The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-01-11
.aNt RICtN GIRL
IN BUCHAREST
DANCER FROM IOWA DENouNcEs
GERMAN TROOPS.
FAILS TO ANGER SOLDIERS
Miss Phyllis Davis .of Washington
Tried to "start Something" When
Gen. Won Mackensen Troops !
March Into the City. .

Bucharest, via courier to Berlin,
VIA Sayvillt, Jan. 8.--An American
girl from Washington County, Iowa,
tried to start something in the way of
anti-German demonstration when Gen
eial Won Mackensen's men marched
into Bucharest.
! She is Phyllis Davis, daughter of a
farmer, w. S. Davis, and she is a
blonde and pretty. Having lived in
Bucharest for more than year, and
loving the Roumaniahs, she appointed
herself a committee Of one to receive
the invader as she felt he deserved To
be received. H.4a '
| While the women of the Germano-
phile section Of Bucharest's popula-
ton stood on the sidewalks throwing
| flowers, bonbons and cigarets at the
troops, Phyllis from Iowa, also pres.
ent and active in the throng, cried,
Down with the bouches!" at the
soldiers and scolded the Germano-
phile Roumanians for receiving them
well.
Fails to Anger Soldiers.
But the demonstration failed to ma
terialize The soldiers only grinned
at her and the Roumanians begged
her not to spoil the sport.
81 wondered" she said, that the
Germans did not arrest me. But moth
ing happened. That was the madden,
ing part of it, l am terribly ashamed
OF those Roumanians, But they are
like that They are children"
Miss Davis was a dancer in Ameri-
can vaudeville. In April, 1914, she
sailed for Europe, more to see the
world than to dance. After an engage
ment in ST. Petersburg she went to
Bucharest and signed contract to
dance at the Alhambra. There she dis
covered that the manager expected
his artists to sit. until o'clock in the
morning drinking champagne with
the men in the audience. TX.
That didn't go with me-" she said.
What she said to the management
was, What you want is not artists
but Cocottes, and I'm leaving"
Given Aid OF Vopicka. <.
Then our minister, Charles ]. Vo-
picka of Chicago, had to get her out
or trouble for breach of contract. AS
she receives an income from home
and likes Bucharest, she has stayed
on and has observed the affairs with
considerable keenness. The Rouman-
ians liked her independent ways and
She has seen a good deal.
"Roumania," she says, is wholly
unprepared for war, though the people
DO not know that even yet. l have
been up in their aeroplanes and al
ways wondered if I'd ever come down
alive, such rattletraps are they. The
soldiers are good but the officers are
bad, and mad over pleasure.
"A French prince found a group Of
them in a cafe one night when the
Germans we're closing in on Bucfiar
est and said: Gentlemen, your place
is In the trenches They readily
agreed with him, but did not go to
the trenches" "
Queer American FLAG.
Over the entrance of the yellow stuc
co villa where Miss Davis lives there
hangs the most curiously designed
American flag that l ever saw. It con-
tains eight stars and six stripes and
the colors have run.
at may look funny" Miss Davis
said, but it served to protect me from
having soldiers quartered in my house
had it made at store where | buy
much.
Then I scolded the man for put
ting in only eight stars: He said. How
should l know how many stars your
flag has?' But he knows now, for our
flag is all over Bucharest.