The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
Interesting Pictures 81 Life and Things IN the English
Nsaropcls by Gifted Newspaper Man

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worm srowls long before that hour. Il
is hard to find ANYTHING 70 eat or
drink On Sunday, If away from ones
i'm Last Sunday this trio went 10
hear Campbell preach, and we're 10 put
in the rest of the day in the National
and Tate galleries But we had more
trouble hunting lunching place
than Coelebs had in search of wife.
On Saturday. strolling UP the
Strand slipped into a nice place
that wore the unicorn. There is in all
England so much subseryiency to roy
atty and nobility, that is. quality"
that ii those two top orders patronize
a place even in the least degree, the
owner of the shop. whether he be
merchant, green grocer, caterer.
butcher, candlestick maker, is enti-
tied to stick the royal arms over his
door. He has to take out a license so
to do, but it costs him nothing. It is
pure condescension on the part of the
upper court, and pure flunkeyism on
the part of the under court. About a
thousand places in London sport
said arms 1t is a fine "ad' 1t certifies
to all that the palace has had goods
and service at that place, and, OF
course, if the wares and service were
good enough for the crown, We fun
keys may know that | have the high
over butcher stall. The palace had
at least got a soup bone there for its
yellow dog to gnaw Walters in even
ing dress, in hotels, Sir me, thank
me, whenever / give an order. 1t is
always followed by an obsequious
thank you, sir" as though | we're
a baronet 1t tickles me. Can it be
/ possible they take me for quality
Do they really suspect that l may be
the Ahkoond of Swat?
An English Apple Pie.
At that caterers / saw on the
menu, apple pie wanted to top out
with pie and asked the girl what il
was like, for / suspected John Bull
hasn't got onto what the United
States of America knows about pie
1 1t turned out to be an exaggerated
tart, about the size of a saucer. II
/ had no roof or hat on it, it was bald
headed, and | disdained it, put il
away, as Casear did the crown; wher
II yearn for pie, they can't palm OF
an adult tart on me.
1t is amazing the universally of thi:
sentiment of snobbery, this ducking
bowling, scraping to overlords, theil
wholesale recognition of rank, Q
caste. When king or queen is TO ride
out. thousands line the streets to SCI
the gilded figure heads and hurrah
The 'ihoi polloiv fairly aliases itself
Yet in this universal sycophancy
Bobbie Burns. up in Scotland wa
man enough to be the first poet of de
mocracv, long before Walt Whitman
the rank is but the gninea's STAMP
the mans man for a. that"
It has rained on three days. Tn
royal arms should be, not lion an
unicorn. but an umbrella rampant an
galoshes couchant These GROWING a:
, phalt or tarred and oiled pavement
are smooth shod except in frost
, weather; a half dozen fell one aftel
, noon in front OF our hotel and bloch
ed the street The nervous tension i
. trying not 10 fail uses up horse.
! They trembIe IN travelling after a de
. nge. 1t does not rain gently In En-
) land. although Shakespeare and job
Burroughs so affirm In the vel
Rlown passage. TIE quality of me
/ cy is not strained. 1t falls as gentl
: az the rain from heaven etc. An
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I even pedestrian ladies'. But rain doe
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Z vet - rain h the United States (
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