Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-07

y,
who. with her brother. has made her
h o m n
Experience Of Paris with
Former Residents Here. since " 1sav.
ing Washington a few years ago. has
quite recently passed through as thrill
ing an experience as any that may be
written of the present war. She has
proved to herself. as we'll as to her
friends generally. that in moments Of
great peril she is to be relied upon not
to lose her head. In this particular ex-
periencc she has shown the fine nerve OF
an American woman when put on her
mettle.
Not only has she remained in Paris
all during that ominous time when the
city was in a panic of the destruction
portended, but with her brother and
aunt has Kept open house and gone
about helping to cheer and materially
help the unfortunate war sufferers III
the course of going about these kindly
ministrationS Miss Berry had her atten-
ton drawn to two old Belgian ladies'
refugees who had lost everything-home,
kindred friends. Almost distrait with
their grief they told story of such ex-
IRENE pathos that Miss Berry instantly
held out her hand to them and took
them at once home with her Evidently
persons of culture and standing this
invasion of her home by the two in
teresting old ladies was regarded by
the other members of the household as
a charming acquisition, and nothing
was left undone for the comfort of the
two bereaved ones.
The days heightened into weeks and
still the dear old ladies knew as their
home the Paris residence of Miss
Berry. There were times when they
appeared to be recovering their
strength-times again when their ner-
vousness was pitia BILE. Times when
they called upon heaven to revenge
their wrongs and walled pitifully.
From the first they had begged with
tears in their eyes that their good kind
That always they should be kept to-
gether even to occupying the same
bedroom. Whenever they went any
where it was hand in hand as If thus
each to gain courage from the other.
AT last came an eventful day when
in the very early morning hours be-
fore any of the household was astir
Miss Berry heard the crying of Eek
the door it was necessary to pass the
room which the two old Belgian la
dies occupied. They, too, evidently
had heard the crying of the extra, for
their door was ever SO slightly ajar.
Naturally glancng in as she passed
Miss Berry beheld sight that for the
instant almost deprived her of her
senses. Fortunately it did deprive her
glimpse she turned as noiselessly as she
had come and went back upstairs to
the servants quarters.
Standing before the mirror, razor in
hand. she saw one of those dear old
Belgian ladies in most unladylike
disa billie in the act of shaving!
With all speed one of the man sery-
ants was aroused and dispatched on the
run to the chief of police and almost
before Miss Berry was ready to go
down to greet him the chief Of police
was in the dear old ladies' room, with
his aids had made them prisoners and
disclosed the amazing fact that the
two old dears before which all Paris
MAD talked SO freely and confidingly
were two men-two German spies who
until the moment of being detected in
the act of shaving had been so cleverly
made up to assume their pathetic roles
as TO 1901 the most aStute.
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Among the. Washington women who
have been and still are PLAYING i'm
| portant parts in the
those Fine stupendous rel e f
Y:4 r.I work in England
and France. none
| ranks higher for valuable serv-
ice imam Lady Margaret, countess OF
Suffolk and Berkshire. formerly Miss
Daisy Letter of this city.
AT the present time the Earl of
Suffolk is serving as colonel of a
Worcestershire light artillery regiment
at Delhi. At the outbreak of the war
sent to Calcutta, he was Joined there
a few months later by the countess,
who in the interval had rendered to
the government the fine old family
place Charlton Park, in Sussex. where
in the long picture gallery she had
first esta b1ished thirty beds for badly
wounded officers and men who might
require especially skilled surgical at
tention. The other parts of the man
sion were turned into a home for con-
valescents. and from the beginning of
the war has kept up it's quota of sixty
Belgian refugees, in addition to the
convalescents. For the proper caring
of the latter nine nurses and two sur
geons are maintained out of the pri-
vate purse of the countess.
This accomplished, the countess, Civ
ing her three lovely little boys into
the care of their grandmother. follow
ed her husband to India, where shortly
after Christmas they were Joined by
the youngsters. who, from the time
they could walk, have had a military