The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-19
TO AID THEIR MEN
British Women Disregard Former
High Social Positions.
Female Population May Be Found Any
Place Doing Such Work as Win
Help the Cause.

by JoVe, never 1elt more like AZ
ass in my life, old chap" 1t was an
old British colonel speaking. He had
just returned from a government mis-
sion to the colonies, and seated before
Il great open fire of his London club,
he was relating to a crony some Of
his experiences while away. 1T was
while | was in Sidney. Knew 4 chap
out there and thought I'd drop in on
him. Walked up to the house and
rang the bell. Deucedly pretty maid
answered, and, by Jove, so strong was
the force of habit, don't you know, ]
up and kissed her before / realized
she was my OWN NIECE
And don't think for minute that
the old colonels experience was
unique, except in a few minor details.
Others may not have developed such
oscuIatory habits, but many an officer
has come back from the front aud
found his women folk working as do
mestics in London. The pretty young
woman one sees polishing the wood
work Of the hospital waiting room or
busily busting the furniture OF the
club parlOr may be duchess or coun-
tess or the daughter of Il millionaire
wine merchant. There's no telling
these days, and the English public is
so accustomed to being waited upon
by its gentleWomen that it has come
to accept it as a matter Of course.
Not 50 with the Sammy, though,
60 7 -, i i, a.,
resent the charge Of being undemocrat-
ic, but still the thought of being
| served by one Of the 600 IS almost
! too much for him. He was pretty
| fresh young man when he first hit
England. He had q reputation for
breeziness to uphold, and by the spike
of Heinie's hat, he was going to live
up to it. But when he learned that
| the young woman servant was the
daughter of one OF the peers of the
realm he wilted.
For one may find the English gen.
| teWoman any place and doing any
kind OF mental labor. She isn't the
petted and pampered dollhouse product
| popular n0veliSts would have you be-
lieve her once to have been. Instead
she's IA mighty sensible, industrious
patriotic person. Her brothers and
SWcethearts are "out there" doing
their bit and She is Carrying on" back
home. It's no longer a novel sight to
see her manipulating the intricate ma.
chinerv Of the munitions plant OF
SkillfGly guiding a taxi through the
!, fog-shrouded streets Of London. In 4
white uniform she wears the red cross
in the hospitals of Franco aud her ma
tive island. And now she is plying
, the dust cloth and the mop, washing
, dishss, answering doors and doing tht
, thousand and one other things thai
have To be done.
Nothing is too mental for her to at
tempt if it adds 10 the comfort of the
men who have given their all for Bri
tannia. There's Lady Evelyn King
eldest daughter Of the earl and count
eSs Of Loyelace, who is Il housemait
at a Weymouth hospital. She was f;
dobutante just a few years ago ant
, at the time she was presented TO Kin:
z NtoISe Siit WIS cAHccttU 10 DtCoiH
? one of the leaders of London society
+ She is tail, with dark brown hair ant
eyes Of the same hue. and is consid
cred one of the most beautiful womel
. in London. When war was declared
! she was rapidly fulfilling the predic
lions made for her popularity at TIL
: time of her coming out. But now sh
Is a servant in one of the many hos
G pitfalls in England