Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26
Picked Up Here and There.

The Birmingham Age has to remark
on this popular subject:
The busiest god IN
RuSiest God Olympus these mid
- n,- summer days 10 that
OF olympus. gay little prodigal
Curid. who, while all the world ID
learning to retrench, goes blithely on.
and 80 the result we have had more
weddings this season than in many
years past"
4
Ever heard Of dancing to The Mar
seillaise"7 I never had either. gossipe
the Chicago Her
Danciuo IA the aid. but 1t seems
"Marseillaise.v ITS It's done done. IN r.e nsa-
ly at a tea dance given under the aus
pices OF the Alliance Franchise a group
of young girls dressed in robes made
of chiffon in the tri-color danced to
The Marseillaise" upon the lawn.
Every one said the French people
present wouldn't applaud, that they
wouldn't approve" said q Cnicago
woman, referring to the incident "but,
indeed, they did. and when the strains
of their beloved anthem began and the
dainty little dancers tripped through
the measures so gracefully and ma
jestically there was applause and cries
of encore. and. indeed, in many cases
there were tears. too
From the fashion centers of the east
and abroad-because. despite war.
fashion still has
How. Youe its centers in the
Knitting Camel the resulation
walk-stick, either the. straight cane.
the Alpine stock or the cane with a
handle, and to each is attached knit
ting bag. That there may be NO mis-
take about the two being made for
each other, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. the bag. instead OF being
only tied TO the stick. Is literally puiit
about it, so that milady cannot put
the stick to the ground for a single
step without proclaiming herself a
knitter. Moreover. wherever she may
be she finds in this the most convenf-
emit means of carrying her beloved yarn
and needles.
is for ornament only. While NO OF
the size that many carry about. ana
that are suggestive Of darning bags
in families blessed with half dozen
stocking testing small boys. these cane
bags are ample enough to carry
sweater or q muffier or whatever else
milady may see ut to take up as her
contribution to the needs of the serv-
ice. And what woman. whatever her
desire to appear mannish, can go
abroad with one of these contradictory
walking sticks and declare herself
anything but womanly?
A London cablegram gives the fol-
lowing interesting information con-
corning TIL e
Women Admitted to oath of allie
British Army. work o, Eng
lands woman recruits
IT, hereby swear by Almighty
God that I will be faithful and bear
true allegiance to his majesty King
George the Fifth, his heirs and sue
cessors, and that I will honestly and
faithfully serve his majesty. his heirs
and successors"
For the first time in history the
words of the oath Of allegiance have
been sworn by woman recruits: the
elimination of the work of British
women for their country in the war
has been the formation Of the Women's
Auxiliary Army Corps, whereby women
are admitted into the British army.
Week by week, since August, 1914. as
the insistent call for munitions came
ed into the industrial centers. flooded
the improvfsed factories. steadily filled
up the ranks Of the army at home as
the men Joined the army Of fighters
abroad Now the highest ministers of
the crown acknowledge that without
women victory would be impossible
labor. munitions. railways and food
production would crash to utter fail
ure. It has all been done in the Brit
ish way. with the maximum of reliance
on private enterprise. and the mini
mum bureaucratic control; and in the
British way 1t has fallen to a private
association to watch that the burden
laid on the women was not more than
human strength could bear.
1t was the Young Women's Christian
Association which opened Blue Tri-
angle" canteens in huge
The Blue slum districts. wher
r.,. there was no place but
Aionsie. crowded public houses to
get food: opened hostels where the
girls could sleep quietly instead of half
a dozen in a stuny. dingy room, per-
haps sharing beds in shifts: opened
Blue Triangle" huts and recreation
rooms where they could rest and play
after long hours Of work among whir-
ring machinery: where they could make
friends and be spared the loneliness
that can only be felt in great cities.
Today the Y. w. c. A. war branch
has over 200 such war canteens The
"Blue Triangle" sign is dotted over the
British Isles: some are in huge fac
tories. some in railway stations where
hundreds of girls walt at all hours for
trains, some in isolated districts. The
latest. just opened this month by H. HI
Princess Marie Louise. is in the very
district in the poor quarter of London
where the huge munitions explosion