Evening star., 1918-05-19

\ <hii SAhibplC ~ titC Wlloie HGdI tCh dp-
preciation the French have for the
1 m amer in
The Misses Lansing W h c h the
Devoted Workers. haa % ,hronn !. :
| self into the war was told to a reporter
for the New York Herald yesterday by
Mr. Hughes lie Roux, business manager
| Of the Paris newspaper lie Matin, at the
! Biltmore Hotel, where he is stopping
"One day" he said. Il was standing in
a small railroad station just back Of the
| front. Wounded and suffering poius.
those valiant French fighters, were lying
everywhere. Women of the American
Red Cross We're making their way among
them ministering to them and comfort
| ing them.
II walked to the bedside of two Young
F'reEchmen and said: DO you know who
| those two gray haired women are who
are bending there over the bed of that
boy
No. they replied together. We do
rot, sir
l. That replied, is a remarka BILE
thing that YOU do not know them. They
are the two sisters of Robert Lansing.
Secretary Of State of the United States
Of America.
Then he told how these two young
TIeHcHUleH Threw up tnelr nanGS IN
amaZement. uttered several brisk SEN
tences in French and went hobbling out
of their beds to speak to the two women
and tell them how they appreciated their
Kindness.
THE poilus.' he said. with great feel
men in the world. They have suffered
!! and died and given all they had to give
1t almost Is beyond them to understand
the heart OF people who have come
to their assistance to take that same
chance that they. the polus, have taken,
for an ideal. the principle The poilu
loves the American women"
a Few days later in Paris Mr.. Hugues
lie Roux met Marshal Joffre. with whom
he had been acquainted for many years
the former himself having twice been
decorated with the badge of the Legion
tattle Of the Marnr
II told Gen. .loffre about the work
Secretary Lansings sisters were doing,
and that white haired old mans ewes
| fi'esi With tears, and he said to me: 4
DO not often go out to dinner. I am so
/ busy. And ! am 50 bothered when 7 go
about in public. But. my dear man, will
YOU not make an appointment to have
Mr.. Iansing's two sisters at your house
one day next week and send to me an
Invitation at the same time? want to
meet them. They are enacting the spirit
of America in this war"
; The newspaper man did invite the
sisters. and they came in their Red
Cross suits. with their hands worn and
hardened by their work on the battle
fronts: And he invited Gen. Joffre and
Mrs. Joffre, too, and there, in the home
OF Mr.. Hughes lie Roux. in Paris, they
| talked of many things
w pen they were preparing to leave
| my home the Frenchman said yester-
Gay, Mrs. Joffre came to me and said:
II were not the French wife of Joffre
would choose to be an American
! woman
And SO you zee, whether it is the
tam-o -shantered pollu who is facing the
machine guns in the trenches or the
great generals of our nation, they love
ana revere and honor Americas women
! for the part they are taking in the war.
with principle and ideal as their great
| objective"
! In 1.-The bethlehem Bach Choir" a
| book just published by the Houghton
Mifln Company,
| Mr.. SchWab's giving an hstori-
| M,n. cal and interpre-
Musical Bent. tative sketch Of
! that musical organization, by Raw
mond Walters. says the New York
\
| facts of the connection of Charles NJ.
Schwab with the choir and the aid
! the industrial leader has given to It.
/ The Bach Choir dates back to the
! pioneer days of 1741, when it was
founded by the Moravians in Bethle-
hem. Pa. After 1905 there was a
| lapse of few years, and the re-
sumption Of the festivals at I.eh,gh
University in 1911 was due to Mr..
Schwab. who now bears half the defic-
| its of the present festivals.
/ Mr. Schwab's connection with i'm
portant musical matters is of espe-
cial interest just now. as last week
!, he was elected unanimously president
| of the Oratorio Society of New York
! to succeed his friend of many years
| and early mentor. Andrew Carnegie.
| thirty-one years president of the So
! ciety. Mr.. Schwab. it will be seen.
makes it a point to find time to aid
the art of music in addition to all his
duties as president and chairman of
| the board of directors of the BethIe
hem Steel Corporation and as head of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation. di-
recting the nations wartime ship
building.
| In speaking of Mr.. Schwabs atti-
tude toward music the new book re-
lates:
1.-The steel masters patronage of
musical activity is no millionaire's IS
fad. Since boyhood music has been
an integral part of his life. The
Schwab family was musicaly in
clined. His aunts We're choir singers.
His grandfather led a choir His sis
ter. now Sister Cecilia, of 81. joseph
Mother House. Greensburg. Pa, is di-
rector of music there and has a repu-
itation as pianist of ability The
lboy Charles began his study Of music