AMERICAN MANNERS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 404, 4 February 1904, Page 6

AMERICAN MANNERS.

V Axe Mo eh Octirr Than (k« Arenge firltlabcr of London Mom Au> Idea Or. The ordinary Londoner -who has not had the good fortune to cross - the Atlantic is wont to picture his American cousin wearing a goatee and a victim to 4he constant chewing of tobacco and liberal expectoration. On arriving in Xew York he is am.-v.ed to discover thai the goatee i« con?pieuous by its absence; tobacso ch-wing tinnoticeable and expectoration practically unknown. In •fcis respect he finds the New Yorker far more cleanly in his habits than the Londoner, more especially on public v.u-s and in pnblic places, says an easiern exchanges The unrastraine.l indulgence of spitting on and off the tops of 'buses and in railway trains, and the random < chewing and smoking of tobacco in and around London are simply odious, ■and make traveling intolerable and ofttimes disgusting even to a smoker. Here the strange prohibition against .spitting in public places and the sensible regulation as to smoking are so thoroughly observed that traveling becomes a pleasure. If London would only copy the most admirable example existing in New Tork in this respect the English metropolis would soon be rid of a moat unwarrantable and filthy habit.