Viewing page 221 of 745

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

194

his love for the conventional old fashion ways is a thing the impatient American cannot become readily accustomed to.

But Lord what this country, as typified in what I've seen of Liverpool and London in a week, must have passed through in getting to this strange state where people must of necessity [[strikethrough]] deny [[/strikethrough]] ^[[deny]] themselves and where old men are recruited to the jobs-that the demand for [[underline]] women [[/underline]] workers can't accommodate. Our own country has a lot to learn indeed.

It was strange enough in itself to get into the space-wasting English coaches, drawn by the puny-looking Engine with the whistle like a flute, on the trip to London. That was an adventure that took place over night, pushing ^[[us]] onto Euston stations platform at the very early hour of 4:45 A.M. we rescued our baggage and hunted vainly for taxi-cabs to bring us