Show I Nerves angle SUII Still Jangle When Rat Hat Blown Aloft lAs s Reminder of Air Raids i B BJ red Black L. L Correspondent nt i O-lD O 0 Ni March Sarch arch 4 The Tho Tho oth other r da day I II Id had I d a Better otter from front home just home Just a aIn ain In in letter full of oC Plan home h nc news news- s 's sIt It i all ail about t the tho soldier boy hoy next door dooren s front from tHc war and the new frock ck en the new color and who called tip up on But Dut ut oh on thero was as love o e p o line and s at tho end ot of otI er e marked wi with th all crosses Ino in I o letter o foolish fa old home way tray the end of oC the envelope was way Sit It across parked in great black letters Opened after ater i j saw sat that mark marl A. A Mid d somehow saw ti b be beyen letter Ietter was not quite the same iamo and tren n yen the little cro crosses crones did dill not look quite eric er I think of or London again as-aln ball remember the black black- mark 1 across aros rosi the unsuspecting back Lack little home letter t t simple I t IJ r st Stump mp te the soldiers com ar is over are arc com com- IT T ie eR war ng home c wc Weary ry eyes eos worn wore with much arc nrC beginning to rest again but lit t across the tho face of oC poor brave bra auf auf- iring London lJ is marked tho the Indelible I Marup snip r p of or that privation allon miser misery and andt t anxiety t which we call can h by the time me ime of ot war I Every sI simple affair of oC er C every simple with the black life U Is s touched moro more badow of or tho the war ins hairpins matches buy them Iru It Ir Itou itu struggle ou u u can without a n. Butter sugar not a scrap to be had nd everybody e thankful to get set sacca- sacca lne YO nd to tn at Quite uncomplainingly lY lne Ibe 6 be oil oily a au margarine r ln which t tastes 4 ite exactly exact exact exact- ly like rancid axle grease You carry Four our our own oan bundles you OU walk on an all pur l-pur purr ur errands erran and if Ie you OU have ha a trunk r f suit case to move mono you OU get down on our knees knee to a n. proud prout and haughty Uzi taxi driver and promise to mort mortgage mortgager o ag-o oaf ur- ur r nr very soul foul if U ho will Just conde- conde fend to help you rou rore Hore I 1 hn had been In E England half I n Lour hour I 1 was so used to tho the Idea of ot over o plies piles of or luggage and Bunting out Tn my own ot things thins without the e faintest hope of ot an any kind of oC help bat I stood b by quite unmoved ed and Witched two Internationally known philanthropists take up tip their skirts pad d climb into a n. train and pull pun out two size American n trunks from under eat heaps of or bag baggage Lf e and never ne even en thought bought How queer they look while they by b y were dol doing nS' nS it St il w tf com Cold in JO London fit It is cold In London it tt is wet In London j don but If It you ou want a of or fire Ire in do the the grate In j your our room you rou have e p havo a doctors doctor's certificate to get et it fhe streets are aro in a hideous groping s twilight and if it you Sou ou want to put your jour our yta out entirely lr try to read the best print In the world in tho the best lighted r m in London toll today a The The first time you OU go s-o Into a restaurant restaurant restaurant res res- thc they ask you ou for tor your our ration cud and you have ha to trudge bewildering bewilder bewilder- t ing g blocks through tho wet into a a. dins dingy tide ilde Ide street to get Jet the ration card or no meat neat r evening r Unless you ou cable ahead for rooms and andare andare andare are are a at tho the cr very least you'll have e to tomake make up your our mind to hide in some io onie ue musty corner In a musty old fifth das clam tUU hotel or roll U up in a rug ruS' and sleep on n the Embankment And It if you ou arc an not er very careful In Indeed Indeed In- In deed derd the Iho police poUce will 11 sto stop stol you and ask hen you ou registered res and where and d down wn io to Bow v Street beet police court you ou will mSo go to tell ten your our mothers mother's maiden same name and your our fathers father's religion Ion an and andT T hy you caine came to London and how howlong long onS' onS you Sou intend to stay and what rea reason you ou have for tor not going home homo and mindIng mind mind- tog Ing your our own business in your our own country where t you belong t Learn arn to Guard Lips Lip LipsI I You Tou will trill learn to bo very r careful bout about mentioning an any friends s with names and Ir if you ever cr drank a glass lass of of Russian tea In In your OUI life you'll learn earn l to conceal the time fact and you OU will Iro Grow Brow cr very circumspect In what you OU sir say layabout about the wages vage ot or housemaids and what hat the workers ought to toc c been doing with their money all this his time lime hear of or plans to keep out of or England forever fore an any blood pt that and her active allies uHleR and and 1 c earnest persons will think it their i uty t to tu Inform you ou that En England lanI should Nt ot-a ot a tax on all forel foreigners ncr Americans J included cr c every time thc they come into the country tIt learn to say very cry little about Americas America's part lart in the war and tho the de- de II and nd tho the penury and the strange nervous strain o of the whole situation wear upon you ou and you'll begin to tonder ender er Just what the time key to the tho situa- situa Is and then suddenly something lice ke 4 this will happen as It did to mile nie XI A j stood at nt my window watching a a Y little c detachment of or soldiers come rn marching down tho the street and along hi I Keeping I time to tho the thov aim aim- v music was that strange alms alm- alm s bewildered London crowd which UI up out of the pa em pavement nt every t. t In n tho the crow crowd l was a man walk walk- i ng With tW two little children dressed In ingy white TL t Air n Raid ld Reminder I A sudden a wind cau caught ht the tho h hat t of or a n. atho Bran 1 n In tho the crow crowd Ho lie cried out and turned lCd to watch it sail through the Time Tho childr children en heard his hils cry and andt q his Cant ant t n su HUdden upward look In an in- in the nc nS hey were Changed from rom happy lug f Dr c Creatures n Into slinky shaky scream scream- lAnd And U Il t or of terror Sot Was all time the crowd could do o E. t to sores scream m f trot 10 with tho the children h. a al 1 I their English lIsh pride and all allI i r I Ill Splendid old English self control It be B. B lon long time timo before the thc children riL London ondon or the grown grow n people either r down th the lime terror or of ot th the llie all air raids ra Js pu ronn cannot connot be in London twenty four our Iura th these ese daya without feeling like see ea S' S country cousin come the family through somo some season distress dl Kib B ls ci and d y bereavement v iTou-v uve doand i do don dono no the best you yOU could and the thc family Is grateful Hut But now not they I with you would pack your our things s and I go homo home and let them thorn put the furniture I back in place pIneo and air tho the I 1 and put away tho the clothes and weep alone aone over tho the little keepsakes of oC those J so o dearl dearly loved JO and so lIO deeply mourned I J |