The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-13
GIRL OF 12 HEROINE
 TO ALL VIENNA FOLKS

YAsuarsas Jan. 1z-The most ps6Ied sdttls y.dra of vienna ahese days Is 12- egsar-ozd Hosas zeanoch of Ranaienna. ssoras resig5ent pwo tenn in 2 cot oe the general hogrfta1 tn the cilnac of Fr'o- TO fatxsos- HsohenaE. The child, who, for iey1eFza days, canrdsd swabeIs to tn liarty hsA4uoan soId5e1s an taae trenches near her hdnne, IrH wounded by shrap- mel she'll which lore afwsay one of her 6set Errxersor FkazBcas Joseph hes s,e4,t her. ,as gold cIas1an with a diamond pendant forming his initials. Vienna sends her fzuaGs and dadnties and flow ,ers and many booers of rvl1Ach she cannot read a. W1Ne- There aIse ccca- Esiona1 gifss of naoz1eys too, which the chNNS mofhers w2ro now lives with her in the hospital wand, takes thz1fty rare or
 T8te mother. vvsao speaks only Esu- HlEeaaan, recently told a. T epTe esentset4ve of Hl1e Bezaknex- ysoasdscshe zss41z1g 12e stozy acE hew 1tct1e eEras sszss
 ksyTe ars poor farmer folk from Hzaes neigF1bo4aaood of fs1Eavazz1sa1a We have only one acre o4 ground and Q Htt1e house. New 4azats too, is gone; che tE<iesiars bsm1ed a8 down and drassged my ht1a5az4ds id1vRuHz God lzxrorWb where. nssaly tfas eoBaaera marched past us. iyYa are poor and have little to eat. Ess18 3tlF ezslezts 3e1zAsd eaie col .g1s and when the soldiers ae sss11 and ealsSezs sasS7.sss
 
 sLEs7s s51ders Epozze only German or sxs1, and she only Rsl@ 5 Fsz zenlssif Tsse cold CTS 7ne1e fear and T FIl1al lly. Rosa asar1let sbp and tEle one GeE man; sesl1esf5nal sE9a,bem Sc was zu tIdnk en 7 Hf1B learned the German sentence, Jas '9lr haz1en.s (sYes. we haues9 As long @ we had milk and bread we gave sssm nalk and bread Then [ had, to. fetch water for the soldiers. Often the soldiers uaAzrhed past our house. Then H5asa would say, Give me the pail 2 and then she would run along with ahe soldiers and give them water.
 For days the soldiers had nothing zzhe house we could sec them drinlaing. &sat of the swamp, for tfnere are many H51amnpss aa1d EnIych sand in on1r coaln- Et3 Thens for several days, no one
 zne tzaere But H7e heard the tlaun- sdsEins oufs6des and Rosa kept urging plss Mother, draw up a lot of waterl' lAa soon aM Hl1e pain was hl1ed e4re tzsaitlld carry dt out to the soldiers who psEE in a ditch. The sofddezs recognized her
 Soldiers were good 10 me- 'ex- ulzined ta1e HtteI girl from her cot
 Yes.s they petted Aand caressed her land aFWarys begged her for more wa ker asa1d the old weu1an s.And so Ekte tEaT61eu all day koz1B from the we'll Ae the s0IdaerB and nrorn the so4diersa 1a the we'll often looked to see if ana enemy was coming. But I never saw aaa enemy
 1na1l ss co1tazxlzed tIie old woman, all che so4diers kaeM her She was hIlwFcrn oxEt from running her arransis and carrying u'a4er. and at night she could not shesp so sound9y despite the nSofseb which was worse at night than Hu the dayrt1Kne NeagHburs came into keae hut and @a1d that the cannon could F1e heard 1nuch more pIafnIy now and HElat tho enemy u1r1st be quite close Horbade Rosa to go out; but now and N1en a soIdfer would come to us and De could hardly speak for thirst Then
 myself WEent oa1t and fetched water. But Rusa runs nrssch faster. and the spId1ers all shouted the moment they saw her. and they kissed her hands
 1d blessed her. And whenever said Hae must stay in the house she would bay.
 But znayA1e Joseph n among. shenn'
 This went on till one rnornills- W hen
 left the house and heard cry behind hzIe, and VE1en T@k1au1ed anoafs1d s,axs- Elosa. faflzug lifted her mp and saw Der foot dangling loosely. Then I car bfed her to Hzae baIracaxs where tl,a kVzuxunded soldiers were. far away. and hthe raxrses carried her on a wagon to E4le hogp1taH at Hfsgderow and took her N9Ot off there. Then she was broueaa1 ssre to Vienna and I with her to take kfsfls.a 541zaz-