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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

IL was her bouquet de corsage. the
bouquet which her 0etrothed offered
her each morning. Where could one
find flowers in Toulou for a grave,
when one had only time 10 catch the
boat? She had only these-the four
roses which she wore-s bouquet still
fresh and cool, but at the same time
little the worse from use-from having
been carried about since morning.
Saint Mandrier!
Gizelle disembarsed. The gardens OF
the hospital, exotic, perfumed with
eucalyptus; the white buildings, CLEAN
ing palaces Of suffering, immaculate
asylums Of healing or OF death; the
beautiful, sloping, Romanesque park
which leads up to the cemetery-she
saw these things with a beating heart.
1T is up there al the top" they told
her. "You have only TO push open the
gate"
She made the ascent. The paths wound
about under balsam-lsden pines. The
open sea was visible across the slopes.
The little pebbles, round and white,
sparkled in the shade, like jewels. A
brooklet mcandered here and there.
Gizelle still climbed, trailing the scent
Of the roses behind her.
She pushed open the gate. What
beautiful garden for the living was
this place filled with the dead GiZelle
was all alone in the shadow of the ma
jestic trees But how many there were,
nevertheless, about her! She saw
aligned. shoulder 20 shoulder. still in
the military manner. the hundreds OF
little white crosses which represented
soldiers. She read the names. She read
the ages. Twenty years" Twenty-Five
years" "Tventy-one years Twenty
years" Twenty years"
A light cry, shudder. GiEelle re-
mains rooted 20 the spot. The grave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

which she has been seeking is before
her. All at once, Paul" she murmurs:
MY poor little PAUL"
She cannot realize that this rec
tanCle OF earth, this wooden cross
painted white, amid so many other
crosses. represent the amorous youth
VINO suffered when he spoke and
whose azure eyes, separated by his
long, massive nose, were irradiated
with the fire of noble Imagination.
He went TO war an enthusiast. He
died an enthusiast. He must have loved
ne in the same way. He was hero.
He was not Partisan, perhaps. But
he was a Frenchman."
In the shadow of the tall, poetic pine
trees Gizene kneels down. She is no
longer ashamed Of her emotion. She
holds out her four roses-her roses of
love-to the dead man. And there. in
a low voice, she speaks 10 an invisible
listener. as have so many women in
this war. So many ilothers 70 their
sons SO many wives 20 their husbands
That evening the same little steamer
brought her back 20 Toulon. Her front
cal. elegant, charming sdmirer, on the
spray-beaten quay which resembled
Venice. watched coming toward him the
frail steamer which bore mis- love. At
a certain distance he commenced -
distinguish the tall, slender, dark
complexioned Gizelle, leaning upon the
rail. But she made no sign OF recognl-
ton and welcome with her handker-
chief. She no longer had the roses IN
her hands. i.
And the foreigner. smiling. sure OF
himself. did not know that he had lost
everything that on the grave OF the
dead youth, along with his four roses,
the amorous Gizelle had left her heart
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
The Rivals
BvIUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS
Translated bv Williom L. MePher,on

at is beautiful" she said to herself.
But, habituated TO the light, half Gym
ical indifference of her friend, she soon
turned her mind TO other things.
She was still astonished that she
had remembered suddenly. that morn
ing, that there was a grave which she
ought to visit in the roadstead Of lou
Ion. Does one often think OF such
things when one is in love?
This Journey TO the Midi was q
Journey Of love. Gizelle had not yet
begun her honeymoon. She was merely
celebrating her second betrothal-a
betrothal less hedged about with for
malities than her first one. widow,
she had decided TO remarry-to wed
this charming foreigner. And that in
spite of the fact that after almost ten
years Of dubious happiness in that
estate, she had believed that she had
been completely cured Of marriage. But
when one is in love, Il seems that one
re-acquires youth, enthusiasm and in
experience. One is Away. twenty
years old when one i: in love-even
when one rs thirty-four.
Gizelle, seated on a bench beside some
strangers, felt herself rocked soothing
ly by the rhythm Of the little steamer.
How she missed her brilliant COM
panionl But meanwhile she sought 10
give a certain austerity to her thoughts,
since, after all, she was making pill
grimage to tomb.
A poor young fellow, hardly more
than boy, had loved her, as had many
others in the days before the war, when
she was a newly-made widow and felt
the Joy OF her liberation. She had
smiled at him, but only politely. He
was an emotional sdolescent, trying at
times. lacking in elegance, lyrical in
temperament, with large ideas and with
ewes af azure, set in a face dominated
by a powerful nose. How he had
suffered because of her, Gizelle
thought of that only after she had
heard of his death. With a weak heart
and properly exempt from service, he
had nevertheless yielded 20 his en-
thusiasm and joined the army. He had
caught a fever at Salonica and had
come home TO die-there in the Toulon
harbor, at Saint Mandrier Hospital.
Gizelle had heard these details from
his family at the time Of his death.
Forgotten since then, with every
thing else, they now came back 70 her
mind. The last sigh Of the poor fellow
had been lyric, like all the rest Of his
life. Certainly ne had never mastered
his emotions with a sneer.
Gizelle looked dreamily at the road
stead and then at the bouquet Of roses
which she held on her knees. That was
all she had, and 1t was already droopy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

