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P.S. Daylight saving is being used over here. The clocks were set ahead an hour on March 24 and with sunset way into the evening the day does seem long. The seasons reminder is no longer the quickened night.

Englishmen going to business still maintain the "plug" hat and English cutaway. As against the good old "business suit" of the Americans I prefer our own quiet dignity and snap rather than the old custom-handed-down English way. And at the latter part of the afternoon [[underline]] everybody [[/underline]], in all business establishments, knocks off for the afternoon tea and cake. They must be pacified with their tea!

Theatres were New Yorkish to a great degree of perfection than New Yorkers ever attain - in the finish and polish of the performance I mean. I went to "Arlette", an operetta; a farce that tried to be naughty, "a bit of fluff"; a big revue at the Hippodrome, a "Box O'Tricks; and an