Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-01
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WOMEN HELPING
/ WARS VICTIMS
Those Who Live in Europe Are
Sacrificing Everything for
Il the Cause Of Humanity.
MANY ENLIST IN REQ CROSS
Others Have Turned Over Their cas
Ties and City Homes for Hospitals
- Wealthy Ladies Washing
Dishes - Anna Gould'o
Broad Charity.


Dishes - Anna Gould's
Broad Charity
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Society, as it was formerly known.
does not exist in Europe today. There
are no balls, NJ dinners, nc splendid
receptions. The women who led in
the pleasure OF other days have most
OF them donned1 q nurses cap and
gown or even accepted a mental task
in order to alleviate the distress Of
poor and wounded. In this work the
American women who have married
foreigners or who for some other rea
son ind themselves residents OF Eu.
rope have been notably prominent
They have done more than work them.
'selves-they have prayed themselves
leaders.
In r%ecounting the faithful lives Of
service American women are leading
today It is hard to know where to be-
gin, for the work goes on in every
capital, London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin;
and in no way 10 the unfortunate char
acter 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 seer
at their posts Of duty on the side Of
the allies.
~ - r'B H " 90 -"f %"
Famous estates owned by Americans
in Europe have been 'placedat the serv
ice Of tho combatants. Countess 10
names Won Siersdornl, the former Mis-,
Knowlton Of Brooklyn, turned over hel
castle In Silesia to the kaiserin fol
tho use of the Red Cross. Then she
herself went to Berlin and entered
the ranks Of Z hospital muse corp.
there. Her husband Is in the German
army. In happier times they once
spent $4,000 to entertain the kaise,
ct q single days shooting on the es
tate now given for the use of the Ger
manwounded.
Another German Red Cross nurse
II the beautiful duchess Of Croy, who
was Nancy Leishman. The duke ~ .
lieutenant n-the guard corps and hia
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 a hospital.
American Women In Berlin.
The women Of the American colony
In Berlin are working like beavers,
The American church Is now a hospi.
tAl, while the American Woman's club
hasso6ered for use it's beautiful build,
Ing also. The American women are
attending Red Cross lectures and have
gone 20 far az to offer to receive
wounded men in their own homes
bhould there be an overflow from the
hospitals.
In Budapest tho Countess Laszlo
5xechenyi. onc Gladys Vanderbilt
Ind the Countess sigray, nee DAILY,
IRE leading in Red Cross work while
their husbands are at the front. Count
sisray Is reported a prisoner Of thu
Russians. Instead Of living In. Rits
hotel, bis present quarters are tie
military prisonein Odessa.
The palace Of the Countess szech.
enyi 10 n Of the most magnificent In
Hungary. But It was ruthlessly re.
modelled for q barracks in, tho course
m mobilization and now ~ has
changed its character again. sheltering
several hundred victims OF Russian
bullets. The countess herself, clad in
the modest garments of the nurse,
goes about among the beds cheering
the guests war has brought her.
fCuriously enough. the countess
cousin, the duchess Of Marlborough.
Who was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Is do.
hns much to help the Hungarians's foes
Bhe 10 the most active spirit in Lon.
don relief work. Besides making Sun.
derland1 house, her London home, q
center Of activities, she has been in.
.dhential in directing the work 81 other
Anglo-Americans. 1t was largely
through her that Paris Singer was led
to give his %palatial country house near
Torguay for tho wounded men under
the care Of the American Red Cross,
What the Astors Ar Doing.
Waldorf Aston, Jr.. Is also very &C.
tive. In the course Of a letter to a
friend In Richmond. Va, Mrs. Aston,
Who was Miss Mamie IAnghorne OF
Virginia, writes:
s"we have come here (Yelverton,
South Devon) and taken this little
house. nine miles from Plymouth. II
u Just on the moor. We took it 90
that the children could get moorland
lir and we could work IN Plymouth
most Of the day. %E3=
1--WE have had 100 Of the wounded
q Plymouth for the last fortnight.
They were wounded at Mons those
first three days. A great many d
item saw the horrors Of German bru.
ta1ity and the stories they tell are al.
most unbelievable, only they tell, them
quite simply and told them to- me the
first day they arrived before they had
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