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Thomas &. and Sadie A. Miller. hoy.
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Karl Z. and Ida NJ. kTumke, boy.
George J. and Amy !. GateRu, girl.
william S. and Edna W. Dare. boy.
Walter T. ard Doll!e a. Barrett, girl.
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PIN Settlers for bowling alley Appi,
Post Exchange, Marine Barracks, sol st
& Il.
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she finds in farming community. The
sanitarian who lives among a foreign
population employed in mining or
manufacturing plant is doing work
quite different from that done by her
sister among native stock surviving
along the water front of the MiSs;s-
sippi or the Ohio.
The function of the nurse, basically,
however - which assumes different
forms according to the particular en-
vironment-is to keep down epidemics,
and be ready to respond to nursing
calls from the individual homes in the
community. Whatever additional &C
Invites she may add spring from the
fruitfulness of her own brain and her
power of adaptation to the situation.
In little town in South Carolina the
rural nurse instituted a new phase of
public activity. designated as the in
spection of washerwomen." AS most Of
the laundresses were negroes who had
never heard of germs, it was difficult
to enforce the new regulation. On the
first morning after the ordinance went
into effect requiring every washer
woman to qualify for permit before
dignant black mammies gathered be-
fore the Office of the town clerk.
Inasmuch as the carelessness of the
washerw in placing fresh ironed
clothing on beds where members of the
family lay i'll with tuberculosis, in mix
ing in clothing which had been worn by
a person afflicted with ulcers with other
washes and like matter, was a real
source of danger to community, the
new order had to be insisted upon.
The nurse, however, having been born
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sr.c,,r Corcsporhenc. Of The Sur.


PARIS, January IL, 1915.
E1HE French are all convinced that
they will surely take back AL
sace-Lorraine.
q They consider, in fact. that it
" as good as done. except that they
ere tender about bombarding the be-
loved Alsatian cities. Wherefore. they
go slower.
Nothing shows the sentiment better
than the joyful vogue Of My Village"
the pretty color-printed album OF Han
si. the Alsatian, which sells out a new
edition in three days, the presses away
behind the demand. The daily papers
publish extracts from il. II is the fea-
ture of the Paris season.
Yet. Immediately before the war, no
Paris bookshop would take an order
for the album. although IL was brand :
new. 1t had been suppressed almost as
soon as published by the French them
selves. for fear Of international COM
plications. The black shadow OF Ger
man anger hung over MY Village"
MY Village" is, indeed. a historical
document.
II was the prayer OF Alsace" after
forty-f1ve years Of annexation. and APP
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of French cannon, because over there.
on the other side of the frontier, they
are watching also"
The passage appeared enormously
suspicious to the president of the cor
rectional tribunal of Colmar, who
thereafter referred especially to page
IS of Mon Village" The page repre-
sents the French monument at Wis
sembourg, surmounted by the Gallo
rooster. little Alsatian boy and girl
come to lay crown at the foot of the
monument erected to the memory of
French soldiers who died for the patrie
in 1870. In the sky gallon the shades
of the legendary French cuirassiers of
Reichshoffen.
This vision had a strange effect on the
tribunal. The prosecution affirmed that
In it Hansi had made formal signal
of distress" on the part of Alsace to
the Gallo rooster. in hope that the
squadrons of France would respond to
his cry.
Remember, this was in May, 1914,
three months before the brusqued at
tack on Belgium!
All Europe feared Germany. France
was negligible.
TRANQUILITY, Hansi replied:
II beg you not to ascribe to me things
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by strange coincidence, at the
very moment when Germany was pre-
pairing a new war Of anneXations- Its
author, popularity known as Uncle
Hansi-"unclc of all good children of
Alsace and Francis the illustrious
artist, j. J. Waltz, of pure old colmar
family. Its pretty pictures put price
on Hansi's head.
This is the album which just before
the war. raised UP the great prosecu-
tion for high treason against him,
while fines and imprisonments for SELL
ing and possessing rained all over AL
sace-Lorraine. In America we could
scarcely appreciate, at the time, impe-
rial anger at a chlldrens picture book
done by a master painter, the te-
nacity of Alsatians to buy and conceal
nv Village" We can guess now. 1t
might prejudice the Belgiaus
They say that the kronprinz found a
copy of il in friend $ uursery-how
true the story is, We have no means to
verify. He took il TO the kaiser
Father. look here" Pretty pictures"
said the kaiser. NO, but just exam
Inc" said the kronprinZ. "Intolera-
ble"' said the kaiser, as he gazed on an
Alsatian boy playing with cockroach
tied TO string, Everybody knows
that "cockroach" is Alsatiaus' argot
for German settlers among them On
the same page is Hansi's description Of
the village playground. "a green pral-
RE dotted with paquerettes and for
get-me-nots" (the last word in itaiics).
