The Washington herald., 1914-08-08
London and Fort Worth.
BY EMORY J. HAYNES.

BY EMORY J. HAYNES.
When one alights from the railway in the British
capital he inwardly exclams his minds ear well
WE'LL So this is London? am here at last" But
that is about all there is to it For the simplest
day thoughts of life Immediately bury all sentiment
He is entirely occupied with hotel, mighty big
thought; room, a bath and dressing, dinner and the
baggage.
Precisely as at Fort Worth thought by thought
Ninety per cent of all the sentiment in the waking
hours of the traveller are filled by the most
place ideas One must go to the bank and get some
money and see if there are any letters. What big
thought it is and first and last how it occupies the
soul But that is true down in Texas.
The traveller now starts out to get his moneys
worth realize on his investment to find something
that is real thrill or novel sensation that he could
find home Certainly. that is what he has come
for. Looking at the people in the street-they are
simply men and women. Nothing in the streetful
of them. Trifing differences in dress, "the London
style" or the Fort Worth style" Not much intel
lectual food in such crumbs. Or the houses along
the thoroughfares; WELL houses houses wherever
you find them
1t is what you know about the Strand that
makes it differ from Main street in Fort Worth.
London is great the who knows her past. The
student of English history may walk those streets
for months meeting the famous and women Of
eight hundred bygone years. But to the unread the
town is tresome in the extreme. 1t is far from as
energetic and magnetic bright, American
city out West
1t not that the mystic law of suggestion and
association loses its power grow older. The
young student enters building where Tudor king
once lived and strangely the wrath of the dead
monarch floats about him. So then, this is the spot
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stone he reposed. Here, right here he signed the
decree. This table has been pressed by his fateful
hand. This inkstand, this very ink-why no. But
other ink like this ink And Henry signed the death
for those many wives-I feel the chils run
down my back. l look for the exit, for he may be
signing warrant against me.
That axI How sharp its edge This dungeon
Now have the delicious creeps and chills and
getting the worth OF my steamer ticket. This is
what cannot get in America. Even the New
York police weapon room has such sensation. l
must next year, and yet next year. But in time
the law OF association weakens In Rome is Caesars
ghost though descend stand in the very forum
The poetry fades out of our eyes.
The vitality that is in all the air-that renews
mans YOUTH Everywhere young On every
lip is tomorrow The mighty future beckons and
calls II is not what has been that counts. Once
of the Mississippi River and it is next year One
feels like dating his letters 1915 wildly real and
certain is this year yet to To go directly from
London Fort Worth wrenches the mental faculties
The very centuries seem to swim and swirl in
nix-up
Slice Fort Worth from London as a loaf OF
bread is sliced. 1t would never be missed But the
new slice could be transplanted Put one OF our
bright Western cities down bodily on the edge of
London. The grating would not take place. The
entire life principle seems different There is such
thing the geniu of country. 1t individuality
The cities are its cearest manifestation
Civic pride thrives even in the small city. Its
people proud OF their town the inhabitants
of larger city seem to be. Talk with the Fort
Worth and find that the would as soon commit
treason to belittle his own bright city.
See London, for it is the center of human life on
of the civilization OF the world When the great ideas
of Moses would have been buried beneath the dust OF
fallen Greece and Rome London afforded them root
ROOM seeds in garden. The wisdom of revelation
was preserved in London. The English Bible Society
is in reality the chief agency that surpasses all
others in the present advancement of mankind The
British Parliament is the greater in legislative his
tory of man.
The moral influence of that tremendous city will
probably be equaled by any other There are in
deed places in London which fill the mind with awe,
destines of mankind. 1t is doubtful however if the
American tourist is prepared by reading and
reflection to select these places for meditation and