Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1912 — London as a Frenchman Bees It. [ARTICLE]

London as a Frenchman Bees It.

The little French boy has qvery opportunity of getting an engaging idea of London. In a recent volume of French and general geography, which has run into several editions, the compiler gives an English reading from the works of M. Enault, whoever he may be. And the little French boy is told concerning the London of this century that there are in the best parts of our unhappy city “whole streets formed of dens dug out of the soil, which itself was only a mass of rubbish." And again: “A little further on, bands of half-starved men without fire or shelter take refuge in gypsy vans, which vans are buried up to the axletree in mud.” People also sleep in wheelless cabs, for which they pay a rent of cent! a week. We Londoners should not have known anything about this if M. Enault had not told us! —London Chronicle.