Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-24
SERVANT PROBLEMS VEx
M|sTREssEs IN LONDON
Fashion Moved Eas* by Inability OF
West End Resorts to Ac-
commodate Crowds.
LADY NIARY's SOCIETY GOSSIP
Too Few Hotcls-Goyernmen COM
mandccring Brings Business to
Older Piaces-Parlormaid Will
Not Wear Caps.

LONDON. November 23.-Thc face of
London seems to be changing with the
war times. Before 1914 any one who
pretended to be anybody" could not
possibly have contemplated giving any
thing in the way OF festive celebra-
tiop at any hotel farther east OF Pic
cadilly than the Savoy. but nowadays
although there are no "entcrta.n-
ments" being given. there are an I'M
usual number of weddings taking
place.
As few people have n SsAflicicnt staff
of servants. or are able TO arrange
for suitable supply of food end re-
RESENTMENT the cutlery for dates" at
hotels IS becoming more than the over
worked STATS Of the few hotels that
the government has not Communicated
can arrange for. 40 gradually hotels
tha. Were hitherto unknown in fash
ionahle quarters are being rcQuiyi-
toned. and quite smart people are
receptions. dinners. and luncheons at
v>hat used to be considered out -of-the-
way places.
For instance. Il went the other
held At the First Avenue Hotel. which
is down Holborn way--a hosiery that
certainly none OF tho modern res;au-
ran; frequenters have heard OF. and
yet after one had made the long jour
ney from ST Jamess Church. Spanish
Place, TO the east end OF lloiborn YOU
West End atmosphere as If you had
halted at the Ritz or the Carlton. The
bride was Miss Dorothy Featherstone.
type Of beauty The bridegroom a
youthful and mcrry-looking young
lieutenant of an Irish regiment re-
one who doubts that Londoners can
not get up good deal OF high spirits
and. enthusiasm on such occasions
ought 10 have been present at this
New York could have produced a jol-
lter tcstivi;y Of It's Kind.
~ curse. the place was crowded
great many Of them had the blue band
dcnotng residence in hospital for
wounds or other causes 'whic after
see. |! a.. least means that they arc
out Of II. Was talking TO one OF
these men. lieutenant who looked
particularly happy. and who. wore. be
Been home long asked.
n,r :, was in The trenches just fort
answer. Il had only been four days
out when got two bullets through
my LETT thigh Fortunately. they We're
thing: We have got Fritz fairly on the
Tua now. don't think l have ever
seen anything to beat the AFFECT state
or terror in which we found the pris-
oncrs that we captured during tho four
days was III France. Regularly
every morning We went 'ovcr the top"
and toll you. il takes some doing 10
dodge tho machine guns that were the
most active form of defense that they
seemed - i;.i.- at that particular por-
uoa of the line where my regiment
VAS situated
BULLETS on HELMET
SOUND LIKE PERRIEs
~ may sound like an cXaEEcra.ion
hn' =; is rho exact truth when assure
YOU that on several occasions my steel
helmet sounded ~ II IL Was being
peiied with Tcbbles. and I felt the re-
v"rocration of perfect rain Of ma
chine gun pellets. Your days may not
sound very lora ~ you; X seemed a
c1rt 81 stretched -ouc> eternity to most
OF US. But Il was worth Il. When we
drove in herds OF prisoners after each
attack they all came chatterinG and
trembling into our lines I saw one
big brig ier-eenerai being taken pris-
oner by medium sized Australian ser
e"sH'. Who "rt thr cpan!cts OF ;he
nftirer's SHOULDERS and tro'ted him away
&c weekly rs II he had jus, been one
o! the ordinary soldiers. Sometimes
these German officers protest against
htinc take, prisoners bv mere Tom
Mrs; m; | am afraid that noblcase
ohliEe ia no: given murh chance or