The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-07-25
TIMES GONE FROM.
 LONDON

LONDON, July 25- The first sum mcr of the artcr-thc- year era k pas sing as a mere ghost of the old Lon' don social season which formerly for three months after Easter transform cd Bclgravia and Mayfair into a spec taclc by day and night.
 In other years. before the war wrought its changes, the early week of summer saw the great, London houS- cs thrown open for entertainment on q scale which no otheY European capita. knew. Their blazing windows at night told of reception and dances on a grand scale. Court was held at Buck ingham palace with an army of un'. forms and jewels making an mNw' passablc show. By day the entire West End was packed with cars and calr'- ages taking the women of society about for their calls and shopping.
 There have been four blank ycafS from 1915 to 1919. and now most o| the establishments of the ducal ana old landed families who were the plI' 'ars of the declining regime are clos cd. or their lives are ordered to a quiet and subdued tone. Not few bear the sipn Ser Sale" or "To Let testify ing to the devastation of old fortunes through war taxation or the retire ment of families in mourning.
 Nearly all of the social fixtures are missing this year. No courts are being held at the palace for that prescnt"' ton to royalty of dcbuntcs and other which gave them the formal seal 1i rank among the socially elect. One biz garden party k to take the p'ac" oI hose. The shephardng of the cXcuS we world into the royal enclosure a' the Ascot races has been almost the only somi-official gathering of society md pressure upon the Lord Chamber lain's office for admission consequent ly it was moro fierce than hereto fore.
 To the stranger London may seem lively and even gay, but fl is q rcStan- ant and thcatrcgoing l;vclincss like he customary life of New York anH Paris. The war profitcer5 arc spendu" roclIcsslv in their way but among o,' Fashioned people there is a general sentiment that display is not in hal- monv with the times and for many ' would be impossible if they desired 1T.
 Even the restaurant life is much ,urtailed. Suppcrs have been elimInat- cd and there are barely dozen places in this largest metropolis of the world found opcn later than ten o'clock. The midnight wayfarcr sees women in eve nine dress with men in Guards mi form or formal black buying coffee md sandwiches at sidewalk coffee stall elbowing with crowd of SoldicrS ,abmen and miscellaneous night wand ,rers. picture mdreamable for old London.
 Still. with it's. life war-shorn of much that was almost sacred to it's ancient qristocracy, England could never hc Fathcrwisc than picturesque and fac'- hating. The Derby came into it's own again as the greatest popular sporting event of the world. as Ascot is tn" most patrician in it's atmosphere. Th2 Guards regiment performed the histor' ic ceremony of trooping the colors in Hyde Park on the Kings birthday al- though in dull khaki instead of the old array of scarlet and blue. The coach with the sleek four in-hand starts from Piccadlly for Richmond with the sti,r' ing flourish of the horn although there has been none on the Brighton road