The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

and touched his face and his dear gray
hair. I felt his lips on my mouth. and I
closed my eyes" Betty had written and
sold a novel, but now she was not thinking
Of it. Nor Of the elephant.
An entertaining. amusing story. II should
NJ in agreebly at Inc vacation reading hours.
England In the Kaiser's Clutch.
Dick Mordan wanted the army and the
navy abolished. He thought that war
was played out and that IL was time for
Englishmen to quit bothering about empire
and 70 turn their attention to domes site
matters. What he understood socialism
to be seemed TO him about the thing that
England wanted. How wrong he wss
and how England was Inundated through
cherishing the sort Of ideas that he
entertained may be learned in Mr.. A. j..
Dawson's highly patriotic story Of The
Message" Dana Estes 4 Co.. Boston.
A good many RACES Of the story are en-
ployed in representing the work Of the
Little Englsnders. Dick came 10 London
and as a newspaper reporter pitched into
the venerable and still lingering notion Of
the disturbances Of e strong government.
He did this in the enthusiasm Of his young
heart and for the modest stipend Of fifty
shillings weekly. He fell rather calmly
in love with Sylvia Wheeler, who wss a
High Church devotee and the daughter
OF a Throgmorton street Imrerialist and
money maker. When this explicit man
asked him to desist from calling any more
his grief was not very profound. nor was
he broken hearted When Sylvia herself
100000 hs~a afsA. L.sAf sAusA1 -
ella ndestine intercourse. because he per-
sisted in making long oral and epistolsry
attacks upon her religion. For the easy
solsce OF himself he made the acquaintance
of Beatrice Blaine. a handsome young
lady who enjoyed what she called fluffy
That Beatrice Was ~strikingiy
different from the o~hurchgoing Sylvia
is made manifest by Dick (who purports
10 tell this story in a few trenchant OBJ
servs tions. "One felt" says Dick. that
Beatrice had crossed the Rubicon. Mentally,
at all events. n gathered hat she had
thrown her bonnet over the windmill
Dick further says Of this liberalized young
lady: Physically. materially. | have no
doubt that Beatrice was perfectly we'll
qualified TO take care Of herself. But here
was a very handsome girl who wss en-
tirely without reticence or reserve. With
her many things usually treated with re-
sect were-'all rot Beatrioe's aim in
life was plea sure. and she not merely ad-
but boosted Of the fact"
As to the sort of pleasure that Beatrice
and perfectly enjoyed. we are
told that il was chiefly connected with
theatres. restaurants. the habit Of supping
in public and the use OF hanson cabs. In
New York she would nave glittered on the
theatre roofs and been a bright ornament
in the lobster palaces. Dick describes
one OF his fluffy evenings in the company
Of this hedonic girl. On a Saturday night,
with seven g~uineas cinkinG in his pocket
(the price of a sensational descriptive
article newly sold). he took up Beatrice in
hanson cab at a corner OF Battersea Park
and whirled her of to a SNOWY u
close to Piccadilly Circus, where she -ac-
the kind OF entrance which
delighted her heart. with attendants fut-
tering about her, and a messenger posting
back 10 the cab for a forgotten fan. and a
deal of hustle and rustic Of one sort and
The champaign was rather
sticky and they drank a good deal of IL.
Beatrice passing rapidly into "a purring
stat q of contentment. her color high. her
passionate eyes sparkling. and low laughter
ever a-tremble behind her full, red lips"
dinner they went TO a variety show,
after the show they had q champagne
and when Dick helped Beatrice out
Of the cab in Battersea she said that her
fluffy evening" had been thoroughly en-
and she thanked him very prettily.
that was the last fuzzy evening. Dick
vent home, l%ightened Of all seven Of his
g~uineas, and that same night Gen. Won
and a German army landed in
Anglia.
The story explains how this invasion had
been made possible. The seed sown by
he Little Englanders had borne fruit and
the government known as The Destroyers'
been blind and ic~onoclastio beyond
belief. The navy. most u~nreasonnbly. even
lbsurdly, was OF in the Mediterranean.
All sorts Of readiness for war had been
TO pass out Of habit, me had
80 passed. The German General came on
London and drove out the Lord Mayor.
There had been a strong impression in the
metropolis that the country was quite safe
rom foreign attack. The idea had found
and crystallized expression in a
hall song Of tremendous popularity,
he chorus Of which. bawled out by the
masses on all sorts Of public occasions.
AN; They'll never go for England. because
England's got the dibs." A multitude In
Hyde Park on the occasion Of the great
Demonstration was shaking
,eaven W tn this cadenced sentiment at the
very hour when the Kaiser's sausage eaters
we're taking Ipswich. And now they had
zone for England and deposed the Lord
and it was nc matter At all about
he dibs and who was custodian OF the
Such q time as there was in London after
he Lord Mayor was unseated! Dick In his
description quotes frequently from the
historian Blackburn. an authority whose