Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-16
NO MORE CLASS BARS,
LADY READING SAYS
Casualty Lists Have Leveled
Women, British Enjoys
Wife Explains
GIVES FIRST INTERVIEW
Gift House for Prisoners of War
Described as Her Pet
Charity

Washington. April l6.
Tho casualty list is tho factor that
has leyeled all class distinctions in Eng
land 1t has rovolutionzed us all
Women who have been selfish and
idle all their lives have no thought for
themselves these days. There are no
nerve specialists in England any more,
for the English women are far too busy
10 think about their nerves. They must
worls--worli as they never dreamed they
could.
women are doing everything but
nsht a. the front. and they are pretty
close behind it in active service. Ladies
work side by side with scrubbing women
as their sons fight side by side with
laborers i'm the trenches. There is q Won
deyful spirit Of comradship among
women whose common prcocoupatipn H.
the daily list--1,iled, wounded, pris-
onera. missing 90
These were almost the first words of
Lady Reading. the wife of Lord Reading
ord chief Justice uf England and now
British Ambassador interviewed here.
As the last syllable left her lips it was
not hard to see thar her ladyship shared
the thought that is uppsrmost .u the
mind Of nearly every woman in England.
Her eyes unconSciuusly turned to
table near by. where there stood a
taIileu pH''osi"I''' VI "
son il in France
"IIe is my son. Niscuuut Er'olgh.
iYbe ygid simply. "He has been i'm France
for two years as a captain in the Royal
FusiUiers."
Lady Reading 9S she sat on "a couch
bv fine fire holding out one long. deli
Gaze hand To The blaze as she talked
Looked more like a French marQuise
Of the old regime than am English
woman
.I1irst of all" she bepepl IL want
"a asl; go,netbiur WHY do,uawspapers
~ oftau r.rr,. to me "a. Ears Readings
American Wife
81 am sure should be yay proud OF
Il If were an Amcriyau,A. She con-
tinued. II loce America. but the fact
IS I am q good LOudoner. ! was born
a cocliuey ana there IS mo- getting away
from it, I wish TO say that / was Miss
Alice Cohen. Of London.
1T Is far too soon for me To judge OF
what you are doing in America, but
have seen what American women are
doing in England, ANA 1t is perfectly
splendid. just before leaving London
! went to the American OFFICERS club,
the hotel for American nurses and
your London branch OF the Young Men
christian Association
Wanna, no CIuh Mark
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increase ana il is dlHirult TO roresee
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England the hgspitai work grew AS the
wounded began To- pour i'm AT our doors
That need Won have seen and providel
for.
industrial woll, for women began
when we had to carry ON and fiji in the
gaps left by the men; work for the chill
dren began when we realized that -nc
hope Of the future lay in them.
Nov I must talk Of my own pet
charity. for / believe you have nothing
of the kind here. II began as very
simple thing. and it has developed into
such a wonderful work u is the Gift
House for Prisoners Of War
soon after the first prisoners were
taken by the Germans letters began to
pour in from the men. They needed
everything, for the food and clothing
they received from fine Huns were in