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were like children over fairy tales.
Late in the afternoon word came would
please go to Isolation, the boys there
were so blue. Down went. and found
SIX IN various stages OF the blues,
buried under their blankets. In twenty
minutes we were all on pile having
great time. No old soldier with a
wooden leg was ever more popular as
story teller. In the end each one told
me all Of their troubles. One bow.
after being in uniform, went home to
say goodby; his parents saw him COM
ing and locked the door in his face, they
being Quakers. Another-his wife and
family did not write because thew were
German. No wonder they were de-
pressed; their first Christmas from
home, in a strange land, and sick. l
talked until I was as hoarse as a frog;
but the boys were laughing and sing
ing when 1 left, SO l fel. that my
Christmas had been we'll spent. You
may not know, but I am a talker, and
tor once 1t was good thing.
i even gave the nurses a lecture in
their quarters on the first duties Of a
war nurse, which ran something Ike
this: No grumbling, no tears or long
faces. Sick men are like Children
they look to US for not only care. but
comfort and cheer We are here 10
take the place of mother and sister. so
never lack for a smile and CHEEKY
word. Cry, if you must, but wait until
you go to bed. You may be cold, I'M
comfortable and homesick, but always
remember our boys are facing the
trenches and death in No Mans Land.
and buck up. You are here to do your
part toward winning this war. Long
faces and laments for home VIII never
cheer soldiers. TEX them any TOOL
story, but don't talk home folks"
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saw their sanity subjects largely,
erandly, and as they modelled them
they saturated them in an emotion pro-
foundly human, profoundly sweet.
The Denote collection abounds in
the homely enchantment of this medic
val school. 1t is a realistic school, es-
sentially. There are some Spanish
pieces on view, notably wooden bust,
colored, of st. Francis Xavier, which
is positively dramatic in its expression
OF pathetic sentiment But in the
works of the French sculptors which
occupy most Of the space, nameless but
immortal craftsmen, there is overlaid
upon this naturalistic habit the glory
of race having style at it's finger tips.
The draperies Of these Nadonnas,
SAINTS, Apostles, Donors and so on fall.
IN straight. heavy folds. The heads
are broadly and sometimes even rough
~ planned. The faces show but rarely
the super-subtle modelling on which
later sch ools have expended themselves.
Yet again and again the naive Gothic
artist achieves piercing beauty He
10 naive, but he has n fairly solemn
dignity lie is almost childlike in the
simplicity Of his expression, but the
faces of his figures have tenderness
which long afterward haunts the mind
Elements of sensuous charm are miss
ing from his equipment. These images
introduce singularly grave spirit into
the light, decorative ensemble charac-
terlstic of the modern American in
terror. The collectors here who are
aware of its value are as yet none too
numerous. But at the Metropolitan
and elsewhere the Gothic idea has been
more and moro effectively exploited of
late, and in due time the mednval
movement, if we may so describe it,
will bear important fruits. Every Sc
rious contribution toward its welfare is
to be welcomed, and accordingly the
opening of the Denote gallery is re-
corded with special Appreciation.
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Here Is short story ch Imaginative bite The idea
behind 1t IS spacious and ra Nothing deeper seated IN the
fench peasants nature than hs adestuctibs affection for
me sou me Germans hare rapaged that SOIL they hare mutt
lated and destroyed everything that the countryside r
aote cnd Beautiful They hare mareod aabtats then
hoee o"ed homs uprooted trees and sacagely transformed
me cAote race OF nature But The soil itself remoins-n
pefashooie, constant, still hospitabe and fecuad.
NO one has pictured faithftlly than has unur;ca
Lerel the devastation drought By the Boches But no one has
suggested more loglatrey than he does this little storufe
hope of rebth of order producreness and beaut Eu IN
the a1 of destruction and death stiy7inos Of ue
tlte neW courage, confidence.
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He Had Left
His F amily There

