El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-09
LONDON, THE
METROPOLIS
Of WORLD
The King, the Omnibuses,
the Policemen, the Dust
and Suffragets.
INTIMATE PEN
PICTURE DRAWN
tBy La RENE Helen Baker,

LONDON Eng, Sept 9.-COronatiOn
year. King George acquires a new
hat Crowds line every street he
passes through Hundreds of other
wise sane persons wait outside Buck
ingham palace to see a most extraor-
binary youngish man and his homely,
robust wife emerge. George goes to
parliament in state. He avoids White
hall en- route. A little brass tablet
where king Charles lost his head has
no attraction for him. George V
swears before lords and commoners
to be good obedient> king, and not to
do any governing as long as he gets
his wages paid every quarterday. Dis
believe all stories about king George
he is not drunkard. not bigamist,
not card sharper, and certainly not
tyrant. But neither is he a saint.
an orator, statesman nor thinker.
ne looks commonplace and all his au-
he is great in nothing-good or bad.
ne Is Just a lucky. cheerful, chatty,
half educated, unoriginal rich man.
"De Omnibus.
Inc street car never enters the CITY
OF London Myriads of omnibuses car
~ the citizens from "the bank" to
everywhere. Years ago the driver of
me morse bus encouraged conversation
MOTOR
man Is unapproachable He has none
OF the wit of his predecessor. He is
numerically chaffed by the few sur
Vlvors OF the old bus drivers When
the NOTORIOUS breaks down their sole
triumph evokes the old hunor from
the old jarveys.
London motor buses have comfortable
Top decks for passengers, boon in
cts is the chief motto on the, motor
Dus. The buses mostly belong to a big
combine. but fares are reasonably low.
me law allows anybody to charge any
fares must be clearly tabulated on each
bus Formerly. there were. private
omnibuses; these monsters tempted
innocent strangers to get inside. Then
lhey charged the unfortunate passen-
ger as many dollars as they thought
he looked good for.
London city has no passenger steam
ers on its river Thames. It's motor
buses and underground railways render
boats unnecessary.
The British Sunday. :
Anything gloomier than a British
Sunday 1 don't know. Sunday is de-
voted to the publican and the pharisee.
stores closed, theaters closed, ball
rooms closed In some British towns
street cars are held up all day sun
day. At Wycombe. a few miles from
the center of the metropolis, a daring
b!asphemer named Popp dares to open
his store Ca small barber shop)< every
sunday in defiance of the law. He has
been fined so. cents for every week
for 20 years Recently he sent the
maglstrat ties check in payment of "a
years fines IN advance''-which was
refused Londoners look sadly at one
another on Sunday They are allowed
lately to see the museum and even to
attend sacred concert on Sabbath
In the course Of time they may even
De permitted to see pictures at the
cinema theaters; No wonder the rail-
r0aGG h11C Gil In, IL
trips to Paris.r It is worth more
than an eight hour journey to escape
British Sunday. Years ago two daily
Journals issued Sunday editions. Only
for few weeks. Mrs. Grundy rose
IN her might and Suppressed them Now
the same publisher issues the same
Journal-but he -cafls the Sunday edi-
ton by different name lthe DAILY
patch" on Sunday Similarly stage
societies" are springing UP and obtain
ing Sunday performances at the thea
ters- These are permitted If tickets
are not sold on Sunday at the theater
Thus does hypocrisy wait on Grundy-
ISM
The Policeman.
After facing Pinkerton and the Chi
cago police, after being insulted by
Russian. ignored by French, and drilled
into obedience by German policemen.
L succumbed readily to the peerless
politeness of the London police At
the copper') holds up the entire met
ropolitan traffic while he lets peram-
bultor cross the road, or he patiently
explains to you that Tower Royal is
three blocks from the Mansion house
don't suppose there is too much no
likeness between the huge giant and
the criminal he arrests but hear that
the following is fair speciman of the
conversation that ensues:
Policeman John Jones vou're
wanted; will you go quiet?'
Crlminal-"All right, guv'nor; it's
fair COP"
According to law, indeed. no man
may be arrested without being warned
not to incriminate himself by a con-
fession. There is no third degree.
The policeman frequently succors the
resting the alleged bread winner"
London policemen are rarely born in
London. Many are Irish. Nearly all
are picked men from provincial police
corps Hence the Dhveinre
The Suffraget.
In the best restaurants. in tba f;-s.
class railway carriages, in the draw
ing rooms OF the rich-and selling
streets. you meet these suffraget TToT,sl
en- everywhere today Thew are aluSsvS
plotting or working for their cause
Here a cabinet minister is mobbed.
there public meeting Is wrecked and
always parliament is being "pickefed"
In case an oDportunitv arises to rush
the house."
Where can see the frump. the an
Gent of days, the doWdy. down-at
heel, rag and bone and hank-of-hair,
type that-some journalists 0abeled
"comic''l still paint from their magma
ton and traditions as the militant SUI
fraget2 The woman they describe can
still be found. but not in these ranks
She is no suffrag ist, but an ardent
supporter Of the status quo Her name,
Is Mrs Grundy. she wears spectacles
and denounces the well-dressed. srniI-
ing. intelligent suffragist as "a dis
grace to her (Mrs. Grundy's) sex"
Meanwhile the suffragist is succeed
fng. She attracts. To men she is ir-
resistibIe. To women she is becoming
an ideal, a pattern, standard Her
manners will charm" the vote out of
the susceptible male sex
Dust Man and Dust Carts
If health didn't matter. the London
system of dust removing would be real
funny There is no law about il. Tt
just happens. that thousands of folk
put on the sidewalk their open dust
bucket. A pair of dirty men clad in
repulsively filthy clothes, lift these
abominable buckets into an open dust
cart. The wind blows the dirt in all