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MRS EDITH WHARTONS FIGHTING FRANCE" BARES THE SOUL

YOU are in a strange street you must
ask AT tho nearest tobacconist's-for.
as for finding "A policeman. II yard of
You couldn't tell him from your
grandmother"
After six months Of trial il is no
wonder that the Partisan face has
taken on n new Character. Tile
change" writes Mrs. Wharton. Seems
to have affected tho very stuff II IS
moulded az. rs though the long rdeal
had hardened the poor human clay
into some dense commemorative sub
stance, often pass in tho street
women whose faces look like memorial
medals idealihed of what they
were in the f1'sh.
And the masks of some Of tho men
those queer tormented Gallo masks.
crushed in and squat and Il little
satrvl!kc-iuok Ike the ~lrouzes Of the
Naples Museum. burnt ana twisted
from their baptism Of fire. But none
uf these faces reveals a personal pre-
occupation: they are looking. ono and
all, at France erect on her borders.
Even tho women who are comparing
different widths of Nalenciennes at the
lace counter all have something of
that vision in their cyea-or else one
does not see the oncs who haven't"
Nest OF the wounded soldiers that
one sees are young, Yet they have
the look
'"They are grave, these young faces:
one hears a great deal OF the gayety
in the trenches. but the wounded are
not gay Neither are they sad. how
ever. They are calm. med!tative.
strangely purified and ma'ured. II is
az though heir great experience had
purged them OF pettiness, meanness
and frivolity. burning them down to the
bare homes of character. the funda-
mental substance of the soul. and
shaping that substance into something
so strong and finely tempered that
for a long time TO come Paris Will not
care To wear any look unworthy OF
the look on their faces"
The last chapter Of the book Is
called "Thc Tone of Paris'-!t is =
new chapter II sums up the feeling
of the French. their patriotism. the!I
determination to win and their abnc-
cation OF self:
THE war has been n calamity Nh
heard Of. but France has never beer
afraid OF the unlieard Of, No race
has ever yet so audac!ously ~dis.'erscl
with old p~recedents; as non has evei
IS, revercd It's relics, II il "A Grea'
~s,rereth 20 he able 70 walk witliou'
the support of analosies; and France
HAS always shown that s'relGth Il
times Of crisis.
There have been many more Wh'
$ fund tho sacrifice IF personal lap
$ piness-4Jf all shat made l!fo ',Vahle
e or ones country Wnrta fighting Cor
.ntia.tciy harder chan the most arrre
e hensIyc imaginat.oH could have r!c
= tured, There have 9 mothers a..
r widows fpr whom a single grave. ..
y ne appearance 2 ore name m N
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and sharpers, genuine people and
snowy shams were all dumping up
against each other in an distinctive
community of motion. The people,
luckily, predominated. the faces OF
workers look best in u a crowd
an there We're thousands OF them.
each Illuminated and singled out by
its magnesium flash Of passion.
81 remember especially the steady
proved faces Of the women; and also
the small but significant fact that
every one OF them had remembered
to bring her dog The biggest Of these
am!able companions had 20 take Their
chance Of seeing they could
through the forest Of human logs: but
every one that was portable was
snugly lodged in the bend of an elbow.
and from this safe perch scores and
scores of small serious muzzles, blunt
or sharp. smooth or woOlly. brown or
gray or white or black or brind!ed.
looked out on the scene with the quiet
, awarcness Of the Paris dog. 1t was
certainly a good sign that they had
not been forgotten that night"
Mrs. Wharton has never written
with a surer OF truer touch than in
the pages Of this book. Here are only
a few lines. but how perfectly she
has painted the silence of the streets:
"The first days Of the war were full
OF u kind Of unreallzing confidence. not
boastful or fatuous, vet as different as
possible from the clear headed tenacity
of purpose that the experience Of the
next few months IA to develop. 1t Is
bnrV D., Ax.aln u.tth,tt saanoiny m NY
aggerate It, that mood of early An.
