New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
Yankee Soldier and Sailor Bring
| Mile. Cauthier Home as
Their Sister

brothers, don't you Think" she said
of Harrison and Werner in starting
off the interview. eve in France
had come to expect nice things of
Americans since the war. We had
not known them very we'll until
they came over to help us fight the
Boche. We had heard a great deal
OF the American love of money and
that they were sometimes boastful.
"But this was not the way we
found them in France. They fought
bravely, and they were real men, al
ways. They liked to laugh, too,
when there was a chance, and in
Paris they liked to see what vas
going on and enjoy things.
"But they were always gallant
gentlemen, nice to look at in their
uniforms, and clean and fine in their
behavior toward women"
Mile. Gauthier has large brown
eyes, which show molten tints when
she is in earnest. She gestures fire.
quently when she talks, as is the
habit Of many Of her countrywomen.
"Let me tell you why I came here"
she said eagerly. "In my own coun-
try things are very hard these days.
They are even worse, for some, than
during the war, for then we had
many things to do. The fighting was
going on, and they needed women to
tend the wounded and to do other
work which kept them busy. Then
there was always the thought of
driving back the Germans and of
saving France from being overrun
by them.
"But now? Well, my friend,
thing, are very bad. The women who
served sit about with idle hands.
Sometimes, as was my case, they
find it very difficult to live, because
the pay is poor and there are many
deserving people to think of.
Came to Work
81 could not bear the thought of
not being useful. In America, l had
heard, there are opportunities for
women as we'll as men. I wanted to
go ahead in my profession, which l
learned in the war, and 80 I have
come hereto work. That is all
want to do in this country of yours,
monsieur. I want to go to work
right away"
William Harrison, father Of young
Harrison, who had been lowering
about watchfully while the young
woman was talking, broke in indig-
nantly at this.
"Why, .mademoiselle, that is all
nonsense!" he said. "Ycu are in no
condition to go to work. Next
spring, perhaps, when you are we'll,
there will be time enough to think
of that
"What can you do with women?"
, he demanded, turning to the visitor.
Here she is with enough shrapnel
still in her to have killed an ordi-
nary person, and so weak she can
hardly get out of doors, and she
talks Of going to work!
"Mademoiselle," he said, turning
back to Mile. Gauthier, "by the right
Of my sons adoption am your
father, and you do not go to work
until next spring Is that plain?"
eyes, father" replied the deter
mined young woman, with smile,
''but I go to work, just the same, as
soon as / can"
Mile. Gauthier then told Of her
war experiences. She brought out
her medals, which include the
Medaille Militaire, the Cross Of the
Legion of Honor and the Croix de
Guerre with palms.
Il may say that my brother was
Killed in the war and that he died
IN my arms" she began. my
brother, you may know. was a doc
eor' We we're both in Rome with
our father and mother when the
war started, and he went to the