Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-23
SIMPLE AFFAIRS AM:
TOUCHED WITH SHADOW

misery and hideous anxiety which Nc
call by the name OF war.
SMILE AFFAIRS ARE
TOUCHED WITH SHADOWS
Every simple affair of every simpl.
Iitc is touched more with the black
shadow Of the war
rms. halrpinS, matches: buy them /,
you can without q struggle
Huttcr. sugar; not a scrap To be had
ana ovcrybody thankful TO get SAT.
rarine and so eat quite overwhelmingly
the Oily margarine which tastes .x-
a"t'S lik" rancid axle grease. You carry
your own bundles. YOU walk on All
our rams, aud YOU have trunr
or SUIT case TO move you get down on
your knc-~ 10 1t r.oHd ana haugniy
taNi driver "nl rromis" !" mortgage
descend TO hclp yoG
Before | had been IN England half
An hour ! Was SO used 20 t'ic idea OF
riamherins over piles q; luggage and
hunting ont my own things without
tho faintcs, hone Of any Kind az hcif,
that ! stood b. 0u!t" uumovcd ana
watched Two Internationally known
rhiiHn;lropists take up their skirts and
CLIMB into q train ana pun GU; two
| GOOD size American trunks from u.-
"Sr S,s s hsnes Of bagsase and neyei
while they We're doing it.
FIRE N THr: ROOMS
Is DIFFICULT TO GET
Il /. cold in London. it is wet in
London but II YOU want hsndtuli OF
10 have = d. 'nr's certificate 20 &c; T..
IA" streets a.s IN hideous srop-
your eyes out entirely; try TO read ;hc
| best prtnt IN lhc world IN tn. bcs.
I lighted room in London today
TIE hrst 'inee YOU go into res
card and YOU lave "a irudgs Devil
dcrtns blocks through tho wet into
dinEy side street 10 set The ration
card. or no meat for evening.
/ Unless YOU cable ahead for rooms
and are colonel at the very least.
you'll have 10 make un Your mind 10
old Hfth class hotel or roll up in a
rug and sleep ON the Embankmen;
And If YOU arc not very careful i'm
deed. the police VIII stop YOU and ask
when YOU registered and where. and
down to Bow street police Court you
. will go TO tell your mothers maiden
name ana Your fathers religion and
Why YOU came 10 London and how long
YOU intend TO stay and what reason
YOU have for not going home and mind
ing your own business in Your own
country where YOU belong
LEARN TO GUARD LIPS
H. boL HAVE TRAVELLED
You Will learn 20 be very careful
about mentioning amy friends with
| Irish names, and If YOU ever drank
| glass OF Russian tea IN your life you'll
learn TO conceal she fact. and YOU VIII
| grow very circuinSpcct in what YOU
say about the wages OF houscmaids and
what tho muni.!ou workers ought TO
have boon doing Nttt their money all
= this time.
England forever any blood except that
Of England and her active allies, and
many earnest persons will think ii
their duty TO inform you that England
should put tax on all foreigners,
Americans included every time IN >
come into the country
Gon'll learn to Say Yer" little apJyt
Americas part in The war and the De.
preston and inc I.cnury and til: strange
nervous strain OF the whole situation
viii wear n,"o YOU and you. begin
TO wonder JnSt what the key TO the
situation is. ":IG then suddenly some
thing like ,H's VIII happen IS it did
II me:
.tocd AZ my window watching a gay
little detachment OF soldiers com,
marching down the street and alon.
the Sidewalk. Keeping time TO the
less. bewildercd London crowd which
\ springs UP out Of he pavement every
time. In the crowd was n man waii-
ing with two little children dressed in
\ sudden wind caught the hat of a
man in the crowd. He cried out and
air. the children heard his cry and
saw lis sudden upward look. In an
instan, they We're changed from happy.
dancing children into snaky. scream
ing creatures OF terror.
And il was all the crowd could do
not 10 scream. with the children.
For all thcif l'nSiiSh pride and all
their splendid Eng liSh scif-contral. IL
81 will he "a long time before the chill
drcn OF London or the grown people
either, live down the terror OF the air
raids
You cannot Ire in London twenty
four hours these days without feeling
like well-meaning country cousin
come to see The family throuE:: some
season Of distress and bereavement.
You've done the best YOU could and
the family is grateful. But now ,'icy
wish YOU would pack your things and
20 home and let them put the furni-
lure back in place and air the sick
room and put away the clothes and
weep alone over the little kccpSakcs OF
those so dearly loNcd and so deeply