Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-11-03

49, W Aiu'NhlhSOu COtMuS SJOIe
for twelve to fifteen dollars-and he
has the money and buys. There is
going to be sOmed;scussion OF cloth
ing and the wooden schedule in the
United States. and | want to give
this testimony. Before | left home |
bought slit IN Hutchinson fer fiji
teen dollars. No English tailor-made
suit for that price looks near so well,
and the way it fits and hangs is CON-
plimented by the English. The only
kind ct stuff that is cheaper th Eng
land than with us is that in which
hand labor is employed. Women buy
because they are made by intelfgen:
working women who are paid 25 10
30 cents a day. Silk hats ere cheaper
but the same quality hat | buy at
home cost me just as much in Lon
don and shirts, underwear, sOx. etc,
are as expensive here as in Hutchin-
s7n. am told the same rule appAes
t. women's clothes. Americans who
come to England and continue to live
on the same standard they do in
America say that living is more ex.
pensive here. OF course they can
have three or four servants for the
same price they paid the one hired
girl at home, and can pose as being
upper class.
| went to a barber shop, a first
class one. was shaved for "tup-
pence -four American cents) and
had my hair cut for a "trippence,'
(s'x American cents). gave the
barber tip of a penny, for which he
was very thankful, and then | went
out of the shop growing at a coum-
TRY where I could get shaved so
cheap and where a tailor-made suit
only cost $l2. Tn this world of ours
we are so dependent on each other
that you can't cheaper one man
without cheapening all the rest I
asked the street car conductor and
ne told me he was paid five dollars
Week-and he has a family of six
The chambermaid at the hotel works
Tor a dollar week and board. A good
coachman or house man gets one
10 two dollars a week and board. A
clerk in a sore does we'll to beat
five dollars week. How do they
Eve? don't know, but they do, but
they have adj heard of America and
Canada and Australia and would 90
there If they could raise the fare, or
II 1t were not for leaving family and
home.
ann getting away from the strike
subject. | make myself unpopular
with some of the English, the wealth
ler people and their footmen, by in.
s'sting that the railroad men ought
tc s'Tike and ought to- have their
wages doubled, when have to pay
more than two cents a mile for a sec.
ond class fare, and about twice as
much for shipping freight as would
IN Kansas. And l always compare
with Kansas, a place most Of thtem
never heard Of. and | suppose they
think am describing a fictitious
land where the millennm has already
arrived.
We spent an afternoon at Rich
mOud where high hills rise from the
valley OF the Thames and the view
Of Enghsh Darn, and village, river
and forest, Is one of the finest In the
word. Far away in the distance is
Windsor castle,5 thea2 fasrite royal
dwelling, place, the Thames like sil
Yer streak dotted With boats and
wooded dsands, quaint townsnwith old
churches and winding roads white
with the maeadam of chalky stone,
occasional tramwayR buses with the
passengers on. Top. gardens and or
chards, little strips Of pasture with
sheep and COWS, fences of hedges
and ivy covered walls. all Of these
things are a panorama which makes
the breath come fast, the heart
beat more rapidly. The ground Is his
toric for d. has been the living place
and fighting place of great men from
the time OF the Saxons. and every
town and hill is like a page Of Eng
lish history. Beautiful homes adorn
the hillsides and comfortable inms Of
fer entertainment TO traveller and Wis
itor. 1t is a great picture and art
lists have copied it on their canvas
ses. Turner and Gainsborough lived
here and their pictures of English
scenery are more beautiful than their
conceptions OF saints and their por-
traits of sinners Here is where good
King Edward, the most popular mon
arch England has had in many years,
came for a view and a night out. In