Evening star., 1917-09-09

but c'est la guerre. and we go on and
forget little things like that.
Il have q ward of twenty-five beds,
all my own. and well equipped little
nurse in charge. The head nurse who
has charge of our department is a
sweet. comforting spirit, who often en-
courages me with. i am very content
wiz YOU
81 am almost full up with patients
now. and the greater number of them
are poor. broken creatures who have
been gSssed-both tear and asphyxiat-
ing gas. 1t is SO horrible to see them
suffer: their eyes always weeping and
their breathing just like one in the
throes OF acute asthmatic attacks. I
have suffered enough with asthma to
make me more sympathetic than the
average person, and I find myself
struggling hard with them. trying to
make them breathe the easier.
1T is like an awful nightmare 70 stop
and to know that all this is. When l
look up on the wall and see our gas
masks that We must have ready for
whatever may come along. ! am daZed.
Yet. when l see the poor men who have
been brought in from just q few miles
away. / come to my senses and am so
glad even to try to help them.
''The other night an aerial battle just
above US filled our grounds with pieces
of sh~apnel. and we watched our aero
planes another night chase back a Ger
man one.
The other evening We had tea with
some English officers. They apologized
for their frayed cuffs, lost buttons and
torn pockets. One Of them was so
much in need of repairs. ! offered to
patch him up il he would bring his
clothes to me. which was such an un-
English thing to do, l fear he thinks
had designs on him,
II hope l will have our boys to look
after when they come-I mean. all of
the Georgia boys. OF course, I could
not do all the mending or much Of IT
myself, but ] could get people to do it,
and they work for SO little over here in
dear heroic France"
Out in Chicago. where the Fashion
Art League is now in session, the au-
thorities are prog
Knocking at the nosticating re-
n. turn of the hustle
an eventuality
which seems to the la st degree improb-
able. The New York Herald, editorially
commenting upon the matter, remarks:
The revival of the hustle is reac-
tionary movement of enormous posi-
bilities, and one that throws open a
broad avenue of speculative thought.
into the past and it is likely to resur-
rect the 'Grecian bend" the water
fall" the trailing skirt the "tasseIs
on her boots" the widespreading, up
spreading crinoline and even those twin
horrors of the sixties. the prunella
shoe and the pantalettes.
For years the hustle and the hoop-
skirt have been knocking a the doors
OF fashion and vainlN seeking admit
tance. If women really dress to pleas
men they Will continue to keen them
out. but the humorists will be glad to
welcome them.
On the very heels of this comes also
from western authority the maddeninelv
conflicting
Maddeningly Con- announce
ficting Announcements. men. .n, .nas aazs
for women. decidedly to the fore in Can
ada, England and France. have not as vet
made much of hit in this country But
We venture to prophesy that by this time
next-year, if the war lasts as long as
that. these bifurcated garments will be in
general use in this country, both among
women in industry and their more pros
perous but scarcely less Industrious sis
ters who work in gardens. in war relief