ON GAIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 15762, 27 March 1915, Page 9

ON GAIETY.

THE HOME LIFE OF THREATENED CITIES.

BLITHE VIENNA & OTHERS.

CHEERFULNESS IN A„ PSYCHOLOGIC WAR.

[By A. Spence.]

Przemysl gone, thought- turns to the Carpathian passes—Dukla, Lnpkow, and the others named on the map. Russians are on the foothills there, and there are Austrians and Germans higher on the slopes. The Lupkow is mentioned particularly. None of the Austrians, Germans, and Russians are there to gather edelweiss. They gat her each other.

"if sufficient Austrians and sufficient Germans do not gather sufficient Russians the passes couth of Vrzemy&l — Lupkow, Vakla, and Uzsok—present no further obstacles, always remembering the " if." Abolish that "if," and the eye makes so swift a passage over the map that it alights on Vienna, the capital of Austria, in a fraction of a second. What is Vienna doing now, and how do the Viennese feel about it?

It appears from the Home papers that the Viennese do not care very much which way it goes. In the early days of war travellers who came home from Carlsbad to England described scenes in which a melancholy emotion predominated. The men were torn from the women and herded to the depots. Afterwards the women stood sadly before the poster boards which the Austrian Government head "Leeujabb," and waited. Great Russian victories at Lemberg and other

fling a bomb or two, gives life a jolly daie devil fillip. At the theatre they were playing ' .Milestones' to crowded houses, and in tho daytime tho crowd could even find interest iii watching the struggles of a peasant endeavoring to drive a rebellious along come avenue in the kaia quarter. From militarism to ' .Milestones,' from pugnacity to pigs, is 60im thing of a transition smacking of novelh oven if that novelty only amounts to bathos. So it must he verily what thin call a psychological war. When Anna geefdon conies sane men (who did net want it) do the next best thing that sane men can do: they deliberately throw aw n what, in milder times, is called a '''sens*. of pro-portion." WORKING IT GAIETY. Creating, l'o.Hering. and furthering tni war of phycholeigy by truth or untruth in therefore the things. It was anticipated in an article which I wrote in Auntm uiid" th'* headline " Battle Elan.' A Genu in brigade order has been, picked up. win hj may be rendered (reduced to essent ink-) We (the Gemini!:-} must do every I hint, possible to prevent our men bccoinm lethargic. [Sure eonsefptence of trend life.] Billeted men should be given stir ring history lessois, particularly on cent achievements. All ollicers mi t cheer up their men. Ey<tv eni-ourn»p iiient must be given to prepare the wi\ for vietorv.

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