WAYS OF WAR AND
PEACE
Ways of War
and Peace
by
Delia Austrian
Stanhope-Dodge Publishing Company
U. S. A.
Larchmont, N. Y.
1914
Copyright 1914
by
DELIA AUSTRIAN
THIS BOOK IS
DEDICATED
TO MY MOTHER
With Whom I Have Enjoyed Much of the Beauty and Charm
of Europe and Also, Unfortunately, Have Seen the
Honors and Sorrows of War
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Foreword | 9 |
| Students' Hostel in Paris | 21 |
| Paris, Past and Present | 28 |
| How Would You Like to Be a Refugee? | 35 |
| What Mobilization Means | 79 |
| The Price of War and the Price of Peace | 96 |
| Some Questions Answered as to the Causes of the War | 105 |
| What the World-War Will Mean to Womankind | 114 |
| Ask Your American Friends How It Feels to Be Without Money | 125 |
| What the Queen of Holland Is Doing to Preserve Peace | 138 |
| What Royal Women Are Doing While Their Husbands Are at War | 144 |
| What Will the Royal Children Do if Their Parents Are Put Out of Business? | 151 |
| William II at Close Range | 157 |
| King George V, Head of the Allies | 171 |
| Two Russian Cities | 182 |
| Christmas Without a Santa Claus | 196 |
FOREWORD
As I advance in years I look upon life as a good deal of a paradox; attimes it seems to be a mass of contradictions of love and hate, offriendship and enmity, of truths and falsehoods, of war and peace. Inthe same flash of time countries are throttling others; other nationsare straining themselves not only to soften the hardships created by aninternational war, but to help feed, care for and dry the tears made b