"I have the honor to inform you that I have enlisted in the 4th
Queen's," wrote a butler resigning his position with a wealthy Kent
family by whom he had been employed for fifteen years. "I hope my
leaving will not inconvenience you, but I feel that my obvious duty
is to do my little share toward the defence of my King and country,
especially as my work as an indoor servant is such as can be
done--and in times like these I think should be done--by women. No
single man with any patriotism can remain if he is able-bodied and
otherwise eligible to serve in the army."
"THEY ARE BRAVE MEN!"
"A Hindu belonging to a Lancer regiment to-day rebuked in my
presence a man who spoke slightingly of the German people," cables a
correspondent. "With amazing dignity he said:
"'Do not talk like that of the Germans. It is a great country which
can make war on five Powers. They are brave men who can fight and
die as the Germans do. The pity for them is that they are not so
well trained as we.'"