The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-08-05
Liked London,

Amsterdam, Holland, July 16.-Our
stay in London was a delightful one
and each regretted that we had to
leave so soon, but every city and
country has some special attraction
for the different people.
London has many fine art galleries
that are noted the world over, as the
Tate National, Wallace collection,
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and
many smaller ones. Then the British
museum is one of the best in the
world and second only to our own
Smithsonian institute in Washington.
A very interesting and noted place
is the Westminster Abbey, for here it
is that many celebrated people of the
past are buried and commemorated.
Henry VII and Henry VIII are at rest
here; also Queen Elizabeth, Mary
Queen of Scots, Queen Anne, Charles
|, William III, Edward the Confessor,
Rev, David Livingstone, besides poets
soldiers, scholars, inventors, editors
1--WE hope their sensations and fiery
times are all over and then there are
thousands of others who bore great
honors away.
Tablets are also here of thousands
of noted persOnages. The poets cor
ner is most interesting. These honor
| Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Chaucer
! Tennyson, Coleridge, Burns, Addison
Drake, Gray, Johnson, John and
Charles Wesley. But even the school
boys and girls know the whole history
of Westminster Abbey, so I shall turn
my thoughts to the life and times Of
the day.
London is thus place to spend days
in study of the people. We Went
| through the parks and here you see
the English in action. For example
in Hyde park, besides the beauties O.
the flowers and trees, it is the place
for public speeches, for every thirt!
feet or more you will see a crowd o
people listening to some fiery orator
pleading with the hearers. In ont
place the speaker pleads for womani
suffrage, in another for free trade
tariff, free love, anarchy, trade unions
mission bands, the Salvation Army
and one lone colored man was preach
ing the old gospel. In fact, you cal
hear a greater variety of speeches II
Hyde park in two hours than you cal
hear at a high school oratorical con
test in America. The policemen d.
not modest the speakers as long a
the crowd is quiet and orderly. Then
;, no yhN,
one man has given his opinion he will
invite a man from the crowd who ha
a different opinion TO come forwar
and give his views of the question 1
; hand, and the whole discussion !
amusing as we'll as intensely interes
, ing. | really believe the street SPEAK
ing is a benefit and education, an
think that we might we'll have NOR
| in our American cities; but one thin
can not understand concerning tn
public speakers in England is tina
, they are such awkward, hesitatin
| men in their addresses, in fact, tn
, speakers in the parks are more fluen
| than those you hear in the courts an
; halls.
Then we found a large number {
unemployed men, especially in LoI
? don. This was assured from the fac
that so many men were begging an
said that they could not find worl
The people who work for salaries,
I was told, were treated more Xix
slaves than that they were citizens
We are constantly reminded of tn
= tip nuisance in all the European cities
| and you see it over here and how it
4. worked. 1t is inexcusable and I g
, the benefit of this nuisance when
l have to tip hotel porters, walters an
= maids, train porters and every variet