HOW WAR AFFECTS AUSTRALIANS ABROAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1343, 5 January 1915, Page 4

HOW WAR AFFECTS AUSTRALIANS ABROAD.

“ Australians and New Zealanders in Loudon are divided into two claaseS: those who come and go, and those who come and stay—if they can.” So writes a London correspondent of Everylady’s Journal in the January number ot that magazine, just issued. The writer goes oh to explain how both classes were struck by the bombshell of war, and how they met the crisis. “The most serious losses of the first class,” the writer says, “were of strayed luggage and missed opportunities of sight-seeing; their gravest anxieties were about suspended letters ot credit and delayed passages home. “But what of 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 Cockney says, by the shock of the 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 into the fighting 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 splendid 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 readers the human and incidental side of the war rather than the strategical and political. Apart from the war, which, of course, is the vital topic of the day, there are many articles in this January issue of great interest to women at this season. There are, for example, instructions in the making of New Year gifts and the giving of New Year parties • there are timely articles on dress and fashion, seasonable recipes for the cook, and up-to date hints for the housekeeper, and directions for the needleworker. In a word, the aim of Everylady’s Journal seems to be to tell readers how to wed economy with efficiency. And we are pleased to notice that these practical and informative features are supplemented by a number ot capital short stories and poems by Australian and New Zealand writers. Everylady’s Journal, indeed, begins the year 1915 with a first-rate issue, copies of which can be obtained at the local booksellers, or direct from the publisher, T. Shaw Fitchett, 376 Swanston Street, Melbourne, it a6s postal note is sent for a year’s subscription.