Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-13

ONDON, Feb. 4.-IIfe in time in London ana
| throughout England is serious but not altogether
IL somber. The reflected fire of the heroism of the
trenches Iightens sorrow and gives a sort of
shining spirit to the people at home
More than this the men and the women England
agreed at outset the conflict the outward
evidences of the tragedies which certain to come
should be mnimzed so far as possible. London and
England the extreme of the outward
manifestations evident in Paris, and in France
ally of realization of the horrors attendant
conflict, and of the fear of remotely poSslo'
national defeat.
1t is not meant to say the French people have
shown evidences of depression spirit of doubt
concerning the of the struggle in Wnlch
they are engaged 1t is true however, and England
knows it, that France by common consent the
all dress in somber colors and largely nave ore
gone attendance such little social gatherings
as are known in England and America as afternoon
England some of its social activles'
although like France she has closed down largely on
elaborate affairs of whatever kind
At the outset of hostilities England because she is
gir by seas aloofness from the war which
prevented it's actuates from striking home as deeply
as they struck into of invaded France For
while this island things went on much as usual
Then there came a pause almost full stop.
England exulant in heart at the conduct of her
troops Mons where battaons for hours held
a bay times their number Of assailants The
tragedies came home, and Mons marked the beginning
Of the serious heart-searching time in England
The spirit English people, like the spirit o;
the French, high. The speaks confidence and
determination when the voices are hushed
London is not lively city in traffic sense as
it Many of the buses doing service
have fate, the roads back
Belgian border the trenches in
front of Peronne The shops and for the most
part are seemingly doing a lively business. The
wise deserted and II a foreigner who
before visited the city should here
probably would think it bustling metropolis
there exists EARTH Only the Londoner who
here before the is sharply of the differ
ence in the swelling tide of city life.
the homes and hotels London, where the
women, the children and the who can't go
gathered there is sadness Of strong kind There
a bearing up however under all the elements which
make for depression of body spirit. The dead
wounded and missing lists n the closet.
Emotion is expressed there In the the people
brave.
Englishmen as rule, and Londoners in particular
are emotional. A few and women in this town.
quicker pulsed by nature than the majority Of their
neighbors, been writing to the newspapers ever
since this began asking why 1t Is that so few
cheers are given for the passing regiments. At the
outbreak of the when every soldier was volun-
teer cheers for the recruits they
passed along the the to the rendezvous
in the rear of the horse guards. Englshmen blamed
fellow countrymen for lack of appreciation of
the response to the call of duty.
The chances are and a study conditions seems
prove that the stolid Britishers who stand the
London corners soldiers go by are just
any emotional American French
man. they kept from giving vent them by
that something in their nature which called
conservatism and others GOODNESS. One Londoner
when he heard his people rebuked because they did
soldiers the people of the other nations
would them. replied with a touch of resentment
that the shadows murmur while the deeps dumb.
The feeling of sympathy and must be
served in the by London people for expression in