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Show London Coster In His Holiday I Clothes Is a Human Ray of Light! WHEN you go to London ecry one visits the worlds metropolis sooner or later take half a day oft from the British museum and Westminster abbey and St. Paul's cathedral ca-thedral and visit the east end, where tho cortermonger haa his home It will pay ou If you can get there when the coster has one of his holidays, so much tho better. You'll see him arrayed ar-rayed In all his glory, making King Solomon of holy memory look like a piker When the suns rays hit the costermonger's holtoay suit, adorned with the rows of pearl buttons, he looks like "the house of a thousand candles ' all lit up. Gaze upon the coster In the picture. Take In tho significance and ponder upon the cost of those pearl buttons. He s tho man of whom the news dls-1 patches told not long ago as wearing I TJ.Ouu buttons sewed on bis coat, waistcoat waist-coat trousers and cap. Wherever there was room for a pearl button 'Arry's tailor got bus with the needle and thread. The buttons were real pearl, too no Imitations for the cos-termongcr! cos-termongcr! If you re good at figures ask your wife how much pearl buttons about the size of a man s coat button are worth the prices In London are about the same as they are elsewhere and figure how much that man's 72,-000 72,-000 buttons cost him. Another coster at the costermongers donkey show at the People's palace. In the east end of London, the other day had 60.000 buttons, and still another claimed 45.000 for his coat -alone H-said H-said the work of attaching them took nine months of his daughters time. Shed a tear of pity for the daughter's ees! Of course only the costermongers costermon-gers holiday suit Is adorned with all those bits of mother-of-pearl. His everyday ev-eryday working clothes arc more sober. London had a big horse show not long ago, and one night was given up to tho donkeys, or ' moke,': of the costermongers. cos-termongers. Next to his pearl bun on suit. or. perhaps. Just a bit ahead f the brilliant raiment, the cosier love-s his donkey. So he welcomed the opportunity op-portunity of mingling with the lords and ladles and the "bloomln' furrl-ncrs" furrl-ncrs" at Olympln and put his moke through its best paces After the show there was a dance. In which Lord Lonsdale. England s famous fa-mous sporting peer and lntlmat. friend of the kaiser, danced a Jig with tho "donah." or "lady friend." of one of the costers. She was clad, like her man. In pearl buttons. beMdes other things If Lord Lonsdale weren't a peer and ineligible for election to the house of commons tho east end of London would demand that he 'stand" for a seat there. The costcrmonger. better known as tho coster. Is the peddler of London, distinguished from other peddlers In law as well as In custom, by the fact that he does business with the aid of an animal and a barrow. He differs from the 'hawker" In having the barrow bar-row and from the "general dealer" In having no fixed place of business. This is not to be construed as saying that the coster has no fixed route for the selling of the vegetables, fruit and fish In which he deals If any one thinks he can poach on the cosfer s J preserves nnd sell the commodities mentioned he has a sad awakening eomlng to him. Probably all England, j and the rest of the world, too. for that' matter, contains no body of men more tenacious of their rights than the Lon-fl don costers. They have good reasoflH for objecting to ti esprisslnc. for somjfl !r n tutea are very valuable. Aajfl mii h as 1.000 has been paid for lS coster's route 1 -rtstrrmongeBB is a i abli Individual shrewd wit-w ni'l rig a languages h sounds a g i di il like English I j and is really cockney earried to its ex-l tr me. But sometimes. especially J 'when ho takes his holidays with hiffl 'donah" and his moke, he gets tool much 'arf and 'arf into h:m aid e and Arrlet 'avc m f.v the beak :n 'he mornln Then c iir.. s the time of ax-H planatlon and .-or, t rit ion. mmiolimel I successful. BOmetlmes to no avaiL 1 Students of human nature are ure of I hauling In something In their nets iffl attend the London police courtiH when a costermonger is brought up 1 1 WALTON WILLIAMS. 1 Photos by American Tree Association. fll COSTER, HIS M.SSUS AND THE KIDS, ALL IN THEIR PEARL V BUTTON COSTUMES. I M |