Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-06
LONDON. May 20.

LONDON, May ~.
NUMEROUS strange representations
IN are being made on the changes. eco
nomical and social, which will occur when
The war is over. But few people stop to-
investigate the personal problem-in other
words, the resultant transformation in the
individual character.
For no man can pass through the mad
ness and come forth unchanged. No man
can be pitchforked from the quiet, hum
drum, sedentary life of pre-war days into
tne seething maelstrom OF the Great Ad-
venture and come back ESSENTIALLY the same.
That would be psychological impossible
ity
Take the case OF Mr.. Jones, typical resi-
dent OF Suburbia. placid, peace-loving and
paternal, blameless of imagination as OF
suhe, eminently respectable and bon cto-
yen The suburbs of London town swarm
ca with its Mr.. Joneses before the war.
one watched them of an evening watering
tneir trim little lawns with miniature hoses,
pruning their rose trees while they smoked
tne pipe or peace and finally doing on over
Ihe evening paper. Morning saw them
uottng placidly in pursuit Of the 8:36 to
!own back to the same old routine. back to
ene same old ONCE and the same old grind.
curiously dull and uneventful life had
mr. Jones. OF Suburbia His range OF vision
was 30 limited that he seldom saw the wood
ior the ohstructing trees. The trees were
@nyhoW were weartsome. perplexing things.
at was hard to hnd ones way out, some-
umes' And always they involved calcula-
ton He hated undue calculation-the
evening paper offered sufficient mental ex-
sIeise-and as for physical relaxation,
~ sneIe We're always the rose-trees and the
garden hose.
Such was Friend Jones-in pre-war DAYS.
! nave In mind one particular member OF his
eiass' a little nervous. fuBsy gentleman
shose horizon was limited by his 12 by
paekyard fence and whose spirits were
materially dampened by such trivialities
= leaking kitchen tap or few drops OF
ram on his new spring toilet.
He was a snobbish little man, too, was
enls particular Mr.. Jones. He never would
associate with any one Sin trade"-for
Iade was Bourgeois" and he pFlded him
self on Glass"
One really cannot know the so-and-
SOS he would pompously observe TO his
ong,sunerlng wife, they're not quite it,
you know"
We never did quite know just what ut"
u slqgu6souon sUlI eta vi ssmnIoA aIsM
meant. but Il certainly implied lot There
oas wasn't 1T" then one just didn't exist
%ithln the range Of Mr.. Jones vision.
When war broke out. a change came Ger
ne spirit Of the Jonesian dream. Pater-
zamilias patrlotlcaily squeezed his rotund
-ofm within the limits Of the khaki tunic
nd the Sam Brown bandolier ana set forth
an the Great Adventure.
since that great day. many strange things
asfe pefallen Mr.. Jones and his particular
ksototypes How great the changes are
zzsn now, when the end OF war Is not IN
zlsnt' have recently learned. For an eve
sslns Spent At the abode "a the Jones FAM
"A out IN suburbia has nught me many
s4ss1ss' fet LETT me sreatiy wondering
. sae Vas home on i've days leave from
.as trenches. vas Paterfamilias. l hardly
ze4io have recognized him. csois WAS he
4altfs gone the pompoua manner, the
ieniRE Helfeonulaeency ef former