. Glimpses of medical Europe. und that theplace was full up, and the girl at the doorin answer to my enquiry pointed out anotherhouse down the street, to which I went. Iwill spare the gentle reader the horrors ofthat London lodging-house, but if he hasbeen in London he can fill them in for him-self, for I am not the only one who has thussuffered. Perhaps it was this lodging-house experi-ence that prejudiced me against London tobegin with; or perhaps it was because I neverstruck anything save cold and rainy weatherthere; or perhaps it was because I missed theout-of-doors cafes of Paris and Berl
. Glimpses of medical Europe. und that theplace was full up, and the girl at the doorin answer to my enquiry pointed out anotherhouse down the street, to which I went. Iwill spare the gentle reader the horrors ofthat London lodging-house, but if he hasbeen in London he can fill them in for him-self, for I am not the only one who has thussuffered. Perhaps it was this lodging-house experi-ence that prejudiced me against London tobegin with; or perhaps it was because I neverstruck anything save cold and rainy weatherthere; or perhaps it was because I missed theout-of-doors cafes of Paris and Berlin; orperhaps it was because I didnt understandthe languagCo I asked a man one day how 180 LONDON to get to Ludgate-Hill. After some ex-change of words, a light suddenly dawnedon him and he exclaimed, Oh, I see; youwant Luggetll, whereupon the congestionof traffic incident to the discussion, wasrelieved. Anyway, at present I feel as thoughLondon were no place for me. If ever I getrich or famous, so that I can live at the Ritz. BLODMSEtTRY SQUARE and have a card to the Carleton Club, and abox at the opera, and be invited to meet theroyal family, Im going back and give theplace a fair try. But Im not going till this is where London differs from theother great European capitals. In Berlin andin Paris you dont want to be rich, and ifyou think of prosperity at all, its in the sameterms that Harvard thinks of Yale. (The 181 MEDICAL EUROPE exact expression used to be printed on thestationery.) In Berlin and in Paris you areperfectly contented with things just as theyare, and pity the misguided American mil-lionaire who stays at the swell hotels andnever knows the joys of cheap, but eminentlyrespectable, student-pensions, and the goodhearts of those you find there. In London,on the contrary, you cannot help associatingpoverty with dirt and ignorance. But all of this has nothing to do with medi-cine, and London is, in truth, one of thegreatest medical centres in the whole world
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