The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-11-24

London, Nov. 24.-If you are afraid
to go home in the dark these days,
you'd better not venture out after tea
time in London these days or rather
nights. You feel as if you had been
transported back into the medieval
or more fittingly the dark ages when
you step blinking like an owl into
the murky dimly lighted thorough
fares.
for one am glad that most of the
theaters give daily matinees and but
two night performances a week. 1t
is far from cozy 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
4 Petrol High. ,,.. ~ - n
The price OF petrol is so high and
the chauffeurs are SO scarce that
taXis at nightfall become as fleeting
and elusive as bats awing. They
whizz by you deaf to your shouts and
blind to your tears"; mn g" "
Taxi drivers are now known as
"haughties' so fastidiOus and parti-
cular have they become about their
fares. If they sire yous up and like
your looks even then you mustn't be
too optimistic They may not like
your destination and refuse to take
you after all. Indeed so near perfec-
tiOn do you have to be in appearance
and address that it is really simpler
and safer to begin walking right
away.
There are not many women driving
taxis yet but they are running ele.
vators, acting as conductors on buss.
es, cleaning streets, working in rail-
way yards, running delivery wagons
and working in muniti0n factories.
1t is a curious thing that in all the
manual, strenuous and more virile
work heretofore done by the man the
women now excel, but those trying
to replace the men in the finer seem
ingly more feminine arts are of cook
ing, tailoring and hairdressing are
but sorry substitutes for the sterner
sex. 5-a.,t.
War, A Levelier.
As a leveller of sexes and classes
the war is doing wonders that vie
with its horrors for balancing re-
suit. Women are coming into their
own as Independent wage earners and
the ''Colonels lady and Judy
O'Grady' are rubbing SeltDWs in the
hospitals and munftion 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 theater they
too are forced often to hotfoot 1t
home to the ancestral nlanse since
the haughties are no respectors Of
either birth or breeding. ...u
Yes times are dark and streets are
dark in London, but there are bright
spots. For though its Zepps that
make London dark, London makes
light of Zepps. Sometimes they make
them alight and sometimes they make
light of them. When word arrives
that Zepps are on the way there is
some zest and thrill in staying up all
night and upon a roof to glimpse a
huge flaming mass, pointed out by the
silver fingers of the searchlights, that
falls from the sky like sGargantuan
skyrocket set of by an intrepid young
British airman.
Airships Blazing.
But bringing airships blazing out
of the clouds and women filling
bombs instead of nursing bottles and
pedestrians blundering around like
moles in the Stygian streets are but
commonplace.
When it comes to turning all the
clocks up an hour for summer and
now back again an hour for the win
ter season then it does seem going
bit too far. It's so ready unsettir !,
for ones social engagements don't
you know, and for the life Of her.
Lady Diana can't remember whether
her date with Lord Percy is at five
O'Clock winter time or summer time.
Verify tempting Fate is as nothing
to Juggling Time.
The two men whom it took to per.
sonally adjust Big Ben's hands, across
his startled face undoubtedly felt the
truth of this original aphorism, the
like of which always have on tap on
time. .s.y4-.s