Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-20

GVGnIUE, Il
German soldier came to the pension
and asked for me. 1 was scared until
was white. He said he wanted to
search my room. i didn't know what
passport. He searched 1t and, believe
me, II had been trying to hide pin,
l think he would have found 1t.
of course he found the passport.
Just buckled under me. .You said you
Lost your passport" he said. 81 Just
found it," 1 managed to gasp out. "and
invent had time yet to report IT."
Ennt was all that saved me.
1 was SO frightened that looked
MIN straight In the eyes as 1 said IL
and he believed 1t,
Later l got a new passport, but i
certainly did not keep the old one.
l realize now that 1 never would
nave gotten out of Germany with 1t,
Sor " would have been found at the
INSULTS TO AMERICAN FLAG.
mad a narrow escape from prison,
for If they had not believed my 'lost
and found" story they would have
thought was a spy. sure. Every
little suspicious circumstance Is tax.
en- right up to have a deep meaning
over there. That Is why they do not
permit any persons to speak in Eng
lish. not even over the telephone.
They are afraid that. by using some
unusual word, information of somo
sort may be passed along. You will
be cut of If you try to speak Eng
lish on 'he telephone.
The first year of the war. catching
spies was almost as common as
catching flies. But this last year,
only once in long time did we hear
of any spy being caught Really I
don't see how a spy can live very
long in Germany. so close n watch is
Kept on every person in its borders,
especially in the big cities
I'll venture to say that from the
time the war broke out, the German
war Office has record of every place
L went. every person l talked to or
wrote to and, almost every thought
thought. Hardly the last though, or
l never would have gotten out.
Even before the United States en-
tered the war, the American nag was
inEulted and treated lightly. To wear
IL wns no protection to any person.
And after the United States and Italy
both entered the war, 1 had hard
lines. The Germans hate the ItaI-
ians, as they say Italy broke her
when she entered the war. The Ger
mans say they never, never will enter
Italy, except ms conquerOrs. My
name before married was very Ital-
Ian, and 1 received many slurs be-
cause OF II. Then when 1 would say
As much as could I supported my
parents' country, Italy, and my own,
Amertca, but sometimes had to
take slurs and insults to- save my Iih-
crty and, l do not doubt, my life.
GETTING MARRIED.
When Mr.. Brown came over to
marry me, he asked me one day
where he would go TO get a little
American flag to wear in his button
hole so people would know he wasn't
English. 1 told him I didn't know
and. IL 1 did. I wouldn't get it, for I
would not dare go in store and ask
for 1t. That was hard for him to
understand at first but, after he had
been there a few weeks, he UNDER
stood.
When we did get married, we had
more trouble that II we had wanted
to rob a bank. We had to be mar
ried by a lawyer eventually. We
and get an interpreter to go with u.s.
We had no birth certificates or
papers of that kind and we had to
make aftidavits without number. /
know, when finally we presented our
selves for the actual marriage cere-
mony, we each had a stack of papers
on which we had sworn various
things, four inches thick. 1t seemed,
at times, that the whole machinery
OF the German nation was in force TO
prevent our getting married. But,
finally we did.
My husband left Germany before
the real trouble for Americans
started, and I was glad. for If an
American woman had a hard time
there. an American man had it much
worse.
Even the Germans would not put a
woman to as many inconveniences
and troubles as a man-and that is
saying a lot.
Tomorrow Marie Brown will tell
about "The Kaiser and his PaopIe.,l
To he Continued