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Show LONDON'S HUMOR AND FUN People of All Clnincs Are Constantly Bubbling Over with Light Hits of Speech. Mention has been inndo of the gny and careless nature of the Parisian. Has anyone except u true-born Ixrn-doner Ixrn-doner ever obscned the humot mid fun which lie In great matsscH amoui, the people of London? W. W. Jacobs In modern days has depleted somo of tills In special particulars. Dickens, above all wrltern, most faithfully portrayed por-trayed many phiRcs of It. Thackeray has deult with It In a manner not likely like-ly lo bo repeated. Hut all three authors do not collectively col-lectively make up the mass of London Lon-don humor. It Is everywhere. It peeps out with drhers of public vehicles who U8o their horses pb friends from whom to draw Inspiration for their sallies of humor, and ono wonders whnt will becomo of all this when tho horseless tehlclo Is tho universal modo of vehicular traction Surely tho mnn who turns u bundle Is not tho snmo as tho mnn who holds tho reins nnd enn not get out of electricity nnd petroleum pe-troleum what has been got out of the pnjRiUhnisjjhors. jtf iw. It conies to ils from tho railway porters por-ters and servants who keep at bay the (roublrtomc multitude by deftly turning turn-ing Into bjgnd ftjit !. which, begin be-gin seriously. It comes, toST from hotel nnd restaurant waiters, who sco enough of tho grim humors of Ufa to becomo an almost (indless source, of inspiration. Hut It Is nlso npparent on tho surface, llutrhcr boy and baker boy nnd shop boy arc full of It. They carry their goods nlong In lrnppy lg-nornnco lg-nornnco of tho sport they give to thoso who can note tho humorous In llfo. And tho cosleiuiongor and Itinerant dealer, to bo met with almost everywhere, every-where, nro special products of London who can not fall lo attract. One does not quite meet the counterparts counter-parts of these peopl In Paris. Thosa who tako tholr place there are not so distinctive and p'irtuko moro of tho chnractcilstlcs of the nvcrage Purlslnn. They send out, therefore, to the observer ob-server omy what tho average Parisian sends out, nnd do not stand npart ni types of what tho city can do In tho way of carrying on tho hmtiors of the time. Somo 0-y, perhrma, thero will nrlso a greater humorist In London who will penetrate what London produces pro-duces In this respect, and when this J sh(ill hnppen London will nppear n happier nnd moro genial place than Is cuiniiic.nly supposed, |
