The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-09
BY Mabel Herbert Crner.
They Get Into London on AZ Rainy
Niqht and Hclen's Enthusiasm

Night and Helen's Enthusiasm
is Forced.
sFirst-Class.,' "Third-Class," .'First-
Class Smoking" read the lettering on
the doors OF the compartment cars.
1t was Helen's FIRST glimpse OF an
English train, and as the guard opened
the door Of an empty carriage with
hearty Here you are, air" she en-
pered with eager interest.
but, Warren" she whispered anx-
iously, this says 'third-class."
"Of course--everybody here travels
third-except snobs and Americans.
Then, turning to the porter who was
putting their hand baggage on the
rack above, Now you see that thnss
trunks get on all right"
Thank you, sir" pocketing the sh0-
ling. "I'll put EN- on myself. SIR
Did he give you the chscks9" asked
Helen, who was always fearful thai
her trunk might go astray.
Checks? They don't have checks"
mo checks? Why, dear, how do :hey
identify your baggage?"
They don't You identify 1t yourself.
You just go back to the luggage van
and point it out"
But how can they be sure"
Helen is Puzzled.
THAT you don't take some other
fellows? They can't. We might Try
10 II we see anything that looks bet
ter than ours
Warren. do be serious suppose we
shouldn't get our trunks? Think how
dreadful it would be 20 find ourselves
In London without our things? Couldn't
you get the guard to give you some
kind of check?"
Now, see here, the English people
have had their way of doing things
for some little time. You needn't
think they are going to change it be-
cause you're over here for a couple
of weeks"
But now the train drew out, and
Helen soon forgot her anxiety about
the trunks in her interest in the beau
tiful English country through which
they passed.
Flowers were everywhere. The fields
were gay with wild peoples, cornflow-
ers, daffadils and buttercups. And every
little cottage had its flower garden
and green hedge.
"Oh, werren--look That dear lit
tie matched roof house just covered
with climbing rosesr'
Helen could not but compare the
charming picturesqueness OF even TIN
simplest cottage with the unattractive
barrenness Of the same mass of houses
at home. Whatever else the English
man may or may not be, his love of
flowers and gardening is an admirable
trait.
These dinky little trains seem to
make pretty good time" commented
Warren. "They manage to get over the
ground all rigsT. We're doing more
than fifty miles an hour now"
- ,%-
We're much more comfortable and
private In here than in our cars
wait till somebody gets In with US
you won't like it so WE'LL
At the very next station some one
did get ina woman with all the small
hand baggage with which the English
invariably travel. There were a couple
of bags, half a dozen brown paper
parcels, an umbrella, a basket of fruit
and a great bunch of roses.
She steeled herself in the opposite
seat. while the guard, with the dex-
terity of much experience, slowed the
things away On the seat, under the
seat, End on the rack above.
big box, little box, handbook and
bundle, bird cage and umbrella.
quoted Warren in an undertone.
She's got 'em all but the bird cage"
Helen controlled her desire to laugh.
do they always travel with so many
things?"
A Touch of Home.
always. Wait till you see a Lon
don cab taking some Englishmen to
the stationr'
"Oh, dear-lookr' as Helen suddenly
caught sight or a similar sign. AN adj :
vertisement of an American canned
soup Why, do they advertise that
over herr
Sure. You'll see signs all along here
Of American pills and pickles and tooth
paste. See, there's one now" as we'll
known pickle sign flashed into view.
But we think their pickles are so