You have family down there ?"
Eyes. My father. my mother and
my young sister, who is nearly seven
teen
It was getting daylight. To the cas-,
vague illumination fickered n the
, sky. The country began to disclose it.
self, forlorn, uDroo.ed, gashcd with
deep wounds, INSTRUCTED with RACED
trees. levelled posts and twisted tanglcs
of barbed wire. There was no sound
pnt the slow reverberation of the regi-
ment on march. The tread of the men
became heavier as TIE road descended
the steep ridge A cloud, borne on the
wind, lost form, became distended,
broke and disappeared.
Where is it-youi farm of Roche
au-Roi, as YOU call it 90 asked Foulard.
"1hey must have destroyed it." Girot
murmured.
The sun appeared
ut is not in hurry TO show itself.
your village" said Fouard banterinylv.
You cannot see it because of the
morning mist.
Where do You see any mist 1t is
as clear as midday
Il thought saw a mist" answered
Girot. passing his hand before his ewes.
Then he stopped talking. Presently
what was once his village came into
ylew-a chaos Of ruins as yet hardly
cold; remnants of streets Struggling
out of a ravine. at the bottom of which
the wreckage of house furnishings was
intermngled with the wreckage of the
houses themselves. Of the church there
was left only one wall; and Girot was
hstonished to see. now looking so enor-
nous, on heap of shattered bricks
and plaster, the dial plate of the clock
which formerly, when it was up in the
church tower. looked so small.
Some poor people had gathered to
watch the soldiers
The drums and trumpcts Jared out
the "Sambre-et- Mouse" After ranks
had been broken and Girot had depos-
tied his bag, his gun and his eating
utensils among the ruins of the barn
where his section was bivouackinc. he
FASTENED away to his home. II, too,
was only heap of rubbish. Not a sim
gle panel of wall left, the paper on
which could evoke a souvenir of the
past; not even the bench. made Of
three stones, on which they used to
SIT IN the evenings; nor the tree, with
forked trunk, in whose shade he had
played as boy.
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Both Sailed to
Do Their Utmost

"A few days after the receipt of
this letter l had call from Miss NJ
K. Wolfe and a Miss Austin. Miss
Austin told me that she was a gradu-
ate of Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore,
and had had charge of the operating
room for several years Miss Wolfe
told me that she was graduate of the
City Hospital, had complete charge of
the operating room in that Institution
and was most anxious to go to France
to do what she could at the American
Ambulance at Neuilly, as she under
stood they were in great need of
trained nurses. 1t was arranged to
have Miss Wolfe and Miss Austin sail
on the Rochambeau. Miss Beatrice
Page met them, and they entered upon
their duties Immediately.
-Four months after, Miss Irene
landlord, st. Lukcs Hospital grad
uate, who also was anxious to do her
bit for America, Joined the staff OF
the American Hospital at Neuilly. She
did yeoman work in France, and when
the American Women's Hospital was
started in Peignton, England, she left
France and joined her confreres. When
the United States Army took over the
American Ambulance Miss Wolfe and
Mss Page Immediately volunteered
their services to the Red Cross. Miss
Wolfe is now in charge of an old mon
astery at Anglers, WHICH has been
turned into a hospital:
A nurse, one may deduce from some
of Miss Wolfe's letters, must be YER
satile person. Not the least of her
responsibilities is that of entertaining
a hospital full Of sick soldiers on DAVIS
that, like Christmas, have a tendency
TO foster nostalgia; or of giving lee
lures to her nurses on the psychologist
cal aspects Of cheering up their pa
tients. She writes of Christmas cele-
brations at her hospital in France:
~ thought I would have a stupid
Christmas this year; instead, passed a
very pleasant one among our sick bows
in the hospital here. They were 80
depressed and homesick! Everything
possible was done to make things
homelike, even to fine turkey dinner,
I was asked to go among the men and
talk to them as one who was seeing
her fourth war Christmas. So, all day |
long found me sitting on some boys
bed talking my head off, and the boys
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not an iron railing, nor a cross. nor
d marble headstone. A deep trench
dug through TIE cemetery had dis
united cid friends, faithful couples.
parents AID children. Girot counted
twelve steps toward the middle, where
the family burial plot had been. But
ne found nothing except ploughed up
earlh stTewn with white pebbles.
de began 20 weep. Nothing re
NAMED: neither home nor family-not
even souvenir of what had been his
village. During the three years he
nad been lighting, when heat or cold.
fatigue or hunger was about to over
come him, he regained his courage bv
thinking that some day he should 90
back to this cherished parcel of native
SOIL
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N. Y. War Nurse
Wins Highest
French Honor
honor Of being the first
American nurse to be decorated

