Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-01-05
The Babes OF Belgium
By WILL IRWIN

mothers like chickens around hens
No child among them laughed oil
played; they were too weary for that
but no child cried. was trying to
have speech with these refugees, and
frding them too nerveless to give
any account OF their adventures when
an ambulance arrived.
NO MILK; BABIES DIE.
A nurse and a physician descended,
A woman rose from a distant group
and Joined them. She carried In her
arms bundle wrapped in rags. The
slant Of her back showed that the
bundle contained child--there is an
attitude of motherhood which none
can mistake.
Ihe women In the nearest group
ioIloWed the pantomlme with theiI
fearless, hopeless eyes
What Is III" l asked.
For time none OF tho women an.
swered. Then one spoke In a dead
tone.
Her baby Is dead" she said. 'she
had no milk In her"
All that happened on the fringe OF
BEL gium, to the refugees who had
made their way out and were nearing
safety, and enough comfort to keeu
soul and body together.
could multiply instances from the
observation OF others. There was. for
example, the group OF two hundred
retngtes who arrived IN Holland early
IN november. They carried with them
tour dead, newborn babies.
II was the same story which one
hears everywhere. The mothers were
80 reduced by privation that they
mad no milk OF their own. As for
cows milk 1t was not to DO had for
any money.
MILK FROM GARBAGE.
Add another picture, brought ou,
oy an American from Belgium. He
stood one morning by the back door
Of German cook camp. watching q
group Of Belgian women Erubbina
A.
through the trash-heap piled up bs.
i'h1 tne camp All these women car
What are they doingT" ho asksd
q German sergeant with whom he had
struck up acquaintance.
"5craping our condensed milk cana
said the sergeant. ITS the only way
to get milk for their babies rye seen
them run their fingers round a car
which looked as bright as a nav coin
and hold them into the babies months
to suck My company" he added
has been getting along without min,
Ia its coffee and giving II TO thea9
women, We'vo received no orders Ia
the contrlry-and we're mostly fam.
lily men, But we're an exception; and
II doesn't go very far"
Mornrn a,
y wv ''Gn SOLINFSES'
Here is another recent picture from
stricken nrussel. t,,t s.v 49,.
lively city In old times - tho city
whose smilins people called 1t petit
Paris' The scene is the once busy
Pheasant boulevard Bisehofshelm. A
woman eoi!apseS on a bench set along
inc sidewalk aiter the fashion OF the
Greater Paris In her arms 10 baby
a chlld staggers along, clinging tC
ana "pi ,'pi,nt.. y sho uo woman race ls pius
ian.S Nh. baSn ns 70 % W. 'hs VoIEe OF col
mnnths ord 49, euy ny over nVt
slIn Its S. n"s psio, 'oao-eoIoIee
CO.. thot n,ou ~. open Ss tnouSh
Two von.p ~, Ssr az 'ioseu'
rnb"n,,, " a.s ,,s piuSseh s pass tnli
cbanga -, my H,ilsuiy Ok
wonnsn ~ ~ h. h. tTth peck 10 ths
gnard vhn" nj t' Se"'n, then oho atshot
son,a iii, Wni ~" o,ner nsAtehS toi
hs tonnd % IL % ". n ps"--I,A az " &c
NJ ,ounu "a tne pIussels OF to-day
instS os t,s ',S mia getWSon .h'
baby arirS tInWsa ,ty ~ wy
n SrinGs .so,,'n taVSsn ~ mas
o,pnh otb.rwi,. "'" " "Su No'
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NO FOOD FOR TWO DAYS.
r. A.. A.. -.
'"N '"S' " '"' ''o'"ei '"Ihe"
Few patches Of color shs slowly re-
covers until she Ia able TO eat a bit
OF brsad Thu babv o,.n. a, ron,h
att. nT,
''N' ''0's soeu'" ~ has NOV Asc