AMERICAN MANNERS.
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91m Ordinary Londoner who feu not had the good fortune to crou lb* Atlantic fa .wont to picture hit American cousin wearing a goatee and a victim to the conatant chewing of tobacco and liberal expectoration. On arriving in New York he ia amazed to discover that the goatee la conspicuous by ita absence, tobae-
cft> chewing unnotieeable and expectoration practically unknown. In tfafa respect he finda the New Yorker lar more cleanly *» hfa habit* than the Londoner, more especially on public earn and fax public place*, aaya aa eastern exchange. The nnreatrained indulgence of spitting on and off the tope of tmaea and in railway trains, and the random chawing and smoking pf tobacco in and around London ere simply odioue, and make traveling intolerable and afttimes disgusting even to a smoker. Here the strange prohibition agalnat spitting in public plaeea and she ecnaible regulation a* to smoking are eo thoroughly observed that traveling becomes a pleasure, If London would only copy the moat admirable exampta existing an Hew York in this respect the Fxglfaa metropoUa would boob be rid ©f a m 6*% uwerrantebfe and IRby habit,
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 415, 28 April 1904, Page 8
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192AMERICAN MANNERS. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 415, 28 April 1904, Page 8
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