TIME honor Of being the first
American nurse to be decorated
by the President of France. and
the only one who has two such dec
oratlons, belongs to Miss NJ. X. Wolfe.
MISS Wolfe, born and bred in New
YORK and trained in the City Hospital
at kandalls Island, has been in France
almost since the beginning of the war.
1t was through the influence and gem
crosby of New York manufacturer
that Miss Wolfe and two other Ameri-
can nurses found it possible to 20
abroad. In the words Of the gentle
man himself, it happened this way:
AT the commencement of hostilities
between Germany and France | re-
celved letter from Miss Beatrice
Page, a Canadian and a graduate of
the Kings County Hospital, who had
been a nurse in my family and who
had left New York for Paris some
four years before. She was living in
Paris and nursing for DR.. Mcnnier. at
that time doctor of the American En-
bassy. She was employed by the most
prominent French surgeons, who up to
that time had had only Sisters of
Charity to do their nursing work. She
wrote me that she had given up her
practice and had Immediately gone to
the American hospital at Neuilly the
day it opened and volunteered her SER
vices. She was working TWENTY-FIVE
hours day, and sometimes in forty
eight hours. she had not more than
one hours sleep. The wounded were
being brought in in droves, she said.
There were few professional nurses to
help the surgeons in their work, and
efficient American trained nurses were
q absolutely necnssarv
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American Landscape and
Old Gothic Sculpture
Recent Paintings by Willard Metcof n u
Davis and Others-On Going Abroad ''
and Staying at Home-The
Denote Collection
By Royal Cortissoz

Things that plentiful enough !, tho .o,.
Importance than novelty loan exhh+;o - u "
late Albert Ryder which opened at the WORKS
memorial show museum
the 18TH has been extended week remann nave
including the 21st We have anyhino o ~ up 70
York. thac matter anywhere United rrhi..
have never had an artist quite Ryder to ny
recall of the men whose works been thus exb;hitd
Wow Homer Sagent-s to recall extraordinarily hr,;an+
figures; but Ryder in the nacnl,
His art is OF Imagination compact The otber n.;t
have cited pelor III world which
Of and strange dominion where beauty revealed to u ~ 1900
which we alone had the golden key one who cares f
things should fail to this exhibition M A"A'S 1A'e
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IkHN HAT miserable road"
w grumbled Foulard, straight
q b N, IL


Yet it was beautiful road three
years ago." answered Girot.
hundred metres back, tripping in a
gully filed with stones and mire, they
had stopped to grope about in the dark
for the contents OF their bags. the
straps of which they had broken in
falling, and on the ble-quick had re-
gained their places in the ranks. The
ollnking of the chains on the covers of
their mess platters kept time with their
awkward trot as they chung to the
beaten paths, their feet swollen, their
ankles weary. They resumed their
even march at last in the midst of the
struggling troop, and Girot began to
talk about his village.
Yes broke in Foulard. 81 can see
1t in my minds eye-your village:
splintered stone, charred beams,
smashed slatings-iust like all the
other villages"
Perhaps, all the same, there will be
something Left sighed Grot. at is
a big village and that makes it more
difficult to wipe it out altogether. DO
you hear the sound of running water {?
We are not far from the arm of the
river We are going to go down hill
for about a klometre and we shall
leave on our left the farm of Roche
au-Ro. as they call it, At this mo-
ment, If they know we are coming,
my old parents ought to be getting
INPATIENT
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The Boys Like
A Woman 8 Help
And in another letter

