Garland Globe | 1907-10-12 | Page 5 | To Ride or Not to Ride

' TO RIDE OR NOT TO RIDE. London Undecided Whether It Is Good Form to Use Motor Cab. It has not bceu decided whether It Is good form or bad to uso tho motor cab. Such a decision does not matter ono atom, but tho verdict will havo to come. Tho penny 'bus and tho twoponny tube arc, of course, qulto smart, but that must bo becauso the bishops havo taken to using them. Disraeli, It has been said, made tho fortune of tho hunsom when ho culled it tho gondola of London. Yet tho duchesH of Cloveland nover thought the late Lord Salisbury qulto respectable, becauso he drovo about town, not In a coach-and-slx, but, as she mentioned In tones of horror, In a brougham. Herbert Spencer did no worse, except that, owning a little victoria, vic-toria, ho Jobbed horso nnd driver. All tliese equipages have soma ' I mo or other to run tho gauntlet of tho mentors of society. Tho victory of tho penny 'bus was the greatest democratic democrat-ic triumph over won by tho bench of bishops. For It was banned by bell, hook and caudle not so long ago. Prof. Vambery, when ho wna learning learn-ing to troud tho straight and narrow ways of London society, was caught by a lady riding on the top of a 'bus. "Sir," she said, when ho camo hum- lily down, "take caro not to ho seen thero agnln, otherwise you can no longer appear as a gentleman In society." so-ciety." London Sketch.