Evening star., 1915-06-20

Ek" VERY cloud has a silver lin
IT ing" and one of the brightest
lights in the war cloud above
Europe comes from this-get busy.
Private letters from all sorts and
: conditions of people in Europe disclose
the miracles of industry they are ac-
complishing with a good heart in the
midst of war. Renede b, a young
, aristocrat, when his father and upcles
and big brother went to the front, set
to work on their ancestral farm to get
IN the harvest. He toiled daily in the
field from o'clock in the morning
until nightfall and. in writing about it
to chum in Washington, he had not
a word to say of the blisters on his
hands or of any other horror of war
Just an expression of manly satisfac-
ton in the fact that with the help of
old men and women he had saved the
crops.
Another boy of the same class. too
young to enlist. went to work as
helper in hospital and. writing of
this to an American friend, there was
no touching description of CHASTITY
suffering. but an energetic statement
of the fact that there was a lot for
him to do and brisk mention OF how
glad he was to be doing 1t.
In the same simple, hearty and eff
ctent fashion Americans accustomed
to life of ease, have gone to work
IN Europe. For a number of years
past Dr. Johnson of Washington. with
his wife who is a daughter of Senator
Newlands, has made his home in the
artist colony. which centers about the
French painter, Claude Monet. and the
American sculptor. Frederick MacMon-
MES, at Giverny. France
Dr. johnson had planned to come
home last summer and was all packed
up and ready when the war came. He
at once dispatched his family to a place
of safety and himself became the med
.cal head of the relief work at Giverny.
. Day and night he worked in the hos
pi,al which the MacMonnies esta blish-
ed in their own home at Giverny and
in the hospital at Vernon twenty min
utes distant.
He kept this UP for months and then,
when the government organization of
hospitals eliminated the one at Civ
erny he was buster than ever, Tor
every French doctor in the loca ahty
; had, of course gone TO the front. and
: one of the peasants writing to Wash
: inRton recently said
"Dr Johnson gives himself now to
the sick civil llfe- IOT lne'e 10 iAcl ii
doctor left anywhere in the pays"
The wife Of NacMonnies was Alice
Jones daughter of the late Senator
Jones When her home was no longer
needed by the French soldiers as p
bospitaI Mrs MacMonnies with native
American enterprise instead of knit
ting socks for soldiers by hand, be-
tween the acts at the theater. or at 3
o'clock tea, installed a knitting ma
chine in her house which she operates
az factory rate.
The house Of the Jungs on Connect-
cut avenue has been closed all winter.
DR.. Jung and his wife, DR.. Sofe Nord-
hoff Jung were caught in Munich when
the war broke out, and. instead OF step
ping OUT for Washington. they both
rolled up their sleeves and went to
work to alleviate the human suffering
brought by the carload to the Ameri-
can hospital they established in Mu-
mich.
The heart balm 10 be found in getting
busy exists in every experience which
people with nothing 10 do but talk love
to set forth 70 us one awful throb
Of unalleviated misery.
A French woman writes thus to a
friend in Washington news she has
Just received from her dear Lorraine:
After the invaders had taken posses
sion OF the country the men at all
able bodied were taken prisoners and
there remained only the children and
old people. among the latter one of my
aunts eighty-seven years old, whom
loved dearly. The poor woman had
suffered all sorts of privations when on
the 26th of March formal order was
given that the old people depart for
Germany, los in all. and among them
my Door aunt who started with the