SHOPPING IN LONDON.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16447, 19 January 1918, Page 2

SHOPPING IN LONDON.

. NO PARCEL DELIVTSRY. ! Sir James Barrio onco explained that one of bis reasons for preferring London to other cities is that it is tho only city in tlio world where a man can eat buns in tho street out of a paper bag without attracting attention. But under war conditions stranger sights than a man eating buns- will 'oo witnessed in London streets (says the Melbourne 'Age's" correspondent). Owing to tho shortage of petrol and labour, shopkeepers are trying to enforce a rulo limiting delivery by vans 'to parcels over 71b in weight, and, owing to the shortage of paper, shopkeepers make a favour of wrapping up I parcels. Therefore, it will soon become a (lommoni thing to see the city clerk walking through London streets to his railway station on his way homo with a bag of oatmeal in one hand, and a pair of new boots in the other. Bub before London women will carry nareels homo an Act of Parliament will have to bo passed to compel thorn to [do so. [r. tho old days no woman who I cared for her dignity -would carry n parcel from a suburban shop, and the obsequious surburbaii shopkeepers used, in their servility, to insist on delivering every purchase, no matter how small. For instance, the .fishmonger would send his boy round with a oouplo of herrings purchased at a Cost of, Id, and intended fer food for the household cab The basis of the objection of women to be seen carrying a paroel seemed to be that tho woman who did her own suburban shopping and took her own parcels proclaimed the fact that she did nob keep a maid.