AMERICAN MANNERS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 414, 21 April 1904, Page 8

AMERICAN MANNERS.

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The ordinary Londoner who has not had the good fortune to cross the Atlantic ia wont to picture his American cousin wearing a goatee and a victim to the constant chewing of tobacco and liberal expectoration. On arriving in New York he- is amazed to discover that the goatee is conspicuous by its absence, tobacco shewing nnnoticeable and expectoration practically unknown. In ehis respect he finds the New Yorker Jar more cleanly in his habits than the Londoner, more especially on public cars and in public places, says an eastern exchange. The unrestrained 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 •f ttimes disgusting even to a smoker. Here the strange prohibition against spitting in. public places and the sensible regulation aa to smoking are so'thoroughly observed that traveling becomes a pleasure. If London would only copy the most adcurable example existing in New T*>rk In this respect, tho English sttstrcpcH* TTotild aoort be rtd of imomt .unwarrantable *u& A3 tn * utbU.