The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
SOCIETY WAR NURSES SEEK ONLY
new SENSATIONS, SAYS COUNTESS
Frivolous Women of England Denounced by the Countess
of Warw: ~ Who Declares That They Do More
Harm IL - ~ood in Their Feverish War Work and
Are Anxious Only For Notorety.

refuge from self and boredom In Sucn
surroundings cannot be stricken into
seriousness; tragedy cannot reach it.
To do minimum of work. to attach
themselves to the most attractive
cases, to carry small talk, gable and
gossip into places where so many
come to die-these were the main eff
forts Of the young society nurses, and
all these outrages were carried on for
months on end
Monarchy's Nakedness.
She foregoing are extracts from IA
Woman and the War;" the latest book
from the pen of the Countess of War
wick. While the author thus writes
of the social butterfly, she also pays
full tribute to the worth and tender
ness Of the society women who really
have devoted themselves to hospital
work, as well as to the devotion and
heroism of the real nurses and sisters
at the front.
In another chapter Of her book in
writing upon 1.-THE Curse Of Autoc-
racy," she has written: I'm the great
gale that sweeps over Europe the few
rags that hide the nakedness Of mon
archy f1utter like scarecrows; I find
myself watching for the gust that will
reveal to the gaze of the least dis
corning what a dangerous and ridicu-
lous thing the bare bones Of kingship
have become"
The Countess has a great admiration
for the Republican form of Govern
ment and would like to see monar-
chial Government abolished all over
Europe. She writes: 1--WE keep our
Kings as we keep the regalia in the
Tower, well housed and we'll looked
after, and between ruler and ruled
there is a pleasant, but indefinite, re-
lationship. !.
with us monarchy is an abstrac-
ton very little more.' She then ex-
plains that nobody in England wants
more than the shadow of kingship;
that all realize more than half the
wars in history have been for the
qualification of Kings and most of the
others waged for religious dominance
of this or that orthodoxy.
She maintains that we have come
to the end of religious wars and that
only wars of kingship remain, and
that the present conflict is little more
than that.
After pointing out the Length of
reign Of various houses and he bad
effects Of intermarriage and express
ing the view that few OF the monarchs
of the Old World are men or women
of great culture or with ideas that be-
long to this century, she asks if the
sober manhood of the Goth century
will allow the present system OF gov
eminent to endure?
Open to the Air of Heaven.
eff the democracy can see the truth,
il it's eyes refuse to be dazzled by
flags, medals and uniforms and it's
ears will convey each plausible speech
to the brain for sober analysis, this
war will not have ben In vain.''
Continuing the author writes: 1T
have often compared the position of
republics with that of monarchies and
have cited the American republics.
The United States lives in peace, ev-
en- the South American States with
ish, Portuguese, German and Italian
blood, are seldom found long at strife.
"Royalists have spoken to me glib
~ about the corruption that is said
to be inherent in republics. 1t is
about the only charge they can for
mulate and the reply is obvious. In
republics corruption is hard to hide,
it comes t., the surface an.' is visible
to all. In lnonarchies corruption. no
less rife. is hard to expose; al. ave-
nues to light and free speech are clos
ell.
.AoE.3republic brings character and
brains TO the top; yorr monarch
MAKES statesmen Of courtiers and
svcn,,sants. men who will bow II e
k..cc tn the Baa1 Of .he n ~.
:. republic is op,n to the cir #
Heaven, 4 monarchy is a garden err
closed, richer in rank weeds than flow
ers.
If Germany had been republic
the Social Democrats could have
learned the truth and acted upon it:
had Austria been a republic, giving
equal voice to all interests it affects to
represent sympathy with the Slavs
would have kept the rulers from their
disastrous attempt to reduce Serbia to
the status of vassal Kingdom.
''Kings Have Served Their Time"
Kings have served their time. The
ruler who rode to war at the head OF
his troops, who could handle the
heaviest sword or battle-ax. who was
both ruler and judge of his people,
belongs to a by-gone era.
Ills last laison d'etre passed with
the era of industry and rapid transit.
He became an anachronism when
people began to realize that life is a
gift to be wisely used and that racial
may be cured or dispers-
ed by close relationship.
"It is for Kings and for Kings aolne
that millions Of men who have no
quarrel have slaughtered one another
under conditions Of horror that makes
description inadequate. Until we un-
derstand that simple truth that the
natural inclination of civilized man is
to live on friendly terms with his
neighbor in spite of all divisions of
whether of place. blood,
or religion, civilization will be rem
dered null. Kings have ceased to rep
resent their people; the time has come
when the people can represent them
selves
"Unhappily, they do not yet recog-
nize their own power, and nothing is
farther from the wishes of Europe's
lettering dynasties than that they
should do so. VIII democracy |
rise from the conflict not only strong,
but determined? Will it carry de- |
struction to the source Of destruction? |
Will it assert it's inalienable right to |
The fruits Of peace, progress and utiI +
ty? I pray that it may, but I do not /
disguise from myself the enormous !