| Show PUBLIC HOUSES the customer accustomed to take llis his ease in them NOT GIVEN TO TREATING THE CROWD tho the metropolitan district Public publicans ans have an hour anil and a toga IQ in closing of nights tho sunday hours made for tho the bonewit of the charchek charches Cb ch arches cruzu I 1 londo T doc dec 15 laio 1800 london publicans public pub llon ans possess a baat advantage over their provincial pro vindal brethren inasmuch as the licensing laws allow thorn them to keep open until bait an aa hour after midnight the trado trade outside tho the metropolitan area aro are compelled to caaso their dispensation dispensations ot of liquid favors at deloen ibis Is a privilege P vl that Is pregnant w ith profitable table results as tho the receipts for the hour and a half not infrequently foot up halt half tho the v bhole holo days takings generally speaking the lateness 0 of the hour and TUB THE THIRST OF TUB THE doprr run in parallel planes men who toy and dally with their drinks at 8 p in will w III drain their drafts 0 of it henish down with an energy worthy of a hotter bettor cause causa when it drews near that w mitch itching hour when public house yam yawn A the flood floodgates gates ot of generosity which earlier in the evening betrayed no visible or too tan signs 0 of hailing their bars withdrawn are now thrown open and shouts ol of what W hat will ill you haic ha e old man aro are hoard board on onery side foreigners say that tho the englishman takes his drink as bo be does all his bis other pleasures sadly ills 1119 sellos sm llos aro are not marked with fill that vivacity and that distinguish other nationalities there Is a certain air of resignation about tho the way he bo takes his bl as it if in performing this function ho be had bad tho the good of his bis country countr yi in the shape ot of au an increased excise rove ro nuo onue at ab heart rather than any personal or selfish enjoyment those m who he have observed his habits in this cannot with tho the unruffled calm which lie ho displays under hat the majority of me uichi would designate as exciting circe circumstances in lo lie 10 will sit behind a four cent glass of boor beer for tho the best part of throe three thousand six fix hundred seconds with a moody melancholy in his bis every feature fc aturo and a settled dogged in hla to heart to might blight tho the antici anticipation patio a of another order I 1 that bat Is welling up to the collar stud of tho the bar tonder lender lie he or argues u lol to in defiance det lance of the traditions of several centuries that tur miao HOUSE WA MADE foll FOIL DIM and not he be for tho the public bome and ro re garding it in tho the light of a free entrance institution ike tho the national gallery or british museum ho he holds that ho he Is well within his rights la in using it for his own particular use and bonoit without any troublous after thought as to the bubli cans profit should a friend drop in he bo may blay or may not as his hl fancy or hla his frugality dicta dictates tesi ask sl him to drink ab outing for tho the crowd Js Is an unknown n quantity hero here except as abao 0 indicated when tho the heartbeats heart beats aro are attuned to abandon hand through the agency of what artemos ward would call tho the seductive men sit sil and chat together for hours hour without even a suggestion of treating I 1 havo have myself seen seated round a table in a smoke room a father and his four sons each of whom ordered his bis own dri drink k without inciting tho the others 0 h rs to join j din him nor could tho the caubo can of this apparent selfishness and frugality bo be traced to lo a scarcity 0 of tho the sinews 0 of war ar for there was not a man of them that was not in possession of at least sk noo a year I 1 am however bound to admit that this Is an exceptional circumstance and that tho the social barometer mariy indicates such an atmosphere although englishmen As ail a rulo rule aro are not gevea to crowd treating still tho the majority of them do not draw such a hard and fast line as that represented by tho the quintette referred to between eleven and HALF AN A AFTER the trade Is exceeding brisk people arc agethen then wending their way nay homewards from tho the theaters music balls and other places of amusement and cannot of course rosha tho the garish getup get up of tho th 0 swell gla gin palaces tho the publican and his assistants aro are as ba buy bay y as ants and tho the clank clinkow of coin rising above tho the boozy babel of voices rings out upon the mid midnight night air there Is 15 now no toying with ith drinks they aro are disposed of with kith a rapidity which would rend tho the arid soul of a too toe with despair pronounced symptoms of frugality and even penuriousness early in the evening cast aside all such paltry considerations as the hour for closing approaches there Is a regular jostle for drinks ar an elbow ing and a crushing and a log ing to got get within car shot of tho the attend ants this congestion congo ellon and confusion conf uhlon rapidly increases cremes In as the ejecting hour of balf past im elve dram a nigh reaching its zenith when then tho the voice of the ibo chucker out sounds tho the warning noto note of time time in london the abu public houses are closed punctually at 1230 and no customer Is under auy any circumstances allowed lowed to remain after that hour in this connection A CURIOUS CASK CAPE came before tho the courtia short time ozo aeo A certain publican invited a few of his patrons to join him in a little after business festivity and tho the invitation having boon been accepted the gueits were introduced to their hosts snug sn where they obscured obscure e d themselves the map ives in a cloud clo U d of tobacco smoke w V bile they cheered their souls with alcoholic nectar all went merrily as a marriage marr lago boll bell until a police inq inspector m altha ith a knock that bristled with summon iora to tho the door lie ho demanded an entrance and explained that from loor matlon