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Show I .ALL HA8TEN TO THEIR HOMES What Happens In the 8mall Town After 8unset. If you happen to spend nn evening In nn English business town you cannot can-not fall to bo surprised at tlio almost complete, solltudo that Riirrounds you, says tlio Philadelphia Record. ThU town that you may havo seen In tho afternoon swarming with such numbers num-bers of busy people, teeming with so Intense a life, Is now deserted. To Its provlous animation has succeeded suc-ceeded n strnngo culm. It Is as though you walked In a city of tho dead. It Is because every evening aftor six o'clock work Is over In tho English town; tho complex machinery of tho tmmenso labor organization stops. Tho factory and tho ofTlco, their doors open wldo, cast Into tho street their world of liberated workers. Uy crowded tramwayB, by crowded pave-monls, pave-monls, the town disgorges itself. Each one clorkB, workmen, workglrls, of-flco of-flco boys, bankers and merchants with tho samo hasto to regain his dwelling, leaves behind htm tho gloomy town where ho labored, where he strovo as In tho lists. It Is an Immense nnd enthusiastic .retreat. It Is the dally exodus of tho English toward their "homo." What, then, Is It, this homo of which tho English constantly speak, the thought of which touches their heart, whoso memory dims tholr eyes, that enfolds all tho happiness of their llfol , It Is home, a placo In which to fop get tho aggravations of tho world, In which to bo with one's denr ones, ono's pets and one's lares and pctiatvs generally. |