THE HEART-BREAKING POLICEMAN.

Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 3

THE HEART-BREAKING POLICEMAN.

MAGICAL CHARM FOR THE FEMININE TOURIST.

London's nursemaids and cooks hereafter will have to be on their guard against the young American heiress visiting London. One of them has confessed to the New York '"World" that American women are "just crazy' ' about the London "bobby."

The chronicler, who conceals herself under the pseudonym of "A returning young woman traveller,' v rites:—"As a breaker of hearts he rules alone. Kis charm for the femirJne tourist is nothing short of magical. The stunning hair wave of the matinee god, the gilt of braid in the army man, the soft, sweet coo of the ship's first mate, yea, even the massive shoulders of one of the King's Life Guards, wither and fade, and are as naught before the simple helmet of the London policemen, and the only, only manner beneath it.

"Chatter about the bobby begins for the most part where ceases discussion of other sights. It comes as a climax and with one shrill burst of, And, oh, the J-ondon bobby! My dear, ciid you ever talk to one of these men? I never in all my life saw such ' and here words fail, but speedily find themselves in eager narrative of anecdote. "' 'It didn't take me long,' says one enthusiast, 'to learn my way about the city—that is, the best known part around the Strand, and Trafalgarsquare, and Piccadilly-circus, and the Kaymarket. But, of course, before I did I had to asl-. the bobbies, and always enjoyed it. " 'I had a friend in New York who used to be crazy about the traffic police on Fifth avenue. She knew the city like a book, but every chance she got she'd ask a trafficker where some street was. All she Avanted wn.s ■■•; j get a good look at him. She was un

artist. And. I did the same thing in London, just to bask in that beautiful courtesy whic'-i, smileless and dignified, is altogether satisfying, after the fierce eyed directions one gets from the sworded police of Paris.' "