gust: the assurance, the balance. the
kind Of smiling fatal!sm with which
Paris moved to her task. 1t IL not i'm
possible that the beauty of the season
and the silence OF the city may have
helped to produce this mood. War, the
shrieking fury. had announced herself
by a great wave Of stiffness. Never
was desert hush more complete: the
silence of a street IL always so much
deeper than the silence OF wood or
fed"
Strange to say there were few
troops to be seen in the streets OF
Paris during the first days Of the war.
while smaller cities were swarming
with soldiers. no glitter Of arms was re-
fected In the empty OF the
capital, no military music sounded
through them. Paris scorned all show
Of way. and fed the patriotism OF her
children on the mere sight OF her
beauty. II was enough"
Gustave Dore could have made a
haunting picture Of this night scene In
Paris:
"In the narrow streets of the rive
gauche the darkness is even deeper,
and the few scattered lights In courts
or cites create effects Of ~Piranesilike
mysterr. The CLEAN Of the chestnu;
roaster's braz.er at Il street corner
deepens the sense Of an old advertu-
rous ItaH, and the darkness beyond
| seems full Of cloaks and co~nspirac!es.
turn, on my way home, into an
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paign in the Crimea as nothing more
or less than the work Of a traitor.
Lord Derby's success as Director
General of Recruiting al the War De-
partment In Pail Mall has been. in
deed. of a wonderful nature, due al
most entirely to his gift for organiza-
tlon, to his peculiar knowledge Of his
countrymen and TO the entire conf
dence which they accord 20 him That
ne has succeeded Is apparent from the
pledge which Lord Kitchener, accord
ing to an official French despatch
from Athens. and published with the
imprint OF the French m at Paris
last week, has given TO the Greek Cow
eminent that by March mex Great
Britain will have over 1900. 900
soldiers under arms.
by his success Lord Derby may
indeed he aid tn have the
coalition Cabinet from disaster. Two
months ago IL was confronted by the
necessity of conscriptiun, or rather
compulsory service. all the methods
until then employed Of securing re-
cruits by means Of voluntary enlist
ment having been apparently ex-
nausleu. n very IuTSe hummer III
supporters of the existing Cabinet.
however. expressed themselves az
strongly opposed TO compulsory SER
vice In any shape or form, decming
II contrary To the time honored prin-
ciples Of British civic freedom.
The representatives Of Ireland in the
House OF Commons also made clear
to the Government that they would
vote against anything of the kind. and
that Erin. which has sent some
zoo, 900 OF her gallant sons T.
the front through voluntary enlist
ment, would resist my attempt IL re-
sort to force t. secure further re-
cruits from the Emerald Isle. Finally
there We're members 81 the Admins
tration itself VINO, calling attention I,
the manner in which III" striking
Welsh miners last spring had success
fully defled the Government 10 com
pei them 10 return to work, except oI
their " terms. argued that there
would be even sti.l greater difficulty
in putting into execution II atrou
enforcing the laws providing FOR com.
pulsory military service.
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Lord St. Davids.
From tbs painting by Birley.

publishing the debates in thN upper
chamber.
II Lord Derby was led to suggest
any curb upon the house OF which
he Is so distinguished a member and
II he permitted himself, without due
reflection. to single out two bereaved
and grief stricken fathers from among
his fellow peers. such as Lord Ribbles-
dale and Lord st. Davids, for particu-
lar obloquy. 1t II because he fears TINT
anything in the nature Of legislative
criticism Of the leadership of the Brit
ish military forces in France. In Elan
ders. on the Gallipoli peninsula, in the
Balkans. in Egypt. In Mesopotamin
and in Africa will interfere with the
complete success OF his great re-
cruiting enterprise. Moreover, he is
one of those who hold that when the
country is in the throes of war oil
criticism of those directing its opera
tons should he silenced for the nonce.
no matter what their mistakes or
shortcomings.
