The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
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rying a marquis, were as few as votes
 The war has changed that. It gave
 woman her chance, and she Jumped
 at it. When Johnny Comes Marching
 Home Again" he will find he must
 look for mans job, and that mens
 jobs no longer are sinecures. In his absence women have found out, and
 what is more important, the employers
 have found out that to open a carriage door and hold an umbrella over cus- toner is not necessarily a mans job.
 The man will have to look for a po- sition his sister cannot fill, and judging from the present aspect of London, those positions are rapidly disappear ing. That in the ornamental jobs, those that are relics of feudalism and snob- bery. women should supplant men is not surprising. To wear gold lace, and touch your hat. and whistle for taxi- | cab, if the whistle is a mechanical one, l is no difficult task.
 It never was absolutely necessary that a butler and two men should di- vide the labor of serving one cup of coffee, one lump of sugar and one cigarette A healthy young woman might manage all three tasks and not faint So the innovation of female buffers and footmen is not important. 1 But many of the jobs now held in London by women are those which re- quire strength, skill and endurance. Pulling on the steel rope of an elevator and closing the steel gates for eight hours a day requires strength and en- durance; and yet in all the big depart ment stores the lifts are worked by girls. Women also drive the vans, and dragging on the brake of a brewery wagon and curbing two draft horses is very different matter from steer ing one of the cars that made peace hateful Not that there are no women chauffeurs. They are everywhere. You see them driving lorries, business cars, private cars, taxicabs, ambulances. DRIVING MOTOR TRUCKS In mems caps and uniforms of green, gray, brown or black, and covered to the waist with robe you mistake them for boys. Yesterday I saw three ton motor truck clearing way for l itself down Piccadilly. It was filled with over two dozen "Tommies" and driven recklessly by a girl in khaki of not more than IS years How many 1 indoor positions have been taken over | by women ono can only guess; but if l they are in proportion to the out-of- door jobs now filled by women and girls it would seem as though half the work in London was carried forward l by what we once were pleased to call the weaker sex.
 l To the visitor there appears to be regiments of them. They look very ! business-lilSe and smart in their uni l forms, and whatever their work is they ara int Ao a r11ln WY woman attempts a mans work, she is conscious She is more concerned with 1 the fact that she is holding down a mans job than with the job. Whether she is a lady lawyer, lady doctor or 1 lady journalist she always is surprised to find herself where she is. The girls and women you see in uniform by the l thousands in London seem to have over- come that weakness. They are perform | ing a mans work and their interest is centered in the work, not in the fact 1 that woman has made a success of it. If, after this. women in England want the vote and the men won't give it to them, the men will have a hard time explaining why.
 l DIFFICULT TO LEAVE
 I A year ago you could leave the con tinent and enter England by showing la passport and a steamer ticket. To-
 
 1 get out of jail, as difficult to invade I England as for a rich man to enter l the Kingdom of heaven. To leave Pari: i for London ybu must obtain the per mission of the police, the English con lsul general and the American consul general. That gets you only to Havre ' The Paris train arrives at Havre at z o'clock at night and while the would 1 be passengers for the channel boat tc Southampton are waiting to be eX- amined, they are kept on the wharf in a goods shed. An English sergean
 hands each of them a ticket with 2 number, and when the number is called the passenger enters room on tn, shed where French and English off
 cials put him, or her, through thirt degree. The examination is more oi Hess severe, and sometimes the passen ger is searched.
 There is nothing on the wharf to ca
 or drink, and except trunks, nothing
 on which to sit. If you prefer to b. naughty and stand, there is no law against that. Should you leave tn 3 shed for a stroll, you would gain noth l ing, for, as it is war time, at oclocl Q every restaurant and cafe in Havr
 closes. and the town is so dark yol would probably stroll into the harbol So, like emigrants on our own Fl 5 lis Island, English and French arm  ! American ambulance drivers. Red Cros l nurses. and all the other picturesqu
 travellers of these interesting times
 shiver, yawn and swear from 9 o'clocl
 until midnight. To make it harder - the big steamer that is to carry vol across the channel is drawn up to tn wharf not 40 feet away, all lights an warmth and cleanliness. At least 1 men assured me they would return [ s davre, and across the street from tn . examina ton shed, start an a1l-nigh e restaurant. After a very few min s utes of standing around ln the rain c was a plan to get rich quick tha would have occurred to almost anyone
 SPOTTING SCOTLAND YARD
 My number was 430. After seeinI ' through the examination room, I ap 5 preached man of proud bearing, tol S him I was detective, and that I ha VI detected he was from Scotland Yarc I He looked anxiously at his feet.
 X How did you detect that?" he asked Q Your boots are all right" I assure
 him. Its the way you stand wit
 your hands behind your back
 By showing his hands into his pock
 cts, he disguised himself and aske
 what I wanted. I wanted to be pu
 through the torture chamber ahead o
 all the remaining passengers. He aslSe
 why he should do that. l showed hir the letter that after weeks of expert 3 ment I found of all letters produces
 the quickest results. It is addresse lyaguely, gro His Majesty's Officers"