Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11
Pine Bluff Girl Tells Of The
 BiU German Drive Toward Paris
Miss Henrietta Taylor, Red Cross Worker in Paris Re- cites Heartrending Scene Among Refugees; Work ed 42 Hours on One Stretch During Gigantic
 Battle

the night, three days practically with. out food, only a little chocolate and bread, and all their worldly belong ings tied in a large handkerchief or in a small basket, their homes left in flames. Old men, feeble and oh so sad. Poor children, days on the way coming in at two and three in the morning, sleepy, tired and hun gry and yet so often with smiling and grateful little faces.
 There goes the alerte for the air raid. the fourth in three nights Nance I tell you tonight it's got me. I've cried my heart out and l can't help it now. To think our women work long hours all days and are kept awake almost every night. They bombed one of the hospitals on Cor pus Christi after the British had con- sented, according to the Pope's ap- peal, to spare the eGrman cities. On that same day they hit the Paris church with the long range gun, a day of religious festival when so many people might have been killed but luckily they were not. I don't give a rip for myself. I don't feel as though I ought to have a comfort able bed to sleep in, it's working with refugees that has finished me. To- night l wept over an old woman when she could still smile. I had to leave her when I was helping her to the train, turn her over to someone else and go away and cry That's the courage I have when they can still smile, show infinite gratitude fer the lo o~l c4;n hnr0 ar to think there are people in this world who dare to make excuses for not working for the Red Cross, for not making an individual sacrifice, l wish they could be transferred to the next territory the Germans occupy. Per- haps you think Pm crazy. I am to- night But the tragedy of those pathetic figures has made me so.
 ' Saturday. June 15
 It has been three weeks since I've written a line on this letter and l did have so much to tell YOU. We are still working at tremendously high pressure. Of course my vacation had to be postponed. wonder what news you are getting in America and if you know how critical the situation is. Think how near the Germans are to Paris and now we are in the Hull before the next big drive from Com pegne. The wounded are pouring in. I was called to go the hospital and on account of the terrific need but the powers that be sent substi- tute in my place and kept me at my : post which is of course where belong for there l do executive work and the ! ~coI i, ,,,,,.,h ,{op. We got bit of news the other day that gave me a tremendous thrill. Our front parcels are the only things 1 that have withstood the mustard gas. 1 As a result the British War Office gave orders to the British Red Cross work rooms to produce them. A rep- resentative come from London stud jed our work and I fixed models of all our materials and our packages to go back tc London. Then if the war office still wants them our work will be duplicated there. At present we are the only source of supply for the U. s. army, for we haven't been able to use the American parcels because ! they wont stand paratining and as that renders them air proof and gas proof, you can easily see it is the chief asset.
 Your letter April 8, came, about my chance to come to America. Of course I was pleased with the offer ! but l must insist again that you don't idealize my work and that you re- move my halo To show you exactly what mean I'll quote from an article which came out in the Chicago Daily News and was written bv Eunice Tietjens, wonderfully brilliant clev- er correspondent who lives here in the hotel with me. It is as follows, Remember, too, that giving your heart. your work, your life perhaps. you are doing only the usual thing, the thing which every person of spirit is doing in France today. The only thing that would be unusual would be if you were not doing this. Therefore you deserve very little per- sonal credit for it in the eyes of those with whom you are working. You dare not allow yourself the smallest glimmer of spiritual pride of being set apart in the cause of righteous ness without injuring your work at once.' There you have my sentiments exactly.
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