Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-24
HEROINES OF THE EUROPEAN WAR
Womans Work Across the Sea Is Varied Kind From Fighting
on the Battle Line to Carrying on the Work Left
Behind by the Men
BY ELLIS RANDALL

children were sent about collecting cothes
shoes and stockings. These were all assorted.
washed or cleaned and stored away by sizes
in the different schools of the towns, so that
when these things were in demand for retu.
gees or other victims of the war they could
be readily drawn upon. Housewives made
great stores of jellies and jams and light
foods so necessary for the hospitals, and
everywhere branches were organized Of the
National Women's Service"
Sister jules Tribute
All France is proud of the little French
nun who preserved the hospital at Gerbs.
vtller from German attack, and the world has
heard no more thrilling story of the war
than that about Sister Julie. But when she
was asked why she did not wear the Gross
of the Legion of Honor given her by Preh-
dent Poincare she responded:
II do not wear it because it was not meant
for me alone. 1t was given to the women Of
France who have done their duty"
The women of France, of Germany, OF Aus
tria, of England, of Russia are daily perform.
ing deeds of valor and of greatness.
OF the nurses. thousands are exposing
themselves to as great risk as are the SOL
diers. A hundred women have received
from Car Nicholas the ST. Georges Cross
which is given only for valor.
In London a statue of Florence Nightingale
has just been unveiled. She is represented as
"The Lady of the Lamp; that is to say, as
she used to appear when visiting the hospital
wards at Scutari during the Crimean War
II is fitting that new honors should be paid
TO the woman who did so much, both in war
and in peace to advance the methods OF hos
pital work. Her influence still lives.
Cars Sister a Nurse
In warning Europe women of high rank
and low are devoting themselves to nursing
wounded soldiers and caring for the families
of the poor, The Grand Duchess Olga,
sister of the Gear, is a nurse in one OF the
largest Russian field hospitals. OF her, Nine
Bakhmeteff, the wife of the Russian Am
bassador to America, says: "She wears the
same dress, takes her turn by day and H
night in doing the hardest routine work. III
receiving the wounded, removing their blood
stained clothes and their heavy boots, batnss
the wounds, assists at operations and sharS
in the work of the wards, precisely as does
the young woman from the humble walk q
life. Scores of men have had their wounos
closed and dressed, have been fed, and some
times have had their eyes closed in death Oy
the hands OF the Grand Duchess Witnous
ever knowing the identity of the gentle Won'
an who to them, and TO her fellow WorAeh
is Just a nurse"
In Germany a similar effect on class aus
tinctions has been observed. Women Wn0
had been in the habit of having every visa
attended to by a host of servants ana "lY
had never known what it was to do any sOi'
of service for themselves, cheerfully unuu
took mental tasks. The daughter OF the onaI
cellor became an assistant nurse "u'
meant that she had to help do anythins y
quired in hospital, down to seru0oinE hoOs.
In thousand tasks presented by war c0ns
tions, women of all stations OF life are T''-
ing side by side.
II there Is glory in war, patriotic ana ~
manitarian service has won it for the F0i''-
of Europe.