Sweet uameless village, 1T is all the
villages OF AIsace." says Hansi.
IF you could see my village in the
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spirited woman of Kansas for Red
Cross nurse revealed the fact that in
a radius of nine miles there were $40
cases of mumps. and that all but one
of nine schools We're closed
The exception was taught by the
county superintendent, who swore that
come what might, he would keep his
school open. Though a man of sixty.
he contracted the disease. and his
school. too. had to close it's doors. They
were all closed for four weeks out OF
a siX-month term.
The nurse who took up residence In a
town in Kentucky found that out of
sos pupils in attendance at the high
school practically every one needed
attention Twenty-Five cases of ira
choma were found. A clinic was set
up in the doctors office, each child fur
nishing it's own cot and bedding. Every
one showed immense curiosity, and the
place was never without one or two
of the townspeople, who dropped in to
see what was being done. The chill
dren who were infected were treated
and the school was freed from ira
choma-the first time in its history:
Before the rural nurse vanishes the
wooden water bucket with us one
tastes so sweet, but which Is reeking
in germs; the slate smeared with spit
bv chubby fists. the cold biscuit stcky
with apple butter or pear preserves.
and many of the other earmarks OF
the country school which have been
clothed in poetry but which appear as
relics of the dark ages in contrast to
the new era of the individual drinking
cup, reams of white paper, clean and
germless, and the hot lunch.
nurse living in a Pennsylvania
mining town has to fight the habit of
the Slavic mother to swaddle the baby.
then tie it in a pillow covered with
another feather pillow. and keep it in
a room with closed windows.
Very often, in passing the boarding
houses for unmarried employees of the
mines she finds a badly infected foot
or hand poulticed with green leaves,
and no physician in attendance. This
nurse was called to a home short
time ago where baby had just ar
rived. She found the baby swaddled
and bound with wide red, white and
blue ribbon. Upon asking for an ex-
PLANTATION, she was told that the other
children were born in the old coun-
try. and consequently were Slavs, but
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desk, SO that in case 1t turned out to
be diphtheria they might be burned.
As l went by the little girls home
on my way to the baby clinic, the next
thing on my days program. ] put her
behind me on the horse and deposited
her on her mothers doorstep.
DR.. Mendall and a group of others and
their babies waiting for me. We at
once proceeded to weigh the infants.
DR.. Mendall pointing out anything
that was wrong. Mrs. Koralski's baby
alarmed him considerably. and he told
me to give it special attention. TAX
ing the little bundle from its mother
arms, / took off its clothes, and gave it
what was probably the first real bath
which it had ever had.
Its condition was due largely to
improper diet, and I endeavored to
make it plain to Mrs. koralski that
she should not feed her infant beer,
cabbage and meat. Giving her eX-
p1icit directions as to it's diet and prom
Using to come around in a few days
to see how it thrived, l returned the
little charge to her.
ION my way to dinner, I took a short
cut and stopped in for minute to
cheer up Old Nanny MacGruder. who
lives alone, and is a shut-in, having
been a cripple for a number of years
l Strengthened up her room. told her
the news of the village and left a
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that this one, being born here, was an
American, and deserved patriotic deco
ration.
Probably the most unique environ
ment in which a Red Cross nurse pur-
sues her vocation is little mining
town called Jerome, Yavapai county,
Ariz., where Miss Katherine Kraft Is
stationed. The place is hung, rather
than built. on the side of mountain,
and the inha bitants almost swing them
selves from street to street. great Is
part of the population, many of whom
speak only Spanish.
When Miss Kraft arrived she found
that 1t was typical of most western
mining communities in its sanitary ar
engagements. The school had never es-
capped an epidemic in all its history.
closing its doors from six to eight
weeks every term. She found that the
mothers knew nothing about the proper
care and feeding of babies. and that
there was general ignorance in regard
to the treatment of the simplest dis
eases.
Miss Kraft kept the school open all
through the term the first year after
she arrived. BY organizing the MeXi
can girls into Little Mothers Leagues,
among the East Side children of New
York, she aroused an interest in the
care of ba bies which carried over into
practical demonstration in their homes.