Here is tOGr story that only
,,on~7 could hare trrrtter. us
point OF risw is feminine; ITS sp'ra'
10 feminine. At the same time 't IS
deeply and broadly human itS !ee.-
ino is true tcar feeling, SINCE IL ded'S
erouisitely Nth that emotional e..
oltation 1vitb which the Tragedy Of
,cnr is capable Of filing srery n0o''
and sensitive heart.
Nine. DeIar1le-McdrAs rs yell
Eno,cn French poet and dromot'st'
This little story shows her fine mag
nation and poetic touch. IL 'oas
.o,,tr;b,ltsd to "Le Journal, OF
Poris, in March last.
A, IN. little steamer began 70 move
.vav G;zelle, tall, slender, DARK com
.,.vionsd. supporting herself on tho
rau waved her adieus with her hand
k.rcbiet. On the pier her friend non,
cbalan.ly motionins with his gi0'e1
hand, smiled after her.
sh. admired him for his grace Oh
manner and his air Of gentle irony-an
elegan. civilian amid the horizon blue
thronc Of soldiers. Was it possible 70
h.,;oya that man so thoroughly
par;sian in look and carriage was fof-
| eign-born? -.
Vi. nerfect taste, his urbanity Oh
snirit. even the slight sneer OF skepti-
c;.m with which he held in check any
EXPRESSION Of emotion-these traits
mad. him the heart-breaker that ne
vas. man whom young women could
,dor. only with anguish, since they
kneu'very well that they could never
have any empire over a nature Ike MS
az love him." thought Gizelle. Little
- I;++I. hi, silhouette was lost IN the
r. and the details Of the quay faded
out-the quay in which Gizeile had
taken so much delight the night before
because i. is, so to speak on a level
With the sea, and the waves, when
,b.r. is a swell, dash over it and break
in foam among the leg: Of the tables in
the adjoining cafe. ,
at is Venice over again she had
said on arriving.
Now, on the steamer, she was mid
wsv in the roadstesd Of Toulon. blue
bath into which the shores, with their
spreading pine trees, come down to dip
! their feet. She saw the mountains be-
hind the city. They seemed at anchor
in the port, like huge srmorsd ships.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

But surely" said the Man Who Had Cornered the Food
Supply "you do not want politics in the hone?"
"Oh no. said the Anti-Suffrage Lady 'but would like
little food there"
You cannot have without the other" he answered.
You must make your choice"
1t cruel choice make The Anti-Suragist looked
at her children, with their bright though emaciated faces
No. she said at last would rather they died uncoruptei
by any knowledge of what legislature is"
And they all starved to DEATH quite unpouted by the
ercise of the least political power
Then there is that other statement of the Antsthat
they perfectly satisfied that should govern without
from But if the present system has made
politics too vile the home ought they be well satisfied
with it?
If voting couptng process ought they subject
young to it?
Or if it is only who corrpting in politics.
ought be left with that magic powerhe indirect
influence?
And you won't have politics in the home, ought to
have politicians?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
An Aeroplane
Sighted Overhead