And in another letter:
"The boys are so lonely, and it is hard
TOR them, not speaking the langua ee.
They are delighted beyond measure to
IND an American woman. The bows
come to me for all sorts of things. I
shop with them, conduct sightseeing
trips, and help them out in MANY WAYS
at the station or whenever they need
helping hand. They all know they
are welcome to call on me at any time.
The 7. NJ. c. A. will provide recrea-
ton hut in the hospital grounds. Miss
rage has asked the Y. NJ. C. A. to open
an American tearoom in Tours. The
place is full of American boys from
the aviation school, and the engineers
camps are clamoring for something
American. | had sixteen boys one
night, not long ago, and they lett SO
happy because they had had the first
real breakfast since leaving home.
lhey gave me their coffee and corned
oeef boiling hot coffee, with pler
ty OF good not milk and sugar. bread
ana butter and hot corned beef hash.
nice and brown. There was not a scran
lett had one infant of sixteen
over day. He was from BROOKLYN
mother and stepfather both German.
put wanted him to come over and do
his bit for America"
Here are some no less interesting
extracts from other letters from Mis-
Wolfe and Miss Page:
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November 10, 1917.
The Naval Base Unit No. /, Of
Brooklyn. has been here for month
waiting orders to go to the Verdun
sector. They expect 10 leave NEXT
week. There are number of Jewish
boys with it. All are anxious to learn
some French, and have found teach
ers for a number. The first day took
two to see Monseigneur Paquer to ask
him about teachers. He is a dear old
priest that has travelled everywhere
and taught many we'll known men
French. Among his pupils some TWEEN
Ey years ago was Ambassador Spring
Rice. After talking for time he took
such a fancy 20 the boys he decided he
wanted to teach them himself, for
which | was very glad, and | believe
they are making very good progress.
One is Cornell man. The Pittsburgh
unit is here to stay, Base 27 Yester-
day they received their first patients,
twenty sick boys from ST. Nazaire.
M X WOLFE
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France.
<0tr tor

I'm trying to start tearoon fo,,
the American boys in Tours. for thai
IS big centre and there are over Zoo
american boys stationed in and around
the city, and the men must not be lei
hang around the streets, for the place
y full of danger for them. The
T. VI. {. A: has promised to furnish the
money and I'm so happy about it.
mere IS unusual activity here these
Gays on account of rushing men and
supplies to the Italian front. Both
Ihgllsh and French are rushing hclp
there, and this danger vii! be over in
a few days, we hope.
You will be glad to hear have been
decorated by the French government
with lie medaillc d'honneur en- enable
don't feel that I deserve it, but lust
the same I'm very proud to wear it and
snail try to deserve it. 3. PAGE"
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His Village
By Maurice Level
Translated by William L. McPhers

Copyright. 1918. BY The Tribune Association
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played as a DO
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-07-25
NEW BEEF RULES
MEET APPROVAL

The new meat regulations are not
only the most successful ones we
have had up to the present time. but
hotel and restaurant men OF the state
seem to find them very satisfactory" /"
declared E. e. Lucas. head OF the
hotel and restaurant division OF the
U. 8. Food Administration.
Though the new regulations have
been In effect less than two weeks, II
10 estimated that practically all Of the
public eating places in Colorado have
designated to the hotel division their
choice Of midday or evening meal.
The prohibition Of service Of besf
does not exfend to beef by-products.
such As swsetbreads. brains. tongue.
liver. heart, and so forth. Neither 10
It violation to serve mutton. veal or
pork at any meal any day.
The definite amount of meat saved
under the new regime will not be de-
tsrmined until after August 1. when
the July consumption for 1918 will bs
compared with that OF July. 1917.
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NEW SUGAR RESTRICTIONS IN
ENGLAND

Radical restrictions in the use u
sugar during the year beginning June
1. 1918. have been announced by the
British Ministry Of Food. with respect
to manufacturers other than the max
efs Of Jam, condensed Hailk and beer.
Tho total quantity OF sugar ~hieA
may be used during the whole ysar
snding May II, 1919. II IS per sent Of
the quantity used by these manufAs-
turers n 1915. The order applies to
manufacturers of sugar confectionery
and chocolate, pastries. btscuitA, can
died peel and preserved and crystal
Hsed fruits, drugs and medicinal prep
aTations. mineral waters, other bsver-
ages Except beer and STOUT. or any
othsr product requiring sugar. ~
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Rev. Starring to I
Enter Y. M. G.. A..
r War Work

