The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-20
ACQUIRE HARMONIcA HABIT.
French Soldiers Delighted With Yankee
Musical Instrument.

New York sun. The French never
had the harmonica habit before the
war" said Miss Carla Dagmar. a war
nurse. VINO is mere recuperaung after a
sears work with the American Fund
for French wounded in Paris. But the
great war has wrought wOndrous
changes and now when We give pOIu
q surprise bag there is always Yankee
harmonica included
The French soldier ls as delighted
as G child with new TOY over this sim
pie music maker. 1T has whiled away
many a tedious hour when the men
were behind the lines and the poilus
now demand a harmonic ir every com
fort kit
But there are other things in a sur
prise bag which delight the soldier Pc
turning % duty al the front. I'm this
kit We put a pair o. socks. a pipe and
tobacco. chocolate. q comb. a game and
piece u soap. besides the harmonica
We Try 70 give q surprise nag 10 each
man returning 90 the front.
The bags are furnished by the
American Fund f0r French wounded
but they ar not confined 20 wounded
soldiers This Is only one of the things
made possible by the cooperation and
generosity OF YOUR wonderful American
women What would We have done with.
out the American women, have Hved
in Paris Tor many years and So ] know
French conditions pretty well and can
realize what widespread aid American
women have given. not only in money
but iu service
American girls are even driving the
motor cars and trucks used In Paris 90
delivering the stuff sent out by the
fund Tor French wounded We have
eight or ten ~ these motors. each guided
by an American girl Not only that
but your women have been teaching
scores of French blinded meu and Grip
pied men % knit These poor blinded
men are now actually knitting socks and
even complicated sweaters for the use
% their brothers In the first line
trenches
Scores % American women and girls
also are now devotlnE their time IN the
evenings 60 taking the blinded men ont
20 walk The men need exercise. and
20 act az guide Tor these poor sightless
ones is jus, az much Of a war service
as anything else
But no matter how much they do
no matter how much We an do. /;
seems there viii be more work. and
still more work. for everybody until
some means b. found Of defeating thes.
brutal Prussians fear the suffering
that another winter wiz bring 20 Paris
unless great advantages are gained 10
/ the meantime
Before ! lefi Paris the manager q;
/ the Hotel Crillon where ] was stop.
ping. told me that he would have 70
close the hotel next winter unless 10
could get coal This Is one forbiddinr
part Of the outlook. the suffering TIM,
viii come unless We can win back the
coal fields.
Speaking o. the war work u women
IN Paris ] must mention Nine Natalie
Anderson. a woman of Swedish birth
who haF lived long In the French cspi
tai Nine. Anderson IL 7s years old
but despite her axe she has taker
eighteen wsr orphans into her hons
and is taking care o. them. assisted bl
her old cook who mas been with he'
Tor thirtyfive years. u is a touchinl
picture 90 see her IN the old garden sur
rounded by this little flock Of innocents
But that is only one picture of hun
dreds 70 be- seen in Paris a city file,
with the path0s and grandeur u th'
great war"