Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-03-12
LONDON'S LATE
MORNING HOURS
Hard to Do business Before Ten or
Eleven O'Clock.

Hard to DO business Before Ten or
Eleven O'Clock.
Il London Letter in Town and Country
1t is an inyraincd haiht OF every En-
glishman to stay in bed as long az he
possibly can. and even longer. II you
go out In the streets OF London at 8
O'Clock in the morning You will find that
the shutters OF large proportion OF the
shops are stll hiding the goods that
should be on show in tho windows. The
impetuous foFeign commits voyageur, who
is accustomed to having done half days
business by Q O'Clock In the morning,
fumes and frets outside many Of tho es-
Establishments till 1910 or II before no one
il ready to do business with him at that
time The wholesale businesses are open
ed by the employees at. say =. but the
principals are not ready TO receive
visitors until they have gone through
their voluminous mornings mail, and 1t
is generally II o'clock before Cerberus
at the door relaxes his vigilance Women
In American cities as we'll as In towns
on the continent are actively engaged at
10 O'Clock in the morning doing their
rounds of shopping. Here it Is seldom
that ladies' are seen ont in the morning
AT all bent on such expeditions unless
II be after 1850 to do some extra ma rket-
ing for dinner party or n reception re-
curing personal attention. The great
crush at place like Harrod's stores. the
Army and Navy stores d. II. Evans &.
Co.. Marsha & Slengrove and Peter
RobinsOn's, is at its height at about
noon. whereas the corresponding hour in
New York is at least 60 minutes earlier.
We seldom have breakfast in the aver
age London house before O'Clock, and
that, being an elastic meal. may run on
until 1t is time TO clear the table for
lunch. You arr always fairly saf e to nnd
the average man who is not oppressed
too much by business cares still out of
bed al midnight. Theatre at $40 or q
O'Clock and supper at one ~ tho restaur-
ants at 20 arc not conductive to the
carrying ont of tho ancient motto; Early
To ned early to rise. make a man
healthy, wealthy and wise" The one
thing that creates intense irritation more
than any other is the fact that the lights
in the restaurants are turned out irrcvo-
cably AZ l2;3o in the morning. and thus
force jewellers out into the cold air 70 be
sent straight home whether they like il
or not. This irritation is Increased on
grandmotherly laws appert aiming here the
| lights turn themselves out half an hour
earlier and on the one night in the week
when people are inclined to stay UP later
than usual they are sent home at the
moment when supper has come on the
table. In this respect London n he.
coming worse, II possible. than II was
| before, for some years ago there were a
few places open where the night-ow'
could go and finish his meal in peace
without the official han Of the police. but
| as in such cases the reputation OF the
resorts began to suffer very soon There
are now few last resorts" unless It be
clubs where one cannot take ladies. One
| or two OF the ladies' clubs in Piccadilly
ase reapng an immense harvest from the
exclusion Of visitors from the rcstaur-
ants. but this Is about all