The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-04-25
A LAZY JAN|TOR
SCORES A POINT
HIS INDIFFERENCE TO DIRT saw.
ED MANY LIVES
PARIS IS LIVING IN CELLARS
innocent Victims of German Guns are
Picked Off Regularly but TIE
Spirit Of France Has Not
Been Broken.
(By LOWELL MELLETT)


ness probably saved the lives of 200
at South Coast town recently. The
basement of a church was being used
as raid shelter. On the first night of
a series Of raids the shelter was lam.
med with people. But the next night
the janitor failed to show Up and the
shelter seekers scurried elsewhere.
During the raid bomb crashed
through the roof, completely demolish
ing the building. Only the sign advis.
ing that shelter was available remain
ed intact.
American Woman Undisturbed.
A little woman who teaches school
in the East End was visiting us last
night when the air raid began. She did
an extraordinary thing.
please don't pay any attention to
me for awhile" she said, and then she
took little book, school text book,
perhaps, from her cloak pocket, and
candle from the mantle and crawled
under the table. There, while the guns
from across the river roared away, she
sat and read, needless of the others
in the room. When tea was made pres
emily, as it usually is during informal
afraid parties, hers was passed to
her under the table.
Wasn't that funny?
= When the Boy Scouts bugles two
hours later announced the end of the
danger, she came out. Doubtless think.
ing an explanation was required, she
explained as follows:
"The air-raids didn't bother me at
all until last summer, but ever since
then they have effected my nerves.
You remember the raid in which a
number of school children were killed,
out in the neighborhood Of my school?
That day | had taken my pupils to a
little public square to play. You know
they are all tubercular children and
VIC have to keep them OF. of doors as
much as possible.
Children at Huns Mercy.
AN aeroplane appeared over head
. ard -inest of us stood and watched it..
That was the time something went
wrong with the warning system and
German machine until we began to
hear explosions over by the school
house and to see shrapnel bursting in
the air around the machine.
The children began to cry and to
run to me. Some of them have tuber-
cular hips and it makes me feel sort OF
sick yet when | remember how they
tried to hurry, dragging their little
legs along. They piled around me and
hid their faces in my skirt and cried.
got them into nearby house and
kept them there until the raid was
over
"Of course none Of them were hurt,
but-well, haven't felt quite the
same about the air raid since then"
Paris Living in Cellars.
Paris, April 23.-The intermitant
bombardment by big Bertha" the
long range German gun. continued to
claim its quota of victims among the
innocent inhabitants of the city. But
Notwithstanding, Paris still remains
calm. To every adaptable Partisan
big Bertha" is already an old story
Most of the citizens barely turn their
heads at the sound of a crashing shell
while for the few who are not so
blase the French police have been
compelled to establish severe order
/ to keep them from rushing too near
the spot where the shell has struck
The French authorities are making
arrangements to send little children
out of Paris into the country to re;
cover from fatigue and sleepless
nights in damp cellars during enemy
aerial raids.
French Spirit Unbroken.
For grownups who remain certain
Paris department stores are busy adj
vertising cellar wraps in verious
shades. The most popular of these is
warm cloak with hood. One store
, called "The Siren offers an elegant
swanskin ncgligee with velvet facing
and practical in case of alarm for SIC.
The most popular gift nowadays is a
little lamp called cellar lanterns" 1t
is made with blue or pink glass to suit
tic taste-of the purchaser.
Thus Paris carries on" proving the
futility Of the enemy's efforts TO break
her dauntle3s spirit.
1tS People Have Been Killed
Analysis OF the German long range
gun bonlbardment OF Paris shows that
shells have fallen on seventeen days
since March 80. and that, with the hg-
ures for two days missing, 11S persons
were killed and 230 injured. Paris was
shelled by nine German batteries from
Jan. to Jan. 81, 1871, during which
period 105 Parisians We're killed and
$50 injured.
Nhere is Gain.