The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-02
Life in London
Is So Different
Visitors From America Are
Amazed at What They
Have to Learn.

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looks and learns in London town.
Grapes are SIPS bunch and UNI
dersized oysters 81 to So a dozen ac-
cording to distinction of the place
you eat them and avacados are the
rarest of Injuries. You can get
milk, cream and butter only at
dairy store. Pork, beef, chicken
and fish all are sold at separate
stores and if you go to a provision
house they are all grouped at sep
arate bazaars.
The impressive London ''bobbies"
are hopeless in directing you to
any given address, even if it's just
around the corner. The taxi drivers
never have any change. The big
cumbersome double-deck buses
keep traffic in constant snarl.
Sometimes as many as half dozen
in row keep the traffic line frozen.
All traffic is left-hand drive, and
any American who wants to get
back home safely must remind him
self to ''look left, look right" every
time he crosses the street. The
taxis park in the center of the
street. Regent street and Fleet
street at the height Of traffic hours
make Fifth avenue and Times
square look like race tracks by COM
parison.
Drinking Hours Restricted.
Saloons, 'pubs," close from to
$3.50 in the afternoon and at II at
night. A drink of scotch is pony.
You have to order a double scotch
to get the equivalent of full sized
American drink Whisky is just as
expensive here and is less potent.
BY law all whisky is 70 proof as
compared to SO proof in America.
A double scotch costs shilling and
6 or pence (35 to As cents).
When you order mutton outlet
with tomato sauce you get a plain
mutton chop and bottle of catchup.
Chill sauce seems to go under the
name of tomato chutney. If you or
der English mullins you get crum-
pets. You never get glass of wa
ter in cafe unless you ask for it.
All night clubs close at midnight
unless they have extension night
(once week. which grants them
license to remain open until a. m.
and dispense alcoholic beverages.
When you want a shave or a hair
cut you go to hairdresser but you
can't get shine there. In fact you
can't get shine any place in Lon
don except by putting your boots
outside your door the night before
and the hall porter gives them a
once-over lightly.
One Store Has Everything.
There's one department store
where you can do your banking,
order your theater tickets, take a
nap, be completely QUILTED for any
climate under the moon or sun,
make will, have your blood pres
But outside the department stores,
tobacco can be purchased only in
tobacco stores, shoes in shoe stores,
hats in hat shops, etc. American
cigarettes cost shilling 6 pence
(about IS cents) and are longer
and thinner than the home variety.
The tobacco also is cured in the
English manner.
You can ride a bus a reasonable
distance for 2 pence "A cents), and
make a telephone call for the same
sum. But making a telephone call
is an education, with a system Of
punching button "a" and button
OBJ and series of buzzing noises
only the natives ever fully UNDER
stand.
The subway is called the under
ground and the fares range from
2 pence up according to the dis
lance. But before you can ride the
underground you have to go through
a preliminary period of training
providing you wish to arrive at your
destination.