The Washington times., 1916-11-24

London Makes
Light of Zepps.
BY MARGARET MASON.

oh! London's topsy turvy town
They dim the lights when night
comes down,
The theaters but two nights play
And give a daily matinee,
And most the women that you meet
|. Have all turned workmen In the
street,
The rich walk while the poor ride
All! truly things are turned about.
LONDON, (By MALL, Nov. 10.
IF you are afraid to go home IN
ter not venture out after tea
time In London these days or rather
nights. You feel as II you had been
transported back into the medieval
you step blinking like an owl into
fares.
for one am glad that most of the
theaters give daily matinees, and but
two.night performances week. IL
10 far from q coy thing after the play
to be all alone in London In the dark
and on the outside OF taxi looking
In with absolutely no hope of being
on the inside looking out.
the chauffeurs are so scarce that
taxis at niEhtfaii become as floeting
and elusive az bats awning. They
whizs by you deaf to your shouts and
your tears.
Taxi 0rivers are now known as
''hauEhties," SO fastidious and par.
ticular have they become about their
fares. IL they size you UP and like
your looks, even then you mustn't be
too optimistic. They may not like
you. after all. Indeed, so near per
lection do you have to be In appear.
ance and address, that II IL really sim.
pier and safer to begin your walking
right away.
Women Take Mems Places.
There are not many women driving
taxis, but they are running elevators,
acting ~ conductors on buses. clean
ing streets, working In railway
yards. running delivery wagons, and
working In munition factories, IL "a
q curious thing that In all the manual,
strenuous, and more virile work here
toforo done by the men the women
now excel, but those trying to replace
the men In the inner and seemingly
more feminine arts of cooking, tailor
Ing, and hairdressing are but sorry
substitutes for tho sterner sex.
As a leveler OF sexes and classes
the war IL doing wonders that vie
with its horrors for q balancing re.
suit Women are coming into their
own as Independent wage.earnerr, and
the ''coloneis lady and Judy O'Grady''
are rubbing elbows In the hospitals
and munitlon factories. Tho rich ana
titled are working side by side with
tho poor and lowly. The pamperad
pets have given up their motors so
the poor wounded Tommies may ride.
and after the thcater they, too, are
ancestral manse. since the haughties
are no respecters OF either birth OF
breeding.
bright spots In London.
Yes. times arc dark and streets arc
dark In London, but there are bright
spots. For; though iis 2cpps that
light OF Zepps. Sometimes they make
a light OF them. When word arrives
, that Zepps are on tho way there IL
some zest and thrill in staying M all
huge flaming mass. pointed out BY
the silver fingers OF the searchiiEhts
that falls from the sky like a Oar
trepid young British airman.
But, bringing airships blazing. out
| OF the clouds. and women nllins
bombs instead OF nursing bottles and
| pedestrians laundering around like
commonplace,
When Il comes to turning all the
clocks up an hour for summer and
now back again an hour for the win.
/ ter season. then IL does seem goins
a bit too far. It's so really unsettline
for ones social engagements. doni
you know. and. for the life OF her
Lady Diana cant remember whether
her date with Lord Percy In at
o'clock winter time or summer time
Verify. tempting Fate Is as nothins
| TO juggling Time,
The two men whom IL took person
ally To adjust Big Ben's hands across
his startled face undoubtedly felt the
! truth OF this original aphorism, tbs
like OF which have always have on
tap.