We had ccursed through burned
and pillaged towns, We had climbed TO
the observatory Of Prince Eitel FIie-
drich, we had visited the roadside grave
of the aviator Mcconnell. oddly deco
rated with the fragments Of his ma
chine. We had heard the guns boom
ing, and had been somewhat stirred by
tLem-though not to the extent we
we're letting on, nor anywhere near so
much as we were trying TO be-and we
had said a little solemnly TO each
other: Here we are in it-this is war,
and there are the guns we have read
about for three years. But the
distant boom, however majestic, lacked
menace for US. And We were not being
any too successful at calling on our
imaginations for thrilled response. AS
far as we were concerned, the war was
not getting over =. and we continued
to be merely instructed in the facts OF
German occupation.
Then, as we were leaving the grave
Of the aviator, some one looked up at
the singularly blue and beautiful sky
and said. "the cloud, just there look
very queer they are almost like
those steam plumes over New York
City. ""Those are bursting Shells"
said our officer. "They have sighted
a German aeroplane, probably, and they
are shooting a white circle around
him. :" How many miles away"
somebody asked, and THE guns are
pretty far away" she was answered,
though the front line French trenches
just here are only eight miles away and
the aeroplane is probably over them"
Our spines perked up little at this
and showed promis. of little active
shivering, later on. But we went back
to our waiting motor cars, and rolled
along toward the wrecked sugar fac
tory with pulse. about at the normal
and interests about ct the academic,
while the distant pealing Of the big
guns grew momentsrily less afrightins
as we got used 70 them.
We left our motors at the roadside
and climbed low slope Of rubble TO the
gates OF the former sugar factory. Our
soldier guards and chsuffeurs, four in
number, waited near the cars, and our
attending officer OF the General Stat
led Us up through the forbidding en-
trance, past the three or four huge
South of-France soldiers who were pa
trolling the way, and we stopped for a
look at the first great pile Of shells we
came to--a pile slowed neatly under a
tarpaulin, but showing through in ousi-
nesslike angularity and corduroy sur
face. The booming Of the guns had
droned of to nothing. We were full Of
computations Of the probable death and
destruction stored so compactly before
US, and
There is no describing the sound Of a
"seventy-fve" going of next door. One
went of at just that moment, and il
was as i: al the sound in the world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
By RUTH HALE

We had set out to make a day Of H.
under the guidance Of the French
Maison de Ia Presse in the devastated
region" of France, so lately got back
from the Germans. We were I'VE news
paper women, and we were 70 be i'm
proved, instructed, given our I'll OF
those first hand impressions OF t~e
trail of war that We had so stoutly
been clamoring for; then we were to
be returned TO our parents, our nus
bands or cur newspapers, according 20
where guardianship Of US was vested
in tn. record. Of the gallant French
officials. And, above all, we were 20 do
the thing safely and calmly, as ladies'
should, and have no shocks and no
alarms with which our hosts would
have need TO reproach themselves. We
wound up, an hour after we started, in
a mercifully spacious dugout (Which
our attendant officer called a "duk-
out" because he spoke Erglish) in q
wrecked sugar factory, now being used
as a store yard for munitions, while
the French "sev.nty-fves" from a few
miles TO the left of US fred shell after
she'll at a marauding German aero
plans directly ever our heads, and the
remnants Of burst shell peppered the
earth around Us and toyed around the
corners Of the stacks Of new mum
tions.
It was An untimely end for Ladies'
Day at the front. Dear knows when
there will be another one.
But II the thrill was extemporaneous,
IL was none the less a good one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

One of the chief works of the Bureau is that OF test
ing materials and supplies submitted to the government.
At this time of course this is more important than ever
saw one device for testing the soes of shoes Strips from
six SAMPLES of leather attached to wheel with SIX
sectors This rub in way that corresponds TO the step
of man of average weight against disk OF the average
d II s nossbIe to deterrnine-in fact, it is impos
chile not n deterrne-the durability, to the fraction OF
step of any sole submitted' Another conrivance tests
tvpeU7ter ribbons 1t determines the exact number OF
times the ribbon may be struck by the e key before it
wears through.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Newspaper Women Under Fire
On Visit to French Front
Gallant Officials Had No Intention Of Alarming heir
Charges but Along Came German Plane
Which Must Be Bombarded

