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old. English women live longer
than do their American sisters. let
the reason be what it may. But be-
fore the debacle came to Europe
these idle English women were often
acurotics. They were prey to in
Vulnerable ailments and still more
innumerabe cures; and though thew
did live to be old, they would tell
you that they didn't know why.
The first year of the war changed
everything. Breakfasts in bed went
out of fashion. 1t was not that ser
wants were leaving to go into mu
nitions, although that probably
helped. The real reason was that
things looked more horrible in bed.
II want to be dressed and take my
blows standing,' explained an
elderly woman in February, 1915.
willie gets letter off when he is
going into action, and it comes up
with my morning tray and the news
papers. | can't stand it unless ! am
up and can walk about"
To get away from themselves
these mothers and grandmothers
had to abolish their empty morning
and afternoon hours. The wounded
began to come home; Belgian refu.
gees were everywhere 1t helped
them UNNECESSARILY to have these
people claim their attention. We
did not during the war hear of SO
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land, Virginia, North and South
Carolina look after the needs of the
district of the Disc; Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louis
lana, the Aisne, while the four rich
est states, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan
and Wisconsin, arc given the dis
tricts of the Marine, and so on.
While the people of these states
will be responsible as whole for
the rebuilding of the allotted dis
trlcts the schools and churches and
hotels will look after their own sort
OF building, so to speak, which, if
YOU remember, is according to the
original idea of the French Restora-
ton Fund.
The plans for the rebuilding of
the hotels and inns, the cathedrals
and village churches have not as
yet been completely formulated, al
though those for hotels and inns
were recently discussed and heartily
approved by a convention of the
leading hotel men of the country.
but the campaign for the restora-
ton or rebuilding Of the schools of
the devastated districts has already
been launched with most satisfac
tory results.
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gulde--forty or fifty of them to-
gether: the very things that once
caused them so much amusement in
toe trips Of Americans to England.
The advent Of the air raids and
the lengthening of the war did way
with most Of this sightseeing after
the early part of 1916 English
ladies found that they could roll
bandages and knit all day They
found themselves capable of far
heavier tasks than those, and they
did them. Museums and buses
went by the board
The neurotics did surprising
things. ] have in mind Scotch
woman Of county distinction who
had been an invalid for twenty
years: querulous, exacting, self
plying. By October, 1914, she had
not male relative or man servant
left in England All her maid ser
wants had gone into other work, and
only one or Two doddering old women
were left to take care of her and her
big house.
She got out of her bed and began
with her own hands to prepare and
send off packages Of comforts to
soldiers in the trenches and to
wounded men in hospitals; she
packed food parcels and sent them
to prisoners of war in Germany.
She and her two old attendants lit
orally have camped out in three
rooms of her great house and have
spent most of these last four and a
half years in sending help to more
unfortunate victims Of war.
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without making any appeal to their
families.
Nine. Sartoris tells of a mos,
amusing experience which she had
when she visited the school while
the work of raising the required
amount was in full swing. AS she
went down the corridors of the dor.
mitories she was confronted by post.
ers of gaudy hues and bold design
which were displayed on the various
doors:
BE beautiful and surprise
your family. Step inside and get
marcelle wave for only rs
cents"
White gloves washed and
dried for cents a pair"
Sport skirts pressed while you
wait for Is cents"
'Why wash your own white
stockings when you can get them
done at the Elite Laundry for S
cents a pair?"
mo luxury tax on this mani
cure-l5 cents is the price"
"A very private secretary will
answer your letters for 10 cents
each, and no questions asked
These were few of the business
signs which adorned the long row
Of dormitory doors and which
helped to swell the funds for the
restoration Of France. And. be-
sides these private money-making
schemes, there were public enter
tainments in the form of musicals
amateur theatricals and basketball
games, the receipts from all of
which helped to send the subscrip-
ton ''over the top
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By JANE GRAY

4 MERICA rebounded from the
~ war overnight. Once the ink
was dry on the armistice
papers, most people were as though
there had been no war. A few re-
membered and worked on, but the
great strain was over, for women as
well as men. And it may be that
thls is very much as it should be.
But in Europe it is different.
Things went too deeply and went on
TOO long. On every type change
has been registered, but nowhere
has this been more noticeable than
in the case Of the merely frivolous
English woman. And, oddly enough,
frlvolity is found oftenest among
older English women.
Before the war your English
woman Of fashion, particularly in
London, led life Of utter Useless
ness. She breakfasted in bed-al
ways,-idled away her morning, and
frivolled through the afternoon and
evening with bridge and theatres
and tea and dinner. If she lived in
the country, parish visiting was her
nearest approach to earnestness
having the curate to tea or playing
croquet gave her all the thrills she
was expected to have.
In country or city, she lived to be
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How a Boys High School
Raised Its Quota

