The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-11

Iyou understand"
THAT ought to seem strange to u.s.
Eyes, rather!" and they laughed hear
tily..
"And then we have to keep many
accounts" they added, because we
are supported by five or six hundred
committees scattered between New
York and San Francisco" That they
are keeping up, by these committees,
the great part of the beneficences in
our France, I am fully convinced. But
for that which these two fairies here
have done, I think they spoke too
humbly, for believe it is their per-
sonaI fortune that has paid the ex-
penses.
They have installed a school of car
pentry, for the little boys, who, with
all those packing cases coming from
America, make household furniture,
and then sell it.
They have established a sewing
school for the little girls. Oh! These
poor little ones of eight or ten years
that have seen there! How pale they
are from living in cellars at the time
when they we're bombarded, supplied
by the long terror, and bent over be-
cause of the hard work so unsuited
to them, that the Germans imposed
upon them for them employed them
as servants CD in their trenches. To
straighten these unfortunates up
again, the fairies, who think of every
thing, have put gymnastic apparatus
in their work room.
They have installed nursery for
motherless babies, who just at this
time are taking their maps in their
beds. They showed me one who was
, just waking up. THE birth of that
one there was a tragedy" they tell
me. at is, I'm sorry to say, a little
Boche." The drama, I can guess it. He
is, without doubt, not evil now, Boche
though he is, for he recognizes them
and smiles and holds out his arms.
They have installed a hotel with q
dining room for the new commons
: those who, on their return, find nc
= roof on their house, or even no house
= Ten poor women are there tonight
> sitting in an attitude of fatigue anG
CONSERVATION. But at the entrance O.
= these splendid women in blue the!
D are able to smile and to stand up tt
show their respect for them.
They allow me, these women gown
- ed in blue, to accompany hem il
% their evening trip to the village o
u hamlets round about. We make gu
>. way to their auto, decorated with al
u American flag, carrying their flu
coats, their cigarettes in their golC
&c boxes, and we go swiftly along tn
muddy roads by the trees so viciousl
- destroyed, and by farms in ruins. A
il at once we have to make way for tw
~ enormous wagons loaded with heap
!. of young fruit trees, which extend gu
u over the road, and block it, real nun
III series on the march.
III "Ah! At last they have come" the
e. say. 1--WE ordered them from MOI
s. mandy to replant all these poor OF
e, chards."
III Then we cross a plateau of sever;
Sc hectares newly worked and sow
ne where already there is a light sha6
VI like green velvet. 1t is they, as ever
one knows, who have bought tt
H. grain and directed the sowing. Ar
III we see in the distance several thfns
II that look like working automobile
al that they have had sent here. An o
g woman, or even a child can manat
Co. them after they have practiced al
re they clear away almost eYerythi1
III from the good French earth whiC
'r- for three years has been abandone
re- When we are obliged to go slow
ne because of the marching by of o.
ell defenders coming back from t
ne front, or even to stop altogether, '
zen begin to hear more clearly that flu
lot ious symphony of the battle of art
lery which never ceases. But here
res are beyond the reach of the German
All especially since their last retire;
er which was as you know, so Woeful.
gnu These villages that we are visiti
dLl together have been basely destroye
mt it goes without saying. But today,
nc are beginning to see many new roo
hu with all new walls, or walls newly
len paired, and with blinds at the wi
dows, even some little curtains. A
OF it is the work of these women. Tho
IN exiles, whose return they have ma
lcl- possible, come back little by little a
les re-install themselves. 1 notice a
ent that they know everyone and IL
lew they call by their given name t
ped children who crowd around them.
-sh- A number of good wives are tn,
lere in those little houses: that nave be
rye so quickly repaired, mothers of ia
Lere lilies sitting with their children aroU
lere the stove that the fairies have gi,
lace them. and where their dinner is
and the process of cooking. In every 70
there are iron beds, very clean {
ling new, and good furniture of WI
nor wood.
Of THAT which gives US the most tr
who BILE to replace" they tell me, lis W
the dow glass. After two or three We
the of bombardment one cannot find
in for a hundred leagues around.
suf- look, we are putting it in only /
At openings. In the others we are putt
five waxed cloth which is -transpar,
.ncs. And you cannot see so much sadr
lnts, then, can you, my good woman?" t
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