While this f. extremely patriotic.
not every one will he disposed to agree
with him as to what Is right under
the circumstances. Tho Crimean
campaign sixty years ago was abom-
inably mismanaged and the ~ led
troops were dying like flies before Sc
bastopol from exposure and starvation
when the late Sir William Russell,
the first and most famous Of all war
correspondents. boldly risked fiogging
and even hanging by despatchinG
from the front those wonderful letters
OF his to the London Times reveal
ing all the horrors OF the campaign
and its shameful mismanagement. He
was at ane time denounced as a traitor.
But though his letters brought
about IA ministerial crisis and the
I downfall OF the then Secretary OF
| State for wa-. it led to n complete
reorganization of the enterprise. TO the
sufficient feeding and clothing OF the
troops, to the inauguration or a
proper system of care and nursing
of the sick and wounded, under Flor
ence Nightingale. to various a
in the command and to vic
tory. Years afterward billy" Russell
was knighted by Queen Victoria 10
services which in 1855 We're
by the Administration in london ant
by the Generals in charge of the cam
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The Earl of Derby.

II was then that Lord Derby stepped
in and asked leave TO be permitted to
SEQ what he could accomplish in the
way OF voluntary enlistment ny a plan
OF his own. 1t received the approval
OF the Administration and the cordial
Endorsement and vigorous support OF
Lord Kitchener. who AZ Secretary OF
State for War at once appointed the
Earl to the Office Of Director-General
Of Army Recruiting at the War De-
partment. All the expectations OF
Lord Derby and the hopes of the Field
Marshal have been realized. Recruits
in numbers far surprising his most
sanguine anticipations have been OBJ
tanned. and while II is just possible
hat compulsory service may have 10
lie enforced later on. 50 as TO get even
with the relatively few remaining
'~Slackers." IL Is considered very un-
likely that there will be any need TO
have recourse To such measures.
Lord Derby's plan has been. briefy.
this: lie has taken the returns ~ the
registration of the population. COM
pleted last August. 10y virtue OF tho
registration law of last winter, and
NnlCn SNOW the age, tne CoHui'ioi
and tho occupation VI every citizen.
Each man employed in necessary
| work. that IL To say. necessary from
the Government point Of view, such
AS the manufacture OF arms. NUM-
tons and war supplies OF one kind
and another. in mining coal or en-
gagged in railroad transportation. In
the postal and telegraph services. Il,
tho loading and unloading OF ship
ping, &c. was marked with a star
Every remaining man. that is "a
say. every unstarred man of a mill
tary age, between the ages of IS and
~ had his name inscribed on a couple
of cards. the one white and the other
blue. and on which various data con
corning him are given.
The white card WAS retained b!
the general recruiting office at til,
War Department and the blue care
was confidcJ to the recruiting commit
tee for the district into which TIE
entire United Kingdoms have been di
vided up for thc purpose. These com
mittces, whose work Is purely volun.
'tary. have made Il canvass of all tn
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LATEST WIRE TOY SOLDIERS

any nhtUIIi attitude. T. 'r., much
patience ana - end ut pans To- work
out these diminu'.No nah' Lc.itN, s'i-
diers, She tlua. y h!t UI,n 'lr nu'.
Of a w.rc skeleton wound about WITH
thread to represent body substance.
This gave her til" dcS,i. t!rN. Nv,
u II WdH an easy nr;tt,l thtN 2"
vlOthc them SUITABLY. Suitably IN COZ
many meant a gArh OF iic,i gray, ''~
cul0r % Tie uniforms worm ~ ~"
kaiser's fighting mcn at -" lIu''.
az course there mu,t hr c~uutaud'rc
armies 70 give the real ruurp.rNtuu -
a battlefield. aud the enemy Is rcp"o-
scented IN the uniforms OF the ,Nii's
The wire foundation "t TIM ucurus
makes Il possible 90 simulate human
movements 20 "A '.'''y, and .ri,t.'r
The make hel.tVo So'u'crs may 70, posed
TO represent the G,-sin. OF 'rt'.hr S..
tho throwing Of haul -r'"u,,- iH,.
working of guns, tnc o'HIrgC nr ir-
fantry, the toi.sunlo uFrn 80 a.
