Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-10-30


s:,,..att mist be played se.lt;nen5ally
innumerable times each day. Miss
Gordon, the Y. W. C. A. woman out
at the hospital, said the other day,
that when she went home she didn't
want to hear any ragtime music or
see any men except her brothers for
years and years. have never been
so grateful for anything as being
able to play the piano little, can't
imagine how I should have got on
without it. 1t enables me to do some
thing for the girls that none of them
can do, and which they are anxious
to have. Then l have interesting ex-
periences with many kinds of folk.
Yesterday as a sample, I played a few
American songs at the house where.
l was looking for an apartment for
the girls who will come soon-found
a nice place next door with charming
French people, lady and her daugh-
ters in the afternoon. played for
a private, who is a beautiful violinist,
later around at the new house played
"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" with
my madame there, last night made ar
rangements to play with the French
officer who is commander of the
French troops here. Ny private wants
me to play with him ali around the
country and l was invited last night
to dine with a French family at st.
Marguerites, lovely little town on
the beach several miles from here. l
was to go out on a wheel and be
brought back at night in car I
couldn't for we went around to the
Knights of Columbus to party.
There was band of about 0pieces
and we danced and talked. The gar
den there is quite the loveliest ! have
seen here, grapes and pears growing
over the old grey stone walls and all
manner of lovely shrubs and flowers
growing in the beds. One very inter
esting thing is an ash tree that was
allowed to grow about 5 feet tall.
81 have been riding four times
with some of the girls on wheels; they
are quite the style over here, and ev-
ery one rides. The roads are wonder
full and the distances are not great.
On Sunday afternoon we rode down
to Bornichet, and from there along
the beach almost to La Baule. Coming
back, we came the shore road, right
along by the ocean. The road runs
up and down hill. I should like to
have a wheel, and if I find that | am
to stay here for a time, think l
shall ask for one, or buy one myself.
It would be great fun to- ride all
through this section of France.
ga letter from Paris the other day
says that Mile. Millet has turned ov-
er her famous cottage at Barbizon
for eight months to the. Y. W. c. A.
as rest place for the secaeSaries. 1t
is right by the Forest of Fontain-
bleau, so 1 want to go there for
few days some time.
"The trip to Paris to attend the
Congress of Allied Women on War
Service was very wonderful expert
ence. The speakers were good and
the spirit of unity that prevailed
among the more than 100 organiza-
tions represented was an inspiration.
wish you could have seen the vari-
Gus uniforms-every color and style;
Probably there were pictures in the
papers and magazines at home. The
garden party at the presidents home
was like being in a grand opera, the
gorgeous palace, the magnificent foot
man who waved you in, the beauty of
the garden with a band playing and
the women in the motley uniforms
and speaking many languages wan
dering about, the marvellous; food, oh,
it was wonderful and wished for
you many, many times"