We drink with discretion, however. Among many evenings in London I only saw one drunken man, though no doubt that suggests standard not yet attained in reality. Still, everyone is agreed that drunkenness has decreased enormously. In another respect n'ght-time London has changed out of all knowledge. Time was when Pic-cadiily and Regent Street contained none by night except men, and members of "the oldest profession." There are far more girls about thi streets now than there used to be, Dut they are respectable girls, either accompanied by men friends rr in parties of three and four by them-solves going to or returning from an entertainment. The others have gone underground and even a single irl can move about alone at night unmolested.
How pretty London girls are! Their colouring, the brightness of their eyes, their freshness even at the end of a day spent over some grimy City typewriter, is an ever recurring wonder to the returned exile., And nowadays they show 39 much taste in dress. What wicked Anglophobe set going the slander that Englishwomen have large splay feet? Let him go to London and repeat it if ko dare. No wonder} the artificial-silk stocking factories are a Golecnda.
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