The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11
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nally, when they, and he. mad reached
distraction, I couldn't stand 1t any
longer and explained that monsieur
and bottle of BASES pale ale brought
him at once. What idiots these French
are to call BASES pale ale delabeer."
the tourist remarked with heat "In
england everybody knows Bass" In
France an Englishnan is only another
| name for BASES ale. but these walters
We're doubtless raw recruits, pressed
into service in consequence OF there
being million strangers in Paris. It
| is wonderful that any city can feed an
| don by somebody who delighted In
| figures that the animals alone. set tip
to tail, would have reached thirty
miles into the country every day, and
mountain as big as the abbey; the
bread would have hidden st. Pauls had
1t been piled up, and the Thames was
not as big as the river of coffee and
sources of even Baltimore-the best
market in the world-(as she will ttnd)
to provide for people by the million. in
addition to the regular demands Of
every city. One can get anything on
earth in Covent Garden Market. but
not in such quantities as in Baltimore.
| Things are much dearer, too. though
some things are cheaper than In the
places where they are produced, One
can buy Sicilian oranges for less in
of sweet potatoes will be labeled West
Indian fruit and cost you 80 shillings.
There is only one place In Liverpool
where corn, meal can be bought. or
| homny and grits. 1t Is looked upon
Jas more OF curiosity than anything
else because 1t does not grow In Eng
1 land, just as one sees few ears of the
very yellow Indian corn tied up to
\ . ~
chalets in the Canton Of Vaud. merely
as an ornament, 1t is Very hard to
! grow and mature there. In one of
Miss Edwards's novels she puts cot
| ton plantation with its Southern mas
ter in MASSACHUSETTS,, and then de-
scribes the result: Edward, with his
arms folded, surveyed the scene be-
fore him, with profound concern. In
900 acres of Egyptian cotton not one
She thought that Massachusetts was;
7 in the black belt geographically as we'll
as sentimentally, 1t Is no wonder that
Edward was depressed by his crop
prospects Not that we can laugh at
scribes Lady Muriel going through the
French windows of the castle drawing
room, dragging after her her favorite
rocking chair. In England one never
i the nursery, for babvs benetit. It Is
called "the American chair" and there.
lis quite a general impression that 1t
i was invented by the North American
indians, a few Anglo-Americans have
adopted them. But in English drawing
/ rooms nobody ever saw one. They are
| not liked there at all; which seems
| queer enough to us, for they are to
| be found In every American home.
Winnipeg.
| What poor Winnipeg will do II any
| great numbers OF people flock to her
exposition in 1914, one can't imagine.
The only thing that they can count
upon, absolutely, Is plenty OF bread In
1.-THE granary of the world, One tiny
town In that province shipped 5000
| 900 bushels of wheat last year, Set
as 1t Is midway In the, continent, she
would have to ship anything and every
thing. a tremendous distance from
! either coast to the city And Canada
has only bout 100000 of populntlon.
! so It will be a piece of business for
! them in their new country, with It's
| limited resources, to provide for a
great crowd OF slghtseers Montreal Is
already almost stripp"d Of servants 70
feed the Northwest whore $50 month
is considered small wages for q good
! cook, Still have no doubt that II
will all be wall done, somehow the
people out there are SO energetic and
ThirSk OF Winnipeg's population has