EUROPE AT A GLANCE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2659, 12 May 1908, Page 7

EUROPE AT A GLANCE.

WHAT AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Man saw. w-.. : | "Discoveries in Eveiy-day Europe"' is the title which Dbh C. Seftz, the manager of, the New t York "World," and one of the 'busiest newspaper men in America, gives a series of jottings on a rapid trip through Europe, published, by "the Messrs. Harper. The following are some of the impressions i . French soles are better' cooked in Lucerne than in Paris; I

The Swiss are the best hotelkeepjers in Europe. The bust of Socrates in the Capitoline Museum at Rome looks like the late Henry George. In Paris the ladies lift up their skirts at crossings with no consider* ation other than to insure keeping them off the pavement. ' Germany is a country of intellect; Italy one of expression. For st-rut and insolence one must go to Prussia. '*.■>•««' Signboard and poster advertising litter up both France and Itaily, while the London 'buses are hideous with American advertising cards plastered on in eye-shocking colours. The • newspaper men in London can talk in English. The rest of the population use a queer jargon of misplaced aspirates and vowels interspersed with drawls and growls in mournful mutilation of their native tongue. London suggests ten Bostons pieced together at the edges. Tho Italian army is the smartest in outward show of all the European armed array. It is truly tailormade.

The American chorus-girl can make more stir in London than a duchess. Starting a train in the Latin country is an impressive ceremony. First the Station Master rings the bell ; this announces that he is through. Then the platform mart blows a horn; his troubles are over. Then the engineer toots his readiness, and the cars start.

The Loudon County Council's* steamboats . . are unclean little smoky tubs of ancient side-wheel .pattern, where you sit on an open deck and swallow' soft-coal smoke, or else dive into a cofiin-shapcd cabin below water-line, where ginger-pop is purveyed by a cockney maiden at twopence a sip. The swift boats on the Seine earn money, and are so constructed as to make a trip enjoyable. The Seine is a nice, artistic river, while the Thames is muddy and commercialised.