From ‘The New Standard‘, The Spectator, 31 July 1915:
Where food and service are concerned we believe there are a fair number of people who will be glad of some necessity which shall compel them to lead a simpler life. It is not that they do not enjoy their fine food and the ease which comes of much waiting-on. They like it far too well voluntarily to relinquish it: On the other hand, the prospect of being obliged to do differently is not without attraction. The burden of “the plant” often wearies them. They feel themselves to be entangled in the paraphernalia of hyper-civilization—almost enslaved by it. It is odd that this time of enforced retrenchment should accomplish an enfranchisement, but we believe that after the war it will in many cases do so.
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