The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-19
THE INNOCENT ABROAD.

(William d. Nesbit i'm Chicago Evening
Post)
As we near home think of many things
| had meant to make into letters, but
which were jotted down in notes AMI
laid aside for a more convenient season.
FOR instance. I meant to devote a chap
ter of this journal of travel to the genial
Mr.. BlythePratt. manager of the oxford
music hall in London. Mr.. Blythe-Pratt
is a whole-souled. lkable man, who spent
two years or so in California and wants
10 go back. You like him so well that
II is with difficulty you refrain from call
ing him "Hyphen'' for short.
l also had il in mind to get jar of
vitriol and a pen of damascened steel
and inscribe few tributes to one or two
hotels, but we may let that pass. now
that we have escaped with a return
ticket There was a hotel. in London
where the bill was simply terrific, the
management having mistaken us for a
committee Of plutocrats. Americans So
journing in London rather like to be
treated as millionaires-until their bills
are made out. At this particular hotel we
kicked long and hard. and the manager
assured us he would adjust the bill.
When we were leaving he rushed out and
informed that a reduction had been
made.
I'VE have taken off one and six" he
informed us. gladly.
He had mercilessly amputated 30 cents
from that bill. We grandly told the Raj
sui TO keep the change and drove aWH.
And there was hotel in Paris at which
we got along all right until a New York
multimillionaire happened to call to in
qure il we had any political news from
home. (The foreign papers are apt to
get Mr.. Taft on the Democratic ticket
and Mr. Bryan located in TeXas.) One
minute after the New Yorker had sent
up his card each room we occupied was
raised 10 francs a day.
They do that to you in Paris. fully
expecting you TO kick
But there remains one happy memory
among many others of Paris. This par
ticular one is NJ. Albert Grosges. director
in the second tprobably assistant man
ager?) of the Theatre Nouveaute on the
to ask anyone to direct you TO the The
atre Nouveaute. There are 900 ways of
pronouncing 1t. and all wrong. Simply
walk along until YOU see the sign. The
play was Occupations Toi TAmelie." II
is a French farce. about a mile broad.
We were to join some American friends
there one evening. but could not make
NJ. Grosges understand. as he could not
We repeated several bills of fare to him,
but all to no avail. We even took him
by the arm. marched him TO the rear
of the seats and indicated where we
wanted to go. but that did not help. NJ
Grosges smilinSly shook his head AMI
asked us something else in French.
So we said II would be all right. we
could stand on the sidewalk and gaze at
the passing throng until the show was
over
NJ. Groges walked out with us, with his
hand on his heart, bowling and assuring
us that that organ was broken all to
flinders. that his soul was desolated and
his future life rendered a vale of tears
because he could not understand US Then
a happy thought struck him. He had an
inspiration. He clutched us by the arm
and beamed:
'Sprechen sic Deutsch?"
''Nein." we replied but" mingling
English with all the German at our COM
mand Itch babe cine freund ram
Deutsch sprechen."