London, May 7.
To those who tell us that the English are growing effete the Jubilee rejoicings provide an all-Suficient answer. A people that can. Stand "up to) the amount of sight seeing that London (plus thousands and tens of visitors from the prov-Inces) has done, and is still doing. aust indeed be a race of Titans. Ne nation, I suppose, suffers more from corns than we do; that is, if our comic writers and serious advertisers count for anything.
Yet day after day, and night after night the sightseers surge through London as if they had never heard of a tight shoe.
When other details of the Jubilee (which Tam certainly not going to waste your time in writing' about) have grown dim in memory, this marvellous crowd will remain unforgetable. Many people took up their places along the route of the procession before midnight on Sunday. All last night thousands and thousands danced and sang about the streets, were still dancing and singing when the sun rose, and finally' dropped on the grass in the parks and fell asleep, too exhausted to go home. Long before noon today, they with fresh hordes of sightseers, were up and about the streets again, Foreigners, of whose views have heard and seen a good deal, are simply dumbfoundered. Can this be the race of shopkeepers, who sell their wives at Smithfield' but otherwise take their pleasures sadly?
'AI the old songs came out once more, songs of the War like "Tipperary"; or further back still to "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do"; land once a song "as old as Queen Vietoria's first Jubilee came out:
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