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WOMEN AND MANNERS.

AN IMPROVEMENT.

BY BEATRICE HERON-MAX WELL.)

FOUR YEARS DRESSED AS

MAN.

TWO GIRLS WHO LIVED AS MAN AND WIFE

Few more rumuntic stories have been revealed in real life than that of the young woman who for four years mas queraded as a man, doing a man's work, being called up to the colours as a man, at the eleventh hour by the ketors at and whoso real sex was detected only the Mill Hill Medical Board,

RUSSIA'S RECOVERY-

DARK HOURS,

MEN, GUNS, AND SHELLS.

FER-2MOVERY,

The history of the great retreat will be one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of war, and only next in interest will be the account of the Rus- sian effort which in the short space of sight months enabled the Russian Arinies

A few years ago it had become the fashion for women of all ranks to disre gard the amenities of life to be brusque, to think rudeness clever, to snatch at the best places and things, to stare, to laugh out of season, and in every variety of way to show that they had neither time ner need nor inclination for good man-peared in the Daily News, was told person the command of his forces ope Europe. It is the rarest thing in the

nere.

[UX THE TIMES" MILITARY CORRESPONDENTE] not only to make defence secure, but to sweep over the Austrian Armies in The review of the Russian operations Galicia and overwhelm them. The story during the past yest published in of the restoration of field strengths, the Petrograd on September 5th is a moving training of recruits, and the collection and all too brief record of a period and construction of war material of all

upon the memories of us all which will remain indelibly stamped kinds, will be told to us some day, and the account of this great recovery will A year ago his Imperial Majesty the be very honourable to Russia, and will A fragment of the story, which ap- Tsar of All the Russias assumed in remain for ever inseparably connected with the reconquest of the liberties of to the Hornsey Tribunal when the rating by sea and land, and placed at wonian's employer appealed for the ex- the disposal of his great country the world that an Army 50 heavily, amitten One has seen a woman of title take her emption as an indispensable man in weight of his immense authority. That should be able to face the music of war place at a friend's dinner-table and, push his business, he himself at having the wo admired and respected the Grand again in the same campaign. Russia ing aside the tasteful decorations in least suspicion of the real sex of his Duke Nicholas and regretted his depar become a hive of warlike industry s front of her, plank" down in their employe. But further facts are now to ture no one can deny, for he had been England had already become, and in place her jewelled bag and other odd-hand, and the past six years of the girl's & great figure, had fought the war every Allied and neutral country there ments, including a long pair of soiled lily read like the fantastic pages of boldly and with skill, and had not feared were turned out in profusion gans, white gloves for a deliberato careless-fiction.

to take grave and thankless decisions rifles, ammunition, clothing, and equip-

situation when the terrible

of the ments for the new Russian Armies. ness in the niceties of dress was beginning Six years ago she was married--nassian Armies imperatively demanded Germany, by transferring her energies to find favour with these antidy minds. happily married. Her two children died in a retreat. But we cannot say now, uselessly, as it turned out to the

One has looked on with surprise while infancy, and she left her husband. It looking back over the past year, that West, allowed Russia her State official's wife jerked the elbow of was then she thought of the bold plan the Tear was ill-advised in assuming breathing space, and it must have been a Church dignitary when he was raising of masquerading as a man, partly that command, for his determination to lead gull and a glass to his lips or played other practi- she might earn a better living and partly as people, and to fight the war to a soldiers in the Eastern theatre to see the cal jokes on her distinguished guests to insure her against being discovered finish, not the seal upon the resolution fruits of their great labours thus thrown

One has gone into a post office and by her husband.

of the Russian people, and showed to all away. listened, perforce, to the giggling, leisure-

What happened was what was bound the world that it was not the Russian Army alone that fought, but the ruler to happen so long as Russian internal remained reasonably calm. and the whole people of an immense politics Empire in unison. Napoleon was beaten Millions of men came up for training; because he miscalculated the character of every industry became one of war; and Russian Tsar and the devotion of his each one of Russia's Allies set about to best sho people, and the same miscalculation has promote her rearmament as vitiated all the plans of the German could. Early in the year 1916 General Staff which regarded the Tsar feared no longer a German offensive In and the Russian Armies in September, Bussia, for which we in the West were 1915, as enemies which had ceased to this time ready to make Germany pay Idearly, and with the summer there. como the promise of a Bussian offensive. 50 dark hour when the Tsarvery brilliantly realized in the perfor assumed the

How mance. As each day and work and command-in-chief, dark many of us knew. We knew that month and year pass on we know that

