Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-24
Zepps Make LondoH Dark and
London Makes Zepps Light
nY MARGARET MASON.

BY MARGARET MASON.
written for The United Press.
Oh. Londons topsy turvy town,
They DIN the lights when night
comes down,
The theatres but two nights play,
And give daily matinee.
And most the women that you meet,
Have all turned workmen IN the
street
The rich walk. while the poor ride
out.
All. truly things are turned about.
LONDON. Nov. 10.-CBy Main--Ii
you are afraid to go home in the dark
these days. you'd better not venture
out after tea tine in Londoc. ihese
DAYS, or rather nights. NQu Zoe. AZ
II you had been transported back mo
the medieval. or more ilttinsly .he
dark ages, when you step biinkly tEc
an owl into the murky dimly ligh'e
thoroughfares.
1 for one am glad that most OF .,a
theatres give daily matinecs and 81;
two night performance week. =
Is Far from a coy thing after -"
play 10 he all alone IN London, IN n
dark. and on the outside OF g aS'
looking in. with absolutely no S7pe
OF being on the inside looking out.
The price Of petrol IS so high ANT
the chauffeurs are so scarce tAa,
taxis at nightfall becomes as ueei-
ing and elusive as bats awing. They
rhizz by YOU deaf 10 your shouts ana
blind to your tears
Tax drivers are now known as
"haughties" so fastidious and parueu
lar have they become about M
faros II they size you up aud rye
vour looks. even then you mustn't M
100 ont 1nistic. They may not i'hn
vour destination. and refuse to take
YOU after all Indeed so near per
lection do YOU have to be In appea' p
ance and address. that Il is r9aliY
simnler and safer to begin your walk
ing right away
There are not many women drlVihs
tax's vet. but they are running r'e
vators acting as conductors on pnss
os cleaning streets. wording ln nj
wav va IDS. running delivery wagons
and working IN munition factories y
3 a curious thing that In ali he nan
nal strenuous and more virlla WORK
heretofore done by the mon. Tho NO
men now excel. hut those trvinr -
ranlsce the men IN the finer eacm'ng-
IN more feminine arts u cooking. all
owing and hair-dressing. arc buf Ror-
rv suhst' tutes FOR the sterner sox.
As leveller Of sexes and classes.
tt, var Is doing wonders that vie
W IN its horrors for a balancing re
suit Women are coming into their
own rs independent wage earners'
and the "Colonel's lady and Judy o.
Grady" are rubbing elbows IN rho
hosp tails and munition factories. The
rich and titled are working side by
side with the poor and lowly. The
pampered pets have given up their
motors so the poor wounded Tommies
may ride. and after the theatre they.
too. are forced often to howoot
homo TO the ancestral manse. since
ihe hauehtes are no respecters OF
either birth or breeding.
Yes times are dark and streets are
dark i'm London. but there are BRIGHT
snots. For though It's Zepps that
mako London dark London makes
rehi OF Zepps Some times they
r-~l-e Them alieht and sometimes they
make light Of them. When word
arrives that Zepps are on the way
there Is some gest. and thr u. In
eiav'na rp all night and IN on a roof
n Glimpse huge flaming mass.
pointing ont hv tho silver fingers Of
the searchlights. that falls from the
skv like a Gargantuan slyrocket, set
oC by an intrepid young British air
man.
But bringing airships blazing out
Of the clouds and women filling
bombs instead ~ nursing bottles and
pedestrians blunder ng around like
moles in the Stygian streets. are but
commonplace
When il comes 10 turning all the
clocks un an hour for summer and
back again an hour for winter sea
son. then II does seem going a bit