The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-09-20

for the human mind to be able to
take them in. When at parting a
single halting word of personal SYM
pathy could not be forborne, we were
begged to remember that our hostess
considered herself zone of the very
most fortunate of ALL"
Such today are the women of
France. But the composure of the
French people in its totality, the poll
us and the civil population, is a thing
unique; there is something frighten-
ing in it. There is also something
contagious. AS you live on in France
it grows harder and harder to speak
Isorbing everybody's whole attention.
This is not apathy-it is an inner
concentration on an end. Words kill
no Germans, we have found, and the
lGerman has himself reduced the
whole present duty of civilized man
to that one tragic necessity.
If nothing but killing can save the
whole planet from becoming one vast
pays devastc, ruled over by the bru-
tality of Prussian militarism, evident
ly the stern business must 90 on,
without passion, without malice, un-
til we have killed the necessary num-
bcr. Not because they are Germans,
but because they are momcntarily the
enemies Of humanity. | said it was
Impossible to pity France, but it is
very possible to pity Germany. Pity,
however has nothing to do with dcs-
pcratc necessity of the moment Man
kind is fighting for freedom; the two
ultimate things are engaged,
| Probably there is not a woman in
France today, however gentle, who
would not willingly 30 into the trcn-
chcs and take her share in The killing
of that which threatens all mother
Ihood, all womanhood, all childhood
yet all the time with a great pity in
her heart. Certainly women at all
noble-minded would rather go into
the trenches than stay behind and in
cite others to go-our present hard
or task. Some Of us are driven to
jenvying our brave Russian sisters.
But hard or easy matters nothing
now-we are all alike convinced that
1T is better that not only the German
race, but the entire human race
should disappear from the planet in
a final affirmation of mans will to
freedom than to drag on in Prussian
| chains.
Ht-hn .,>1.
those who have not looked on at that
Prussian system at work and who lack
| imagination to conceive it. They
have not seen the people of the liber-
ated regions arrive in groups, dumb
and terrible, like hunted animals, al
most dehumanizcd by misery. Of
mothers whose young daughters have
been torn from them, the tongue
lacks language to speak. One won
ders, as one listens, that there is a
woman left sane where the German
army has passed.
| The War Scars of Women
| And here let me say, if after this
war the women of the world are not
heard from, then is all prophecy vain.
we hear-hear endlessly-of the va
Tor and the sufferings of the men.
and neither can be ovcrstatcd; but
the agonics and valor of the women
cannot be statcd-until the war is
over. Then some one woman or all
womankind will bring in the inLicl.
ment which the war is silently m.-
turing IN the dumb souls of millions
OF women. The men Of the world are
preparing to settle that world pre-
sently, round a table, by themselves.
as they have settled the world down
all the ages. Never in that world
were the men of the world so loved,
so admired, so nearly idolizcd bv its
women as they are at this moment:
we can hardly look on them unmovcd
SO cnnobled do they seem to US bv
their sacrifices, by their devotion to
something besides ourselves.
Yet if the men think they are 90
ing to settle the world quite by them
selves after this war, surprises are in
store for them. War, which has cost
them much, has cost woman infinitely
more.
For every broken mans life thorc',
at least two broken hearts of women.
! FOR every mutilatcd soldier there is
Il woman who has suffered worse than
mutllaLion. And there is this differ
/ ehce between his wounds and hers
; ms will heal and the scars remain
MS glory; even her sears mus; be
concealed, and her cross of war is
, not given as a decoration-she has
! Deen nailed to it bodily and carries
the stigma in her soul. No woman
can forget.
1t is the secret knowledge of these
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