Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-21
.SHRAPNEL
Sideiehts on the War
OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

growth of the demands of the women
of England for greater part in the
present struggle? This is a question
which has been given serious consid-
Grafton. Prominent women, some of
them of high lineage. have issued an
appeal for greater manpower in which
the question of larger participation in
actual military activities is brought
up. The appeal says:
I'VE appeal to the government to
raise enough fresh men to insure that
no man who has been wounded twice
will be forced to return to the
trenches. If women are needed we
urge the government to conscript won-
en-. too
The kaiser is modest man. That
recently told his troops. Here is what
an Eng1ishman wrote after the German
emperor's speech:
Day after day I'm eiankins
My dread imperial blade
Day after day I'm swanhinS
To make the meek afraid.
1 threaten fre-and slaughter
To eat 'em all on toast
With arrogance and hauteur.
But, oh, l never boast.
am the Lords anon ted
Potztansend. cease your mirth.
By Providence appointed
Alone to run the earth
"a job that's somewhat lonely)
Myself mighty host.
/ am the and only.
But, ach, / never boast.
The world I'll pulverizc it
I'm feeling very cross
Unless, ! advise it,
The world owns me its boss.
No is fitted better
To rule the cosmic roast
Like Wilhelm. donnerwetter.
Because l never boast.
Straw over chicken wire makes a
fine bunk, and many an officer at the
front in France would not change it
for bed of regulation character. 1t
might be two or three months before
he got throughly accustomed to bed
again, having SO long been forced to con-
tend with a rough and tumble sort of life.
Women in French towns close be-
hind the allied lines, f.ich are fire.
quently bombed. are sing Japidly.
This is attributed to the fact that they
time. and they sleep in foul smelling
and poorly ventilated cellars at night.
In order that better control may be
obtained over children whose fathers
are away at the front and whose
mothers oftentimeS are engaged in
Warlike tasks, play centers are being
established in many cities in England
and France. Already great good has
been accomplished.
Germany has lost another of her
trading fields. = Sicilian growers who
formerly sent their orange supplies to
Germany and in turn received large
imports from Germany, now are send
ing their products to England under
an arrangement effected between the
Italian and British governments.
1t is not an easy thing to produce a
play with soldier talent. The director
may at any moment be forced to press
some soldier into the cast on short no.
tice because one or two of his prin-
cipals have been called away suddenly.
Naturally, military endeavor comes be-
fore the amusement sideline.
The Germans captured a number of
cooped them up in a room for ten days
without water. The men suffered
agonies before they finally were freed
at the earnest solicitation of a nun who
resided near the scene of the Germans
barbarism.
An American officer, the guest of
Frenchman. scratched his head in per-
plexity when shown his bed. A long
pillow occupied either end of the bed
and the officer wondered just which
way he was to sleep He ended up by
putting his head on the footwarmer
and propped his feet on the pillow at
the head. The French footwarmer,
which has been So long an institution,