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ly gossip of the girl officials, while a The next chapter in the story finds her chaung, busy public, whose paid servants in apartments, where she met a young they were, waited in vain for attention girl with whom she became friendly Lhind the grille. One has sympathised The pair became so intimate that ono with the shopper in a large women's day she disclosed her secret to her provider" establishment, who, refusing friend, who pledged herself not to to take an unbecoming garment at an divulge it. Time went on, and then inordinate price, has received the cart tragie misfortune bofel her friend. She dismissal of the lofty assistant, We have was abandoned heartlessly by her lover, nothing so cheap as that, moddemand a still graver shadow hung over her (Anglice for m'dame); our customers immediate future. wouldn't buy it," while she flounced away, leaving the discomfited buyer to put on her mantle and hat without assist in this extremity her man-woman suce. One has met a bevy of workgirlfriend hit upon a novel and romantic who, linked together across a street, have. They would set up house together, driven an on-coming pedestrian ibto thei road and shouted derisive remarks over and pass as man and wife and the child the Russians were fighting with one rifle Bussia will become still more formidable,

|should be with them. The step

was against three, and one shell against ten, and the longer the decision is delayed No inter, high- nor low water their shoulders at her.

And everywhere in high and low places taken. They came to London, took a little and that by no possibility could Russia the more terrible will be the character one noticed that a woman who showed house, and the neighbours naturally sup become adequately armed, even for of her revenge.

THE LACK OF MUNITIONS. TO THE LADIES, respect for others was conspicuous by her posed the husband was the father of active defence before the following.

If Russia has not been able to take And the father" spring. Many thought that the opera absence, and that even old age was treat the little baby. Pinkettes are a boon, ensuring daily ed with irreverence. Bad manners filter went out to work. Employment was tions round. Vilna would ace the hastily- the offensive successfully on the whole regularity, thus removing the causes of ed down from the rising generation of readily found at a printing establish gathered Russian levies in the north cut of her front this year, we must put the sick headaches, biliousness, facial erupthe new nobility to the offspring of the ment, and after a while the girl was in off by the German thrust at Sventsiany fact down to the same cause that has tions and ill-smelling breath.

spreading, deanocracy; and the strange good position, was instructed in from their friends, and other good prevented us hitherto from attacking on modern aiga-manual of self-respect technical processes by her employer who judges supposed that Germany would a very wide front in the West-namely, which used to have its foundation in little suspected his pupil's sex and soon resume her advance when the ground want of heavy guns and shells. We did courtesy to all-was being patented in was earning high wages." She was so and the rivers and the snow froze hard, not possess the heavy guns, and Russia the form of an insolent self-assertion. clever that her employer hae frankly and taxe Petrograd in a winter cam had lost many of hers, while Germany The old motto of gentlepeople, noblesse stated that she was of more value topaign, with all the munition factories had not only an immense nccumulation oblige, which created a standard for the him than the whole of the five mon who at the capital and the is-bound fleet of her own but also the guns which she the dainty little gentle as nature laxa humblest origin to live up to, was being have left him for the Army put together. We knew well enough that the Russian had captured for example, 1,200 at tives, are obtainable from chemists, or submerged, and one recognised its adher-

patient would recover if he could survive Novo Georgievsk and 827 at Kovno. post free, 60 cents the phial, from Drents only among those whose heredity wasquerade was successfully kept up, and to be inclement and the patient's pulse though, in a country like us, us- For four years this amazing mas the winter, but the winter seemed likely We had great leeway to make up, and Williams Medicine Co., 96, Ezecbued untarnished, whose blue blood, whether Road, Shanghai,

from a hundred carls or a line of yeomen, but for the war, and the great demand was very weak. It was a period, we must are to be found easily enough, it is dif- for men, there is little likelihood that all admit, of most horrible anxiety, ferent with rifles and guns and shells, made it impossible for them to forget what was due to themselves and therefore the secret would have been disclosed. and those best informed feared the most, and an army of men is of small, service to others, and to join the brigade under But difficulty followed difficulty. In and not military dangers alone. ***.. without all three, General Kuropatkin, the new banner, with its scroll1 am the first place, there was the registration. The fear and his trusted General lately in command of the Northern as good as anyone else.

