Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-17

can she purchase more than her al
lotment of necessary wearing apparel.
Here, In America. we have no idea
of the scarcity of things there. For
instance. there is practically no paper.
| We ne"er got things wrapped up.
We would not have daredato ask for
| paper and string. We took boxes or
| baskets with us to the stores and
carried the articles we purchased In
i them. Bread was put in the basket
| without wrapping.
| When l came away I could not get
tissue paper to pack my trunk. I was
| not permitted to bring with me any
paper. soap or metal of any kind-I
had to leave even my electric iron
| there, as well as perfume, medicines,
rubber of any kind. or clothes that
| had not already worn.
There are only four big newspapers
| In Berlin now and, instead OF a regu-
lar paper as we used to get. the
and indifrerently printed at that. Tho
| supply of ink is low and what they
do have is of an inferior quality.
| One reason for the strict censorship
OF newspapers I believe is that the
| ofncers in charge of the city are only
| too glad to suppress any newspaper
for short time, as that means a
| little more paper on hand.
THE GERMAN BABIES.
The little babies in Germany are a
woman there can bear a normal child
| under the conditions in which she has
! to live. have seen pregnant women
going around with deep hollows IN
! their cheeks and dark starvation
! rings around their eyes, so weak ShSy
| scarcely could stand.
"The war brides, too. are n pitifuI
lot. The government stopped these
iast-hour marriages. IS IL WAS found
that the women and babies were 100
i rka
could AFFORD to keep their babies
with them. The babies all were put
into homes and the women worked
along the best they could.
The war brides" who really were
patriotic in their wish to bear sons
for Germany, rued their bargain.
many of them, for the children they
brought into the world are more OF
care than a comfort. Thousands
of them will be permanent invalids
few will be strong. healthy. norm
al boys and girls. But, even at that,
the government is making a desper-
ate effort to save all the boys 1t can.
In Berlin there are no young men.
very young children. The boys are
put out on the farms to work.
| MANY WOUNDED MEN.
The city is full, too, of soldiers
MANNED and crippled in horrible
ways. Our own porter had had a
f pullet go through DOtn cneeES, TAX
] ing the roof of his mouth with IL. I
saw men every day with noses shot
away, half their faces gone, eyes,
ears. legs and arms gone, wretched
wrecks of humanity.
| And many of the people expect n
seven years. war. They do not look
for n speedy close. although they
profess to believe in an ultimate
German victory.
! The majority now are content to
get peace and keep their own coun-
| try Intact without adding TO Ger
man possessions.
! Just before 1 left Berlin 1 had be-
4 gun to hear many lnurmurs of a
/ coming war with Austria. One Ger
man officer with whom had short
conversation Cne day said. This
warmly this is nothing"
We'll 1 think II is terrible" said
| Yes" he said, 1T is bad enough,
but the real war will come when this
war Is over and Austria and Ger
many fight-that may be a war which
will end only In the determination
of ono or the other"
! And his smile showed his confi-
dence as to where Germany would
be found az the end OF It.
To be Continued