received c 0 ived bo be had reason to suspect the ibo presence pro ence of persons on his interlocutors interlocutory promises during prohibited hours in N violation Jo lation of the act acl tn in such cases mado made and provided IN ith A abild liko like and b land bland smile Roni bonafaco face replied that there was no ono one on hl promises prem laca savo aavo a fow few personal friends whom he had invited to spend pend an idle hour tho the officer said that hat in the abo discharge of his duty bo be have to search the promises premises aud and tako take down tho the names of any persons found thorbon thor con Us ilo accordingly entered the slin snug and having obtained tho the re quiren particulars from its inmates lu mates I 1 left oft the abo little coterie colorio to gloat over what hat they considered his defeat but they shouted before they were clear of 0 tho the ool each of them was summoned summon rd to appear beford tho the local police magistrate on a charge of being on licensed promises during prohibited hours they ridiculed the accusation and fortified rh the fact of their being bona bofia fiji guests they saucily bade the pollee authorities do their worst when the cause canto came up for hearing the magistrate in inflicting a fine ot of 10 explained that a customer cannot be transformed into a guest while granting that a publican was perfectly at liberty to entertain his friends at arly any time either by day or by night at tho the samo same time hold bold that a man who aho bad been a customer at tho the time of closing could not bo be retained as a guest without infringing tho the sprit of the statute tho the decision caused tho the utmost dismay among tho the spirit sellers and quite a hornets nest was raised about tho the do voted head of tho the unfriendly justice would En glisman it was asked suffer such a gross outrage on their blood bought liberty ll was an English mans house not his big castle in v which filch his big authority was supreme and was not a publican a man and a brother these and similar rapidly dissipated vapo wore were indulged in but the authorities lot them pass as the lille idle wind were it not for some such legal prohibition a every cry publican in london would bo be nightly entertaining an tortal ning bis big guests at their own ex cx ponso the dodge didgo was too diaphanous to escape penetration by the shroud pollee inspectors of tho the metropolitan f orco orce and a nd they mercilessly exposed it to the public gaze without even een a fig leaf 0 o cover Us its nakedness sunday morning Is tar TOP E RS OF BUFFERING FEltl SO with a thirst here bom of the saturday nights abandon tie ho crawls about la in agony until the time arrives when tho alio publicans public ans are permitted to throw open their heir laden stores store IQ in london the public houses guht remain closed on sundays until ono one p in and from three broo to six p in tho the object of this limitation Is a 1 I suppose to induce churchgoing church going tho the authors of this see sec lon lien of the licensing act no doubt argued that as a man must go somewhere v here and as bo be cannot go to tho the public bouso he will perhaps go to church their well intentioned scheme has ia not however borno much religious fruit fulti as anyone n who he walks through the suburbs of london on a sunday morning may learn tor for himself it Is admitted dmit ted says sas archdeacon farrar that over immense areas both of cities and of the country not ton par percent cent of the workingmen attend any place of religious worship this Is a sod ad admission for a member of the national c hurch church to make the anglican communion n ion has been a nali miserable crable failure to in its 11 efforts to christianize the of at tho the country anil and in many parishes in london it has bas been compared to a dismantled hulk bulk upon the rolling waters aters tho the working classes clashes though claiming membership of the church of england gland rarely lf it eier eer attend to its or hearken to tolls its monitions munitions ions day mornings are spent in buttressing up the walls and doors of the public houses contiguous to their residences awa awaiting biting with mith a thirsty anxiety the ho glad glad hour when Doni donipace face will minister to their wants no ko sooner are the bolls belts withdrawn withdraw than A KUSH IS MADE TOB FOR DAMPS pints of 0 beer boi r tire are gulped dow down rn at a drought draught find and the attendants A are hard pressed to execute the orders that hood flood to in upon teem women and children with jugs in hand band a await ait their turn to be served the din of conversation rises rise wit with h the drink excited feelings of th tho boo boomers boozers bo until when the closing hour of 3 p ni arrives the welkin in the vicinity of the public bouws boules in fairly irly rings with the bal babel el of maudlin voices voice I 1 tho wena sone N 1 certainly a disgraceful one in a 16 country that claims a monopoly in bible lov ing and god cod tearing fearing M 1 hi allo Is hundreds ot of thousands of dollars dollar tiro tire spent abdu ally in missions lons to the he athens of darkest africa and other benighted regions tho the worse than heathen condition of the denizens of the london plums elams Is elthea totally ignored or conveniently plowed over in no DO other part of tho the habitable habl tabla globe glo bodocs does there exist such a vast and terrible amount of squalor vice crime destitution and misery it has rono gone beyond the resources of that wealthiest wealthier of christian agencies tho the church of england and wore ere it not for general B hooch bolh and his valuable ablo though eccentric army Us its area would widen out into a space so illimitable as to make society shudder tho the are said fro possess tho the valuable secret of the compulsion of human souls when I 1 compare what they do with what wo we tho the church of england havo have done said canon liddon it makes MO ma a and I 1 foel feel guilty when I 1 thick of it jiabo |
