The Era-leader., 1918-11-07
ARRlv|lS"
SAID 5. 4. GIRLS
UNOISTURHED BY NEAE ~ LAND.
ING OF NUMEROUS Heavy
HUN SHELLS.
PRAISE IN VIOLENT TERMS
Golfers Weekly Writer Says Officers
and Privates Are Emphatic in Fell
ing About Salvation Army Work.

| 1ue redSOu Ludt VIC "''Ae"u " wv
The Salvation Army nut was that. all
the way up here, everyone we talked
to, from general to private, had gone
out of his way to enlist US in a vio-
lent and Git seemed 10 me) unrea-
sonable partisanship. That is why |
went into the Salvation Army hut,
to see
! 1t was night, by this time, and the
place we entered, Lighted only by
few sputtering candles, was made
l vast and mysterious by the great
shadows which massed in the corners
and pulsed in the depths Of the high
! ceiling 1t was, as matter OF fact,
think, some big deserted barn, but
1t had the aspect of an old and ruin
ed cathedral. At first this is ali one
= saw-the old, thick stone walls; the
floor of beaten earth, smelling damp;
the high ceiling, patched, where there
+ were holes of suspicious shape, with
white squares Of tent canvas; the
Candlelights, each with its humid lit
tie halo. Then we saw that beneath
e the candles were tables, and ABOUT
the tables chairs, and that at some
of the tables men, American soldiers
+ coated still with the mud of the
trenches, their steel helmets upon
D their heads, their gas masks beneath
: their chins-sat reading or writing;
O Here, by the counter, was another
group of soldiers. One OF them,
back from his turn from the trenches
II was holding forth to others who had
not yet been there. He was young
e lad very young Chow very young
{ most of these soldiers lookD;
0 STRIPPING of a lad, tall and 1.-the.
His attitude toward what he had just
been through was one of intense
4 an6 eager satisfaction. He was ike
a freshman just out of his hrst foot
y ball game still athrill with it, and
re tremendously anxious for the next
,s One of the boys further away ia
ped on the counter for attendance. a
moment after the canvas screen be-
70 bind parted, young woman appear
ed She was young woman and
T. most becomingly gotten up in kna'
tx ki-colored costume which had some.
n thing about it OF military chic. And
when she spoke it was with low
IN we'll modulated voice, and ner eyes
re were bright and frank. Many Of the
al. soldiers came forward now to b.
- waited on, and she did this gracious
ly as any queen (fairy-tale queen,
- mean who loves her people yer!
" dearly and is bound to share thei
an worries and their trobules and il
"a filled with tenderness for their hard
,rt ships and their perils-we could So
she was adored.
nu After she had attended to man.
le- wants we introduced ourselves, an
,;S she invited US behind the canva
screen to see her kitchen. I'll
eh kitchen was merely the farther en-
of the building; like it, it had grin
stone walls, damp earthen 1oo1
rn- and an absurdly high ceiling patche
eS- with canvas. But on the groun
roS was a field range, and there wer'
besides, a deal table, several roug
Vi chairs, barrels, boxes, and cans {
m, provisions, and in a corner a lfttl
hor tent which was her home. We Sc
at the table and, while observing 81
n far
on possessed humor and tolerance an
.a;n understanding, mind as beautif'
:, as her external charm, we pursue
H'o our severe investigation (though no
by we knew. We asked why The Sa
Urn yation Army, around these "diggins
-, was more popular than other organ
VIII izations. She deprecated such tai
of course She said the other orGa
ization was an admirable one, al
tne that it and hers worked together
e of mutual helpfulness and amity. 3
osv when we pressed our questioning 81
at last admitted that perhaps the u
'ttle reasonable partisanship OF the S.
ana. diers of the sector was due to t
-.;,l fact that her hut made not chot
q, late and doughnuts and pies ION
ohe more the chocolate, dougAnuts a
six pies.). She called her helpmat
nd two blond Salvation lassles, and as
ed them statistics On the subje
illus and they said the record was tn
title one day they had made fifty p
hor and two thousand q say two tn
-. sand) doughnuts.
ou0 As we talked there had been
Mss number of heavy detonations NJ
oath BY, and I, wishing to show l
been in this sort of thing bef
DC (man will always show of bef
.Or woman), said: "You have bait
;stpn stationed near by, haven't you?
she, in rapid parenthesis, answe
1llles negfigentfy: "Oh, these are not
e an partures; they're arrivals and "
Ettlo on with the subject thus disturb
, Now, a departure is when you sh
| lof' at the other fellow, and an arriva
s for when the other fellow is shoot
moth. at you (and coming close). For
Hrst time | noticed, hanging on