The girl had to make a false declaration. Aleseieff, who has just been the fortunate Armies in an interview published by The contagion of discourtesy, inculcal Then came Conscription, and she re-recipient of an affectionate and cardini Le Temps, says that Russia still has ed by women, spread to the children and ceived a yellow form enlling her to the message from his Sovereign, pulled out need of projectiles and heavy guns, and to men. Chivalry began to die aut

cofours. She had still hopes of keeping the Russian Armies, Heaven knows how that cach cargo of shells which England the secret of her sex, and trusted that from the Vilas trap and reestablished and Frane send over the sea saves the There were, of course, still marked ex- the examination by the doctors would their Fne. The Russian troops, and lives of thousands of brave Russian reptions. At Court bad manners were only be superficial. But the Medical the infantry particularly, fought back peasants. His further remark that it is discouraged and reproved, from atten- Board at Mill Hill was thorough, and with all their old glorions abstinacy, necessary for the Allies to combine two dants of the highest rank down to the there was no biding it any longer.

with rifles when they could get thein, elements--men and guns-better thau who would not show incivility even to an must junior employé in a royal household,

and, if not, with sticks and stones. The they have done hitherto is a word in country was devastated before the in-season, and deserves our careful con- advanced through the gloomy forcata, own orders, we turn over to Russian use In the homes of the really well-horn,

the swamps, and the wastes they found plant for the manufacture of heavy too, as well as in those of Nature's own Success has crowned the efforts of the the villages in flames, the population in guns and shells, except such plant as wo aristocrats, the people who are gentle folk British censorship, officials to apprehend fight, and all resources destroyed, while require for the current needs of our in the inner meaning of the word, old certain diamond runners believed to communications lengthened as the days own Armies, we can enable Russia next fashioned good manners still prevailed. have been attempting secretly to conduct shortened, and the northern autumn year and the year after to deploy

such But the new tide and the impetus of a German diamond trade. A very valu began to cover Russia as with a shield considerable and efficient Armies that hustle it was creating were growing irre able consignment of three diamonds has The Russian people were tried in the they will dominate the whole situation. sistible, and the feminine lover of decent been found in a large pot of soup in the fire of great adversity, but they closed But we can only do so if we limit the and considerate behaviour could find galley of a trans-Atlantic liner. This their ranks, and in presence of the expansion of our own Armies, and these refuge only in being inoffensive and nega shows you to what lengths these diamond foreign enemy all internal differencca alternatives suggest a number of con- tive, and passing unnoticed beneath the runners go to conduct their business,'

siderations which must weigh with any "It was certainly conquering current of positive insolence, said the informant, That old devil, Insomnia, is the Only a year or two before, an American one of the richest bowle of soup ever con greatest booking agent on earth. The lady, since then the wife of British cocted. result of his never-ending labour is Peer, remarked to an English gentle great that it required thousands of woman: It is really funny to hear the sanatoriums and hundreds of insane asylums to take care of his bookings. The overflow he sends to prisons, work- houses, and graveyards.

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way you talk to your servants. You say men, that we are criticising ourselves Would you kindly do this or that? and daily in the Press, busily removing the Please, and Thank you, and Ask Somote from our own eyes and holding aud-so not to forget to?! In America we give orders, even to the head servants, end of an inverted one for distorting

up an obvious mirror for self-study in without wasting politeness on them.

other nations' peculiarities...

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them

ceased.

We do not yet know why the German one who allows himself to dwell upon Command did not attempt to complete them All that is necessary to say is their work during the winter, and to that the combination sought by Kura- occupy the capital. The extenuation of patkin should not be beyond settlement

sult, the want of good billets except in the German troopa after the long pur- by statesmanship,

The main

which interests point few large towns, and the necessity for as at this anniversary of the assumption repairing the roads and railways and of the command-in-chief by the Taar in warm clothing, and materials for huts devotion of his people, Russia is herself for bringing up food, ammunition, that by his exertions and the unfailing may have influenced the decision. The again, and that it is merely a question many thoughts which she refrained from The Englishwoman, in whose mind were

Snobbery, swagger, and airs of personal acquaintance of the German of time for her and for us to bring all leaders with the immense distances and our armies into effective, use and to Your nervous energy is like a bank expressing, mildly remarked that in our superiority are being discouraged in all account. If you use it up faster than good old homes we greatly valued our classes, for we have seen the ironic the terror inspired by these wasted smash to pieces our obstinate Teutonic solitudes may have affected nerves. Wenemy. If we have all worked equally servants, who were friends of the family fatuity of them in the face of a common "you add to it you overdraw your account.

