Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-06

Asain l sec her in the intuition fac tories. Thousands upon thousands of women from all walks of life are sit T Ing here making cartridges or shells hiletn hours day, seven days a
 week. Now and then one of them gets up from her seat and goes into an d'tJoinlng room to nurse her baby.
 Women Work for Soldiers.
 A few days ago l visited the Belgian i section at the Louvre. Many hun dreds of Parisiennes were sitting there working ceaselessly. All wore , black. There was not a single one among them all who had nor lost one CT more of her dear ones, but they were working for the soldiers of Beigium and the parcels they made ap lay ali around them in piles reach ing half way to the ceiling.
 The young girl who acted as mana ger showed me about. "You must rcmembe1.' she said, .that the French and English prisoners of war in Ger many as a rule get parcels from their homes, but the Belgian soldier does not even know if his home is still left standing. More often than not his family is scattered in three or four countries. Therefore it is our duty to see that he is not forgotten"
 Once every week every man in the Belgian army receives blank to fill out. He must say what he wants the most. A book, a shirt, a pair of boots, or a razor. All he has to do is to put it down and put his letter into the nearest military letter box, and the next week he receives a par eel containing just what he asked for, sent by the women of France. who endeavor to pay this off their debt of gratitude.
 The young girl showed me a let ter she had received from a Belgian soldier. q am told" he wrote, "that my wife is among the Belgian refu- gees who have come to Paris. I thank God that she is alive, but dare ] ask you to let me know what she is doing, for I have heard things about her which no husband likes to hear?"
 And have you actually undertaken this delicate taskf' asked.
 The young girl blushes. "We have looked into the matter" she replies. TAnd now we are trying to console the husband as welll as we may"
 I look at the enormous stacks of clothing of all kinds which these young girls have got together, and she says:
 Of course, we do not get all these things as gifts. It costs 10000 francs weekly to keep my little section go- ing, and if you ask me where the money comes from I am glad to be able to say that it does not all come from the rich No. the chief source of our revenue is the home savings bank of the French woman. In all France it would be difficult to find a single housewife, rich or poor, who has not her. home savings bank into which she puts whatever money she is able to save out of her allowance for household expenses. servants or pin money. This is a kind of mobiliza- ton, too, you see.''
 Transformation of Butterfly. < Two'year ago l. visited Mealthy friend of mine and his wife at their country seat in Pontigny., All the beautiful hostess had to do then was to manage her small army Of ser wants. b& ! Some time ago visited them again, entering the same monumental gate with it's lions carved in stone guard ingsthe entrance. This time my hos tess came to meet me in the white garb of a nurse. Her husband, who is an officer in the reserve, was In the Champagne, fighting.
 She, who formerly was so proud of her beautiful garden, her paintings, crystal, silver and rare Scores china, was even prouder now of the twelve