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Show AA SMOKE CONSUMER all that is necessary to make a Paris of London. There has of late years been a marked tendency among the idle and affluent classes in England to reside more and more in London. Twenty-five years ago those who could live where they pleased did not ordinarily go to town at earliest before the Parliamentary season, but now London is fairly full by the middle of October, and really quietly gay by November. The fact is that each year adds to the attractions of the great city, where amusement and sources of interest are perennial, and the somber climate, that bete noir of foreigners, is little felt by those who serve a few years' apprenticeship to it-indeed, no persons are more enthusiastically attached to London than its American residents. Again, healthy Londoners are consciously varying their lives by trips to friends in the country, runs down to Brighton, Towbridge Wells, and the hundred other such resorts in England, not to mention Easter and Whitsuntide trips to Paris. Everything comes to London. In the Horticultural and Botanical gardens are finer flowers than the country can boast; the best cricket matches are at "the Oval" and at Lord's; the greatest horse show is at Islington; nearly all the greatest horse-races can be attended ‘tween breakfast and dinner, as can also many of the best meets of hounds. Probably this winter the town will be livelier than ever. Numbers of gentlemen are endeavoring to cut down their expenses by closing their country houses during the entertaining season, and reducing to the lowest possible point their staff of gardeners and stablemen, and they will betake themselves to town, where pleasures can be had at so much cheaper a rate than by giving twenty guests and their servants bed and board for weeks together. If some ingenious person could discover a smoke-consuming machine, easily applicable to ordinary chimneys, London would soon vie with Paris in point of attractiveness, even to Americans.-N. Y. Times. |