New-York tribune., 1916-02-28

clans The soldiers schools, already cstaD-
lished. report success in shoemaking, FOR in
stapcc The director sends us this word
"rrom the first We had foreseen for this
the greatest success the results have sur
passed our hopes. We ere obliged to double
the size of the building and increase inc
number of professors.
"Why?
because, more than any other proieSSlon'
that of shoemakng is the most possible ~
the country. in the village, in the small nam
lot This il the one desire Of most OF these
wounded soldiers; before everything, they
wish TO be able to return TO their homes.
And all the more if wife and children wait
them there, in little house with a patch OF
garden. Out of our fifty men now learning
shoemaking twenty-nine were once sturdy
farm laborers. The profession is not fatigu-
ing and. in spite Of our fears not one OF our
leg-amputated men has given up his appren-
ticeship on account OF fatigue or physical
inability"
OF tailoring the director says;
"The same advantages arc here as in shoe
making: customers in the home village, AMI
the facility Of installing the needed equip
mont The profession is possible for leg
amputated men, because no great efforts are
reouired. and there is little fatigue due to
nosi,ion. We find here the same proportion
of peasant farmers We have ten farm Ia
borers. one locksmith one butcher, one ma
son. one worker in silk. Tailoring can oe
nlied bv men with both legs gone. IL IS als'
possible for those suffering from manning
in the upper limbs. We have among our
nupils those with incomplete hands, who can
work successfully provided that the pincef
can be held
Very many Of the soldiers are manned Ia
hand or arm One day word came TO the
Red Cross Corps in which the writer WORKED
that several hundred wounded men were side
tracked at Furnes railway station. lnree
nurses hurried from the convent, carrying
hot soup. The women went through the
train. feeding the soldiers, giving them
drink of cold water. and bringing some 'oi
them hot water for washing. Then, being
fed. they we're ready for smoke, and one
of the nurses began walking down the ioul
smelling ambulance car with boxes OF sup
niles. letting each man take out clgaret'
and a match. The,car was slung with doubls
LAYERS of strctcher hunks. Some men were
freshly wounded, others were conVaiesce'O
4 few lay in stupor. She had PROVIDE
ton or a dozen soldiers with their pleasure
and thev had lighted up and were well unde'
way She had so many patients that day ,ha
she was not watching the individual man "
her general distribution. She had come hall
wav down the car, and held out her store t'
a soldier without looking at him. tie glanced
ND and grinned. The men IN the bunk
around him laughed heartily. Then sh'
looked down at him. He was happing tn'
two stumps of his arms and was smiling
His hands had been blown off. She put th'
cigarette IN his mouth and lit 1t for HIM
Only his hands were gone. Comradeship wa
left for him, and here was the lighted ciga
rette expressing that comradeship.
Spirit like that does not deserve 70 be
broken by despair. Apparatus has been de
vised TO supply the missing section OF the
arm, and such a trade as y-maklng oher'
a livelihood It is carried on with sense
of fun even in the absence of all previous
education. One-armed men are largely en-
ployed in it, Let us enter the training shor
at Lyon and watch the work. The wood /
being shot out from the saving machine
in thin strips and planed on both sides. Thl'
is being performed by man who used tc
earn his living as packer and suffered
an amputstion of his right leg. The boards
are assembled in thicknesses of twenty ant
cut out by a ribbon saw" This is the occu
patton OF a former tile layer, now with his