! peaceful atmosphere oi a camp,
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uns<arred men In their districts and
by appealing to their patriotism have
been able to induce most Of them to
themselves In readiness for service
when called for.
The men thus enlisted are divided
into forty-six groups. twenty-three
for the unmarried and twenty-three
for the married. tho groups being
graded according TO age. according 70
fitness. and also according to the OBJ
vious requirements Of Justice. That
Is to say. an unmarried man without
any n dependent on him would be
called upon to serve before an un-
married man OF. the same age who
IL the support OF n widowed mother
or of an inva,.d father OF Of orphan
brothers or sisters. The district corn
mittees attend to the chasing and
grading Of the men on the lines In
Dictated.
OF those who have thus enlisted for
service the first to bc summoned to
the colors are the young men between
30 and 30 who have no one "a
support. and who can therefore best
be spared. To these must te added
those who. married OF unmarried. wish
TO join the army at once. n for any
reason the authorities do not want q
man OF this category at the exact mo-
ment. he will be- allowed to remain a,
home until they are ready for him
according to him pay and allowances
at the rate Of forty cents a day. on the
understanding that he Is subject &c
Join at twenty-four hours notice.
Not until all OF the tw%enty-thret
groups OF unstarred and unmarried
men have been exhausted will the
twenty-three groups Of married mer
be taken In hand. In this way a ma
OF from 40 to 45. with a wifi
and family, will know that he IL in tn
last Of the f~or;y-six groups and will
not be called upon for service unit
all the men IN the other forty-fiv'
groups have been summoned 10 tn,
coiors.
Every man who has thus enlisted
either for carly or FOR eventual ser
vice, through Lord Derhy's recruittn.
Committees. IL provided with IA KHAKI
armlet. bearing his number, the letter.
&c. r." standing for George Rex.
and the number Of his recruiting dis
riot. given in Roman numerals. The,
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Novelist Reveals a People Who Fears
Not Death in the Trenches but Only
Death bv Extinction of an Ideal

Mrs. Wharton, are not as
physically as their Angio-Saxon sis
tors. they ar. afraid of more things
and arc less ashamed Of showing their
fear. When she is called upon TO be
brave thu French nm must draw
her courage from her brains. she
must first b. convinced Of the neces-
sitv of heroisrn; after that II IL ft
To- go bride to bride with Jeanne
d'.Arc.' They are not born war nurses
they may sometimes mislay an lhstru-
ment or forget 20 steriliZe "a dressing
but they are always devoted and treat
the wounded soldiers ~ though they
were their own kin.
Nothing else that ! have read has
given me the insight into the frencn
point of view as has his book or MIS-
Whartou's. Hers are the conclusions
Of IA sympathetic and intelligent op-
server. There are little homely
touches all through the book h
bring the picture plainly before ones
eyes. For example:
AT the dressmaker's the next morn
Ing the tired filters We're preparing 70
leave for their usual holiday. They
looked pale and anXlous-decidedIy
there was a new weight OF a%pprehen-
sion in the air. And in the Rue
Royale. at the corner OF the Pace de
| Ia Concorde, a few people had stopped
10 look at a. little strip of white paper
against the wall Of the Ministere de la
Marine. General mobilization they
reod-and an armed nation knows
what that means.
