SOME ENGLISH TRADITIONS If you arrive in Great Britain, you'll hear the word everywhere. Englishmen have sentimental love for dition things and traditions because they are old.

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They never throw away i old things For example, in many houses of Great Britain they have fire places and though their bedrooms are awfully cold the English people don't want to have central heating because they don't want to have changes. Therefore the Yeomen-War- ders are dressed in traditional medieval clothes and the traditional dress of the Horse Guards regiments has existed since the twelfth century. This dress costs a lot of money and seems very funny nowadays, but Englishmen stand for it because it's their traditional dress. you enter the Houses of Parliament, you'll see the House of Lords and the House of Commons. In the House of Lords there are two rowe of benches for lords and a sack of wool for the Lord Chancellor to sit on it. This is so because in the old times wool made England rich and powerful is not big and quite simple, In House of Commons which you'll see two rows of benches for the two parties: the go ment one side and the opposition on the other. In front of the benches there is the strip" of n carpet and when a member speaking in the House puts his foot beyond that strip, shout "Order!" This dates from the time when there on them and during the dis the members had swords "order" re cussion might want to start fighting. The word minded them that no fighting was allowed in the House Another old custom remains from the time when there was