were slan-banging at our ears, then
cracking straight of overhead IN
futile attempt 10 reach heaven. Inc
first report and the rip-roar that FOL
lows separate themselves in the effort
TO recall them, but then they sound all
Of a piece, and a whale Of big one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Our Own Ani-Suffrage Tracts
How to Keep Politics Out of the Home

well, my DEAR said the father of the family gayly as
he sat down at the head Of the table, II have good for
am to have raise in my salary Since these
tracts which the government"-
His wife lifted her finger mot before the children DEAR
she said warningly Not that wordw
Mortified at the dissertation of the home which he had so
houghlessy committed the husband reapsed into embar
raised silence and the younger son. Jimmy who began
What's the of selecve draft father, if they don't
exempt pitchers? swell chance have win if gov
eminent
BE silent James, exclaimed his mother sterny and then
she added gently: Il know you did any HARM
but you have just mentioned subject which good boy
speaks of before his mother"
1T my fault, said the father II set the example,
but the bad word of my mouth before realized
was saying"
His wife looked at him endery IF did not let ones
mind dwell such subjects love- the bad word would not be
ready" she answered.
The father coored deeply at this just rebuke and the
silence Agnes, the elder daughter, said brightly:
Il think, after ALL mother dear shall be able have my
last years aeta dyed Since the importation of foreign dyes
has stopped, the government'-
Agnes, this from your cried her mother with deep and
well merited reproach quvering in her voice.
Inundated at the uneninne license she had allowed her
tongue Agnes burst into tears Perhaps dearest mother
sobbed he safest plan would be speak at all
at meals"
Her mother smiled forgvingy That will be best she
will at least help to keep POLITICS OUT OF THE HOME"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
The National Bureau of Standards

The National Bureau of Standards is part OF the
Department of Commerce 1t was established IN 1919 10
establish standards (of measurement, quality, perform
rce and pracce and standard constants and to deal
with scientific and technical problems Now, large part
Of these problems is directly and wildly connected with
war work learned of thing for instance, that the
Bureau completed yesterday that to mind seems our
biggest achievement of the war. without consulting
George Cree know enough not to disclose It, There are
German SPIES am told, who rely on The lower 1or all
+bor information The whole thing done in sixty
DAVIS and it was something that without the Bureaus help
might well have taken year or two.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

saw another man working at something that takes
photographs at a distance of two miles. l don't under
stand the principle by which girl on clear day ana at
distance of five feet take an ordinary snapshot Oh
Ben who is about to jump from the at oeoag
e 90 the thought of taking photograph of object
two miles off made me dizzy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

Also saw an automatic typewriter operated like
player-pano When these become common no newspaper
Office foresee will be without one 1t will be part OF
every editorial writer's equipment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

And saw pendulums for testing, to the minutest
igramme Of pressure, the durability OF paper the re-
sistance and strength of texIes-such as aeroplane
- +be o,atv of rubber tires, the strains cloths,
cement wood,-anything.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

A Young man was working at an innocent looking
contrivance 1t wasn't perfect for there were aoerra
tons The error varied ne told me, between one Two
;Io+b and one +hreemiionth of the fty-thousandth
mart of an inch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
He called for a messenger.

He called for messenger The messengers IN the
pau are standard messengers, for no messenger an
o-od The Young man told to take the elevator to
Aha third floor and found the standard elevator man, too
who took me past the floor and then had to come back
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

came to the Bureau, if not to scott, at least to be
bored and remained to be fascinated and to worship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

In one room steel cylinder, perhaps eighteen
inches in diameter and three feet in height You can see by
be; waves the effect of slight finger pressure upon it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
The Sinews Of War

SaiIorman Turns Farmer, or Farmer Turns Sailor
man, in Harvesting Kelp on Pacific Coast-kaiser
Has Promoted Great New Enterprise for Produc-
ton Of Potash
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

The Bureau of Standards
Washington, August 4.

