The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-26
ENGLlSHMEN Do
NOT VAL UE TIME
Britons Slow to Take Up
Newfangled Notions
of Convenience
CLING TO OLD WAYS
Distrust Anything Changing
Customs Of Many Gen
CratiUns

ono of the most noticeable things
to an American travelling m Eng.
land is the lack OF what wc oall mod
crn conyonienccs-thiu which have
become so much a part OF our llvo9
IN the last few years a. 10 be AT
most indispensable -- but when
Englishmen. rather sufprHinr.y. do
not care TO adopt For example.
We cun scarcely imagine now II
would seem to be Without a tUie-
phone, yot statistics show that only
one home out uf every 10 In London
ls equipped with one. Except for
business. telephones never really
have been adopted and in order TO
have one installed IL ls necessary TO
pay Tor the wiring from tho nearest
exchange which makes tho cost al
most prohlbitivc. Another reason
FOR the absence OF the telephone In
residences Ia that English people
have an inherent tendency 10 dis
trust anything which changes the
customs that have come down TO
them through previous generations.
They much prefer to write a letter
and wait two days Tor reply than
submit to the nuisance OF having a
telephone always jingling IN tho
house"
No Heating systems.
English homes are surprisingly un-
changed by the course OF years. and
IN many ways arc exactly the same
as they were centuries ago--for the
finest existing country houses were
built In the sixtecnth and seven
teenth centuries. Furnaces or
central heating" to use the English
term, are just beginning to be talked
about Even the modern hOuses are
heated or they ever are hcated) by
firoplaces In every room. English
people are so used to cold and
dampness that they would probably
languish and die II exposed TO a
uniform temperature of 20 degrees
10 rany length OF time.
In the rural towns and villages
lamps and candies are still gener-
ally used for lighting. Even In Lon
don, homes are frequently wired for
electricity. only on tho first floor,
and before ascending the stairs 90
retire at night you are presented
with candle.
A permanent "flxtupe" OF every
English bedroom, along with the
fireplace. is a marble topped wash
stand with porcelain or china bowl
and pitcher. This is not an ornament,
but is used tor once ablutions night
and morning. Springs and Mattress
es are not In favor the preference
being huge feather beds which conn
pletely engulf the occupants.
Labor Saving Unknown.
Coal ranges aud oil stoves are or
dinarily used for cooking. though n
few proud housewives possess a two
burner gas stove. with n small oven
below.
English people never have adopted
the multitude OF time and labor saw
Ing devices found In American homes
vacuum cleaners. electric irons.
fireloss cookers, washing machines
and so ,orth The Englishman has
never learned to value the minutes
the way the American d res, lie lives
practically along as his torefathers
have for generations. and what has
sufficed Tor them II perfectly ado'
quate for him. This In one OF the
great est di ferenccs between the old
country and the new. by contrast
Americans seem to be living AT a
terrific rate of speed and though
the Englishmdn lives more slowly,
one somehow feels he lives more
sanely and contentedly.