The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-06
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WOMEN IN THE WAR
tFrom Molly Best's London Letter
in HarT,er's Weekly

The writing fraternity is still |
soaring, but soldering here has come
down to brass tslcks. The uniforms
have given out, or an economical
government does not put them on,
and the men are marching thru the
streets to drill blocks and blocks OF |
them. in their shabby working cloth |
es. No glamour at all; you say toI
er had enough horizon even to know
what the thing is about, these men
are drilling against the day of
death. "A little girl who ran with
others to see passing squad said
with much disappointment, They
aren't soldiers, mamma, they're
men Later learned from an ex-
soldier that there is distinction If
the real history of war were ever
written instead of history by an
industrious jurist, that would put
one stab in war.
IA friend just back from France
told me that she was busy with the
women there. It looked as though
the race would DE wiped out Pre-
mature, still-born babies. Then the
universal semi-starvation of young
women One of my own cases said
to me, Madam, how shall put my
baby to breast, when / have not my.
self food to eat?'' Go to the Hebrew
prophets for words on war: 'fWoe
unto the women with child in that
day We have here no actual ex-
the amount of starvation and mental
anxiety caused by lack of work, wor-
ry for the children, terror for the
people at the front, the utter ruin of
thousands of peaceful people. 1t is
difficult to realize the staggering
misery; and this is only the begin
ming
One delightfully."- ironical incident
I must tell you. "A Jealous bobby
captured a working man and hailed
him into court on. the charge of be-
.ns en unre gistere1 German. The
man sore he had Russian birth
certificate, and produced it. Then
said the magistrate severely, But
why then have YOU for ten years
been masquerading as German -
Because answered the man apol-
ogetically, when came to England
ten years ago the feeling against
u 4e,,fsa cfv hot -
Obliged to pass myself of as Ger
man." regard this as a complete
novel on War and Peace.
Little by little the tide of misery
is rising quietly to high tide. All
over London you see women with a
couple of children carrying loose
bundles from which protrude details
of the most rudbmentary "housefur-
nishings" They are on the move
with all they have. Sometimes you
see more thrifty looking women, old
and young, with shaw1s over their
| heads and jaundiced faces, moving
about In a half detected, half de-
tached from the universe sort of
style. These are the refugees. And
all the dressmaking windows display
black and white garments, with
easily removed bows OF color Black
will be the most fashionable color in
Europe this winter
went down to the East END to-
day to sac what Sylvia Pankhurst
was doing, and with pleasure 1 saw
the most inspiring sight since the
war broke out The East London
suffragettes certainly have my vote.
They have started the incest. clean
est, best organized little restaurant
and food depot that you can well
| imagine Adults can come and get
a meal for four cents, and children
| for a penny (Which is two cents) ,
and good food it is too. Sylvia
has been heckhng Queen Mary to
give away some of the SIS, 900 900
which the nation contributed for re-
lief. But so far Queen Mary has sue
ceeded in resisting all efforts to get
anything away from her oIiss Pank-
hurst's methods are excellent. She
sells the clothing for small sums, for
she says many people would come to
buy who would never in The world
come to beg for clothes. am going