QUAINT VIEWS OF LONDON.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 399, 27 September 1911, Page 7

QUAINT VIEWS OF LONDON.

Miss Eva Tanguay, who is an exceedingly popular music hail actress Jin America, recently spent ten days !in London and Paris, and gathered some curious impressions of the two great cities. On her return from her first voyage across the Atlantic she was interviewed by numerous reI porters, and she expressed her quaint I views with al the frank confidence of her race. Her impressions were summed up easily in one short sentence, "I don't think much of Europe." In London she was surprised to find everything was "horribly old and dingy." "Why," she said, "there's Buckingham Pslace, where the King and Queen live. It's black and grimy and dilapidated, instead of being beautiful white marble, the way you would suppose it ought to be. Honest, it's a sight, and New York would never stand for it. Over here we don't let buildings get old; we tear them down before they've been up ten years, and put up nicer one." Evidently the young lady's education included no exercise for the development of the bump of reverence. She had nothing to say concerning the venerable antiquities of London, which impressed her only as the "dinigest, dirtiest, most crowded - together, poverty-stricken" place she had seen. Her comments on the people were just as free and as entertaining. The London policeman she described as the most absurd things, looking like country Reubens. "For the matter of that," she added, "al! Englishmen are stupid, and they don't seem to have any joints to their brains." The womenfolk of the great city aroused the visitors indignation. "They are frights, positive frghts," she declared. "They wear the shabbiest, frumpiest clothes, particularly in the street. They don't know how to walk, or how to sit gracefully." However, the breezy young lady thought the soldiers were attractive, and she "liked the Zoo." The domestic servants in London won her warmest praise, but she was annoyed by the "silly restaurants," which closed at half-past eleven, and on the whole she was convinced that London was "deader than Long Island City." Perhaps the capital of the Empire needs no pity on that account.