Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-26
POOR RICHARDS HOSTS
OF BELGIAN HEROINE
Suzanne Silvercruys Enter
tanned at Luncheon-Pictures
Her Country's Plight
GRATEFUL TO AMERICA
President of Club Presents Flag
Typical of Friendship and
Sympathy

Picture slender girl. not much taller
as Rosalind would say, than a mans
heart-a girl who is brimming with fun.
but who, unlike most other girls of her
age, is thinking night and day of one
thing only, the sorrows of her own ma
ton,
That ks Suzanne Slvcrcruys Today.
at the Poor Richard Club, Il roomful
OF business men tried to show her how
deeply they honor the work she has
done for her native country. Belgium.
Miss Silvercruys wore thu costume of
Belgian peasant girl, her long, dark
curls falling about her cheeks. After
the luncheon, at which she was the guest
Of honor, the president of the Poor
Richards, Rove Stewart, presented her
with a beautiful American flag of silk.
each Of whose stars represented Il con-
tribution madt to the Belgian relief
fund by some member of the club who
had been moved by her appeal for aid
to rescue the afflicted people of Bel
gium And with the flag went the prom
ise Of the clug to present $500 to the
Belgian relief committee in her behalf
on March l.
FLAG PLEDGES SYMPATHY
I'VE want you to take this flag With
you when you go back to Brussels y
said Mr. Stewart, "as Il reminder of the
sympathy which we shall always hold
for the people of brave Belgium Re
member II you will, that this flag is
an exact duplicate, in size, in quality
and in standard, of the flag which hangs
above General Pershng's headquarters
In France, and that, like General
pershing $ flag it is a pledge that Amer
leans are lighting in Belgiums noble
cause"
! The little Belgian girl answered
simply, with the delicious hint of accent
that marks her English Simply she
told of the relief work which must go
within the boundaries of Brussels and
outside them, without a word of the
funds which are required for each
. branch of that work.
Under the Pennsylvania Fund in
Brussels" she said. (which cares for
sick children and sick old persons, a
daily ration Is given to each person
consisting of six slices of bread-not
good Liberty bread like you have here,
but black bread-half a slice of bacon.
a quarter of pound of peas beans and
coffee and bowl of soup. An Ameri-
can member of the Belgian Relief oom-
mission tOlQ me lie llltu Niit NV ~
week and lost seven pounds. Yet
that is all that can be spared
PENNSYLVANIA LEADS.
Pennsylvania has done more than
any other State in the United states
for Brussels. And I can't help think
ing that is because the spirit OF NllIiahi
Penn is still alive. ,,
Yesterday I sent $1,000 TO the Car.
yltnd administered
within Brussels. You know there are
many people too proud TO accept soups
although their need is bitter Ana
Cardinal Mercer helps such people Sc
cretly from these funds sent 10 nm
third fund, distributed withln bei'
GUM, is that for saving the ll'es oi
little babies less than six months olu'
Then outside of Brussels are the hTH ,n
ni,aIs in France, which care for the chli'
dren of Belgian refugees VINO Ia =,
stricken with tuberculosis. lhero az
also the childrens hospitals III the ile'
mart of Belgium, where King Alper.
stilI stands and to which the counties
children who are wounded by the pono
ing of Belgian cities are brought. Ah'
there Is in Cannes, in the south o.
France the Hospital of Philadelphia
which has been standing since June
1915, and over which floated the mrs
American flag displayed III th't s'
Of France
PATHos AND PATRIOTISM
She paused and then added sottly
AT night when ! go home II an
4 tired by my days work, ! tel mysel
that maybe. by your help, ] have ina Ina
day saved a. little baby in Belgium An
them am not tired any more -.
''When The war broke out" she re
sumed, with a sudden flashing or ne
eyes that seemed like the eNaspersIe
stamp of a foot. Il was SO Hiau ..
Belgium that l shall do, Your Amerl
can boys are going over there no"
What a day"
That was all she said But the sudde
flash of fire with which she SAID
brought a storm OF cheers.