184 WINTER SUNSHINE 



If you get into an omnibus or a railroad or tram- 

 way carriage in London, you are sure of a seat. Not 

 another person can get aboard after the seats are all 

 full. Or, if you enter a public hall, you know you 

 will not be required to stand up unless you pay the 

 standing-up price. There is everywhere that system, 

 and order, and fair dealing, which all men love. 

 The science of living has been reduced to a fine 

 point. You pay a sixpence and get a sixpence 

 worth of whatever you buy. There are all grades 

 and prices, and the robbery and extortion so current 

 at home appear to be unknown. 



I am not contending for the superiority of every- 

 thing English, but would not disguise from myself 

 or my readers the fact of the greater humanity and 

 consideration that prevail in the mother country. 

 Things here are yet in the green, but I trust there 

 is no good reason to doubt that our fruit will mel- 

 low and ripen in time like the rest. 



