Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-10

puiIding, will take place today, tomorrow
and Saturday, and great will be the profits
therof say I, If one may judge from the
.r,icIes which have been collected in the
last few days. I told you something OF It IA
few days ago. so won't :. into detail ex.
cont TO say that they really have got some
worthwhile things there and sometimes,
vou know, one mans white elephant is
another mans dearest pet, so there will be
bargains, my dears: there certainly will be.
r STOPPED in at the Bellevue for tea on
i Tuesday afternoon, and you never saw
no many motor messengers in your life as
we're fixing their hair and powdering their
.mall noses and rushing around generally.
Naturally, one wondered what it was all
about. as one does not often see so many
together except on drill days, and so I
asked what was going on and found that
they had had a meeting there and that
colonel Rofe, l.. S. A.. had presented the
captain. Mrs. Thomas Elwyn, with the coll
ora in the presence OF Brigadier General
waller and several others, and that the
ceremony had been surprise to the cap.
tain. and it was all very wonderful. So it
vas, Those women do n wonderful work
and very few of us realize it or know about
A.. They have been drilling once a week
under a sergeant from the marine corps
and now General Piersol is giving them a
litter drill, as when the time comes for
the wounded to arrive in this country these
women will run their ambulances and carry
the men to the base hospitals designated
u,,1o ND
sntirely independent of all it co-operates
with. And It co-operates with every known
association under the sun and has direct
communication with Washington. Believe
me- those women are working!
hid you know that number of girls
- from town and the Main Line have
formed n class together and are studying
nursing at Gynecean Hospital, at 247 North
Eighteenth street. They have taken the
work up in dead earnest and go there four
days a week. Among them are Sarah Pen.
rose Frances Sullivan, Margaret and Han
nah Wright anf Clyde Brodhead. 1t seems
to me a very sensible thing to do, for if the
war does not end soon there will be great,
and more than great need of nurses and
in England and France.
SNTNHE country's call has been heard and
L answered in this house." That l.; the
message the Service Flag tells us as it
bravely flaunts its stars from nearly every
window; and every wife and mother feels
q thrill Of pride as she counts her own
particular stars. Even the children have
learned its meaning, and, as is their way,
compare notes.
Little Cynthia looked with pride at the
blue star that hung in their window. for
while she shed n few quiet tears when she
remembered the day Big Brother had sailed
away TO help the poor French people, she
was proud of him as only a little sister can
be proud. He was her hero, and therefore
1t was hard to have only a star to show,
when Mary. who lived access the street,
had tall brother who wore spurs and had
q sword and who wasn't so far away that
he couldn't spare few hours to come and
see his family.
But Cynthia was n brave little thing
While she did not understand it at all, she
was silent and reverenced her blue star
all TO herself. And then, oh, then, on,
morning she awoke to find a blue star in
Mary's window two. And there was Mary's
big brother looking particularly hero-like
In her small mind this was not fair, and
to a child unfairness is the last straw.
She knew what she would do now! TAX
ing sheet of paper and pencil she seated
y herself at a low table and began to write
! carefully and painstakingly, as well as
{ oipf, a,,ch nd hn,
small hand trembling.
Dear Mr.. Wilson-My Big Brother has
gone to France to fight, and we have a
blue star for him. Mary's brother is still
here, but they have a star for him too
. Please make our star shooting star.
~ Cynthia"
She sealed the letter with much pride
but although she felt a little awestruck
one thing more remained to be done-tc
hnd out Mr.. Wilson's addvss.
A knock at his door brought Daddy, who
being everything the name implies. did not
seem at all surprised at her request and
asked no questions. But Cynthia's nerves
were on edge, and. when the letter hac
been duly addressed, the tears would MOI
stay back any longer, and, putting her heat
on Daddy's shoulder, she told him every
thing.
And because he was the right sort of {
Daddy" he told her things that made hel
feel much happier and explained to hel
that Mary's brother would have to eros
an ocean filled with wicked submarines
while her Big Brother was already safe II
France, and he did not tell her of the dread
ful war dangers on land for Big Brother
the little heart was too torn yet, and III
didn't laugh bit at her letter to Mr.. VIII
son, but went with her while she put it int
the letterbox NANCY WYNNE.