WAR THE LEVELLER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 22 December 1915, Page 7

WAR THE LEVELLER.

EAST AND WEST r.IEET ON THE 'BUS. ;- The observant Londoner cannot fail to have noticed the amazing changes in oil], habits and customs since the August of last year, remarks a writer In "Pall Mall azette." In these fifteer. months the social rabric has been bouleverse. Nothing is at it was. *azq is altogether new. Jack's as good as his master, . And Jill is queen of the land;

or very nearly so; and it was written that this would be in the classic pages of "Maga" fully twenty years ago. Take your place, if you can find one, in any of the newer restauarants, the reputable ones, of which there are, happily, so many, any pou may find yourself next to Miranda and Marguerite o*"the chorus" or the balet, and faced by a fas-hionable modiste and her attendait nymph, or by a "titled lady" and her husband or son. "Swells"

from cluband are not lacking at these resort;;, where they fin! appetising fare a" 50 per cent less than at the more modish places.

Comely damsels minister to the "clients" wants.,and respeetfu--without being servile. Such a chane from the old days, those of only a' year ago, when the ermans an*-" 1 - trians —yes, very many of the latter—surged betwixt the wind and your nobility, and superciliously watched your exit if yon had failed to give them the lavis-h "tip" which they had been counting upon.

Perhaps the greatest change of at? observable since las tautumn is to be found in' the attiude towards eac*" other of the "classes" and the "masses." As the motor-'bus in which may happen to be penny o r three-half-peny rider from Sloane street to Piccadilly ircus passes one or other oi t i ie clubs—the "Cavalry," the Junior Constitutional or the Naval anC Military a gallant officer, a captain or a colonel "boards" the vehicle, and "planks down" his penny as if to fie manner born.