HOW WAR AFFECTS AUSTRALIANS ABROAD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 734, 6 January 1915, Page 3

HOW WAR AFFECTS AUSTRALIANS ABROAD.

"Australian's and New Zealanders in London are divided into two classes: those who ceme and go, and those who come and fitay —if they can." So writes a London correspondent of Evsrylady's Journal in the January number of that magazine, jast issued. The writer goeß en to explain bow both classes were struck by the bombshell of war, and how they met the crisis. "Tr.e most serious losses of the first class," the writer fays, "were of strayed luggage and missed opportunities of sight-seeing; their gravest anxieties were about suspended letters of credit and delayed passages home. * "But what cf the other class? To all of them it meant reduction, to some it spelt collapse, to others it looked like starvation. Yet with all London 'knocked sideways,' as the/ crockney says, by the shock of war, no one returned to the normal more quickly than the Australian. . . .

Actors turned policemen, musicians became truckmen, artists drove ambulance motors, and scores of them went to the front in the righting line or under the Red Cross."

The paragraphs quoted are from one section of a department in Everylady's Journal that deals with the adventures of Australians and New Zealanders abroad. Another department is devoted to striking pen-pictures and sphndid photographs, that give a most realistic impression of the great war on its personal side. In fact, the editor of Everylady's Journal has wisely adopted the policy of placing before his the human and incidental sjde of the war rather than the strategical and the political. Apart from the war, there are many, articles in this January issue of great interest to women ni this season.