Evening journal., 1915-01-04
Letters From War Torn France
Tell of Horrors on Battle Front
and of Haired Toward Germans

even put a pocket on the side with a
handkerchief. Some have embroider-
ed colored initials. but We take
everything, With the 70 francs which
we had We bought material for
bandages and shirts for soldiers and
wounded. Our house is like a bee
hive. Sundays and fete days are all I
the same. The 18th of August, being !
the greatest religious feast, la Saint /
Mary, rs ladies came to sew. The /
garden and all the rooms below were /
filed. We have sent enough things 7.
for 100 beds at Orleans, where 500 (
wounded soldiers have arrived: that
means 200 sheets. 100 pillow cases I
We cut the big French sheets in two.
as they are large enough for little
hospital beds From those that are
worn out we make pads for tho sick.
Everything is used. The boy scouts
are requisitioned by the government
to take all this in little carts. which
they pull themselves. There Is a big
wooden box all ready TO 60 Every
body works and helps. Our wounded
soldiers will be taken care of. The
American colony in Paris Is very ac-
tive. What is heartrending is to see
the women, hundreds and thousands
of them without any work. | look
after them, ! beg for them, and with
what ! get / make them sew shirts,
baby clothes. prepared work for which
/ pay them 25 cents a day. They
come in the kitchen at noon. and re-
ceive from. Claire a good soup and
some bread. There is a poor woman,
whose husband, gone to the front left
/ her 30 francs and four children. The
municipality gives her 20 francs
month for herself and 80 francs a
month for her children. Imagine how
/ this woman can live on so francs a
month and five to feed. And the little
: shOp girls. having no sons. no hus-
/ bands under the flag, have no right 10
this help. My daughters things that
| sent for in the Perigord took four
days to come home, a journey which
one makes usually in 10 hours. She
is at the Comedie Franchise, which
has been changed into a work shop
and nursery. She dresses and washes
the little ones from one to three
years, makes their milk soup, amuses
them, takes them for a walk in the
Jardin du Palais Royale. She met
there the young girls of the Prince c.,
with whom she became quite intimate
How many beautiful sentiments
among all the youth taking care OF
the bambinosl
Madame Bartet, manager, Pau
Money is the doctor. He is a docto
by inclination besides being an artist
Pierat win be nurse when wounded ar
brought to the Theatre Franchise, as II
's7. How | should love to remain her
to witness the victorious return OF on
troops. Those valiant soldiers, depart
ed with so much enthusiasm, so man.
of them left on the battlefield. Tn
! German losses are fortunately large
than ours, and as far as artillery goc
how they have been stung by krupI
1t is unbelievable.
With it all. they are mortally afrai
, of the side arms of our soldiers.
. Is August, 1914, Paris, France-Ho'
I much has taken place since wrot
! YOU my last goodbye, how much "
e have gone through, for the last fort
r night. Emotions do not count an
e more. Our armies are superb, with er
= thusiasm. patriotism and endurance
e Yesterday four letters arrived frol
Jean. who is in Alsace, without I'll
e name of the place or the date, as 1t
r. required by military rule in time
e war. He had been under fire. The tir'
3 shells which pass over ones head
!, said make a funny impression on yo
4 then YOU get used, by degrees to the
:, whizzing, and with Judgment, one learI
j to discern where they come from an
5 To avoid them. SO far | have receive
only dust and pebbles. We make 20 hou
a dav ON horseback, sometimes slee
Il ing three or four hours, eating hastil
> for by an unhappy coincidence, attacl
S always come Just when you are reaC
: to cook. But one gets used to ever
u thing. have not undressed for Il
: last fortnight, and sometimes when
= think of you. dear beloved ones l s
{ in a vision our beautiful Touraine, o
/ dainty quiet little house, and lying
Inv straw, have visions of my good b.
y yonder Yet we are all valiant. New
have we been better, not one dead, n
Il one wounded However, what is hear
ronding is to 90 back after four days
i, the villages of Alsace, which we occ
y pied at first, and TO find there desol
- ton ruin, pillage, burnt down hous'
N the women, the children, even the babi
u eowardly assassinated in the streets
= the very threshold of their houses
y, the most horrible fashion with cut
- hands / suppose to take off the rim
- Our Young hearts of 20 leap within
= and we become mad with rage, but v
m must know, my dear beloved ones, tn
av not one Of our soldiers with the nal
as of France would lower himself TO su
ST acts of barbarism.
s- sIct your hearts be clean and 10
20 live France" cried our officers when
re marched TO the front. There is the dr'
N. beating, goodbye my mother, and
to of you that | love.
st Needless to speak Of the comic
this letter brought to the parenf
H. They hadn't heard a word since 4
,e- first of August. They trembled
Z the thought Of seeing an official a
en rive announcing a death. each faml
IS being notified. Another at the Ga
re. de l'Est, Madame G. was accompan
*. ing her fourth son. encouraging hi
so swallowing her tears. God Ike
lot thee. my child, be brave, do thy du
he and come back with thy brother
in And as my sister and l were TAXI
no her arm, she said to us: This MOI
nd ing / was notified by the Minister
Be- War that my three Oldest were kill
iel, have tried to accompany my Il
an. one, and to tell him nothing else
for TO serve his country, but am net
.op ly dead"
zen We went with her TO her own no
de- at Courbevoie, and at o'clock in
ON ,,,orufno I was still awake. having