And all this has an effect on conduct.
Two young wives of noble officers now in France have just run away with two other young noblemen--to the scandal of a large part of good society in London.

It is universally said that the morals of more hitherto good people are wrecked by the strain put upon women by the absence of their husbands than was ever before heard of.
Everybody is overworked.

Fewer people are literally truthful than ever before.

Men and women break down and fall out of working ranks continuously.

The number of men in the government who have disappeared from public view is amazing, the number that would like to disappear is still greater--from sheer overstrain.