The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-10-30
the Blue IRlAN6lE
t BABEI'SSTOWER

NH EsvSHstssn Entssctg s.SSE@E-:
on BABEI'S.rOWEF
TIC Ne ess .4 @Seys VIZ.
Lucia pulled .ha,s shawl &farthel
across her face and shrank down OF
the stHtion platform: benchaas the solid
hlae dGNpe suddenlysben down@ovel
her. SRxdtedly she shook her. head Ia
answers to the question: that she could
not She searched through
her tredssplaid waist tor the paper that
TOnvsfhad folded : into q little. square
and given to her. The writing, or Il,
Z insthe English that Tony knew and she
did Observation-Disclosures where she lived.
u Tony hadeexplained, 1t all ITO her that
morning. sssHe had told It .,tp her; again
at the station. Then, waving his hat.
! he had disappeared into the train; viii
the rest OF the men. and lucia had
been left standing oueside the gate.
There were crowds Of women pushing
all, about ssher. They were weeping.
so Lucia swept, too. i
Lucia lhad been betrothed 10 Tony
in the oidieoantry. Nyeyeass before,
with q lohng ticket for New York
pinned iht6 his inside pocket, her1over
chad leftth2r. Haswrotes i every ISt-
ter thatshe had made Nome In
the newse6nntry. Her dos1ty money
had hn1il5. sanrdvided hefsowlnasHaanasbpors.
tati6n, 3s46es twdsmonthssTbn aad
she hadA6een married. ThaA ke had
drawn 2Adekefss Hitthl A;aan1ni4hlfsensM
ald. this naorningsshfN8S $k6nestas46
Ewaars;sss sss;ssssss sHssaasessssasa IS sSssssss ss
To@he.Fe69eesmdn ENSMtl nRahese
things II OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Acemar:: iSRly taffedshatkNt6aAsAerssa
rapidly :tAhssa language that.iFasssnot
italian: sSHeaf6ll6wed. hiIksdur1bly to
headquartefA.sSA fs Rouf. later: arwom-
an wearing Ainerlcan1clothes.g gently
began talking to 1herLi In Beauttful Ital,
Ian. = s;ssen .as% ~ i. ~. go,
Italian Lucia was only one Of thou
:sands:of foreign-born women. SyrianA,
Italians. lArmenians;R ussians. Ltthu-
,apians, Rolfsh; whoss when.sfhe draft
called their men folk to the American
pcer2; asked 4Tih, helpless confusion
what twas all about. When would
theirfmensba backs. What did people
mean .wheH they told, them. they would
receive money through. the mail3
Where coaidsthey ahds work that they
knew howato dof Was there no one
who could;Fexp1ain 1t lail.. to them In
their own;4angaage?
The Y.%WyC..A.:was, ready.to. offer
assistance bNtfftrwouldtb be, Of no value
to offer, itwinlzEheiish. consequently
II had ia. s,,pply { corna Of women Who
could talksto the foreien.born woman
at her own door in the language that
she was usefyto hearing N the home.
land. To teach her Nnelish WAS a.
f~essential, ! factor IN her A-merican,xa-
lion a. TO ana her = tob. Therefore
the war council tof the q. ". q a. sat
ont to flnd her :EneNsh
Asvear hefAr9 the war began in I'm.
rome. the lenders al. the Young Wom--
ans NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. foresaw lust
such q sitn6aAn. and made ready IN
meet IT, .Thae. atudied, the needs of
the i~unmfafXats;5 They f1ainneed skilisd
American SnrtS1 sworters r. hacome a,
miliar With; Tia ,horae: hahits an -
SNEAK theslanauaee OF. the I,ett and tho
hungarian ana tha tGreak and the ~.
q foreign 1h6fhers Wiz, brouaht ~.
biAs and;t nndl66 sovar sftom mil mi w
to Battery I 3 1 3a' aassS1 'fESF
The drfanlsdnon into which TIL, ar.
pefirnent haae deyyslo,pnled WI VII naaunaal