The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-06
CONDITIONS IN FRANCE AS WAR
 WAS DECLARED
Baronne 6 H uard Civ e s Graphic Description of
 German Cruelty
PARENT TEACHERS
 MEETING THURSDAY
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robert son Speaks Before the
 Art Club.

than we have any conception, was brought close to an audience that taxed the capacity of the Bridgeport High school auditorium, when Ba- ronne Frances Wilson Huard related her soul-trying experiences in the days that followed the opening of the great war. The Baronne was brought here by the Little Sisters and this little band of young women have supported a number of worthy causes, but none more so than that which she repre- sents. She has agreed to support a hospital that cares for 120 soldiers, and to this hospital are brought all the most desperately wounded. In order to get sufficient funds the Ba- rome is featuring, selling books that she has written and selling etchings which are the work of her husband, one of the official artists for France.
 : All through her lecture ran a path- etic note the belief of her self and all the French people that the war could not possibly last. She related instances that would make ones blood run cold and then with her dry wit relieved the tenseness of the situ- ationl with some Humorous remark. Past her beautiful Chateau streamed the Belgian refugees, thousands of them, and as long as she could she relieved the sufferings of the people. She was obliged to leave her own home at in the morning because of the approach of the Germans.
 E With few members of her house. hold she set off for the South of France. The trip was trying one, village after village would be reached only to discover. that the frightened inhabitants had fled and with the Hun hardly ever more than three miles behind her she was forced to press on and on until a British camp was reached. In one little town after working in an improvised hospital until late she was going to get some rest A French soldier approached her, wounded in one shoulder and asked her if she were married. When she. said "Yes," he asked If she would lend him her shoulder, and he sobbed his heart out, saying she knew 1t wasn't his wound that made him do that but because his wife and three babies were shut up in the town of valenciennes with the Germans and he knew, had seen what the Germans could do. Baronne Huard said that for three years and six months she tried through every embassy to find out what was going on in that town but that no one knew.
 After the victory at the Marne she was able to get back to her lovely home and when she arrived the scene of desolation and destruction was in- describable. There was not pane of glass in the 96 windows, everything was ruined, and the filth was beyond words. There were German noble men quartered in her home. The house was again converted into a hos pital and cases of malignant typhoid entrusted to her care. Five hundred but one death.
 and her personality pleasing yet one that carries with it great frmness and decision. She has undertaken an al- most gigantic task. but after her re- ,citaI of the horrors endured on her flight from and return to her home one felt sure she would be successful.
 At the conclusion of her talk a sil- yer collection was taken and a goodly sum was raised. Bradford D. Pierce introduced her and at the same time complimented the Little Sisters on the fine work they were doing.
 There Is to be meeting of the Par ent-Teachers Association Of Hunting ton Road School on Thursday after noon at o'clock according to a mo- 5ce issued by the president, Mrs ! H. Enmons. At this time Christmas plans will be discussed.
 Miss Katherine Iuddington of Lyme is the candidate for the presi- dency of the Connecticut Woman suf- frage Association at the annual meet ing to be held in Hartford tomorrow and Wednesday. The members of the association wish it understood that 1 they are in no wise in sympathy with the Congressional Unionfsts who be- I.eve in picketing, but that they feel it their duty to cooperate heartily in any patriotic work in which they can help and that the members who are openly for picixetfng are being weeded out. Mrs. Ernest Thompson l Seton is the candidate' for the vice. presidency and Miss Caroline Ruutz- Rees is to be County chairman.
 Mrs. Samuel c. Shaw, president of the Bridgeport Equal Franci,axe League. introduced Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Roberteon Ha1e to the mem bers of the Bridgeport Art League yesterday afternoon at the first leo- ture in the course planned by the league. The bathroom of The stra4-
 field was well filled witt, m audience that greatly appreciated the wonds of Mrs. fIale and enjoyed her talk i'm
 mensely. Her subject, '1'he Movies, Musical Comedy and the Modern Play" gave promise of being inter esting and the promise was moro than fulfilled
 I Mrs. Hale said that the inovias were the greatest educational 1orcs ox the present time and also great fac- tor for good ar evil. In her opinion the movie is mefolrama. nnd melo, drama is the movie. The drapaa Is
 moro often tffan not eonfounded with the show, which is a perfectly legft4-