She aroused enthusiasm over the MAX
ing of faxseed poultices, preparing
proper food for the sckroom and car
ing for a patient generally: she taught
the boys the value of clean streets and
pure water supply. From a commu
nifty in which there had been utter dis
regard of hygienic principles. Jerome,
under the tutelage of this representa-
tive of the Red Cross in cooperation
with the local physician, has become a
model in sanitation and hygiene.
page from nurses diary gives an
Illuminating idea of what she has to do:
The telephone rang insistently.
opened my eyes sleepily, and, peering
out of the window, saw that the east
ern sky was just beginning to show
faint glow of red. Hurredly slipping
on something warm, l answered the
phone. Mrs. Walters wanted me to
come over Immediately, Mr.. Walters.
on his way out to feed the stock, had
slipped on the icy steps of the back
porch and broken bone in his ankle.
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! consoled her as best I could and told
her to make her husband comforta BILE
until l came
TT didn't take me long to get out
of the house, put the saddle on Baby
the good horse which carried me about
on my errands, and canter through the
crisp morning air over to the Walters
farm. ! found Mr.. Walters propped
up on the kitchen floor With the
help of his wife, l carried him to the
lounge, and then set his ankle in emer-
gency splints. BY this time the doc
tor had arrived. and leaving the pa
tient to his care I assisted Mrs. Wal
tiers in preparing breakfast. After
snatching a bite, first pulling down
some hay for Baby out of Mr. Wal
ters' hay loft, L started for the dis
trict school, two miles away.
The program called for a tooth
brush drill, which is always hailed
with delight by the children. AS the
drill progressed ! noticed that one lit
tie girl showed marked lack of at
tention. At the end of the exercise
called her over to me and perceived at
once that the youngster was i'll. Upon
closer examination, ] found that she
had a bad sore throat. l told the
teacher that she should be sent home
at once, giving a caution in regard to
the books and materials about her
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glass of jelly as bit of relish to add
to her simple fare.
In the afternoon my duties were
not so arduous. | started out to make
several calls on some patients. While
on my way / observed that farm
house secured its drinking water from
a well which lay below the cesspool
of the adjoining home. With some
trepidation / approached the house,
purposlng TO warn the owner of the
danger to him and his family The
farmer met me at the gate and rec,
ognized me as the nurse His son had
died two years before of typhoid, and
found him open to any suggestion
that would prevent the recurrence of
a like fatality. He promised to place
some cement about his well in order
to keep the surface drainage out of It.
as soon as he could secure the work
men to do II.
The last duty of the day was setting
inc boys of the town brigade to work
on the eet-cleaning campaign. I
found them all eager to get to work
as the prize for the most capable
squad of the week was league base
ball and bat. l gave them final in
structions under the big elm in the
village center. and then set off toward
nome. the consciousness of having ac-
compllshed good days work lending
a new pleasure to the ride through
the early twilight"
The nurse lives with some member
Of the neighborhood if the town has not
already provided her home of her own.
A movement toward the establishment
of what is called community centers is
gaining strong Roadway in many re-
gions where the nursing service is in
stalled The nurses quarters, the
rooms for the baby clinic, the various
classes which are conducted by the
nurse. the dental clinic, the gymna-
SUM are grouped together in one
building. With this as a nucleus, DOS
sibilities are being mapped out for the
community center
1t may become the home of the
school teacher. the headquarters for
the farm bureau or the county grange.
and place to hold community festi-
walls, or entertainments Several coun-
try neighborhoods have put the idea
into practical operation and others
are planning to establish community
centers in the near future.
AS the territory covered by the rural
nurse is extensive she requires some
means of getting about. In several IN
stances the nurse has her own ma
chine. In the MOUNTAIN regions she
uses a horse and buggy or goes on
horseback. When answering an emer-
Gency call to the mines the nurse
will accompany one of the physicians
on a handcar over the railroad
In most of the communities where a
Red Cross nurse has been stationed
she has won her way into the hearts
and the respect of the natives no mat
ter how uncertain they may have been
at first to her status. or how sus-
p'cious OF the wisdom of her methods
over those which they had followed
for generations back. Her gentle min
istrations at times of sorest need, her
ability to fit into an emergency. from
mending goose wing to officiating at
the birth of baby. has won out in
every case no matter how deep the
prejudice or how rabid the opposition
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and brought up on a plantation in the
far south and coming of long line of
Shareholders knew that she could make
orders and societies as a means of rec
onciling them to the change. At the
same time she patiently endeavored to
make them understand the reason for
the regulation.
In another little mountain town of
the south, nurse hazarded the COM
ment in the presence of the city at
torney that it was a pity that the spit
ting ordinance was not better enforced.
