The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-31
WAR GRIEFS AT MARKET
ARMY AND N4Ty WOMEN IN ETIDENCl
IN WASHINGTON.

WARRINGTON, July 0U,-Inero nrO lOIS OF
army and navy women in Washington these
hot days. Few Of them. since their husbands
went down to Cuba. have had the heart TO 20
anywhere for the summer They do very little
visiting among their friends. so ono seldom
meets them snve shopping or marketing,
Centre Market is q great rendezvous for WASH
ington women. You wouldn't think that
market with its butchers stalls. its baskets Of
cabbnEes and onions, its burly Germans with
their sausages and bland smiles. was a good
background for dramatic effects, but tragic talks
occur there these sultry mornings. The SYM
pathetic woman who goes there could tell you
some thrilling stories about her army friends
who have confded their emotions over the
cheese and butter.
The sympathetic woman says she has often
to laugh to keep from crying when at the mar
ket. While she was keeping up o pleasant ex-
preston there tho other morning she caught
the eye Of q woman from Fort Myer who was
accompanied by her two little girls. She hard
ly knew the woman. When she had seen her
In the winter her face was rosy and happy.
Now there was suspense and anxiety written
In every feature-the kind OF suppressed
anguish that watches aud prays with tight
caught lips and clasped hands in the darkness.
The sympathetic woman pressed the hand OF
the Captains wife. 1T Is 80 awful" said the
latter beneath her breath. You know we
can't talk much out there at the fort. We are
all suffering but we don't dare talk"
That was all the Captains wife said. and the
little children looked sadly at their mother
while the sympathetic woman went on to the
fruit and vegetable stand nearby. There she
met an army woman Of generous and joyial
proportious-the best comrade In the barracks.
oh" burst out the portly %Inatron, to think
and-and"-her Iips wore quiverinR-."their not
having anything nice to, eat down there My
know he will catch yellow fever. He has always
been so well fed at home"
But they have pretty rood fare suggested
Good fare! Well, you ought. to read, Toms
had, e subsist on-oh, it's too drcadful!-on pill
ron what ?" exclaimed the sympathetic wo-
*Pin food, Kl9ndike diet: I you will. but it's
nothing but pill food; it's awful
Ton M0 hi k n ", You ar r d S9iGS ,o to tell n ne bt tsSa
s.Snt, Re done, When Tom wrote me ABOUT
the kind that had led him for two, days. and I
tr!e dh t9 l gos az aId II tY Ike sf i{ myself"
The lrst answer was a whitening glance:
m nAiI OF i it T Tsmi RaS fn @S q n th sa3s III iittlee o55fft tss
OF yapanese wood that YOU drop In the water
H TEa Watch tS1 an sPr sSfie out wd into sn ilHwebS and bat lI tSc
bread"-here words seemed 70 fail. and the
speaker put her hand on her generous hip and
member your grandmother,s Swiss muslin caps
well. when you poured hot wa tfIo9 on o that T. e9Pp.
tioasmyell; then i ,i tasted like Ike your Sna Grand Grand
Think !" she said, wiping q tear from her round
but pale cheek. -" Of poor Tom living on his
shi nh9" ofE"ei me sa here I Before all these good
nnIlh aho uhu
vd HsFs shs b gre ssPiSSE EoSMf Fs. inTfe cm FRSe her sne of Sin;
and tho sympathetic woman sought tho stand
OF her butter man, An army woman was there
ribbons; The symrathstic woman eoaldn's
help thinking that the Chinese were not far
wrong in choosing yellow as a mourning garb.
It's a way some women have 81 giving vent 70
brightest Of colors when they are most moved.
The. dramatic woman was full to the brim ot
woman touched her elbow. She turned a traE;
LEA facet face t9 SSS nth the sI iS[mierEf &r f m91t tba Oh all
FIN living, oh Just living. that's all, said
the dramatic woman. and her listener did noe
dramatic woman's husband had been through
as commander OF one OF the bravest
o My child. when one Of the naval off,
GERS who came home told me about it. i almost
died. When he described to me that charge at
hill. their bare breasts exposed 10 the enemy,
how he saw Dicks ms1m9h Gb any dear nn6 9f f6 SAC
IL Whb LILO uIdNtSls Dpbltcb IL oiN NAAAii@
The lace Of the yellow muslin was moist, and
the yeast cake the sympathetic woman carried
was In u dangerous state OF fermentation as the
The sympathetic woman then turned to q
flower stand. and there she found the Lieuten;
ants sweetheart looking toward
Anything happened. Alice p asked the SYM
N"Of course You know Fred is down there with
shgAfftsrS"
ON, wasn't looking at those white flowers.
d!dn,t see them. l was thinking about the
THE whatp"
ants sweetheart, as sho held a iewelled scent
bottle 10 her pretty nose. read in the paper
this morning that the soldiers needed more
But those We're the ~privates' my dear" said
Eyes. I know: but Fred is so noble. II his
men need shirts he will give them all OF his
own. He probably hasn't a coat to his back by
well, 1t is so hot down, there"
Yes, but the paper said cool shirts were so
send Fred lot OF Silk and madras shirts and
peA'sN% ot at az al. SO sa ia'F he At s S2SIa Re deS %qman
who. IKE her KIND, vas a person o. oroa 6i sIe,fi
away to those other poor chaps
how %H Sd + 50 zen generous 70 " so noble you don't kno"
The SympatRetic woman smiled and agreed
engaged TO Fred herself. But" she added,
You see II you sent the things 70 him he'd
have 9 sentiment about them thn A. Would r yoT
so much. you know. that any gift of yours
The LieutenGnt's sweetheart beamed; the
sympathetic woman had settled the, question.
She nodded a hasty good by. calling back over
her shoulder. Il think I'll get blue ones. He's
q blonde and they look so cool, "
After this the sympathetic woman met the
mother OF a boy who had come home wounned.
and she said to the mother that II must be q
friGhtful experience to have, u son go 70 war.
and the mother replied that there WAS Just one
thing worse. and that was to have a son refuse
to 60 at the call Of his country. They both
agreed that. after all. 1t was the women ut home
who were fighting the hardest battles.
so 1t was that the sympathetic woman found
sermons amid the surroundings or vegetables
beef and butter. all on q market day.