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INSULAR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS THAT ARE OUT-OF-DATE.

WHY ENGLAND IS LOSING VISITORS.

I should like to see our manners, especially towards those from over- sena, improve.

I think that our rudeness costa us hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, and I do not believe we get sufficicht amisernent out of it for us to consider it a pastime worth the money!

If we are polite to the foreigner, we are just polite only and out of sympathy for his being a foreigner, and stow him a form of pity which he welcomes about as much as we should welcome it from anyone pitying us for being British.

Perhaps I speak hastily, though: sometimes my words are borne out only too well.

[By LORD DECIES, D.S.O.].

Should be happen to feel thirsty a little after midnight, we send him to bed-thirsty still

The Tax Question. Should he dare to stay with us for a year, we tax him. (I can almost hear the Government say, "We'll lam 'im ). I admit that this does not often bappen, as usually he is far too miserable to endure even six months on cur tostile shores. We have not even had the politeness to let the Ameri- can or any other stranger know that he can stay a year here now and pay tax only on what he spends.

By the way, how many of us have ever paused to consider our manners objectively, or even to wonder as to the basis upon which manners are built?

Do our English manners make the stranger feel at home? Do our English ideas of form" make us eaxy and agreeable companions? Do they show a delicate apprecia tion of viewpoints not our own, .customa `strange to ust

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I cak any Englishman to put the quetion to himself and answer in all tonesty, and I am willing to wager that after a little thought his reply will be "No."

The change which, as I see it, wou'd be among the most beneficial to the country would be an altera- tion in manners. Surely since such a change calls for no fundamental alteration in character or priciple. and no outlay of money, it would be easy of accomplishment.

But the tax question is not so important as the way in which the visitor spends his days and nights, In Paris he can do as he pleases. The French are innately polite, A short time ago I recommended and they lay themselves out to some American friends of mine, oblige any stranger. If he withes or, rather, of my wife, who is body will say him nay, I he to stay up and dance all night, no-

England's Historic Appaal. Ainerican, an hotel which I consi-

England, with its historic ap dered to be one of the best in Lon-wishes to make a noise, nothing

more will be done about it beyond peal, its quaintness, its beautiful don. The day after they had in- stalled themselves there I rang up the orchestra being told to play country, its fascinating cities, If he should be a land that appeals to for a word as to their comfort. To fortissimo and more so. my astonishment, I was informed makes the alightest sound in Lon all foreigners and especially to that they had left. When I saw don we shall shrink visibly, shrivel, Americans, who are not handicap- them again they explained that fact, and we let him see us inped as they are abroad by a want cf understanding of the language. they could not afford the hotel the act.

Then there are the races. "Ameri; And although I may have joked a prices.

cans have a tradition that one of little about the harshness of our the most beautiful sights in the manners, and, if I may be forgiven for it, exaggerated slightly, the world is an English race meeting.

Quite naturally and casually be stark fact does remain that our strolls to the one comfortable place lack of appreciation of the foreign- the members' enclosure. Here heer is proving an expensive busincas. is shooed off, and nothing can get | him in.

Bat their prices are not really particularly terrible. I gave a dinner for four. and it came only to ten pounds."

gave the same dinner to the said the same number of people.' American, quietly, and it cost me ferty."

Our Insular Way.

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The Clubs and Cookery, And the clubs!

As a true Briton, I am always ag'in the Government, but, serious- A club in the United States is ly, I do not think our Government what its title connotes a place that shows the good sense of past ad-in clubby. Should an Englishman ninistrations in dealing with the be introduced into a club, it is his foreigner. That, I admit, is not a second home. He can go there at matter of manners, but of policy, wili; he can do there whatsoever he and it is poor policy surely for us pleases. But in England he may to make it difficult for the foreigner enter only when escorted by his to visit us and untempting for him host, who, evidently, is expected to be a sort of plain-clothes police. man, though I am not sure whether the host's responsibility consists of keeping an eye on his guest or an eye on the silver, or possibly one upon each simultaneously a very disturbing iden.

to try.

For instance, I have often noticed that should a foreigner in the street nsk us the way, we assume not only that he is a congenital idiot who can never be made to understand anything, but that he is den! be sides. Therefore, in the kindness of our hearts, we shout at him. And instead of elaborating our ex- planations or directions, as the ease may be, all we do is to say the same thing over and over, a trifle more loudly each time. By the time we are through with him, in fact, if he is not the deaf congenital idiet that we mistook him for, it is scarcely our fault.

In England, if we manage to give him a thrill it is a thrill akit to that felt by an escaped and wanted criminal.

Money that should be pouring ing into England is being diverted to other lands.

Industries that should fourish in England-uch as theatrical "pro- duction-nre deprived of wealth that would mean a great deal to English working men and women. Sightseeing, and all the related in- dustries, such as automobile-rent- ing, buses, trains, and so on, are forced to do without that which, with so little trouble on the part of the public, could be theirs.

When this change comes, and we have really trained ourselves to welcome the foreigner-and inward- ly we do welcome him, although

we have not learned a means of expression-we shall be a happier and more prosperous nation.

And while I am on the subject, 1 might add that it would not do us any Earta to be a trifle, more amiable to one another. But we understand one another, so I do not suppose it really matters.

i Our cookery is another form of bad manners. We are credited with having the best table manners on earth, I know, and no wonder, for our endurance has been so taxed by what is set before us that we

But I should like to see my have disciplined ourselves to stand the worst. We pride ourselves on nation grow away from the very repressing all emotion," and eating characteristic story that is told of quietly and calmly. I agree that the two-country yokela, Giles and it in as well we should. My own Jarge. Said Giles to Jarge, "I emotions, for example, given diseny, Jarge, there is a stranger in

"Well, then, play at most British tables, would these 'cre parts.' shock an East End barger-and not replied Jurge to Giles, "eave a without reason.

'arf a brick at 'im!

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