ALT London, April 18 A DULL EASTER Was there such a dull Easter in London? Surely everybody who can leaves the din and the bustle, the gloom and the smoke, the dust or the mud, as the case may be according to the weather, when Eastertide comes round. To Londoners in general Easter is no Easter as it is supposed to be, but a time when they take their first "blow-out" for the season. I don't mean the kind of "blow-out" you mean; but their first blow -- you know -- out by the sea, or on the downs, or in the country somewhere -- or elsewhere, wherever that may be. Anyway, this time nobody who had to remain in town could remember such a dull Easter as this was. Nobody could remember when there was such a fearful congestion of traffic at and around the railway stations owing to the crowds of people waiting to get away. It was phenomenal. --The Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, 21 April 1900