London, Nov. 6.
Already shops are becoming gay and Christmassy. Full-page adver~ fisements appear once more in the papers, really us gladdening to readters as to the advertisement managers, And ax more and more of the people who Iegied it for the Kreat open spaces when war began are coming back—afler all, would there be a belter-protected town in the country than London man alr raid?—the shopkeepers are looking more cheer tal.
One docs not see so much sustestion of war in the shops, though er position fins not yet improved much, though one hopes she has fewer Blanche trigrams to suffer from.
Lady Violet Astor spoke cloquently on the governess's position ax the: centre of the household, winning love from all, (You can imagine the spirit of Charlotte Bronte clapping shadowy hands' in the background) But children grow up and_governesses move on and time moves too, tilt by and bye the xovernesses are too old fo'move anywhere; and without the Benevolent institution many of them bad way. One hopes: heavily to make way for troup and munition trains, but why restaurant ears had to be' dropped from the trains that did run is one of the mys leries known only to the panjandrums.
The anniversary brought some of the old illustratyns of the rst. re~ staurant cur, run on the former Great Norther". In appearance was nol very" different from the modern car, though Person satan either side of the central ay. What tickles one's fatiey Ube men's long hair (parted in the middle and ceseending on the fore head in two heavy waves) and their large "drooping:" moustache recalling, Shat mercifully extinct horror, the moustache cup. On the tables are Gyergnes of flowers, also rather mercifully extinct, big silver covers and heavy eruets." A deferential waiter im the foreground offers a large. ple} to on elderly military ent who does bly, we all alike now five im equal Sisetnfort and call it democracy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.