The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-06


ton. with it's crooked streets filled with
Canadian and Anzac soldiers on leave.
iostlinx along good naturally among
the quiet reservant townspeople.
| Visualize the news vendors with
their afternoon papers, most OF which
/ are about the size and shape or Mr..
Bryan's "Commoner" papers which
are displaying without criticism news
stories about Secretary Daniels plans
for a fleet of electrically propelled
superdreadnaughts.
| Past shop windows profusely dress
ed with small articles skurry uniform
ed messenger boys with little round
caps perched rakishly over one ear, or
khaki-clad girls in pants and puttees.
! Include in the picture very few
American civilians, thoroughly enjoy
ing the kindness and hospitality OF
English cousins who have forgotten
! that folk from the States were once
smiled at as "provincials." You may
also keep in your minds eye an oc-
casional Yankee soldier, going about
quietly and helping thus to build up
the new tradition that Americans can
be, and probably are, well-behaved and
efficient.
The theatres are doing capacity
business every night. That the public
taste is coming around to things Am
erican may be gathered from the num-
Der of plays now an view here that
have previously appeared in New
York. A few of them are Nothing
but the Truth" Fair and Warmer"
Going Up" 1.-THE Lilac Domino" and
"Charley's Aunt" Elsie Janis is star
g. I'LL
song hit in the leading musical comedy
success. "The Boy" is borrowed from
Have a Heart" a Broadway success
Of a year or two ago. In the principal
act, the scene is laid in a cabaret in
London, on American night" with
all the chorus dressed as cowgirls,
Uncle Sans and Stars and Stripes
girls.
FURTHER CONCESSIONS
TO AMERICAN TASTE
The hotels and restaurants have
also made further concessions to Am
erican taste. or lack of it, by installing
jazz orchestras and banjo bands. A
big restaurant is advertising a series
of American balls.
These things are not being done to
attract Americans, because the number
Of our countrymen in London now is
too small to justify any such effort.
The explanation lies in the fact that
London purveyors of amusement have
come to the conclusion that the Eng
lish people are interested in America
and all things pertaining to America
That the London public is pleased may
be taken as one more bit of evidence
of the growing feeling of good will
for US.
So far as the visitor can see, Lon
don on the whole is very gay and light
hearted. Great as was the feeling of
it was naturally far greater here,
more than most Americans realize.
Prices are high in London; fully as
high as in New York for most things,
and higher for many. The good old
days of buying articles of excellent
value for very moderate figures are
gone. perhaps forever. The quality
as ever, but one can buy as cheap1y
at home in America. The newspapers
print articles every day or two warn
ing of still higher prices, saying that
the present wholesale prices are as
stocks bought few months ago.
SUGAR AND BUTTER
SCARCE AND HIGH
Many articles of food are scarce.
Even in the best hotels there Is no
cream for coffee. Neither is there
sugar. The mattresses carry around
in the pockets of their aprons little
bottles Of sacchrine pills, and the
guest who desires to sweeten his COT
fee Is given two or three of these pills
for the purpose. Butter is doled out
sparingly. White bread is more plen-
tiful, but most meats are scarce and
all are dear.
Americans here have uncomplain.
ingly put up with higher railroad fares
and curtailed service during the war,
but their sacrifices amount to nothing
when compared to those Of England
and France. The present first-class
fare from London to Edinburgh, 1922