And the boys schools are not a
bit behind those of their sisters in
their energy or enthusiasm for the
cause and their pupils have all sorts
OF ingenious devices for making
money They run errands, black
boots, do copying, mend baseballs,
tutor one another, and even darn
stockings and sew on buttons, all
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long as it were. to have been a
part of the original plan of the
designer of the garden, which is in
itself an achievement worthy of
mention.
The exhibition was not only a JOY
to the visitor, but it will doubtless
serve as an inspiration to those who
are the proud possessors of any
sort Of 4 garden. be it in the city or
country, to add to it q bit of sculpt
urea simple little stone figure for
fountain, bronze sun dial, bird
bath or a figure OF Panic which
background Of green will give a
charm and distinction attained in no
other way. E.
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home, and when you come upon
them unexpectedly they welcome
you to the beauty they loved and
sought to express. Deep in the
same great woods one comes on
dripping fountains, which are only
sunkcn bowls holding still pools of
water to mirror the grasses and
comfort the birds.
1t brought back these things
when we walked in the Touchstone
Garden, with its bird baths, dancing
bronze figures, blue latticcd walls
and dripping fountains. Why not
learn from the Old World some of
its mellow secrets Of beauty and
the art Of living?
In our cities, especially in the
capital Of the nation, we multiply
equestrian statues and worthless in
out Of date garments, standing on
pedcstals as though bcsceching some
one to give them a hand to descend
And at the Intersections Of the
gracouH avenues Of Warrington,
where leafy vietas stretch out in
i've or xix directions, making so
many pictures begging for Ii frame,
there IL not single arch.
Asa perfect ayocation for women,
one that viii not be taking any
mans job away from him and will
create no economic complications,
we recommend it--~thia making Of
places Of unexpected beauty ut
home and In the city streets.
A p
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Dancing "a The playing OF ffcTeed
Il group BY Fl0rente LuCius

through long vistas of trees or under
the Pickering shadows Of vine
covered pergoa Of an old sun dial, q
bronze fountain, grown green with
age, or the moss-covcrcd statue Of a
woodland nymph. Seen at close
range, these bits Of Sou pturc may
not, be wonderful at all, but in their
setting Of green leaves and moss
covered stones they have "A fascina-
ton all their own. Which goes TO
provc--docs it not? that the place
Of all places to exhibit sculpture is in
Fl garden.
Any one who was fortunate enough
To visit the little garden Of Touch
stone House, in East Thirticth
Street, during its recent exhibition
OF sculpture does not need to be re-
minded Of this fuct, for the twenty
odd pieces in bronze or stone which
were shown against tho background
Of spring flowers and green leaves
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delightful concet was Edith Bar
retto Parsons's statuette fountain.
which she named The Turtle Baby, =
and Miss Mary Mears contributed a
sprightly figure Of Pan which was
given the title Of Joy Fountain
and was from the hand of her sister.
Helen Farnsworth Mears. a pupil Of
Augustus Saint Gaudcns, whose
work since her death, a few years
ago, has come to be recognized as
among the best Of the modern Amer
lean soul ptors.
The various pieces were so skill
fully arranged that one never
thought of the aggregation as an
Exhibition they seemed ito sbe-
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TNHE eXigency of breadwinning
and Of taking mems places

