Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

back news ef victory and the other of great reverses, and one reads be- tween the two and realizes that the end is not yet.
 On Wednesday night life was going on about as it had been for some days, | Paris adjusting itself to possible at | tacks and being little feaZed thereby, | and our own enlisted men bright ana l courageous for whatever is ahead then about one o'clock in the mornhng | we received word that refugees were being brought down to the Hotel Pa villon from the cities under fire we had an hour to get ready for them, so beds and mattresses were made ready in the ground floor dormitories, and the canteen opened it's doors to give out coffee, chocolate and sandwiches. Fortunately al lthe men had not gone to bed and they were most co-opera- tive with the regular canteen workers, evidently counting it a real pleasure 10 be able, to help these French people
 who had again experienced the pain
 of being driven from their homes. The
 Y. M. c. A. secretaries brought them down from the station nearby, and while it was a tired procession of about fifty men, women and children, yet it was not a frightened nor discouraged
 group. The hot chocolate and the food was tremendously appreciated and the gracious way in which our courtesies were acknowledged would have done credit to any lady or gen tleman of the old regime. One delight full old lady insisted upon taking down 1 the name and address of the person, | who happened to be waiting on her, and upon leaving kissed her on both cheeks and begged that when she next came to Amiens she would take lunch 11crs asrff tice to the fact that she was d mod l iste; all this quite ignoring the fact | that this same beautiful and historic A1niens had just been evacuated by i it's civilian inhabitants.
 | Another member of the little com pany was a curly-headed boy, about six
 years old, in a blue soldiers uniform leading his little dog, and very soon.
 when the child was asleep on the floor and the dog asleep on his little masters feet, you could hardly realize on what a long and difficult pilgrim
 age the little pair had set out The children were all taught to thank us
 most prettily for any attention and we did not hear a word of complaint that first night. although we were told again and again how they had hidden in cellars for three days and had hardly eaten anything.
 The next night it was very much
 the same thing over again, except that
 there were more old and feeble peo-
 pie, but the greatest lamentation was
 over the sudden disappearance of g
 little carved figure of the Virgin, and
 we were all particularly happy the next morning when the little old lady tol6 us it had been found. One old mar who had almost to be carried in. was
 so revived by sleep and food that ht walked about easily by himself. and ht was specially looked after by MT : : Mccall, a former Johns Hopkins man z who undertook to find his son and a : the same time the husband of somt
 feeble old woman who felt she coult not go through Paris without seein,
 her husband who was in a hospital A Roman Catholic priest has bee1 1 hustling about the city to make pro vision for a poor, sick old lady, win J had been separated from her daughte
 on the journey, and had no idea wher
 she was being sent.
 Another pathetic case was a couple
 nice and respectable in every way, wh u had lost their bundle, and were beref . of everything they possessed excep S what they had on, and twenty franc d in money.
 So I might go on, family by fannil ,, and individual by individual. and 0 air raids have. proved in England $ great impetus for recruiting, certain = ly the sight of these homeless wan $ derers makes one more and more cage n to do ones part, however humble, i t putting down the domination of tn
 Hun
 s As this will come under the eye ( t more BaltimoreanS than of others little personalia must droy in betwee d the lines. Quite often men or nurse T come from the Johns Hopkins Un IS and it is good to know that Dr. Thaye is able to have Dr. Boggs with him i 5, his great medical work. Then at 't little entertainment we were givin $ the other night it turned out that Mis 't Lemon of the Social Service Depart g ment of the Johns Hopkins was one
 the entertainers. while two sailor 'I one of them a Mir. Knapp of Rolan l. Park. were among those being enter
 tained, and soon they forega there
 and Miss Lemon was asked the cruel; o question whether she rooted" for th -e City College or for the Polytechnic. or It has meant q very great deal | $ have the cigarettes sent in respons $ to q former appeal in the News, fc = even when cigarettes can be bougf y in Paris there are often isolated fe :. IoWS III Helo' UT HoSpltdl or camp, > whom they are a. very God-send. le These little courtesies are of eours ts only the outward and visible sign < 'e our great interest in the boys and 7 helping them to go successfully ''ovt -u the top. They know it and we kno
 it, even if it is never expressed e. words and all are better for the ge IL together spirit which is perhaps u Ill key word of life at Hotel Pavilion. Ill Y. M. c. A. Hotel Pavilion Paris.