1t turned out that there was no ordi-
nance of that kind, but the town coun-
Gil speedily passed one. The nurse
secured enough funds by private sub
ecription to have 200 large signs print
ed. Don't spit on the floor" She went
around herself and tackled them up.
At the same time she sold Red Cross
anti-tuberculosis seals, opening up an
opportunity by so doing to explain to
the people the danger of splitting prom
iscuously. The signs worked wonders
and the county courthouse, which before
the era of the splitting ordinance was
fairly shot with tobacco juice, took on
a condition of comparative purity
1t is proverbial that country schools
must be closed from two to six weeks
every school term on account of whoop-
ing cough, humps, measles or more
serious epidemics like scarlet fever or
diphtheria. An appeal from a public
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piously preserved on walls of Alsatian
village parlors the old pictures" which
were nothing more nor less than
French regimental certificates of men,
bers of the family before 1870.
T. The prosecutor accused Hansi of
"disconsidering" the German army by
making out that Alsatian boys were
fond of playing French soldier and
"walloping" the Germans-always chill
dren of the gendarmes and other func-
tionaries of the empire.
Hansi was equally reproached with
having in picture represented the
youth of Alsace going en- masse in
pleasure parties to the annual review
of the French troops at Nancy on the
14th of July (the French Fourth).
But the browning sin of the book
was contained in the description of the
village at nightfall.
In his parlor. around the lamp. Pere
Vetter reads the Paris paper to the
fathers of the village in low tone.
Far away" wrote Hansi, one hears
the cannon of German fortress. but.
also, fainter and more distant, the echo
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in the back of my head. In writing
My Village l wanted simply to say
that Alsace-Lorraine is not happy, but
that day will surely come when we
shall have many more liberties"
So speak prophets, scarcely knowing
what they say
1t was enough. The Colmar judge de-
cided it to be no simple misdemea nor
for correctional court to deal with.
but sent Hansi up to Leipzig, to be
tried by the tribunal of the empire
for high treason in seeking to incite
Alsace against German rule.
Few will remember the treason trial,
although the misdemeanor trial made
such stir. The brusqued attack on
Belgium was preparing, and the trea-
son trial was a great net spread si-
lently over Alsace. How many arrests
were made on its pretext nobody
knows. Three months after the war
began the trial still dragged. Only
on October 8. 1914. did the tribunal Of
the empire. at Leipzig. formally reject
Hansi's appeal; while as late as May 81,
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ter them or conceal their presence will
be shot.
On October 6, 1914, their property was
declared conffscated.
Meanwhile. Hansi was fighting at the
pass of the Schlucht. where the French
took up the first imperial frontier sign
post. AS corporal-interpreter of the
l52d line, he drew a picture of it, with
the blue Alsatian mountains. and a new
sign-post: "France-Colmar" and a
pointing arrow None can draw Ger
man prisoners like Hansi
Every time he gets a chance he
draws new pictures of his village The
latest is a little Alsatian girl praying
a a soldiers grave in the reconquered
territory.
/ notice that the blue Alsatian noun
tains are now in his right hand back
ground.
They must be nearing closer to the
village. STERLING HELLO
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Esprit d'Apropos.

ID ICHARD NJ. GIBBS, the young So
Ho cialistic writer. being strong for
the allies. often attends German-Ameri-
ca meetings as a heckler.
At a recent German-American meet.
ing In St Louis speaker referred to
the Fatherland's food shortage.
But the government is doing all in
her power to protect the people," he
said. There has now been set I'D a
commission to control the consumption
of cheese"
The Watch on the Rind, eh?" shouted
Mr.. Gibbs from the gallery.
Yet the government, for all its care,
finds it more and more difficult to ap-
pease the hungry people" the speaker
went on. I'm their hunger the people
are getting out of hand. What is to be
done with them?"
Put bit in their mouthsi" shouted
Mr.. Gibbs.
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Poor Fellow!

A WELL known clubman was talking
SN about the divorce evil
The curtailment of personal liberty
has a good deal to do with divorce"
he said. The husbands personal liher-
ty is curtailed and the wife's is cur
tailed. Hence, moral degradation and
divorce.
In IA restaurant the other night a
man was drinking beer and eating
sandwiches with his wife and his
mother-inlaw. He finished his beer and
took a fresh sandwich Tho attentive
waite" snatched up the empty glass
and said politely:
Another beer SIR
THE man looked at his wife.
Shall l have another Minnie? he
said.
His wife looked at her mother.
Shall he, MAJ she asked"