The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-03-08

evidence rose in AIDES heart, and, TAX
ing pencil from his pocket, he wrote
with quaint eighteenth century -four
ishes on the wall behind him "Sam
Johnson" On her return from up
stairs the visitor promptly spotted the
autograph and was overjoyed.
"Is it not amazing" remarked Mr..
Ade in telling the story, show much
happiness we can give to others by
these little acts of kindness?" To the
tourist from overseas even the great
figures of the Victorian era wear
halo Of sancity. Carlyle's house Is
constant center of attraction. Some
years ago an Englishman in America,
happening to enter into conversation
with a negro schoolteacher, learned
that one of the keenest desires of her
life was to see London, and that she
especially wanted to visit every place
that was connected with the characters
in Dickens.
Places Of Special Interest.
Many Americans, again, spend indus
trious days in hunting up buildings that
have some historic connection with the
foundation and early development OF
their own communities. There Is
long list of churches where eminent
Americans of the colonial period were
baptised: William Penn, at All Hal
lows, Barking; Roger Williams at st.
Sepulchere's; Calvert, the founder OF
Maryland, at st. Giles-in-the-Fields;
General Oglethorpe, the founder OF
Georgia, at Martin n's-in-the-Fields; and
John Harvard at st. Savi0ur's Cathe
dral, Southwark, where the incident Is
now commemorated by q memorial
window. st. Ethelburga's is Of inter
est as the church where Henry Hud-
son and his crew are reported to have
made their last communion the night
before they sailed. The house in New
man street, occupied by Benjamin
West, may be quoted as an example
of many buildings whose associations
appeal to American visitors almost ex-
clusively.
1t would be quite a mistake, how
ever, to suppose that to the American
London serves no other purpose than
to make more vivid what he has learn
ed at school. However diligent he
may be in following up its historical
and literary associations, he finds time
to sample its lighter side-its theaters
and other entertainments, and its So
cial festivities, in so far as he has
access to them. Even that ornament
of the American-learned world, DIR. An
drew D. White, the late president OF
Cornell university, records in his au-
photography how, after working In the
British museum, he found refreshment
in an evening at Maskelyne and
Cookies ''great temple of jugglery."
Yet, after all, as Oliver Wendell
Holmes puts it, "the great sight is Lon
don." In the old days, before the era
Of motor traffic, nothing could beat the
top of a horse-drawn bus as means
of regaling oneself with the ever-chang-
ing panorama Of the streets, and, al
though the petrol engine has banished
the more leisurely progress OF that
time, an outside seat on bus remains
unrivaled as point from which TO
observe the everyday life Of the city.
The streets themselves impress an
American with their tidiness. Their
paving is kept in good repair, and they
are free from the litter that disfgures
important thoroughfares in New York.
AS rule, the American in London
means to have a good time, and gets
it. There are, of course, exceptions
people who lack the gifts of sympathy
and imagination, and who accordingly
miss all that is Of unique interest In
the scenes they visit.