Show YANKEES LIFT ANYTHING louven r craze zes whole cont nent of europe london there are loud cries of protest from the custodians of na dional institutions against the extreme methods employed by american and other to get souvenirs of their visits to england there s no showplace of any am which has not suffered from their ravages despite the bigl lance of the officials one american who was badly at dieted with the craze was caught in st paul s cathedral during the week in the act of chipping flakes of stone off one of the ornamental pillars A visitor to the british museum tried to sec ire a strip of mummy covering while another contented himself with snipping oft a button from the coat of an attendant women who were visiting the tower ot london actually had the audacity to cast covetous eyes on the brown jewels but they were too safe ly guarded one however consoled herself by surreptitiously breaking oft a twig from a tree managers of big hotels are suffering from the depredations of souvenir hunters ot only silver spoons and forks but water bottles glasses and even plates have been purloined A german visitor a man of high tion coolly packed a big mirror in his box another case is recorded where a tourist entered one of the city churches and walked off with a sur belonging tri a famous preacher but his companion was less success tul as he was caught in the act ol 01 trying to purloin a stained glass win dow |