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 Horrors 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; at times it seems to be a mass of contradictions of love and hate, of friendship and enmity, of truths and falsehoods, of war and peace. In the same flash of time countries are throttling others; other nations are straining themselves not only to soften the hardships created by an international war, but to help feed, care for and dry the tears made by the havoc of slaughter.