Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
To Legisate the Briton
Into ;Comr!ete "Hust|er.' .
Special Cortpond-1ce of The Star
LONDON. February / 1905


LONDON. February J. 1908.
-HE Attest scheme to make the Brit
OF hustle is likely to become a
l ritter of law. 1t is the intention
of a mhber of parliament to introduce
a meaare into the coming session to
compel the authorities to advance the
clock j April and retard it in September.
1t is boed by these means to get our
indolet British cousins cut of bed an
hour arlieH during the summer months.
Thu is ttt outgrowth of plan formu-
lated several months ago by William Will
lett He called it scheme for increas-
ing the avail liable amount of daylight but
really it WIS a thirty disguised attempt
to rout thdsleepy Englishman cut of his
beloved bed before the sun is high in the
sky.
is not a nes one This juggling with the
clock is antld practice, especially popular
in Isolated districts where large forces of
labor are Employed. and it 3 important to
utilize allfhe daylight that is possible.
What is NV and interesting. however in
MI Willet' s proposal is the attempt ito
put the pfctice into play n a large city
where soinaHy complications are liable
to arise: .
The scfme briefly is as follows:
II is pr3pCsed that on each four Sunday
mornings in April standard time shall
advanced wenty minutes. and on each OF
four Sundays in September shall recede
twenty finutes.
Those who are backing the plan have
figured out that this will mean an addi-
ton Ct 21U hours, or the equivalent of
twentyfone days Of ten hours EACH to
tie wdking year Nor is that all| for it
is fg1ted that considerable i'll health is
traceatle to the influence of illuminants
of yal:ots kinds, and that this will in
evtaHy disappear with the adoption of
the newt plan, and early rising means
early retiring. In mere dollars and cents
the saving in gas, electricity and other
illuminsnts is expected TO be something
like $13iHo,0o0 a year.
The tlan strikes at an evil that is per-
haps oily to be found in England. In the
United States your stores. your restau-
rants'and the majority OF your mercan-
tile buses are opened at o'clock On
the continent practically the same thing
is true. But In Great Britain few people
think Of getting down to work before 10
O'Clock, and nobody dreams of getting
out Ct bed for a morning constitutional
before breakfast. Some of the restaurants
open Ut $40. but they are few and far
between, and the average stranger In
LONDON, who does not know just where
these particular eating houses are can
go hungry until 10 o'clock.
This hablt or late rising may he partly
traced to the English climate. OF course
YOU can find some one to attribute all the
evils of the English people To the climate
and personally | believe it deserves all
: the hard things that are said about 1t.
But really, no one feels like getting out
of a comfortable bed to jump into raw
cold, sulphurous fog such as greets the
awakening Ibndoner seven days in every
week at certain periods Of the year In
Paris the "constTutiOnal' always pre-
: cedes the breakfast with a large class,
the Bots de Boulogne being a favorite
promenade in the early morning hours.
But in the. French cay ital there is an in
vitation in the weather-in the crisp, clear
morning air. The London weather eff
fectually hampers ones overnight reso-
luton.
The Entlishman doesn't think much of
that old saw. The early bird catches
the worm" The spirit of hustle does
not appeal to him. and when you are
chump enough to quote the worm state
rent you are very apt TO be met with
The rejolnder. More fool the worm TO be
up So early