Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-01-17

scribe how glad / am to have seen this
| magic myself. and thus to be in posi-
ton to tell the American people OF the
| magnitude of the work in which they
are SO nobly helping. and to implore
them with passionate earnestness to
| keep these merciful supplies going,
week after week. month after month,
giving rein to their generosity IN the
, full assurance that each sack Of flour.
Of rice. of salt. Of peas. will be sent
used to its uttermost capacity by those
who need it most. I can give an OPP
perfume instance Of this. which VIII.
know. appeal to every one but espe-
in America. On this very Orn we
saw to our great JOY 100 tons OF con-
densed milk, and that milk seemed like
the direct answer to a prayer. For that
morning a letter had come in to the
commission. addressed to American
mothers by the Countess de Schaetsen-
Raditsky at Malines, in which she i'm
plored for milk for the mothers and
newborn babes
Condensed milk" she wrote, would
be very precious to US, but alas. we
possess none. Wretchedness augments
day by day, and we ask ourselves how
can we continue to help. Our only re-
source is to the American mothers. II
Providence, you can judge for your
selves the immense good you would do
to those unhappy mothers, of whom the
greater part have their husbands with
the army. and arc totally without re-
sources to maintain their families The
supply of milk is a matter of the first
necessity in the unfortunate times
through which we are passing"
Milk for the Babies.
Here. then. is the milk, sent by Phila-
delphia. and before day or two is
over that devoted woman will have the
happiness of ministering to the starv-
ing little ones and their mothers in the
ruins of Malines. Her pathetic request
is but one of the many which are con-
tinually pouring into the offices of the
commission; for good news travels
and rumors are beginning to
reach even those communes which are
the most cut off from all communica-
ton that help can be had and is forth
coming. The reading of these letters
is enough to stir the hardest heart to
pity. so acute is the need, so simple the
10 nguage.
Sometimes burgomaster writes,
sometimes Il priest:
I'VE beg to call your attention to our
poor country"
Come to the help of our unhappy and
most honest people"
Everything Is missing"
Flour is hardly to be obtained"
The communal funds are finished.
and if you come not to help US, God
knows what will become of US"
I'VE cannot even recommence work.
because most Of the machinery has
been destroyed
I'm the name of humanity help u.s.
Alas, the children born during this
war, of mothers enfeebled by worries
and privation. are very delicate"
And so this tragic record goes on,
with never complaint, never an i'm
patient outburst. but only with SIM
pie statement of facts-bare facts
which give more eloquent and
moving picture than all the finest
phrases in any literature. But al
though flour, rice, potatoes, peas,
beans, wheat, sugar. wooden shoes,
boots, clothes, oilcakes for the few re-
manning cattle, milk and salt, are all
asked for. what they beg for most of
all is milk, bread and salt. One would
think that this was little enough to
ask; milk for the dying babies and
feeble mothers and bread and salt for
the rest.