ENGLISH IN MADRID.
A reader who has recently returned'from Spain writes to an English, paper-:—"Ever since the marriage of King Alfonso the English language and everything English is the most correct thing in Madrid, and the most fashionable. English fashions' in every shape and form are all the rage—English sports, siich as golf, polo, tennis, football, horse-racing, etc. There was . recently to be seen an English musical comedy company performing at the Comedia Theatre, and, although it was of a second-rate order, it met with immense success. The newspapers have advertisements with such weird expressions as: .'Great smart straw hats'; 'High life trousers from London—very smart.' AH' Spain has gone English mad, and the very dogs p.nd horses have English names. The following choice specimen of English is actually to be seen in one of the shop wind,ows of a principal establishment of the: if-V purchase nothing until visit this establishment, where the prices are most reduced'and highly incrediblesl' "
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 3
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159ENGLISH IN MADRID. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 3
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