The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-11-29
THE BLUE TRIANGLE
ON BABEL'S TOWER

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blue figure suddenly bent down over
her. EXcitedly she shook her head in
answer to the question that she could
not understand. She searched through
her red plaid waist for the paper that
Tony had folded into a little square
and given to her. The writing on 1t,
in the English that Tony knew and she
did not, told the house where she lived.
Tony had explained it all to her that
morning. lie had told it to her again
at the station. Then, waving his hat,
he had disappeared into the train Witb
the rest of the men, and Lucia had
been left standing oueside the gate.
There were crowds Of women pushing
all about her. They were weeping.
SO Lucia Wept, too.
Lucia had been bctrothed to Tony
in the old country. Five years before,
with a long ticket for New York
pinned into his inside pocket, her lover
had left her. He wrote in every let
ter tina he had made her a home in
the new country. Her dowry money
had finally provided her own transpor-
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she had been married. Then he had
drawn a ticket with q number on 1T,
and this morning he had gone off TO
war.
To the policeman Lucia told all these
things in rapid Italian. But the pO-
liceman only talked back to her as
rapidly in a language that was not
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Headquarters. An hour later q Wom-
an wearing American clothes gently
began talking to her in beautiful ltal-
ian.
Italian Lucia was only one of thou
sands of f~oreign-bOrn women. Syrians,
Italians, Armenians, Russians, Lithu-
anians. Polish, who. when the draft
called their men folk TO the American
colors, asked in helpless confusion
what it was al about. When would
their men be back? What did people
mean when they told them they would
receive money through the mail?
Where could they find work that they
knew how to aof Was there no II
who copll ~eypidin It all 10 them IN
their own language?
The Y. N. f.. 4. WAS ready 40 offer
assistance. hnf Iii would hc of no value
to OTTER it.in English. Consequently
ii had to Supply i corps "a women Who
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