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Show A Glance at London Society. Take the vast London society. It is a atiffuecked dress parade in which oue meets one's best friend once a fortnight and strangers in proportion. People never know each other well and are almost al-most suspicious of those they dp know invitations are sent out from one to twe months ahead aod people come and go without making a visible impression, and there is none of that merry familiarity which makes American life so enjoy - able. A dinner Is a set affair, with no general gen-eral conversation and a total abseuce of what the French call esprit; in fact most of the Englishman's pleasures art of the macintosh and umbrella kind. Tho Londoner is always guarded and ; , suspicious of the stranger, and 1 don't wonder, considering some of the Americans Ameri-cans he has bad shoved upon him. But. - after all, there are too many people iu London; it is impossible to expect free- - dom, familiarity and hospitality among ' ' " such a multitude. Cor. Chicago News. |