The Archive · 1939

A London Letter

London, Oct, 8. After more than a month of war people are settling down into their stride, The elders are bringing out their recollections of the Home Front during the last war, and the younger generation is, as usual, listening with only. slight attention, ' The youthful VADs and W.AAC's of 191418 can now trace silver hairs among the old, or brown oF black, but some of them are now in a position to die-late where erstwhile they were die-tated to—though whether memories of what seems a very short time ago will soften the sternness of gold braid today remains to be seen, A Penny on the Shilling "Add a penny on every shilling on every article"—that, it is said, is the order which has gone out from the headquarters of many of the largest thought that the use of bright colours, Jespeciaily red, with black will be popular this winter, and that a lot lof brown will be worn.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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