New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-26
DOING OUR BIT"
(Mae Crayerling)

40 MS OF neT Dt, yet tneIe IS d
look in their eyes which tells OF
the pain in their hearts.
| wonder if the monsters who have
deluged the world in blood, and
brought such terrible suffering on
humanity care any, or are they like
the bull dog, which as soon as il
tastes or smells blood, becomes mad
with its frantic desire for more!
The ladies in Chama started a ~
Cross chapter as soon as war was
declared. Twice a week they meet
in the Methodist church to serve.
Over six hundred garments have
been made and sent to the front
over fifteen hundred dollars have
been raised from entertainments. For
the Belgian Relief Fund, over six
large burlap bags were filled with
clothing-every garment was good
and well worth shipping across the
ocean. The baby outfits were exquisite
they had been made with loving
hands for little ones hoped for and
longed for but when God took then
the tiny garments were sent across
the seas. to mothers who had moth
ing to give to the little ones, who
came.
The boys of the town a short time
ago gave an entertainment which was
the funniest affair Chama ever had
1t was their bit for the Red Cross
One of the ladie, in the town plan
ned it. Another painted the posters
Others made the costumes. The boys
dressed as girls and played girl parts
They knew nothing about acting
and most Of them had never done
any sort of stunt" before an au-
dience. Their rehearsals had been a
failure. But when the night of the
performance came every one did his
best.
One Of the scenes was the " Tom
Thumb Wedding.
The blushing young bride was a
young man of seventeen, six feet
tall but very slender. He wore a
blond wig made of raveled rope
this was done up in puffs, while
around his forehead was tied a rib
bon, according to the fashion for
brides in New York His Paris gown
was an embroidered robe-de-nuit,
which his mother furnished just be-
fore the performance. The long
train consisted of a lace curtain
which hung from the shoulders and
was carried by two small boys dress
ed as negroes. The veil hung grace.
fully over his face, this was white
mosquito netting two yards was all
the small town could furnish.
The groom a Mexican boy about
four feet high wore the conventional
black. When the ceremony was over
the bride stopped down tenderly,
picked up the groom and gingerly
pressed a kiss on his cheek. The
groom suspended in mid air remind
ed one of the picture of the maiden
in "Curfew must not Ring Tonight"
as she swings out from the tower
hanging to the clapper of the bell.
| am sure the feelings of the Two
were alike.
The bridal bouquet was a huge
sunflower, | thought this had been
ordered, from some metropolis, Ala
seems it was manufactured at home.
1t was a most fitting flower from a
sentimental stand point.
Some of you may have forgotten
the old Greek legend of the flower
so ! will refresh your memory, by
it. The goddess Clyte deep
ly loved Apollo, who was the god
of the sun, he however did not re-
turn her affection constantly, she
watched him until at last out of pity
she was turned into the sun flower
turns its face to the sun, fol-
it as it moves across the
according to the old Greek
Turning around to receive
the congratulations of the members
Of the wedding party and the kisses
Of the brides maids, his feet be-
deeply entangled in the long
train. Stopping down the bride or alb
bed up between his feet, and held
his proved to be a most artistic way
70 carry a court train. The feminine
part of the audience we're c~onvulsed,
the masculine portion deeply
,ympathized with him and thought
he was doing his best under most
rying circumstances. This enter
ainment closed the Red Cross Drive,
hey took in over fifty dollars which
vas turned over to the Red Gross.
The boys had done their bit" here
It Chama. =
In a few days serveral of them lett
do their bit" at the front, one
# them was Claud Cooley.
Claud Cooley had always dreamed
# being an aviator but when on
it was found his lungs
we're far too weak, for that work he
t once started to study automobiles.
In mechanics he passed such a fine
that as soon as he is
through the cerum tests he will leave
or France.
1t takes from six weeks to two
months before the tests are all
through, as a soldier must be cured
.erfectly from one, before he can
AXE another.
The government has announced it
as discovered the cause of trench
ever, one of the most dreaded
assesses of the war. 1t is caused
hey say by body lice.
Over a hundred of the strongest
in the ambulance corps Offered
heir services to the government.
'nly sixty were taken, these were
ne strongest and healthiest in the
after much experimenting on
ne boys some of whom came very
ear dying it was found that body
ce were the cause of the fever, they
AIRY it. There have been four Chama
oys who have enlisted. The first
as Ralph Waldo Thatcher, he is
the navy and leaves al once for
side, of the Atlantic.
God grant the boys will come back
ut if they pass lover thetop" we
i'll all feel they gave their lives
,r their country that the cursed :
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