The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-23
YANKEE VISITS
HOUSE OF COMMONS
FROM
RECIPROCAL NEWS SERVICE
13. Queen Anne's Gate, London.
BY GEORGE T. BYE.

pact. churchly little chamber. Beinl
an average brazen American, l wa.
chiefly awed at the recurring though,
that this great parliament was the pat
tern OF our great congress. The mem
bers scarcely have seating room; they
sit on long benches In tiers the gov
ernment. Tor administration adherents
on one side and facing them the mem
bers professedly opposed to the present
ministry. The speaker wears a wig
and sits on sort of throne with a
canopy over Il. couldn't look closely
because the strong afternoon sun was
reflected into the visitors gallery from
the bald and white heads OF the mem.
bers. Just from snap judgment. land
between ourselves). l should say that
the quality OF slowness we find In Eng
land is due to the out-ofdate control
of consttutionally or professionally old
men. | believe that a man loses i'm.
aginative power with years, and that
he almost invariably becomes reaction
ary because his guiding visions are
those of his cherished youth. II Is with
tenderness that he would hold in vogue
the standards and customs of living
and working that seem most pleasant
to him. So hierarchy OF old men, and
their proselytes. compels our grand
motherland" to live i'm the past years
to freeze before CHEEKY fireplaces in
stead Of keeping comfortable with more
economical steam heat; to rejoice I'm
fiowery wash bowls ana pitchers In
every bedroom: TO send children TO
schools that were old-fashioned in 1890;
TO take pleasure in seeing her most
select school boys as grave'faced little
buffers wearing long pants. high SILK
hats and carrying canes! The chief bus
mess of the afternoon turned out TO
be the questioning of the ministry, or
cabinet. all of them necessarily mem
bers of parliament. QIow useful this
would be in America todayD
Delivered some articles ! wrote in
France to the Press Bureau for CEN
sorship Could not get a messenger
They are nearly as scarce as Jumps of
sugar Most of them are girls. in natty
blue uniforms. and they go strutting
about whistling. chasing dogs. looking
into cutters, even as their male con-
temporaries The boys wear long tight
pantaloons, tight jackets with twenty
brass buttons down the front ana little /
Happy Hooligan" or dice box hats tilted /,
over one ear and Fastened Win Straps f!
under their chins.
Went to a reception given by hos !,
pitable English woman in honor or
Americans. She's to do II every We'd
nesday. Had n chat with Ambassador
Page He smiled wholesomely when |
he said our middle west was making
a lot of people feel foolish-people VINO
had wrung their hands in. fear that
Americas burden In the warswould fall
on the east. There was a happy little
plump woman / wanted to talk with.
introduced myself and asked her If she
was an AmericaU Yes; I'm Mrs.
Page" she said simply. Help!
Another famous fog. The AIR is
closely packed.with a dank yellow fuzz
that YOU can eat or smell but cannot
quite pack into wads. IL tastes some
thing like the sulpho-saline water at
Excelsior Springs. Moor is 1t at Colo
RADIO Springs? The underground was
loaded with Tommies bound for the rail'
waV stations | don't know which
shone the most,-their buttons, shoes
or their eyes-yet they were OF Tor
the front Feeling communicative
told some of them that had seen their
regiments in action in France. DO
YOU remember those fine dugouts we
had at C-?" asked one Dublin fu'
silier. | remembered them, and | re-
membered too that they were famous
for pictures of angels with wings and
French soubrets in tights glarinS at
each other on the walls. Well. were
fearing that we are going to lose those
nice dugouts. Maybe they're moving
the regiment to Italy"
Attended the first of the interview
conferences given by Colonel Il. NJ
House, of Austin, New York. and Wash
ington, here as special ambassador the
British press representatives were stu
pefied by Colonel Houses polite method
of denaturing questions. 1t was as
though be were gently pinching fuses
out of bombs before they could so on
SUGGESTIONS of waves Of chloroforming
silence having fallen on the assemblage
although Colonel House still stood pleas
ant and obliging in the center or us,
we began to grope for the way out
after a half hour of IL. The Britishers
eyed everybody suspiciously. unfriendly
disposed toward any boarding of deduc-
tions or interpretations that would
make a story. All of us came away I
with short typewriter statement. and
nothing more. The interview" was I,
held In the library of Chesterfield
House. where Colonel and Mrs. House
are stopping as the guests of the Duke ,
and Duchess of Roxburgh; the duchess
was formerly May Goelet. Chesterfield ,
House Is let to the Roxburghs by Lord
and Lady Burton. II Is a stately man. :
sion having a courtyard and gatekeep- ,
ers' lodge footmen and doormen with, !
cockades, marble staircases, paintings ,
of members of the family by Gainsbor- !
ough and Reynolds and library OF .
nearly as many NOluffleS as we nave .
soldiers in France. ,
After our usual end-of-the-week lunch
con conference, we spent lowly but
en- njoyable american afternoon, in com
pany with many laughing Tommies and
their English folk. at the former Lon
don opera house, now Stolrs picture
theater. seeing Douglas Fairbanks IN
american Aristocracy."
Went to the morning service at the
new Westminster Cathedral, not the !
abbey-an immense brick edifice inspir- |
ingly different in ecclesiastical architec-
ture with a tower of variegated brick
rising . couple hundred feet. Though !
the interior is unfinished. the effect OF I
the rough brick of pillars and walls. ,
the restfully dim light of the pale green /
windows the vastness of the nave. and :
the radiance of the arch-like altar, Is I
most profound and satisfying. Ger
tainly would never contribute toward
CLOSING over those impressive walls q
with marble. Half OF the worshipers :
were soldiers. and IL was no infrequent !
thing to see a blind Tommy being led !