Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-06

sunk off the coats Of Ireland the American steam
IL ship Philadelphia passed through the waters of
danger. the Philadelphia women passengers
OF many nations; there also men passengers OF
nearly every The to the occasion OF
danger more quickly than the men,
like ready manner, spirit of the women OF
London has risen the occasion of war 1t has been
said that womanhood much the same the world over
Faced with situation and with knowledge inoearlng
upon them that it is their part to meet it, women
respond quickly the record of history Ine
English has situation squGrely search
the island, and cannot find woman Stacker The
old song in had it that men must work and
women must weep, for runs the world away. The
women of England, like the men, are working, while
weeping, in the quiet of the home and over some
tragedy which has reached the hearthstone is
nowhere in evidence.
The spirit of English is high. Her work
in many instances is lowly but the highborn have
taken to lowy work in behalf of country not only with
a willing spirit but with seeming sense of gratitude
that they something aid the of the land
in which they live.
Board a which you fran Nudes to the
bank and 1t is woman's voice who tells you the
destination of the bus and it is womans hand who
moment later takes your penny fare A-wOman cnduc-
tor Of bus two in England would have been
sight to set lords, ladies, commonera and White
Chapelers to rubbing their eyes, perhaps thinking
that the country and especially the laboring part
OF it, the road to the bromide demnition bow
Now the conductor is the accepted fact,
and people and conductors be glad that it is So
These women conductors of buses in the London
short skirts and boots that quite
top boots. There a bit Of humor in a situation
that compels The short skirt and the
notquite boot allowed occasional glimpse of
stocking Whereat British bus authorities issued
solemn edict against the wearing of silk stockings
and ordained that women conductors should
ing but the homely solid and substantially comfortable
wooden stockings of their ancesresses of the day Of
the spinning wheel. This of the bus cheftains
found its to Paris, and the French people, glad
of sthe-channel chance to laugh in the
dark time made much fun of It, but history does
the French authorities had the courage
order French dor their beloved silk
"nethers"
Only a year ago in London the Englishman
stranger entering the door of hotel by
man, the doorman of the establishment. Now it is
doorwoman who meets the CASTS. 1t said women
would do for such places, that occasion the
rough services only possible for to perfome
needed for the place The women do the work well
the did, and moreover thinks of doing
that which might require from doorkeeper of the
other sex the strong-arm treatment
a Picadilly bus bound for Hyde Park
early in the day and look the shops by the way.
Women work in overalls and boots with
upper garments in servceable keeping, cleaning
dows, polishing up the handles the big front
hosing the sidewalks and doing other things which
before the trenches dug in the Somme valley
solely work of There have been without
prejudice willing to say that the
windows are cleaner, the door knobs brighter
sidewalks presentable than they before
dropped cleaner polishing and hose shoulder
rifle
Government officials in England. men who perhaps
years ago would have held that such change of
opinion them would be impossible saying today
without the cooperation of the of England
the could not have been continued. This is the
highest tribute only to the English woman's work
but her willingness and efficiency. She is cheerful
the conditions and she takes pride in what
does.
The English woman of position has gone to work
with her sisters of little position and made
attempt to choose her work Her desire has been
do that which she is able do provided only
will be helpful in some way the country. Women of
the upper middle classes and of the classes above
working in the munitions factories, driving