The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-01-03
TO AID THEIR men
British Women Disregard Former
High Social Positions.
Female Population May Be Found Any
Place Doing Such Work as VIII
Help the Cause.

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-'By Jove, l never felt more like an
ass in my life, old chap" 1t was an
old British colonel speaking. He had
just returned from a government mis-
sion 20 the colonies, and seated before
a 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 u 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 l realized
she was my own niece
And don't think for a minute that
the old coionei's experience was
unique, except in a few minor details.
Others may not have developed such
osculatory habits, but many an officer
has come back from the trout and
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 a duchess or u
| tess or the daughter of q millionaire
| wine merchant. There's no telling
these days, and the English public is
| so accustomed TO being waited upon
by It's gentlewomen that it has come
to accept il as q matter of course.
Not so with the Sammy, though,
| says an exchange. He'd be the first to
resent the charge of being undemocrat-
ic, but still the thought of being
served by one of the 400 is almost
too much for him. He was a pretty
fresh young man when he first hit
England. He had a reputation for
brecEiness to uphold, and by the spike
of Heinie's hat, he was going to live
ap to il. 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
tlewoman any place and doing any
kind of mental labor. She isn't the
petted ard pampered dollhouse produc,
popular ~novelists would have you be
lieve her once to have been. Instead
she's a mighty sensible, industrious
patriotic person. Her brothers and
sweethearts are 'oIt there" doing
their bit and she is carrying on" bacl
home. It's no longer Il novel sight Il
see her manipulating the intricate ma
chinery OF the munitions plant o.
skillfully guiding q taxi through TIT
~feg-shrnuded streets OF London. In
white uniform she wears h red eros
In the hospitals of France and her na
tive island. And now she Is plying
the dust cloth and the mop, washing
dishes. answering doors and doing tn
thousand and one other things tina
have to be done.
Nothing is too mental for her to al
tempt If IL adds to the comfort of tn
men who have given their all for Brl
tannia. There's Lady Evelyn Kini
eldest daughter Of the earl and coun'
ess of Lovelace, who is a housemai
at a Weymouth hospital. She was
debutante Just a few years ago an
at the time she was presented to Kin
George she was expected to becom
one OF the leaders Of London societ.
She is tall, with dark brown hair an
eyes of the same hue, and is consit
cred n Of the most beautiful wome
in London. When war was declare
she was rapidly fulfilling the predi'
lions made for her popularity at tn
time Of her coming out. But now sh
is a servant in one of the many no
pitfalls in England.