Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-17
From the Highest to the Lowest
All Are Working for Their
Country.
GET NEW OUTLOOK ON LIFE
Thew Have Seen a New Vision ana
Have Learned the Joy There Is IN
Doing for others-AIl Find
Work to Do and Are Do
ing It Well.
sv EDWARD 3. CLARK.

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Paris.-It is to be wondered II INC
world knows of the work of the WON
en- of France. In this great City OF
Paris every woman physically capa-
bile. is at work for her country. IL
NAV be true that the thought OF the
nations on the women OF Parls mas
been that they are given to frlvollty'
In a large sense this thought never
was true. Today it has no snreo VI
truth in it, for the women OF PARIS
from the humble quarters to the ave-
nues Of the st. German district are
working for the cause of the country
which they hold to be holy.
The St. German section Of Parls'
spoken of usually as the Faubourg St.
German, is the residence district Oh
the men and the women Of what some
times is called the old regime. Here
dwell the titled people of Paris, the
counts and countesses and even the
nrinces and the princesses who, under
the old system of government, held
not only titles intact but the honors
which went with them. The women
of the Faubourg st. German today are
working side by side with the shop
girls. the milliners and the dressmak'
ers in an effort to do what they can
for their country.
All 10 Different Now.
Always in Paris the housewife
busies herself with domestic affairs for
some hours each day, This was as
true of the titled woman as 1t was
Of the wife of the Seine boatman' but
beyond looking after her domestic al
fairs the woman of place and fashion
in Paris did little other work. Al
night the opera or the ball claimed mel
attention. 1t was the life to which
she was born.
Now all is different. There was al
awakening of the fashionable womel
of Paris at the outbreak of the presen
war. They found that conditions MAJ
changed since the last war with TN
Germans in 1870. Then the sisters 0
: charity did most Of the nursing WORK
Il was their work to look after tn
Door and the needy There are no
as many sisters of charity in Pari
today as there were years ago. an
those who are left are able to do Onl
a small part Of the duties which &c
, day confront the women of the city.
, The women Of fashion and title Il
; Paris last August went out rather TIN
idly to work in the hospitals. me
were not trained nurses, but the
could do something. They found a
!. interest in what in many cases wa
; real manual labor. They got me-
!. outlook on life. Today some of theI
a confess that they hold their past live
!. wasted. When this war is over tn
women of Paris will continue to Wor
= for the good of mankind. They haV
ri seen a new vision and they haV
|. learned the Joy that there is in dom
F. for others.
D Find other Fields for EndeaVor.
After the first work in the hosplta
the women of Paris learned that thel
R we're other fields better fitted for the
endeavor. The trained nurses can
IA from all parts of the earth to tai
their places at the bedsides OF Il
wounded. what else can We do
This was the question that the Wol
N en- Of former leisure put to themselYe
q They realized suddenly that all q
20. able-bodied men Of the city had go
vs to the front and that they had lt
an wives and children behind them W
ar needed help and guidance, and
We many cases, work,
The women of the Faubourg st. "
no main went into the byways OF Pa
cd and ministered to their more lowly $
ID. tiers. Many shops in Paris have clos
,is because Of the war, thus throw
ce many women and girls out OF Wo
he The women of Paris blessed W
ok wealth, used it to start workshops
nd their own where the unemployed COZ
earn money by making things nee
sary for the soldiers at the front, a
DC for the hospitals at the rear !
fashionable women Of Paris hi
- learned many things of which Il
were in complete ignorance. III
know now what social endea
means, and they understand the sp
ION which prompted Anserican women
ing establish social settlements and to
at tempt to help those who seemed p
nm. erless to help themselves.
.er. When this war is over social
ON Element work in Paris will be upo
firm foundation, the stones Of 1t
a ing laid by women who Is NOR
,od, ago hardly knew what social endea
an meant, except in society Sc
of There is only one woman's club in
whole city Of Paris, and that is
lou. tie more than what might be ca
cen a "Tea club" An American wol
not who is the president of = WON
slth club in the city Of Washington c
to Paris recently. The French Wo