Arizona republican., 1918-09-17
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

'em. But we quarrel only with the English.
 The Difference of London
 When we came to London we saw, even as We whirled through the grey old streets, surface differences be- tween London and the other capitols of the allies. so striking that they were marked contrasts. These differences marked the different reactions of per sonal loss upon the different nations France expresses her loss in mourning; she relieves her emotions in visible grief. Italy does this also; but her losses have been smaller than the French and Italys sorrow is less in evidence than is the woe of France. But England's master passion in this war is pride. In proud and loving memory is a phrase that one sees a hundred times every day in the obit- uary notices of those who have died for England. Ambassador Page tells this He was asking British matron about her family. severally. and when he inquired about her son, she replied. Haven't you heard of the new honor that has come to us through him." And to her friends negative she returned {: He has been called upon to die for Englandi" Now that seems rather French in it's dramatics than British. Yet it reflects exactly the British at titude.
 Bravery of British Women
 The women wear no mourning. They do not go about in bright colors by any means. Bright cOlors in the war dis tinguish the men. But the women dc wear dark blues. lavenders and purples dark wine Colors and neutral tints of various hucs. The shop windows Oi London are bright. There is a faint | re-ccho of the time when Great Britain said, Business as usual" The busy | life, the shopping crowds, the street | throngs. and the heavy streams O | trade that flow through the highways of London, prove that London still is | a great city-the grandcst city in tho | world: and even the war, black anC | dread and horrible as it is, canno | overcome London. entirely. Some | thing of the fact that she is the world: metropolis. more permanent than thu war; somewhat apart from the war and indeed above it, still fingers in tn,
 London consciousness, however re motely.
 One must not imagine that Londoi | is unchanged It is greatly changed | for the men are gone. One sees fCWe men in London out of uniform thai
 in Paris. And the Londoners one doe
 sec all appear to be hurrying abou
 war work. But it is the women con
 stantly in evidence who have change,
 the face of London Women keep tn
 shops, conduct the busSes. run tn
 street cars, drive tho trucks, sit O
 the seats of the horsedrays delivc
 freight, manage railway trains, sWee
 the streets, wait on the tables, pu
 elevator ropes, smash baggage at tn
 railway stations sell tickets, usher a
 the theaters, superintend factorie!
 make munitions, lift great burdens be
 fore fOrges, plough. reap, and stac
 grain and grass on farms, herd shcel
 in waste places. hcW wood and dra'
 water and do all of the worlds wor
 that man has ever done. Now, (
 course, women are doing these thing
 elsewhere in the world. But Londo
 and England are mans domain. !
 seems natural to sec the French Wome
 and even the Italian women at worl Man is more or less the leisure clas , on the continent. But London is mans town if on earth there is on ' -aRd to see women everywhere in Lon don IS a curious and baffling sight. The Men Are Just Away" Of course the men are not all dead they're just away And they con , back on leave. But life it not norma 5 War is abnormal, and there is an evel
 urging desire of life 10 assume it's nol I maj function. So all over Europe W { heard whispers about tho moral breal Q down among the women of Englan 9 In England we were asked about ti $ dreadful things that were happcuir