The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30

serted paintings and panels of the | most gorgeous color The windows 1 look into formal gardens and courts l filled with marble statues and busts. 1 bronze medallions and copies of fres- i coes brought from Athens and Rome. I In this atmosphere the students bang | typewriters. fold blankets, nail boxes, 1 sort out wooden gloves, cigarettes, loaves of bread and masks against asphyXiating gas. The mask they send to the front was invented by Francis
 Jaques of Harvard, one of the com
 mittee, and has been approved by the government.
 There is department which sends out packages to the soldiers in the trenches, to those who are prisoners, and to the soldiers in the hospitals There is a system of demand cards on which is a list of what the committee is able to supply. In the trenches the men mark the particular thing they want and return the card. The things
 most in demand seem to be corn cob pipes and tobacco from America
 sketch books and small boxes of Wa tercolors
 The committee also edit and print for the students of each ateier monthly ma agazine It is sent to them at the front and gives them news of their fel- low students it has list of those killed, wounded and decorated. It has personal notes, gossip. jokes and is illustrated, it is not necessary to add, with remarkable talent and humor. It is a sort of glorified alumni weekly. It is printed by hand. The committee also supply the students with postcards on which the students paint pictures in water colors and sign them. Every student and eX-student, even the ma sters, paint these pictures. Some of them are very valuable.
 At two francs 50 centimes the autograph alone is bargain. One student who was a cripple. and who was being sup ported by the committee made enough money by the sale of these postcards to enable him to refuse the support of the committee and turn the money he had received to the support of another stu dent whose postcards were not so popu lar. Each postcard is numbered, and if you see one you like the artist will make YOU a copy of it. Tn many cases your 50 cents will not only make you patron of art but it may feed a very hungry family. Write to Ronald Simmons or Cyrus Thomas, Ecole des Beaux Arts, 17 Quai Malaquais
 There are more bargains.
 In tEe north of France certain dis tricts are held by the uermans, just certain parts of Alsace- Lorraine are held by the French The soldiers who come from those districts for the moment held by the enemy cannot receive from ti cir parents letters, presents, any comforts So, if you like you can adopt one, or two, or three. You become his godmother. And you write him letters, anG send him presents and postcards. You even can have him forwarded on leave to Paris, and there make him feel less lonely, less cut off from his own people.
 I know a little American girl in Paris ged 12, who now is the proud godmother of five soldiers. One of her godchildren, aged 24 came to visit her and remained a week. Her father lives in a house that once belonged to an empress and from it a garden, by terraces steps down to the Seine. Here the young man from the trenches used to sit with Paris stretching for miles below him, with gentle folk to wait on him and his little American godmother to walk with him along the paths where Eugenie walked with a Napoleon.
 There is another very good bargain and extremely cheap
 Would you like to lift man bodily out of the trenches, and for six days not only remove him from the immediate proximity of a sphyXiating gas, shells and bullets but land him, in all places to French soldier the most to be desired, in Paris? Not only land him there, but for six days feed and lodge him, and give him present to take away? It will cost you 90 francs. or $6. He would be your ''permissonaire," but for life you would be his debtor. For during those six days what pleasure you would receive in knowing you were keeping man not only in Paris but from death. If you want permissionare. write to Monsieur Douant, 24 Rue Richeieu, Paris,
 In Paris, we hear that on Wall street there are soihe very fine bargains. We hear that in gambling in war brides and ammunition everybody is making money. Very little of that money finds it's way to France. In another article l am going to give list of the names of those men in America who are making enormous fortunes out of this war, and who have