The Winslow mail., 1914-11-21
THE WORLD SET FREE
Continued in next issue.

held most of the government Offices
suffered badly from the small bomb
that destroyed the parliament; there
are very few traces of the old thor
oughfare of Whitehall or the govern
/ ment region thereabout, but there are
| plentiful drawings to scale of its build
| ings, and the great hole in the east Of
London scarcely matters. That was
poor district and very like the north
and the south. 1t will be possible to
! reconstruct most of it. 1t is wanted
Already it becomes difficult to recall
the old time-even for us who saw it
1T seems very distant to me-" said
the girl
1T was an unwholesome world" re-
fected Karenin. ~ seem to remember
everybody about my childhood as if
they were ILL., They were i'll. They
were sick with confusion. Everybody
was anxious about money, and every
body was doing uncongenial things
They ate a queer mixture of foods,
either too much or too little, and at
odd hours. One sees how i'll they were
by their advertisements. All this new
region of London they are opening up
now is plastered with advertisements
of pills. Everybody must have been
taking pills. In one of the hotel rooms
in the Strand they have found the lug
gage of lady covered up by falling
rubble and unburnt, and she was equip
ped with nine different sorts Of pill
and tabloid. The pill carrying age fol-
lowed the weapon carrying age. They
are equally strange to US Peoples
skins must have been in vile state
Very few people were prope.iy ash
ed; they carried the filth of months on
their clothes All the clothes they
wore were old clothes. Our way OF
pulping our clothes again after week
or so of wear would have seemed fan
tastic to them Their clothing hardly
bears thinking about. And the con
gestion of them! Everybody was jos
Ting against everybody in those awful
towns-in an uproar People were run
over and crushed by the hundred
Every year in London the cars and ON
nibuses alone killed or disabled 10000
people. In Paris it was worse. Peo-
pie used to fall dead for want of air
in the crowded ways. The irritation OF
London, internal and external, must
have been maddening 1t was mad
dened world. 1t is like thinking Of
sick child. One has the same effect of
feverish urgencies and acute irrational
disaDpOintmentS
"All history" he said, 'is a record of
a childhood.
"And yet not exactly a childhood
There is something clean and keen
about even a sick child-and something
touching. But so much Of the old time
makes one angry. So much they d1d
seems grossly stupid, obstinately, out
rageously stupid, which is the very
opposite to being fresh and young.
81 was reading only the other day
about Bismarck. that hero of nine
teenth century politics, that sequel to
Napoleon, that god of blood and iron
| looked at his portraits, heavy. al
most froggish face. with projecting
eyes and thick mustache to hide
poor mouth He aimed at nothing but
Germany-Germany emphasized. indu
rated, enlarged; Germany and his class
in Germany. Beyond that he had no
ideas. He was inaccessible to ideas
His mind never rose for a recorded in
slant above pumpkins elaborate Gun
ming And he was the most influential
man in the world-in the whole world.
No man ever left so deep a mark on It,
because everywhere there were gross
men to resonate to the heavy notes he
emitted. He trampled on 10000 lovely
things, and a kind Of malice in these
louts made it pleasant to them to see
him trample. No. he was no child
The dull national aggressiveness he
stood for, no childishness. Childhood
is promise. He was survival.
"Al Europe offered it's children to
him. 1t sacrificed education, art, hap
piness and all it's hopes of future well
fare to follow the clatter of his saber
The mOnstrous worship of that old
mans blood and iron passed all round
the earth, until the atomic bombs burnt
our way to freedom again"
Zone thinks of him now as one
thinks of the megatherium," said one
Of the young men.
From first to last mankind made
100000 big guns and 100000 compli
Gated great ships for no other purpose
but war;"
"Were there no sane men in those
days" asked the young man, Ito stand
against that idolatryT'
'In a state of despair" said Edith
Hayden.
''He is so far off-and there are men
alive still who were alive when Bis
marck died." said the young man.
'And yet it may be | am unjust to
Bismarck" said Karenin, following his
own thoughts. "You see. men belong
to their own age. We stand upon
common stock of thought, and we fan
cy we stand upon the ground. met
pleasant man the other day, a Maori,
whose great-grandfathe was a canni-
BAL 1t CHANGED he had a daguerreo-