Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Why the English Go to the Seashore in Winter. [ARTICLE]

Why the English Go to the Seashore in Winter.

I find that many poople in America think it so strange that we in England should like to go to the seashore in winter, and wonder how it is that the Queen should seek her marine resident at Christmas time. The persons who so wonder are not familiar with British climate, and think because there are ice and snow in New York and Philadelphia, the same condition must prevail here. They make their climate calculations without bringing in that important factor,, the Gulf stream. By the aid of this obliging body of water the temperature of the south coast of Britain is simply delightful during the winter months, and as for the Isle of Wight, where the Queen goes, it is Italy with sanitary improvements—nothing more nor less. The fogs which are rapt to make life a vexation in London, at or near this season, are unknown on the coast, and often when it is dark as pitch at noonday in London we, us and company jump into the electric-lighted Pullman train, and in an hour are on the King’s road at Brighton, with the sun shining brilliantly over our heads, the blue waves dashing at our feet, the sea dotted with pleasure craft, little German bands tinkletooting the latest American importation, “Wait Till the Clouds Roll By,” or some other sugary sentimental’ ism, in our ears, and the whole of the Juno procession of Hyde Park and Piccadilly fashionables elbowing us as we move through the crowd.— Olive Logan, in Philadelphia Times.