Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-14
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MISS LEMER HOME
FROM WAR ZONE
Tells of Woman's Valor, Self
Sacrifice, Confidence, and
Great Love of Country

Miss May Lemer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lerue Lemer. arrived at her
home, 2lS South Front street, last
evening after a two. years absence in
France. With her was Miss Fayette
Cable, of Chicago. a personal friend
who has been with her for many
months.
Miss Lemer, who. soon after her
graduation from Wellesley College
opened the School for American Girls
I'M Paris with two other WELLESLEY
graduates. sold out her interests lin
1914 and came home for a little Vaca-
non. She returned to France in 1914
lus' before war was declared and has
been away ever since.
Miss Lemer owns country prop
erty in Normandy. near NeranGeVilIe,
four miles from Dieppe, the important
shipping port which the Germans had
vowed 10 capture on their way to
Paris, which theF haven't reached vet.
Here all is peace and quiet and only
people who own their homes are per-
mtted 10 stay: even guests are for
hidden, FOR fear of spies, and strangers
are passed on al once. OF course the
men of the country are all away and
the women have taken up their work
as far as possible. farming and run
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Many OF them, too, are in the war, in
hospitals as nurses, and assisting in
various WAYS. Ali the churches have
been turned into hospitals and con-
Nalescent soldiers are seen on every
hand.
The women correspond with SOL
dlerS, some of whom have not heard
rom their own families since enlist
ing; they send them supplies, neces-
Saries. books and comforts
Much that they have seen. the pass
ing of troops, etc, Miss Lemer and
Miss Gable are unable to speak about,
for they are in honor bound not TO
do so. They went to Vienna at one
time TO visit Miss Cables sister, who is
the wife of an Austrian army officer.
Here there was danger of the food
supplies giving out, and so bread was
apportioned TO individuals, three hard,
black pieces being. ones share a day.
I'm contrast to this. at Nerangeville.
there is full and plenty. The people
teei safe and while the American flag
ilies over Miss Lemer's chateau they
know this government is protecting
them.
Harrisburg friends of Miss Lemer
sent large boxes of supplies to the
American Hospital in Paris, at her
solicitation. last year. They reached
there safely and were much appre-
ciated.
Miss Lemer says there is no feeling
of depression among the women. who
are calm. confident and coura geous
10 superhuman degree. Those who
have lost property. husbands. sons and
other relatives accept their lot feeling
hat nothing is too much for them 10
give for the life of their beloved
country.
Near Nerangeville are schools re-
moved from other districts and the
women are especially interested in
these children. one hundred girls
from to II years old were recently
brought from the village of Thanh. in
Alsace. with an interpreter, for none
of them could speak French. They
had no clothing but what was on their
backs, and they were a poor. fright
ened. forlorn lot. They took posses
sion of an old hotel and now the nuns
are teaching them just as though there
was no war. Two hundred boys from
Ypres have also been brought in with
their teachers. nuns who were turned
from their burned converts and
schools. sometimes sleeping in cellars
and undergoing worse privations.