The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-22
1hose Who Live in Europe Are
Sacrificing Everything for
the Cause of Humanity.
u.uy ENLIST IN RED CROSS
.,.,. Have Turned Over Their Gas.
VII n.. and City Homes for Hospitals
Wealthy Ladies Washing
Dishes - Anna GouId's
Broad Charity.

M halls, no dinners, no splendid |
s,contions. The women who led in |
I .so Measure of other days have most |
~ - +bom donned a nurses cap and
un or even accepted mental task
o. order to alleviate the distress of
noor and wounded. In this work the
american women who have married
,,roioners or who for some other rea-
an find themselves residents of Eu-
.oro have been notably prominent.
Thpv have done more than work them
sorps-they have proved themselves
leaders.
IN rpcounting the faithful lives of
sorvice American women are leading
+odav it is hard to know where to be-
DIN for the work goes on in every
cenital London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin;
ond in no way is the unfortunate char
after of the great conflict better illus
trated than by the presence on both
sides of these noble American women,
some laboring for the Germans and
the Austrians and others to be seen
at their posts Of duty on the side of
the allies.
Famous estates owned by Americans
in Europe have been placed at the serv-
ice of the combatants. Countess Jo-
hannes Won Siersdorf, the former Miss
Knowlton of Brooklyn, turned over her
castle in Silesia to the kaiserin for
the use of the Red Cross. Then she
herself went to Berlin and entered
the ranks of hospital nurse corps
there. Her husband is in the German
army In happier times they once
spent $4,000 to entertain the kaiser
at single days shooting on the es-
tate now given for the use of the Ger
man wounded
Another German Red Cross nurse
is the beautiful duchess Of Croy, who
was Nancy Leishman. The duke is
lieutenant in the guard corps and his
German castles and estates are re-
ceiving wounded soldiers, while his
Hungarian chateau has been offered
to the Archduke Frederick, Austrian
commander in chief, for hospital.
American Women in Berlin.
The women of the American colony
in Berlin are working like beavers.
The American church is now a hospi-
tai, while the American Woman's club
has offered for use it's beautiful build
ing also. The American women are
attending Red Cross lectures and have
gone so far as to offer to receive
wounded men in their own homes
should there be an overflow from the
hospitals.
In Budapest the Countess Laszlo
zechenyi once Gladys Vanderbilt,
and the Countess Sigray, nee DAILY,
are leading in Red Cross work while
tnelr husbands are at the front. Count
olgray is reported a prisoner of the
russians. Instead of living in a Ritz
motel, his present quarters are the
military prison in Odessa.
Inc palace of the Countess Szech-
enyl is one Of the most magnificent in
hungary. But it was ruthlessly re-
modelled for a barracks in the course
vi mobilization and now 1t has
cnanged its character again, sheltering
several hundred victims of Russian
Uullets. The countess herself, clad in
"De modest garments of the nurse,
cues about among the beds cheering
We guests war has brought her.
Curlously enough, the countess
'ousln, the duchess of Marlborough,
VINO was Consuelo Vanderbilt, is do
Hls much to help the Hungarians' foes
one Is the most active spirit in Lon
uon relief work. Besides making Sun.
uerland house, her London home, a
center Of activities, she has been in
4oenual in directing the work Of other
anglo-Americans. It was largely
through her that Paris Singer was led
W give his palatial country house near
lorguay for the wounded men under
Nue care Of the American Red Cross
What the Astors Are Doing.
!. Waldorf Astor, Jr., is also very &C
s'.e IN the course of letter to q
w. 0nu IN Richmond, Va, Mrs. Astor
WI, WHO was Miss Mamie Langhorne Of
i. virginia, writes:
g We have come here (Yelverton
nouth Devon and taken this little
Muse nine miles from Plymouth. II
!, just On the moor We took it sc
~. .na' the children could get moorlanG
OIL and We could work in PIvmoutI
'aost of the day.
we have had 100 of the wounded
NJ plymouth for the last fortnight
s auey were wounded at Mons those
~ u.s. three days. A great many o.
t arn saw the horrors of German bru
naas and the stories they tell are al
ou ost unbelievable, only they tell then
s sulte simply and told them to me thu
sas Jay they arrived before they hat
noa or heard of a newspaper. One
s'oi creature was absolutely shat