CHAPTER XV

American women went to Paris once for their fashions, and men to London for theirs, assured that what novel modes they saw there would prevail in America six months later. But now strange new fashions of costume, of thought, of amusement, grief, speech, disease, distress, death, swept over Europe, cutting her off from America utterly. Americans did not swarm abroad to import these fashions ahead of time. Americans ceased to go to Europe at all, except on war-business. And finding Europe what it was, they thanked He…