Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-24

SHC CpheSptIo dlOA6 tut StiEttS Ci tuS4I wards, and they added to this pooled sum for the start-off Every one 5 two frapcs on the table. there rose the question of lodgings. That was the rub. Finally scme one timidly sug- gested the huge building that had been in former times a seminary for priests, in the famous old square of St. Sulpico. part of it was being used for a museum. That question settled
 Furnish Quarters
 Mattresses and stoves were rushed in. faster than so many mattresses and stoves and dishes are likely to have been rushed before; and wheE these weak. frightened people were brolght to the seminaire the neXl morning hy the eendarmes there was water to wash in. and iced tc eat, and mattresses to sleep on. Sd began the famous Secour de Guerre. inspired and directed by keen, kindly M. Pel- tier
 Every day since it has sheltered and fed between 1900 and 5000 reTu- gees Its gOdfathers, the gendarmes. are proud of it. The huge seminary is city in itself nOw-dormitories divided into suites that the remnasts of familias nssy sseep their family life; school rooms; cobbler shops where little shoes are made out or wornout big ones; sewing room; d nursery for 70 or more babies thai are at last havins a fair chance; a. employment agency. and the love-y garden where refugee children tru:y play. Sometimes they see "Gaignel.' like our Punch and Judy" there, and you can hear them laugh with joy. There are flower boxes at all win dows. M Peltier is a genius. ana the spirit responds to the sunshine.
 NJ Peltier made a city within 9 seminary in Paris, and NJ. Mirman, nrefect of the district of Meurths-aI- MonellO, made a city within greae military barracks at Nancy. The rci- ugees come from neighboring towns which had seen every form of out rage, and some of them were froI:l Gerberviller-that town which will 9e immortal drought its martyrdom. in the school rooms that grew up" in the barracks little ones learned no: LO Ub ltlllltu al duN unC3ltGNtd sound. and after a while even began to play, on their own initiative. skip ping and flying about like flesh anu blood boys and girls. Mothers, with in the sound of the guns booming few miles away on the Lorraine iron tier where their husbands were fight ing, found themselves linked to real fly acain, in work for their children; the community. in making exquisite embroidery (nearly always bearing the towers and thistles-handsomc arms of Lorraine) which M. Peltier marked for them. and filling endless sand bags fer the protection of prc- cious or vitally necessary buildings in Nancy Girls and young women learned to keD house well and eco nomically. and to make charming clothes that were also practical 'l for a happy life after the war A garage was made into a com munity theatre. another into a chaDe;. It is the French genius.
 The Other Picture
 While these glorious people were finding themselves. though under con stant danrer of falling h0mh= infni 'v moro wre'ohed people farther awE, were clinring to -he ruins cf t"e-r to'Tr7. While the mnthers worked in the fields or munitiOn factories. he children. many of them. were iOsJ from their mothers or left when these women were taken hv the inv@de~s- grew like wild things-filihv. u-- au~hf. untrained some of them left h, rr -,-i.+ ad b4- t,a forro-c TbpV Wprn used to crawling into holes when bombs or shrspnel fell They would not wear their gas masks. 1ney aan almost ceased 10 be like human chii- dren. and many of them were d. ease1. yet loved and sheltered chil-
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