Riding to town the Chevy Chase car every morning
e pass group of official looking buildings, still well out
IN the country. What those? asked "The Bureau
Of Standards said my companion, who knows his Wash
nOton What do you mean standards'?' l inquired,
lansing into diomac speech. "Oh" he said "they have
all those perfect things in there-a perfect yard per
feet ton perfect pound. All such things rs that all
asked 81 don't know he said. 1--WE never been there"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
An institution Lat WashingtOnian-or even WASH

An institution that Washingtonan-or even WASH
;rCton correspondendoesn know everything, lnclud-
ing the True Lowdown Inside Stuff about is something
70 lae ones curiosity. And so, being neither Arnold
pnne+ nor Theodore Dresser tell you the number of
tho car and describe each of the passengers plunge ahead
70 where am requesting entrance to the Bureau Inc
Young man asked me whether wanted to see any one IN
particular or to investigate any special department told
him no. that until this morning had never heard OF the
Mace He asked to write my name, which did; and
little med suppose because had confessed unlanli
- With the Bureau he refrained from being bowled
~ ond nretended calmness. Inwardly, imagine, ne
was agtated but must admit that he carried it Oft beau
tifuly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
The Anti Speaks

try as far as am able
About the family dinner table
To speak of topics which appear
Of interest to my family dear:
My husband airs his business views,
My boys discuss the baseball news,
My girls will very often say
A word about the latest play.
But never vet has there been heard
Of politics one single word.
| am too pure to understand
The interests of my native land,
But government of course, know,
Is something execrably low,
a mystery so dark and vile
That it would utterly detile
My home; and so | tell my men:
If you must dabble now and then
In such theme of conversation
The plans and welfare of your nation
Discuss it at your club or bar,
But not where sheltered ladies are'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

A standard last line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Are Women People?
By ALICE DUER MILLER

Wis. do the anh-.uf,s,s think is the right their
DO YOU WANT POLITICS IN THE HoME'
No; keep il where il belongs. IN the saocs>
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05


inches in diameter and three feet in height You can see by
beur waves the effect of slight finger pressure upon it.
met Mr. Hurlburt head of the Weights and Meas
ures branch Are you interested in Weights and Meas
ures he asked well" said that's the title OF book
I'm working on right now, that's all Indeed ne COM
mented (Note to Doubleday, Page Co.: Send MIN
comp. copy)
saw the standards Of weight and of capacity. What
Interested me most the standard gallon Take 1t from
motorst, it looked enormous.
had luncheon with DR.. Straton, Director OF the
Bureau: Mr. F. J. Schlink his assistant and some of the
other workers We had, with no deviation from the norm
perfect salmon salad and of the andardes peaches
ever served.
When the war is over, Mr.. Schlink told me- the
Bureau which already has experimental with Self and
Mutual Inductance Of Linear Conductors intends to have
me cast something for it.
- - liz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

The best to this to other ati-sufrast arr
ents is to be found in the writings of Mr. Elhu Root In
cture THE Citizens Part in Government" he says in
enera condemnation of those who consider politics benea
lem:
81 have said that there are serious evils incident
to the management Of political parties, and some
of these l shall presently MENTION but they are all
evils which would be readily remedied if the citizens
generally who are in agreement upon the principles of
the respective parties would recognize their response
biy and perform the political duties which upon
them as citizens. The fact that such evils exist in
stead of being for not engaging in party &C
tivity is for engaging in it. Such fact pre-
sents clear and imperative duty to remedy the evil
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-09-25
.SW|TCHIISOLD|ER5
IIBACK ANDIFORTH
UNCLE SAM MAY FILL NATIONAL
GUARD COMPANIES FROM
CAMP LEWIS

CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. = Drafted
men from Camp Lewis will be sent to
camps where Utah and California
guardsmen are now in training to
bring the regiments of those states up
to war strength.
The decision of the war department
to fill out these regiments with Camp
Lewis men will make it possible for
Camp Lewis to accommodate the con-
scripts of this district without build
ing more barracks. The cantonment
is not large enough to house the 49,,
149 men ordered to report here.
The government is able to shift men
from one camp to the other over wes-
tern roads without added cost because
most of the railroads are grant roads
and must haul troops free
California's "conscript guardsmen"
will go direct to Charlotte, n c. and
the Utah men will go to Linda Vista,
California.