But the group about tie paper was
small and quiet. Passersby read tht
notice and wen. on. There were nc
cheers, no gesticulations: the dramat1'
sense of the race had already old then
that the event was too great TO b'
dramatized. Like a monstrous land
slide IL had fallen across the path o.
an orderly laborious nation, disruptlht
it's routine. annihilating its industries
rendins families apart and buryins
under a heap of senseless ruin the pa
tiently and painfully ma
chinery OF civilization
Here is another picture OF tn
bouleyards that Is extremely vivid
One can see these sad eye
French women with their dogs ,i'
their arms: ,
yet it was a mixed throng, mad
up of every class, from the scum q
the exterior boulcyards 10 the cream
of the fashionable restaurants. Thes
people, only w. days age. had bee
leading a thousand different lives, Il
Indifference or in a~ntagon'sm 20 eacI
other, as alien as enemies across
frontier: now workers and !dler'
l thieves, beggars, saints, poets, drah
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n, T.. CuNLIFEE.OwEN.


Il popular confidence Of a universal
character constitutes a source OF
j influence to any n In public
lie, then Lord Derby may be re-
nrled az being, next to Lord kitch-
,ner. the most influential figure In
arsat Britain at the present time.
ia fellow countrymen. Of high and
,x degree, repose a trust in him Sec
nd only to that which they accord
= .he Field Marshal. whom they COM
,ei,ei n somewhat reluctant Govern
non, ,o place at the head Of the War
Department. II they trust Lord
Derby. il is not 81 much because they
,rou. him to be a man of considerable
,,ii,y and with more than an ordinary
,os, Of sound English common sense
Az. b,cause they are convinced that
10 Is perfectly honest and unselfish.
,i,h no thought but his duty to ana
liz love " his native land.
+. * because of the weight which
&c words carry with his fellow coun-
yemen that his amazing attack upon
no House of Lords in general
,,cn Lords 81. Davids and ltipples-
AL, in particular on Tuesday last
,,s furnished the greatest sensation
:, -ho week, AT any rate as far as
-,rl,ud il concerned. The attack
,,s contained in a recruiting ADDRESS
,hich he delivered on h floor OF the
london stock Exchange. where 1t was
.ceiyed with tho widest enthusiasm
nd tokens of approval, particularly
rhen no denounced Lord st. Dawes
4. a liar and as no gentleman n
ord Ribblesdale as a traitor.
We, Lord Ribblesdale is the brother
INV. az Premier Asquith. has been
,s chief whip Of tho Liberal party
nc Of It's pillars. held ministerial or
ice IN connection with the royal
,,nsehoid. when Lord Derby Was still
small boy in pinafores, was a avor-
- Lord in Waiting OF Queen VIC
nrla and an intimate friend OF King
edward. and has been TO such an en-
INT looked upon as representIhe
,vcrything that Ia best In Engisf
mort tina, he was the last peer To bt
elected for the now abolished Gov
.rnment post Of Master of the Eoya
Hunt.
Az for Lord st. Davids. he too mas
.ndered yeoman service to the l-iD'
.ral Iarty, both as a ot TN
J,nsc Of Commons for many ears
md AS a generous contributor to H.
.amyaign funds, his support BENZ
.ocrgnlzed by his elevation to TN
louise of Lords some seven years age
-,r and away the tallest man OF TN
,,per chamber. standing over sin 10"
,c,on inches in his stockinged feet. tn
lurs addressed to him by capt. Ar
trr Lee. NJ. v. IN the o
,.s peeruge aud his alleged Ignorance
lprefore of the ancient dag q
'rgb.esse oblige" lose some or thei
'orco when it IS recalled that LORD 81
o1y,Js. in addition to possessing
.erv modern peerage, won by his DIV,
,~orts. has inherited unc of the Ola
80 btruretC!es, created by James
= ,hc first years Of his reign.
Lord Ribblesdale's treason whic
"A Lord Derby to hold him up 20 ma
..,,aI and international obloduy a
traitor consisted in "a speech ny III
'armer in the House of Lords in wnIc
q, criticised the Gallipoli campaign
Ehlch has been so terribly costly
"a md treasure and so u~nsuccessiu
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n, JEANETTE L.. GLIDER.

