So in Europe, where there actually was war, the women tourists, with nothing but a worthless letter of credit between them and sleeping in a park, had every reason to be panic-stricken.

But to explain the hysteria of the hundred thousand other Americans is difficult--so difficult that while they live they will still be explaining.

The worst that could have happened to them was temporary discomfort offset by adventures.

Of those they experienced they have not yet ceased boasting.
On August 5th, one day after England declared war, the American Government announced that it would send the Tennessee with a cargo of gold.

In Rome and in Paris Thomas Nelson Page and Myron T.Herrick were assisting every American who applied to them, and committees of Americans to care for their fellow countrymen had been organized.