Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-10-11

German aerial contact.
"Aren't you happy you a
here?" asked the managers Of n
hotel. "Fancy the dreadful TIM
they must be having in America vii
all those Germans!"
shrunk inside myself.
Back to the American Front
(By George T. Bye
This little building in which v
have our rendezvous, or office, hi
among many attractions an 'ous'
keeper or janitoress who has been {
the job for 35 years. Such a lengl
of attachment, though unbelievable
us Americans, is almost the rule her
l know that at home a ~janitor for
years, say, is to have at your servit
an historic character.
But Miss R., our housekeeper,
more than a ~janitoress. She is OF
neighborhood historian, a fount
philanthropy, a bulwark of Austen
iousness, our counsellor and u JOY
| She takes our tobacco remnants to
poor old man. The crumbs from OF
| afternoon tea are gathered in HI
apron for secret feeding to sire
pigeons, her "poor dears," that al
very hungry just now because of foe
laws making it a punishable offeni
to feed them. If we are in need
office supplies, she can always dire
us to a shop whose profits go to R
| Cross or whose products are made
blind or manned soldiers.
Miss R. as historian has told of ev
so many dukes and princesses wi
have lived, and still live, in next do
buildings. She was surprised at o.
evident heart flutters at the presen
of royalty. 1t seems that the ave
z peer of the realm could walk dow
Pail Mall without being noticed b
for the posse of Americans
his royal coat tails. The English p
lords and ladies' on a plane u lit
above that we give to actors and a
tresses, unless they respect them 4
individual accomplishments. | a
/ sure that u Broadway star would a
tract more attention in one Of our b
Western Hotels than n duchess o
get In any hotel on Piceiadilly. II
King, however, has universal respe
as the unchanging head Of the natid
When England, in 1915, became 4
birthplace Of democraeies, upon d
pr omulgation Of the first Declaratii
Of Independence, the Magma Charta,
had not a sufficiently lively tempe
ament to arrange for a regular shi
in its titular head. Fixity still is u
outstanding English trait, which d
King thus pcrsonifies. And viii
other institutions may change, Il
English get a comfort in seeing
their King the England of all age
Across the street from us is Il
home of Edward Montagp, Indit
Secretary, who recently announc
England's new policy of self-gover
ment for India. Next door is Lo
-
Haldane's, which Miss r. has no i
terest in beyond a smear Of black
the front that resists all scrubbinl
Suffragettes did it long ago. Al
next door is Lady Somebody Els
whom Miss R. respects above all OF
ers, because "She as a 'and-p'int
St'ireway with fruit and horang
apeepin' all hover hit"
For top royalty in our neighborho
we have good old Queen Anne herst
in a busting little stone statute tn
sets in a niche in our builindg, No. !
Queen Anne's Gate. The guide boo
tell all about it and they also 50
This is the center of the stron
hold of seventh century antiquity"
Queen Anne's Gate is not a ga
at all, but a decorous little street,
prim as Anne and about as long.
few doors west it SHES around a &C
ner into St. James Park. Direct
across the park, a minutes walk,
the Mall, the stately pageant-way a
preaching Buckingham Palace, viii
is a simple, rectangular, white sto
building which might be mistaken {
an American public library II it we
not for its home-like curtains and
lack Of names Of authors ehisselled
the front. You can have a mu
closer view of the Kings home tn
of the White House, but through
much higher and heavier fence.
The other end of Queen Anne's Ga
leads, by way Of a half dozen Gu
ing little streets, -- that must ha
been laid out by a Spencerian pc
man-to Westminster Abbay. T
Henry VII Chapel of the Abbey is
reetly across Parliament street fro
the many spires and towers of t
Houses of Pertinent. Parlimt
street, after two short blocks,
comes Whitehall, ending in A bloc
at Trafalgar Square.
must tell you of the Prime Nj
ister's official residence. 1t is in
short alley off Whitehall cal
Downing street, and is a dingy thr
story brick closely resembling a sii
street office building | was in JUS
few weeks ago in Columbus, NJ
But not quite so ornamental. I
embassies are close at hand.
The nerve-center of the war lol
around us.