious-'
In the last quarterly report OF the public
analyst for the city Of London 4 state Of
affairs is revealed which 10 reminiscent
OF the druggist scandal hat came TO light
in New York several years ago. The TO
port states hat OF the ~ examples OF food
and drugs analysed nineteen we're bad.
While the bulk Of the samples consisted
Of milk and butter. the highest percentage
of aduIteration vas in drugs bought with
prescriptions. Out OF seven prescriptions
purchased six were not made up in accord
ance with the demands OF the purchaser,
showing s~ix-sevenths. or s5.7 per cent,
OF the prescriptions to be- wrongly COM
pounded.
This state OF things ID very serious.~
observes the analyst, @for We are not deal
ing here with some petty profit secured
by q dishonest tradesman who palms
Oh margarine for butter or who waters
his milk, but We have 70 do with matters
OF life and death. A large number OF people
even In the medical profession are Of the
opinion that drugs are of little use. but
from my recent experience I should doubt
if they havs over been tried.
Everybody at the ladies' day at the very
successful automobile show ut Olympia
last week realized II they had not done 40
before how deeply interested the English
woman is in motoring. With many women
the destinations OF bridge have paled beside
the superior charms Of an automobile with
q mechanism to be mastered and q record
Cor speed TO be established.
No longer does a woman Judge a car by
the glories OF its paint and the depth and
richness OF its cushions. On the contrary
those are now minor matters compared with
the mechanics OF the motor and the latest
devices which add to the perfection of the
modern automobile. The practical present
day woman motorist has no fears and very
few scruples where the beloved machine
10 in question.
She does not hesitate TO wriggls beneath
AGAR and remedy any temporary difficulties
herself. The Ladies Automobile Club has
O large membership OF women who have
studied the mechanics Of automobiIing and
are certihcated chauffeurs. Il was curious
az the ladies' day to hear women who looked
like votaries OF fashion discussing with
breathless interest the possibilities Of q
novel carbureter or a transmogriied gear.
Theatrical women are popularity sup
posed to contribute largely to the ranks Of
feminine motorists. and IL one were to place
any faith in the photographs and picture
post cards Of stage beauties in their new
cars with hands on the steering wheels and
enthusiasm written on their plastic features
one would say that a knowledge OF auto
MODELLING was necessary to a stage career.
But the truth is that nowadays, since the
motor mania is an assured fact, when a
theatrical star 10 photographed the auto
mobile is one OF the properties requisitioned
before the photographer 10 sent for. or in
some case the photographer has a property
auto himself.
The chrysanthemum show at the Horti-
cultural Hall in Paris 10 the ~Gavorite resort
Of all the Americans who are still in the gay
city. IL has been one OF the most success
fNl ever held there and holds the record
for variety OF wonderful flowers and plants
and number Of people who have come to
600 them.
The most novel n interesting plant
10 the ehrysanthemum exhibited by VII
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