The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

Because they are so amusing.
 When pressed as to how they amused her, whether with coon songs or cake walks. she protested
 q do not mean that really. I mean your countrymen are so odd, so crude Really I should never think of going to America
 Many English people regard citizens of the United States as strange beings padded with legal tender and eager to trade 1t to maintain the English ancestral equilibrium. Their ignorance of America Is astounding. One man of commercial and finncial impor- tance. anticipating a trip from Boston to the Pacific coast asked me how often our money system changed. out side of London they don't know whether the United States is a brand of meat or a new specimen of animal The supposedly informed may admit that we are progressing some, but give all the credit to themselves l reminded an Englishman that most or the Roast Beef of old England" was raised In America. and he replied that 1t was butchered i1 England anu was therefore English beef. and that res tricted aria was England's only req son for not raising all her own beef
 Judging by the display Of American aaes in the shop windows from May when Americans begin their summer travels abroad and their London shop ping until their return home ward lh inc late fall John Bull and Uncle Sam are twin brothers. was told however that the only time durlhs tn" whole year when the American flag flies over the American Embassy lA on King Edwards birthday
 The average English houses barring q few hotels are catacomhs. They boast they do not ceel the cold but every one else does.
 The English women dress very poorly on the streets. but in the evenings they are particularly smart in appearance They are all conser- vatives and if a precedent is once established becomes fixed form for ever and amen.
 Their class distinctions are most marked, and highly amusing to an outsider They are the upper middle the middle and the lower middle The upper middle are among those people who are just below titled folk.
 They have only trade dealings with the middle class but bow to the class just above them. He is insistant on his rights and titles an amusing illu- stration being of a countrvman who refused to answer a letter addressed to him as "NIr" when hr demanded to be addressed as Esquire"
 The Japanese are not greater tea drinkers than the British
 Their custom of closing the public restaurants at 12:30 makes the after the-theatre supper a hurried and un- satisfactory affair Strictly at half after twelve the lights are turned out
 I must speak of tho London bus
 IT you are hurryinE, making a fierce dash for a goal. don't spread your wings for a quick going flight riding nn a London 'tus for it will prove a patlence-trying ordeal. and you will be brought up aga nst the grim realI- zatlon with slow thud--a London bus will never he fined for violating the speed limit.
 Such funerea1-paeed procession for those accustomed to rjrkety-ra ety tearing at hreak-neck speed across t'i, country careening around curves booming over bridges Z-z-zipping ana changing down the streets in autorno- piles fl is difficult to Imagine. Yet fl you wish. as I did. to take short sight seeing trip in a leisurely kind ol way. like some old figure dance Wita pretty wind.nRs and pleasant pauses with time for love and time for laugh ter-in short. quiet, simple trip whIcr will leave you perhaps a bit stiff and achey. bat smiling-you will find as a passenger. the top of bus is an ex