Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-14
CHANGES WROUGHT
IN LIFE OF LONDON
Suffragettes Have Become as
Peaceful as Cooling
Doves.
BISHOP TURNS MILITANT
Famous Churchman Seen in
Khaki, Making Warlike
Speeches.
BISHOP TURNS MILITANT

Especial Cable to The Times Dlspatch1
LONDON. March 18.-The war has
wrought wonderful changes In the as
poets OF London daily life Our SUI
trasettes have become as peaceful as
cooling doves. and the Bishop of Lon
don Ia as often as not seen in khaki
making warlike speeches in his ca
Dacity as chaplain to the London Rife
Brigade.
There Is nothing downhearted about
DR.. Ingram. and In his most recent
speech to the lighters, whose spiritual
welfare rests in his hands. he positive
ly declared that the present Is Gods
great day. and that II is a glorious
thing to DO alive In these days, when
England Ia lighting
The bishop secs In tho present
cataclysm not only a war for peace
and freedom. but a step towards the
establishment Of great brotherhood
OF all nations we arc lighting" no
says, so that Christianity may con-
tinue to DO the dominant religion Of
the world"
There la no moro eager recruiting
sergeant In the country than this same
Bishop OF London, and the number of
men ne has sent to the colors during
the last three months runs into many
hundreds. His favorite argument is
that no young unmarried Englishman.
who Is physically Mt, ought to neglect
this chance Of being present at the
second and greater battle OF Waterloo.
which he feels sure, Will be fought
within the next six months, and which
Will decide the fate of the world for
the next century.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA
STATE ENTERTAINER
Though Queen Alexandra la far from
being we'll, she continues to add to her
seit-imposed duties until she has now
practically become n sort OF state en-
tertainer for the nation.
The King and Queen arc both too
much occupied with official business at
present TO devote the usual amount Of
attention to important royal visitors
and other distinguished guests so
Queen Alexandra has come to their
assistance. Scarcely day passes that
she does not lunch or dine with some
person OF Importance at Marlborough
House. and she displays all her won
derful charm In making them feel that
they arc the people whom England
most delights to honor
An exhibition OF extraordinary in
terest is about to be opened here under
the auspices OF Prince AleXine Kara
georgcvitch. OF Serbia, who arrived In
London some three weeks ago, bring
ing with him wonderful collection OF
relics and photographs from Serbian
baltic fields. which will show In a con-
elusive manner tho violence OF the
fights In which the Serbian armies de-
feated tho picked troops Of Emperor
Francis Joseph.
The prince, who came here to get
rirrp
are In an even worse plight than the
people of Belgium, was greatly inter
csted In my suggestion that he should
extend his tour to America and appeal
to the generosity Of the American peo-
pie.
DRESSMAKERs TURN
ATTENTION TO SOCKS
The dressmakers OF London, who were
in despair at the announcement that no
courts are likely to be held during the
coming London season. have now turned
their attention to sockmaking. and are
ousily at work on an order Of 1000. 900
pairs or socks for the soldiers at tho
front obtained for them by the CEN
trail committee on womens employ
ment.
More than 1000 knitting machines
already have been distributed in tho
west End. and at a school in Piccadi,lv
scores of girls are daily being Initiated
into the art OF making socks. The
average wages earned by the girls Ia
ABOUT SO week. or almost as much
as most OF them made when employed
at their regular work
While the War On3ce still, n,o,,t,tn.
It's sphinllke silence concerning the
plans for the use OF Kitchener's army
1T the front fhpro
important events arc duo to happen I'm
the next few weeks. The chief surgeon
AT one or the many large military hos
pltals established near London told me
the other day that he expected every
pea In the institutions under his caro-
to be filed within week.
"hen L expressed my surprise at
this. because we have been told OF no
important actions In which English
troops have taken part, he smiled and
said that the expected patients were
not men who had just been wounded
Dut Englishmen and Belgians who
until nov have been in French hos
pitfalls.
Every hospital near the front and
throughout Northern France" he said
had been ordered to be cleared before
March 10. and the men who are not
well enough TO return to the aghtinr
mo are to be cared for in England or
in Southwestern France"
When l asked him II this could mean
anything but that general attack on
the German lines Is planned to take
place in the middle of this month, he
smilingly said that the War Office had
not taken him into Its confidence bur
that one might draw hts own CON
cluSion.
otto Kahn. the well-known American
hhancier, has placed at the disposal Of
the 'lnded soldiers and sailors caro-
committee MS magnificent London town
mouse ST. Dunstans, In Regent Park.
The mansion. which "a situateJ In "a.
midst OF beautiful private park or
nearly fifteen acres. will be turned
Into an open air club for men who hayo