cannot say what the preponderating hard at accomplishing this end it a Therefore if you sufer from nerves, have and gave us something more than the danger of extinction, when the need for cause was of the determination to halt certain, as Mr. Churchill stated recently, sleepless nights, brainfag, or lack of were performance of paid duties. Yet, our country's salvation is that of men ambition caused by overwork, worry, since that day, the anomaly has occurred and women and children at their best and stand on a fortuitous lino 700 miles that Russia has suffered more

in length, resting on

France of Americans coming over here to teach in every grade.

natural any of us--more even than over-indulgence in alcohol, tobacco, or

The foibles, the fashions, of other West. But it was certainly pot want of All the more to the credit of the Tsar obstacles, and to transfer weight to thein lusses on the battlefield and in the from excess of any kind, go to your us good "store" manners and the trade chemist and get & bottle of Sargel civility that builds up-in this country countries no longer matter to us, nor troops, as the Verdun operations soon

devastation of her territory by war. Tablets and take two after each meat and want reist auctions are in in favour-are used as contrasts for us to plume showed, and, with the Russians, we must and his people is it that they have kept two just before retiring at night. Good commercial success bye to despondency, "hump," and But the war, ploughing every furrow ourselves upon. We find that the ur piously attribute the decision to a higher such stout hearts in such very hard times,

blaes,"

and sowing fresh seed throughout the

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THE GERMAN DECISION. When the German decision to transfer you to draw every atom of strength, Man," to which we add the supplement,

fand do this and her duty in that state the offensive to the West became de- blood, and nourishment from the food" and improveth Woman." you eat. It excels all Nerve Foods, Even girls begin to realise that the call them

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manners can be of national as well as Lack of modesty and self-restraint in the book of doubt. We were sure that individual importance; that in the school those of our girls and young women who she could not beat us in the West, and "The Master Scoundrel" is the pro- of the world, with the great competitive have not yet got over the infantile dis we were confident that the time neces duction of one of this season's NOW examination that is now proceeding orders that had begun to be epidemic sarily given to the Russians to recupe anthors. The hero of the story fully initial virtues. and graces count, and before the war is noticed now, and com-rate would be used to the fullest advan-justifies the title conferred upon him, for even the youngest and commonest of us mented on unfavourably with a growing tage. But the losses of Russia, we also he is devoid of the mast elementary priùs can set an example and help to total up and almost universal distaste for the knew, land been very great. The Germans ciples of honour. It is true that in his a convincing sum. The latest recruits in bad manners that corrupt our vital had claimed that they had captured carly days he shows promise of attaining Debrett's rank and file are re-learning a national asset-youth,

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some 3,000 guns between May and ourable means, but his brilliant career

Be pitiful, be courteous," and under- The second-rate, second-hand girl. September, 1916, and, whatever truth is cut short by a disappointment in love stand instinctively that the day has come cheap because she has been in the shop there may have been, in this claim, we he is jilted. He gives way to drink when the coronet of good breeding is sim-window for the public eye, will have knew that the Russian Leases in battle and is expelled from the Bar, When be plicity, comprising unostentation in dress no value presently in the matrimonial had heen very severe indeed, and that has fallen to the lowest depths, be meets and conduct and natural consideration market when men come home to settle many rifles are necessarily lost in re an old friend who starts again in | for others of all degrees. So, we down.

treats. We heard of Russian Army life Together they open a General The newest hand" at national work' A girl who is merry and bright as Corps greatly depleted in men, while contact with gentlemen who live by their

Agency

business brings him inte munitions, agriculture, civil employ well as modest, and yet does her bit with the captured Russian fortresses wits, but he lives on them all. In fact ment (a widely comprehensive term this of work with the majority-yes! But there had been taken an immense number the story is a fat contradiction of the old last) learns that part of her business a girl who idly flaunts her girlband and of heavy guns not easily or soon to be ! is a modest demeanour, respectful be makes a target of herself for her own replaced. But we also knew-id this thieves. The anal triumph of his saying that There is honour amongst haviour, toleration of others rights and countrymen or any foreign visitor to was our greatest consolation that the illainy in achieved when he induces the public demands in short, good manners fling a leer or a frown at is making a determination of the Tear to continue girl, who ten year ago jilted him to mistake of which she will not under- the wat was Armer than ever, and that marry more worthy many to leave her It is from this very recognition of a5 stand the importance until too late, the spirit of the Russian troops and the husband and then isfuses to mos hez. The essential reform, starting with woren There can be only disappointment and Russian people remained unconquerable. story is cleverly and interestingly told MASTE. KELLY & WALSH, Lan and thereby gaining ground with the neglect for her soon as the right girl we knew this and reckoned upon and is by no mests lacking in the element

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