Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-01-20

serves. IL Is the awakening MINI Vi
the race and in little wilhelm q it,
tie while wish, indeed. could
watch for that little while now that
the curtain has risen
"While lie here they are clearing up
what is left Of the bombs in London
he said. "Then they are going to re-
pair the ruins and make it all as like
as possible to its former condition be-
fore the bombs fell. Perhaps they will
dig ont the old house in st. Johns
wood to which my father went after
his expulsion from Russia. That Lon
don of my memories seems to me like
a place in another world. For you
younger people it must seem like a
lis there much left stand1ng?" asked
Edith Hayden.
square miles that are scarcely shak-
en- in the south and northwest, they
say, and most Of the bridges and large
areas Of dock. Westminster, which
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 II"
1T seems very distant to me-" said
the girl.
1T was an unwholesome world" re-
Elected Karenin. II seem to remember
everybody about my childhood as If
they were i'll. They were i'll. They
were sick with confusion. Everybody
was anxious about money. and every
body was doing uncongenial things.
They ate 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-
1nvv01 thu rry,inO Th0V
are equally strange to US. Peoples
skins must have been in vile state.
Very few people were properly wash
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 verybody 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.,a mad
dened world. 1t is like thinking Of a
sick child One has the same effect of
feverish urgencies and acute irrational
disappOintmentS
"All history" he said. lis 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 did
seems grossly stupid, obstinately. out
rageously stupid, which is the very
opposite to being fresh and young.
IL 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 a
poor mouth. He aimed at nothing but
Germany emphasized. indu
rated, enlarged: Germany and his class
in Germany. Beyond that he had nc
ideas. He was inaccessible to ideas
His mind never rose for 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 mark on it
because everywhere there were gross
men to resonate to the heavy notes he
emitted. He trampled on 10000 lovely
things, and kind of malice in these
louis made it pleasant to them to see
him trample. No, he was no child
The dull national aggressiveness be
stood for, no childishness. Childhood
Is promise. He was survival
"All Europe offered it's children tt
him. 1t sacrificed education, art, hap
piness and all it's hopes of future wei
fare to follow the clatter of his saber
The mOnstrous worship Of that ole
mans blood and iron passed all rount
the earth, until the atomic bombs burnt
our way to freedom again."
Zone thinks of him now as on,
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 thos,
days" asked the young man. Ito stant
against that idolatry?"
I'm state of despair" said Edit
Hayden.
| Gle is so far off-and tharo aro moi