The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-22
Social Happenings

nearer her husband, her sons, and her
daughter, if she lived near the big guns
and constantly heard the noise Of bat
tie.
9tShe used to stand in the doorway
and watch them carry the dead Tom
mics from the trenches to the little
cemetery behind the town. She always
cried little as they passed because
her men-folk had passed in the same
way and been buried without cere-
mony.'
"Then one day the notion came.
Their mothers would like to follow
them to their graves, but they were
Somewhere in England. Why not she
as someone might have done for her
husband and her sons.
"The idea was haunting and she
went at once to the British commander
and told him her desire. He had seen
enough Of war to understand and was
kind enough to grant her wish. 1t was
a sentimental thing yes-but it would
make her happy and she deserved a
little compensation-this woman with
three heroes dead and daughter en-
shaved in Germany.
Thereafter little woman in black
followed the sad professions to the
graveyard Silently but reverently she
stood beside the yawning graves and
dropped sprig of myrtle or evergreen
upon the bodies shrouded in the Union
Jack. It was all that she could do and
she did it for his mother.
"That is the spirit of the women of
France"
Advocates Red Cross Work.
III can It say too much for the Red
Cross Association said Mrs. Peat.
f'It is almost a hundred per cent eff
cient and that in spite Of the fact that
it works under serious handicaps. I'm
less your husbands, sons and brothers
are killed outright the chances are ten
to one that the Red Cross will save
their lives and send them back home
to you little crippled, perhaps, but
alive and well--that is as well as men
can be who have faced gas and felt the
horror of German fire.
Missing
"The Red Cross Association does
something else, - she continued, (which
makes it boon and blessing to ev-
eryone he left back home. 1t helps to
locate the missing men and in so doing
quiets haunting fears or silences un-
grounded hopes that will eventually
bring greater sorrow.
"You American women have not yet
learned the grief of having one you
love among the missing There are
so many things that might have hap
pened to him. He may have been cap
| tured and taken to the heart of Ger
many to be starved to death or tor
tured by men who live to 'strafe Eng
land He may have been wounded
and cared for by French peasants who
did not know enough to tell the officers
about his whereabouts. Grand here
we think the thing we hate so much to
say-he may have been blown to atoms
so completely that not even q metal
check was left to tell the folks he
loved that he had died in noble honor
able battle.
cred Cross officials keep lists of
missing men and as the wounded sol
diers are brought in from the front
they ask them if they know Of Sergeant
A or Private B or Captain g Of this or
that brigade. In this way many lost
soldiers are located among the living
or the dead and are no longer listed
upon the maddening register of miss
ing men,.
Lauds Women in War.
What man can do woman can do
as well if not better
With this succinct statement Mrs.
Peat began her discussion of women in
war-work. In her quotation of stats
tics which followed she showed beyond
question that women have risen to the
emergencies of war and are working as
heroically at home as men are fight
ing at the front.
Elm England alone,'' she declared,
"1,260,000 women are doing men s
work in munitions factories. In a
cordite factory at Gretna Green $4,000
employees out of total of $4,000 are
women and it is considered one of the
most efficient plants In England. In
one shipyard along the coast women are
building submarine a day, which ism It
so bad for folks who were formerly
considered able to do nothing but push
a perambulator or play the latest popu-
lar song on the washboard.
81 myself say four girls pack 300
shells each weighing 2S pounds in the
space of eight hours and in the whole
time not one of them hesitated for a
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