Rev. F. w. Starring. pastor of the
First Baptist church here, viii shortly
enter war work for the Y. NJ. G. A.
Rev Mr.. Starring made application
for such work a month or six weeks
ago and was tentatively accepted for
service at that time. but II was not
until one day last week that plans for
his going were definitely arranged. He
VIII leave for Estes Park In response
TO orders from the international com,
mittee about the first of August
where he WIFI take up the Y. NJ. c. A.
war training course of study for a
month. preparatory to assignment to
one OF the army cantanments In this
country. The congregation Of the
First Baptist church on Sunday, voted
to grant Rev. Mr.. Starring four weeks
vacation beginning the first OF next
month. to take up the training course
at Estes park. Mrs. Starring Will re-
main In Canon City during her hus.
bands absence in the military ser
vice.
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ROOT BEER DEALER
BREAKS SUGAR RULE

For refusing to declare the stock Of
sugar he had on hand on July ]. and
for making . later report which Gov
cred only half Of his supply. Charles
Gordon. Of 1873 Seventeenth street.
Denver. has been ordered To close his
root beer establishment for thirty
days BY J. N. Bundich, chairman Of
the Sugar D4viston. and Thomas B.
6teArns. head of the United States
Food Administration.
Gordon was given . hearing before
food officials who not only ordered
him to suspend business fer thirty
days. but also coAfiscatsA 500 pounds
of sugar he haA hidden away IN .. an
used cask. The o0nfIscatsd sugar viii
be sold BY the food aAministration and
the money obtained from the sale viii
- turned over 70 the Denvss eAADtsr
of American Red Cross. The pro
eeeds. In this case, will amount 10
about t7o.oe.
The soft drink brewer AdmSttsd his
guilt. and the only excuse he offered
was that he was saving The sugar
for . rainy day"
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STARVATION ExAC1S
GREATER TOLL THAN
RUTHLESS WAR GOD

II . list were made of all those In
Europe who have died In action and
another Of those who have died from
starvation. the latter would BE longer
Think - ~ soc, 900 more have died
from famine than have died on the
battle field. The total number Of
thoss who have been killed In fighting
10 1880 The total number Of
those who have died from starvation
II A.760.00o. g
Can We grasp the tragedy In these
figures? -. f
Over four and . half millions Of
old men and women. young mothers.
girls and boys and babies. have been
sacrificed 70 the War God without
even the privilege of leaving behind
the houored memory OF those who die
IN glorious service on the battlefield
They have died In silent AnSuish. un-
known, unsunG.
Perhaps the memory OF their
deaths wsall not fosever fiil ur With
hosSor'if We eoeh coaviuce ourselves
that these who have Aiel q starva-
tion have not died in vain: that by
their sacrifice they have Dsahsd the
Auiss . little nsArsr victory. The
loss Of these lives will have bssa ap-
ysliinsly useless UNLESS their
deaths shAn serve n spur for NJ
70 rsdoubls our efforts in food con
servation and save the rsmaising mil
Hons In Europe who turn TO Us each
day. pleading. Give ~ this day cur
daily bread"
What are you doing to prevent the
further sacrifice Of human uvesf
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Judge Cavendefs
of Leadville Dead

Judge Charles Cayender of Lead
vile. well known in Canon City, died
at St Joseph's hospital in Denver.
last Saturday night. following an op-
eration for stomach trouble. from
which he suffered for a long time
Judge Cayender was taken i'll about
two weeks ago and was taken to Den
yer for treatment week later. Many
people here will regret 10 learn of
his death. The funeral will probably
be held at Leadville.
Judge Cavender was recognized as
one of the leading jurists of the state
and as a prominent Republican. He
was an expert in mining law and has
had part in most of the important
mining legislation in Lake and Sum
nit counties. His decisions were con
siderei authority in legal cases in
which mining questions were in
volyed.
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ITALIAN FOOD SITUATION
~ 0HAvE. ti.f 7H7 T

The food situation in Italy continues
20 bevery grave. The shortage most
at present II that of
meat In order to cope with this
shortage there have been ID effect
wssk, and on Wednesday Thursdsy
and Friday OF each w&ek meat can
neither be served in public eating
places nor bought for homo consump-
tion. The price Of meat rose tre-
mendously the past spring. and bsef
b now ranging from ~ 70 % cents
per pound. With veal krem ~ - n
aapts pound.