The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-08-23

comfort begs were made ana hl!ed, 10
suits Of pajamas were finished and 10
housewives" filed. At 4 o'clock
business meeting was held, conducted
By Mrs. p. T. Morse, the secretary, in
the absence Of Mrs. Mabel j. Adams,
president. The trcasurer's report was
read and accepted.
At the close Of the business meet
ing Mrs. Mortimer Forest, who is
cues, of Col. and Mrs. A. b. Chandler,
was introduced. Mrs. Forest has for
some time been in France in the in
tcrost of the American Fund for
French Wounded and she very graph
ically pictured some Of the horrible
conditions existing there in the foi'
lowing paper, said the Randolph Her
aid and News in its last issue:
at has been said many times, and
with much truth, that the workers in
France have the interesting part to do
while the drudgery is left to the work
ers at home. | doubt If /, left over
here after my experiences on the other
side, could settle down to this drudg-
cry and do my part, day after day.
even knowing the necessities as i DO,
and | wish that could tell you what
garment of gratitude and admlra-
ton each one of you have woven for
herself in the eyes of the French
people. You must, in way, work in
the dark, just hoping that the gar
ments and bandages and the comforts
will reach home and do their separate
duties. Without you our work over
there would stop.
.In place of monotony we have our
hearts and nerves shocked; have
winked back more tears than would
| fill Niagara; have gone unwashed and
been tired and cold, and we have all
tried. haven't we, TO do what VIC
could? We all grow discouraged and
we all need to brace up ard do more
for the fighting is going or; each day
brings its wounded; hospitals are NIL
ed to OVERLOOKING; families are with
out homes or clothing; babies are borr
who will find stories of sorrow ant
horror in mother eyes, where We
learned to read love and welcome.
"When you read of any bit OF
trench newly taken by the enemy car
YOU picture to yourself at all what II
| is like-in winter months partly fillec
with freezing mud; the vermin-rldden
filthy homes of boys, who might be
your boys? Do you know that, ovel
and over again, Germans have filled
gaps in entertainments with still living
bodies of boys, who might have beer
your boys? Don't we all want to &c
without much needed dresses and bu,
socks for the feet of the boys fighting
our fight in the trenches, and If We
could follow the ambulances bach
from the trenches and if we could take
peep at the "poilu" just laid betweeI
warm blankets wouldn't we be glad Il
we could think that we had sent those
blankets or made the pajamas that NJ
wears? He might have beer. our boy
you know.
AT one point, where the Germans
were made to fall back and give place
; 70 English soldiers, the enemy retail
; ated by crucifying many of their pris
,, Understanding them floating dow
! the river, drowned, to be picked up b!
their comrades.
"When you know that, during SOM
months, war bread must be choppe'
into bits to be eaten it is natural tina
sometimes our carefully chosen an
well-cooked dinner should suddenl
u lose its flavor or seem over-salted, Tx
the tears that have been shed.
81 do not like the expression tina
i has come to be so universally used, o
ones doing, or having done, ones Dit
1t seems to imply limit to what on
should do; d finished Job and Their
is no finished job while the war sha
last. or while there is such sufferin
on account of the war. With all IN
: horrors and heartbreaks it is time Q
: character-building to us all; the chi
drcn who wave hands at the passin
trainload of soldiers; the self-deniers
the workers.
"One dear lady | know, while iai
. nm by broken hip, her arms restin
. on the plaster cast that extended
!, her feet, knit and sent to our FAR
depot seventy-two sweaters, and 81
didn't think that she had done he
!. bit
"A letter, enclosing a cheque ft
81 five hunrded dollars, reached u
Paris Office, sent by school teach'
y Who said that she had, during mar
4 wears. saved the money from her sma
: salary for her last illness and ouria
!, but that the appeal sent out by u
Aoer;can Fund for French Wound'