Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17
ELLEN ADATR SEES
BOTH SIDES OF LIFE
ON LONDON NIGHT
She Gets Glimpse of Dere-
licts by T h ames En-
bankment and Witnesses a
Romance in Restaurant.


ant twilight The streets at { o'clock
no longer teen with busy men, the trains
have carried these to long-draWn happy
evenings on the hundred golf links which
surround the great clty-to gay little ten
mis- Gmbs-to quiet backwaters, where
rows of gaily decorated houseboats line
the old river Thames. The punts and
skifrs at Hampton Court are filled with
happy drifting couples, and moored be-
meath the oNerhanging willows the Whlte-
fanneled river youth ts counting the
white-clad English river girl. OH happy
Youth! Dear Hampton Court! The old
rel BalaCe in It's stately Eli6abethan
beauty every summer witnesses the same
old scenes as m those stately days 4vY
Years ag5 when Anne Boleyn coquelssd
with the arorous King Henry. and IDLY
drirted, happy queen. in hey mort 'o'e
dream, on the river Thames.
That July evening the night before !
sailed for America, is still go fre3h WIN
I'm my mind We drove around the Lon
don streets tho ltttlc old lawyer Iiah
,nd parrhed high on the great motor
s,us And rlipClCd with the pain uf my
recent loss, my lonely present, ana my
vague uncertain future" I felt strange
,latiou. For I vas setting forth on inc
Great Adventure.
,nrlv. .you'rc 1ne little girl and ] hate
TO thinl. Of YOU clearing off Ike tnls,
with no one TO help YOU moro thaI
uncle OF Yours over in Phiadelpnla Is
safe propositfou You wrote him last
,ycel, ,Iidn't YOU" Hell probably come
10 Na, York to meet YOU. l wish couiu
STAY here In town to see YOU 10 NolE
train tomorrow moruiuE-but can T.
I've ruus up a good boardinS-house IN
kcnsinston. and they've got a room Tor
rou there tonight And tomorrow just
fayi over to Waterloo station, and por-
Ter will book you and your luggage right
through to Southampton on the carry
hoat-train. Got your ticket all lght'
.,rrs indeed, said / hurl1edlN Tor
did ,,ot Iiy,, TO mediate on the fact that
v"aa travelling stccrasc-!t was an
. Cou,G gffUrd.
rIrEs DEEELCTS IN LONDON.
Nc fourueyed many miles in silence, out
by tito Thames EmDankment, when the
r5<v was reddoning in the west-past thoSe
uuins Embankment seats winch h"H me
derell,ts. cast up from God knows Where-
tna melancholy army of the Might-Have-
Ieous.
Zee those poor souls sitting yonder,'
said the little lawyer huskily. "hte's
Tot.am, drifting rudderless. Nnu many
OF them better mon than !,
"I,uf .neso are down and out said
"aud luol, like tramps and bessar'''
~. matter" said the little man 'theF
once were great, they once Wero me Cn
yondcr. lonely seats have often Sat ths
greatest genuses of the age-shapoS--
,otraos,ai ~ Toi,,smr nftc, came here.
.sssy,ltt;2', ltts2,54tt- copper in his pocket. acre
,,nGpi. the shadow of Westminster ana the
Houses of Parliament he sat alone M"
eqzirs on the old Thames, meditated on
.i..n,,.t,. ~ All earthly hopes O, vanitas
S,oritItr,r,- now true that is
80, Inn,t bclieve it's true" cried |
ysl'nntlv. "ror life is surely what Tc
mako H. hate that dull phlosophlN..s
.,Ia NTH of glory leads beyond the
IL, 4
lNgas'.r. H., 10 ,,o,.,, -,1s, Of nv nfc.''
W b,ve the courage Of youth" said
o.. ,5+,l,, !, u.,.a, II, his kindly voice. land
now dat the hours arc slipping by, shall
.a,,,rr :, dlruaro t7rascau's in the
-. f,r,,,,,Is rrare'
49,, ,,. .,,,ri,oI +r,ra. In front OF
~ rt,,st ,.,.,,,,.ait a long line of taxis.
~" - -. rr.,t,-i,, ir,,f,.,r.rllg was as
,r1 l'..t'"', - ,,,n. nine o'clock and
S"r,"'la- i, ''A - r.e o.oIlsed in to-
e''! ""' -, - l,.,.f,,r er+r-.,rrce-
,.--it..,ia ,ls1Gfr,s ,avc be-
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Hau OP'''VI -. a,.,,,.s r,-,rc,-
''.edI oh'iH. VI -, ,-..,-5 ,,,-s,,,,,-s If
i'd SWEET '4''9 -, .,,.,,,l s,r above
tle t-asI' H'FoL P.'' PI.5 r,r 80 ,,f+tar
our nedns ~ "a .,,,.,,7 n, one -reat
or = IIouSa',I ,-.I, - -, +"r7,e
NELL f''>-. " t.i ,o,,,r
And the people. Al SollE .'"pe'" ,N'.'l.
lit tables taeT" l"ry SaI - "'I' -',r
beauty Of the women A''"" Sa"
them all through Fose-Coio'ru i, ru -.'.a 5,'
that night TO me IL was AZ 'ou.S-. -Hr-
Rose-and the strains OF HeaI ll".-
Garian melody were dFlttlhs t'oH moor 10
gallery and dome. pompous waite
waved MS to tin% table rose "reaI"eH,
rose-lit--mirrors mirrors eNerSWh'F'' ana
looked stTsngei" shabby IN that gay
crowd
And then the red coated leader o' the
orchestra stepped forward and the music
changed II began with 4 vague sigh
ing Of the embellishments. like the
early STRINGS Iu a Wood in autumn
when rour-fuoteI furry little creatures
are steaIthnv stalking over the fallen
Ioaves-T could smell the pines aui the
bog-nlvrtle. and feel tine fresh keen tsDe
of alIturur In tae ai--aud then t1r
cadence deepeuaI as the 'cellos softly
c9r.,ht the melody. Ii was all a breath
= shaduv So syftlv sid they start Arc
tbsr, INV heart leaned STRANGELY, for tn,
s,iofi,, ,,5fjgsro sy,ell.I louder II vas thu
S.t ,,F2grra-rrr..r M DffrDbach than
n'tIG 800, rra,n.I,- .Ha- rrr7. the fa4r.
,ba h.n-t-rhrags of a universe, At first