y these days it is not unusual 10
have story writer's. novelists ana
the like writing from II seat
# war. Back in N own clNA
y,r M" only writing was done ny
o. lrnilists, o own correspondents
. the front, many of them prIiilailt
Nyiters who made vivid pictures OF
ae Sc. mes. From the seat Of war now
aging in Europe there are more nov
lists writing than there arc u ana
at journalists.
Among tho most distinguished ~
he former is Edith Wharton, whose
Fighting France VII bc published
ais week by the Messrs, ScriDner,
Mrs Wharton has been living abroad
'1- several years; she was On the spot
Nhen the war began. From teinpera-
ment and sympathi"s she was par
'rularly fitted to write about France
and tho French.
The book begins with The Look
II Paris" August. 1914. to February
1915. Mrs. Wharton motored into
Part4 on July 80. 1915. it was sunset
when she reached the cltys gates.
A. this time the currents OF summer
lie ebbed and flowed with "A normal
beat under the trees of the radiating
avenues. The great city. so made Tor
peace and art and all humanest
rraccs, seemed 10 lie by her riverside
Ike a princess guarded by the watch
nj giant of the Elffel Tower"
Ey the next evening the aspect OF
N" city had changed. Sitting at a
table IN one Of The open windows In a
restaurant of the Rue E.oyale. II saw
tho strange new crowd stream by. In
m Instant, she writes, I'VE were being
shown what mobilization was-a huge
break in tho normal flow of traffic
Tx" the sudden rupture OF a dyke
Torrents Of people we're passing e
ana no In the various railway sta
lions, all were afoot and all were
carrying their own railway baggage
Inside the restaurant the red coated
band poures but patriotic music, whil'
the quests were obliged to stand NJ
tor THE Marseillaise,' God Save TIN
King and the Russian national an
them.
This vas the beginning; later on
WIN the war AT its height. Mrs. Whar
'pn writes OF 1.-THE Tone Of France,
NE Preach, she says. hato milItarism
,'ey find 1t stupid, inartistic. unimag
native and enslaving.
Every French soldier knows why h
~ nshtlng. and every French womaI
Rows why Val is being waged an
why her moral courare Is needed (
supplement- the soldiers contempt @
essu- French women, according I
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y 70. this Is not IA military encamp-
~ m"nt or an %unc"nsored pic

y 70, this Is no IA military encamp-
~ men, or an uncensored pic
turo snapped behind the
Ka!ser's hattie lines. II IL - photo
graph Of the last thing IN toy soldiers.
IN excellent token Of the temper o:
the fttheriand.
THE children Of Europe are so i'm
bued with the marital spirit that 4
enters largely .n:o thoir play, and even
the stories written for present con
sunlptioU are for the most part about
battles and valiant deeds, To meet
this situation Il oma has devised
something IN Zen NJ tho time tonorcd
IN soldlcg. sone.hlnG that vii sooa
r.legate the latter I" tle attic or a
,ine oul ~ the way corrcr.
How Idea l7sS hetN tn c:eate NINA
ture az res so flexible ur alive, as she
exrresses y, that they could assume
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-07-03

Mrs. c. N. Evans went to Nava-
sofa yesterday TO Join her husband.
who Is in that city assisting In the
farmers short course. now being held
there.
Mrs. John shrap Williams Jr. and It,
tie daughter. Paulipe. have returned
TO their home In Yasoo. Miss. after
an extended visit TO the formers par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Webb.
II. T. Lawler Jr. OF New Orleans.
was among the guests registered at
Hotel Bryan today. Mr.. LAWYER IA
here TO look after business matters.
his father and brother being away in
California for the summer.
welty Mccullough haf returned to
his home in ThOryon after visit
to his parents. Mr.. IND Mrs. J. II.
Mccullough. He was accompanied by
his farther.