Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1916 — War Makes Geographers. [ARTICLE]

War Makes Geographers.

The war has made geographers ol us all. It seems that It has also increased the Londoner’s knowledge of London. Six wounded officers, all Londoners, born and dwellers in London, were offered a motor trip from their hospital the other, day. They selected Hampton court as their objective, and only one of the party had seen it before. It is a common Baying in London, that only the visitor really sees the city, and there is at all events wh element of truth in the statement. -There is u certatn middle-aged commercial man of high standing in London, a Londoner by descent, birth and lifelong residence, who, though he has seen the Blue mountains of Australia and the Victoria falls of Africa, has never been inside Hyde Park, Westminster abbey or St. Paul’s Cathedral. —Manchester Guardian.