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Rush Hours.

27th July 1926, Page 2
27th July 1926
Page 2
Page 2, 27th July 1926 — Rush Hours.
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THERE is something about the very phrase that captures and holds me. Rush hours! Times o' day when Londoners give themselves anew to the spirit of adventure. Times when, for all the hurry, chivalry survives. There may come a time when the Olympian task of taking Londoners to work and home again will be performed with ease and perfect order. The gain will be great, but the loss will not be negligible.

I confess to finding some amount of pleasure in the rush, although one's method may have something to do with that. I have sometimes waited at a point near to but before the stopping place, and the bus driver, divining my intention, has put on speed. Then, the grasping of the handrail and the swinging on to the step has a thrill in it that is good to come by after a hard day at the office. I shall be told that this is an unfair method, and so it is. More generally I wait with the crowd, and when the bus comes try to keep alongside the platform without holding either of the

B18 rails. The rest is easy, for you float on. Everyone, I suppose, has his own method, and none can be invariably successful, else the sense of adventure would disappear.

There are many, of course, who see no fun in rush hours—old people, women with their children, and many a weary traveller. Yet there is one period when the rush crowd is mostly made up of happy people. Since most shows have some good in them, few people can be really unhappy after the theatre. To be amused by light comedy, enlivened by revue or uplifted by tragedy, is to be helped into a frame of mind in which physical comforts are unimportant. The road home seems alluring in the cool air ; if the night be wet—well, one feels inclined to see good in everything and is not going to allow rain to spoil such good intent.

A few there may be who meet rush hours with bad temper, but while they remain a few they will be sub merged in "laughter and kind faces." P.W.P.

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