The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-05-12
Life in London
Is So Different
Visitors From America Are
Amazed at What They
Have to Learn.

LONDON.-An American listens,
looks and learns in London town.
Grapes are $1.25 a bunch and UNI
dersized oysters 81 to 81 dozen &C.
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 60 to provision
house they are all grouped at sep
arate bazaars.
The impressive London hobbies"
are hopeless In directing you 10
any given address, even If it's just
around the corner. The taxi drivers
never have any change. The big
cumbersome double-deck busses
keep traffic in a constant snarl
Sometimes as many as half dozen
In a 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. Thu
taxis park in the center Of d
street. Regent street and Fleet
street at the height of traffic hours
make Fifth avenue and Timea
square look like race tracks by COM
parison.
Drinking Hours Restricted.
Saloons, pubs" close from 3 to
$50 In the afternoon and ut IL at
night. A drink of scotch is q pony.
You have to order a double scotch
to get the equivalent of . full sized
American drink. Whisky is just IN
expensive here and is less potent.
BY law all whisky is 20 proof sa
compared to Sc proof in America.
A double scotch costs a shilling and
6 or 8 pence (35 to IS cents).
When you order a mutton outlet
with tomato sauce you get q plain
mutton chop and bottle of catchup.
Chill sauce seems to 60 under the
name of tomato chutney. II you or
der English mullins you get crum-
pets. You never get a glass of wa
ter in cafe unless you ask for it.
All night clubs close at midnight
unless they have extension night
(once a week. which grants them q
license to remain open until 2 a. m.
and dispense alcoholic beverages.
When you want a shave or hair
cut you 60 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 q
once-over lightly.
One Store Has Everything.
There's one department store
where you can do your banking,
order your theater tickets, take q
nap, be completely Quilted for any
climate under the moon or sum.
make will, have your blood pres
sure taken, or name it yourself.
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 tha
English manner.
You can ride a bus a reasonable
distance for 2 pence a cents), ana
make telephone call for the same
sum. But making q telephone calt
is an education, with q system C
punching button ga" and buttGn-
"b' and q series Of buzzing noieoa
only the natives ever fully under.
stand.
The subway Is called the under.
ground and the fares range TN
2 pence up according to the -
lance. But before you can ride tha
underground you have to 60 through
preliminary period q training
providing you wish to arrive at ~
destination.