Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-07
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY.
BY CHARLES HENRY ADAMS.
Tells Of War Horrors.


grlmmer-yet, In sense, an even
more beautiful-role which she has
been playing OF late. For eight
months she served as German Red
Cross nurse, tending thousands OF
horribly wounded German, French,
English and Russian soldiers, work
ing day and night as the head OF the
nursing force In one OF Berlin's
largest hospitals, fighting a woman's
battle against pain until she herself
was overcome. And now she Is tell
ing her story OF the war and showing
the pictures she has taken Of German
life In the trenches.
As she tells OF her experiences, one
notes a culver in her voice and around
her lips. Frankly, a self-appointed
spokesman for the Germans, she is
rarely betrayed into bitterness
against their enemies.
The hardest note came into her
low tones when she said. "The Ger
mans have just begun to hate Ameri-
ca, and / don't blame them. Think
OF our helping to prolong this dread
full war. to XIII more thousands, by
the sale Of arms and ammunition.
The greatest American Ambassador
we ever had requested Germany not
to sell arms to Spain during our wal
with her. and Germany needed the
request. II we accepted such treat
ment we should be willing to give IT,
How did you come to be a wal
nurse?" asked her.
81 wanted to help" she said simply
Every woman in Germany wanted Il
help. Thousand OF them. rich ant
poor alike, swarmed about the Reich
stag in Berlin, during the first days
after the declaration OF war. begging
the government to give them some
thing to do.
Il remember holding the knees o
one Russian soldier for two hour
while they picked out the bits Of bon
which shrapnel had driven into ever
part OF his leg. never shall forge
how the poor fellow smiled at me
And there was another boy Of 10, a
German, whose eyes had been gouged
out by Belgian girl. She put but
tons In the empty sockets. He died
Of course, OF blood poisoning
81 don't dare let myself think OF
some of the things / saw In that
hospital" and Miss Beyeridge's hands
clenched convlusiyely. There is
nothing horrible about ordinary sur
gerry; it is almost artistic. But gun
shot wounds. especially shrapnel, is
terrible. Then there we're the mutt.
latlons. The lowest class OF Belgians
are dreadful people. II you reproye
your Belgian maid you may expect
her to poison you.
Besides the actual nursing Of the
soldiers one of the doctors and | gave
demonstrations Of nursing for women
OF the court, some of them members
of the royal family. | have seen
duchesses washing the feet OF com
mon soldiers. And the wives and
mothers of those who fell did not stay
at home to weep; they came to the
hospital to work. One woman in my
ward was the mother of four sons, all
Of whom had fallen in the trenches -
Montessorl Method Of Child Education
New York. May IL do not be-
lieve in saying that the child should
be trained by the mother, That as
sertiOn Is mere words. In an ideai
state OF society, no doubt, every child
would be cared for by his mother
But under our present arrangements
many a woman is not educated to give
her child what he needs; many an
other woman is unable to devote her
whole time to the care of her little
ones. She has other things to do
And we must meet the conditions
which we find"
That is how DR., Maria Montessorl
the famous Italian educator and child
psychologist, clashes with the cardl
nal principle of Mrs. Winifred Sack
vile Stoner, mother of the cleyerest
twelye-year-old girl in the United
States and founder of the system of
Standardization" the newest and
most striking American contribution
to educational theory and practice.
81 believe that Nature intended that
a childs first lessons should be given
him by his mother" Mrs. Stoner told
me during her recent visit to New
York. "She cannot begin too early
and through her great love she is able
to teach more in a few minutes than
a teacher may give in hours" In her
book, Natural Education" Mrs
Stoner makes the same point with
even greater emphasis. when a
mother has brought child into this
world, she should not give him to the
exclusive care of hirelings," we read.
"The duty of parenthood cannot be
faithfully done by proxy No paid