Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-02-09
Strand Palace Hotel,
London, England,

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My own dear Mother:
When one arrives for the first time
in great foreign city like London,
the mental attitude is ever on the
alert for new impressions. There is
of course, danger of forming opin-
ions on too short acquaintance that
are not correct, and of drawing
wrong conclusions, but so far, / am
charmed with London. 1t is absolute
ly unlike New York.
1 should say London reminds me
of stately, well-born matron while
New York is more along the line of
an up-to-date, fascinating debutante.
In reality, London has almost mil
lion more people than New Yrok and
yet she is so quiet about her crowds
you would never know it; on the
other hand New York hurries and
storms about like something wild.
Sometimes the streets here seem al
most as quiet and restful as Edgefeld
and yet the crowd comes and goes
ID gets things done, and generally
Y we'll done.stoo. j have been
myself ever since got here
e# York has to be so snoisy
Ii, her affairs while London main
ta her stately calm.
This little acquaintance with the
English people has already won my
admiration for them as never before.
feel proud of the knowledge that
she is. our mother country, and feel
grateful for every drop of Anglo
Saxon blood in my veins. This is
great nation and a fine people. They
have led the world for a long time
and 1 see nothing to indicate that
they will step aside at any time soon.
1 was standing today in front of Ira
falgar Square, admiring that most
beautiful of monuments to Lord Mel
son and read there his dying words:
ENGLAND Expects Every Man to do
His Duty" That sentence seemed to
me to tell the secret of this nations
greatness; no people can be other
than great who place duty and right
ahead of everything, even life itself.
Of all the wonderful things here l
have seen, know of none more beau
tiful than the "Cenotaph," can not
recall having read of this in any of
the papers, so it was quite wonder
full discovery to me. We were walking
down Whitehall, and saw this hand
some but simple monument with silk
flags draped half-mast and covered
with such quantities of flowers as
could never be imagined. 1t looked
like huge newly made grave. Every
man, as he walked past it, either lift
ed his hat or saluted it. 1t is mem
orial to England's dead, the one mil
lion men she gave to the late war,
and sweeter memorial l never saw.
The flowers heaped upon it were
never allowed to die. On the anniver-
sary of each soldiers death, his fam
lily and friends do honor to his men,
ory by bringing a fresh garland, so
you see with a million dead, you can
we'll understand what remarkable
sight it must be. A card is attached |
to every design telling the name of
the loved one and by whom it is sent.
Often the card would have some SIM
pie phrase as "For dear Daddy from
his Babies" and then would follow
the child's or children's names.
We visited ST.. Paul Cathedral yes
terday and today, Westminster Abb
bey. Somehow we have managed to
attach to US a couple from North
Carolina, and up to the present time,
we have not been able to "shake"
them. They are very rich but just
that type which has ruined the repu-
tation of Americans abroad. A little
of them is amusing, but that little
goes long, long way. For instance
he'll tell every Englishman he can