Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Early and Late Cities. [ARTICLE]

Early and Late Cities.

There are early cities and late cities. Vienna is in bed by 11 though, oddly, a Wiener case in Gyrmany is a case that is open all night long. Madrid never goes to bed at all. To this writer in New York a waiter averred, at the breakfast table, that the latest supper he had servea was at Ba. m. But what will happen If the closing hour in London is placed at 11? It is a sum that may be worked out on your fingers. The play that ends at 10 must begin soon alter 6. And there comes the backward shove of meals. We must eat our dinner at 5 (If theatre and supper are still to be taken), and thus return to the fashion that was out of date when Tom Brown was at Oxford—the fashion that the late King of Denmark loved. Supper will be over and almost forgotten by> 11. Then nothing will be left but bed. And the shift of hours may bring us back to the early rising of our forefathers, when Pepys thought nothing of being afoot by 4 in the morning.