Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-08-29
Low Wash Basins and LIttle
Shower Baths Adapted Tor TIC
Use Of the Tots.
CHATEAU DEs HALLEs II
NOW CHlLDREN'S HOSPITAL
One Of the Most Complete e.
tablishments Of It's Kind II
France, With Jolly Playroonle
and Toys to Amuse Patients.
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Up In the mountains, where the
snow falls early and lies deep. 80 miles
from Lyons. is the little French village
Of Les Halles-a story book village
with Its massive stone church standing
sentinel over two long rows OF trim,
blue-gray plaster cottages. And mile
farther on Is the Chateau des aallss
where your Red Cross has estabiishoo
q home for 200 sick children.
Mangini built the. chateau Man.
gtnt was the man who built the tail.
road along the Riviera and many 9th
er railroads In France. And thirty
odd years ago he builf this castle up
In the mountains for his country home.
But soon. after his two. children died.
Then he died, and when his widow tol.
lowed him she left the chateau to the
city Of Lyons to be used as q hospital
for children.
The Ware Wreeksss. e
Then came the war. A little riyulst
Of the. wars wreckage began to .trickle
in at Evian-7srep atries. elderly men
and women, children. even babies, who
had once lived In the parts Of France
engulfed by the German tides ana
whom the Germans, finding them siiss-
less. were beginning to ship back int
France by way Of. Switzerland. Grad.
ually this rivulet swelled. Soon 1000
Of these unfortunates were arriving
at Evian daily. And fully half Of
them we're children. undernourished,
thinly clad, dirty, sickly and. worse,
grim, spiritless. with faces that had
forgotten how to smile.
To care for these children was the
task your Red Cross at once assumed.
Working with the French authorities,
the Red Cross secured permission 70
make use Of the old ana almost forgot.
ten Chateau des Halles up there 10
the mountains For years the castle:
had been closed. No effort had evef
been made to ct 1T up as q hospital
Your Red Cross had to begin at tho,
very beginning.
81 Rooms Big and Jolly.
But what q wonderful task 1t has
accomplished The Chateau de-
Halles. transformed into a chiIdren's
hospital and rest home in furiOua
haste under the terrible pressure Of
war needs. with little time to think
twice and no time to retrieve errors,
is not only one Of the most complete
establishments ofits kind; It 10 one Of
the best children's hospitals 10 an
France The two rooms where the
arriving children are isolated for .
few days are big, Jolly rooms-1usi
what is need to efface from the little
ones minds the memories Of those lnan
days behind the German lines. The
big play room Is strewn with rocking
horses and wonderful smile-enticins
parrots and other toys carved by the
wounded poilus.
And 80 you stray from room to room,
and everywhere you and new, eyi.
dences of this watchful care. Ana
then you reach the bathrooms. This
chateau was built BY a man Of wealth.
Its plumbing was excellent, and iyet e
has been stripped ont and replaced
with little, low. wash basins and little
Shower: baths that the children can uss
more comfortably.
e That is how your Red Cross thinko
! and cares for Frances children.