London, Sept, 10.
We started the Morning Service today (Sunday) with the. National Anthem sung in full. An alternative to the second verse was written some yetes ago, which T saw in the hymn Ihoole for the first time And let our Empire be, Gaited saya, tree, Prue to elt and Thee, God save us But our parson is something of a Cromwellian Christian, and he. would have none of such new-fangled ideas. creations and drive us off the streets fat the slightest alarm, the hours for shops to keep open are a problem. Directly darkness comes, the nightly black-out is worse than Cimmerian As yet the evenings are long, But i the winter it is dark by 430. There is talk of extending daylight saving Dut this is only a partial remedy. T know of business Arms which are preparing to open at 8 and close at If, as seems likely, this becomes General, the war will have accom-Dlished the hitherto impossible feat about is to identify the different! women's uniforms. There are at least six of these already and we hear of more coming. Restaurants must be suffering. Those where once it was. hard to find a seat are but half full The explanation is the numbers of men and girls who have gone. to different country places on wartime service, There are fewer soldiers. about London than you might suppose. But T could mention other places which are simply bursting with them, In one way some of the shops are' not doing too badly. Marriages are fs the sand which is by the seashore for. multitude, and of course the brides must have new (rocks. These fare generally on practical lines, ut to make up there is a marked demand for' lingerie, nightgowns of crepe suzette in theee colours, white, but-come they have grown more and more depressed. So we hope it is true that the Gardens are very soon to be reopened, as Whipsnade Is 10 bbe this. All the most valuable ereatures have gone there, such as the slant pandas and the rear apes.
But there has been a terrible execution of poisonous snakes and insets, that "fearsome spider for in-Stance, the Black "Widow, one. bite which is fatal, 1 suppose it necessary; but then, one may ask, why pul Such ereatures.in a Zoo at all? "But that question leads to very Wide and controversial fields.
Still, many people, besides course' officials, seem momentarily to have lost their sense of proportion. Because eats and dogs may not taken into air raid shelters and ed. There have been special, broad-easts and notices in papers begging that pets may not be killed. The same thing, it is recalled, happened:
Madrid and led to a' dangerous increase of vermin. There is in fact no earthly need to kill off pets, a there are two or three societies to take charge of them if the owners cannot.
Horses are rapidly disappearing from London, going off to do country work. One i glad of it, for it would bbe a job to get them into safety from bombs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.