SUBURBAN REMEMBRANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 December 1936, Page 2

SUBURBAN REMEMBRANCE

FIXED DOMESTIC RITUAL (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 19th November,. I was told a pretty little 11th November story. Some member of the household asked the milkman how lie spent the half-hour of the Cenotaph service on Armistice Day. He replied that he always spent it the same way—in tlie basement kitchen of a neighbouring house, listening in to the ceremony on the wireless with the cook and housemaid. Both those humble servitors, it appears, have intimate sentimental associations with the Great War and the Cenotaph, and they make the annual listening-in a fixed domestic ritual. As for the milkman, he served out East with the Field Artillery, and. as his treatment of his milkcart’s pony suggests, is a devoted lover of horses. Quite simply and genuinely he told ray informant how, every Armistice service as lie sat in that basement with the two servant women, ho saw in his mind's eye a sad little procession of the horses and mules he “lost” when he was soldiering with the guns. Rather a good chap, that milk-ho. man.