and Of taking mems places
during the war has walked Up
our entire feminine middle class here
and IN England to the fact thai
their time is worth something. and
the result Of this awakening is sure
to be far-reaching And when Mrs.
Average Housekeeper rises up and
demands wages there is little logic
in refusing her.
Many a farmers and suburban.
ties wife who last summer gardcncd
enthusiastically became also very
expert at canning. / know of one
probably there are hundreds-who
canned so we'll that she built I'D
quite pretty business, which in it
sell would be labor enough without
the added chore of general house
work. What is such woman to do
now that her men have returned and
her housekeeping duties increased
md no vision of maidservant
sladdens the landscape? Will she
abandon her newfound business and
economic independence? I doubt If
The care and training of children
Is job enough in itself, and that Of
Keeping the house another. and
many woman who finds managing
the two jobs simultaneously a bur
densome undertaking would prefer
the children and choose rather tha;
the housekeeping he dropped on
other shoulders. Ii a Norman Laan ~,
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under the bIuest Of May skies were
proof positive that "the great out
of-doors,' even though it be within
the narrow confines of a city back
yard" is, after all, the ideal ex-
hibition hall
The majority of the sculpture in
this novel exhibition was the work
of women Janet Scudder had two
pieces, figure for a bird bath and
design for a fountain which she
called "Seaweed.' Harriet Whitney
frlshmuth showed a lovely female
figure full Of life and motion, de-
signed for fountain, which was
called "The Joy Of the Waters" and
d sun dial called "HapDy DAYS" 4
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would appeal to their pupils. The
first was a well known school for
girls just outside Philadelphia !;
$4,000 was the amount required to
adopt the school in France which
the directors had chosen as god
child for this particular institution.
Within four weeks after Mrs. Sar-
toris's visit she received check
for 2,237, which was raised by the
girls themselves in various ways
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touch with the Minister OF Public
instruction in France, and by the
time that our public schools reopen
IN the fall he will be IN possession
OF full data concerning the actual
condition of every school building in
the devastated districts and the cost
OF restoring each one of them. Ne
will then ask, through the local
school authorities, that each public
school pupil contribute ten cents
toward the rebuilding of the schools
for their little French comrades.
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The ten cents may be given outrigh
or, IN the case Of the very poor
children, it may be contributed a
penny at time. So far as possible
each school is to finance the rebuild
ing OF its own particular godchild
IN France, but in the case of the
restoration Of the larger buildings
two or three schools in the same
district may combine to bear the
expense
The buildings are to be rebuilt on
exactly their old lines, and the draw
lngs which will be used for their
construction have already been made
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Scho0lhouse in the Role of Marianne


evolved for accomplishing this and
the enthusiastic manner in which
the schools, both public and private,
are taking hold of the work you will
have no fear as to the result Of the
campaign.
In the first place the French Res
toration Fund is particularly fort
innate in having as a member of its
American Committee Philander P.
ClaXton, our Commissioner Of Edu-
cation, who purposes to organize
the campaign among the public
school children all over the country.
Commissioner Claxton is in close
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Meeting Beauty Una,Uares

A | The Paris Exposition there
n stood in an alcove in the court
Of the building that housed the
united States Commission brown
S'one faun, dancing, with arms flung
VIDE IN ecstasy. People Of all ma
IONS came and went, the summer
"@s very warm, but the faun never
battered, and on rainy days, when
every one else was grim and be
"faggled, he turned into drlpninv
"'olize and was rncrricr than ever.
'"s memory Of him persists through
'Sehty years and in competition
WIN beautiful things gathered from
al over the world for O. worlds fair
neither II conception nor in ma
"'''ae was It wonderful work Of
NV ~ epoKc 81 Joy and grace
81" freedom, and one came upon il
al unexpected place and war re-
freshed.
:" me Tar edge Of the woodz Of
'a'heoieau on the Earbizon eide
'"s f'nds hidden away among great
Ass' which stand shoulder high.
.'0nSe tablet sunk in the side Of
s'ea1 gray rock. On il in baas.
az s. are the faces OF two great
sk rho lived ana worked On the
g edge. Thy seem Quite at
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language just as the little Ameri-
cans will want to study French, so
that they may be ably to read first
hand the messages that come from
across the seas The history and
geography Of either of the two
countries will take on new inter
est for the children of the other
and give to the future citizens of
both great republics better under
standing Of each other than they
have ever had before.
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Who Is Responsible
For What

The ten departments of France
which have been partially or totally
destroyed were carefully divided,
and each placed in the care of a
group Of our states-for instance.
the first division, which is Pas de
Calais" is allotted to Maine, New
Hampshire. Vermont and Massachu-
sets, while the second, which is
called lie Nord,' falls to New York.
Connecticut and New Jersey; Mary
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fiat, dress them. entertain them, find
suitable work for them. The mum
ber of families they took Oh eventu-
ally was limited only by the depth
Of their purses.
English women mad never gone in
for clubs. They considered them. l
believe, too American. But in the
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not knit or roll bandages all day and
every day
They did lectures at the British
Museum. Some Of them had never
been there before, or had gone only
when their American cousins came
to visit. They went through the
Tower and Westminster Abbey with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
By ELENE FOSTER

TT WAS just about a year ago
that the Institute told of the
work which the French Restora-
ton Fund was planning to do tow
ard rebuilding the devastated coun-
try after peace was declared Men
ton was made of the work that
Nine. Sartoris, the French daughter
in-law of our own Nellie Grant,"
was doing in this country by way of
collecting funds and organizing COM
mittees IN the different sections, so
that the work. of restoration might
begin the moment that the white
dove of peace should appear in the
sky. With this little synopsis of
the preceding chapters" we proceed
with the second ipstalment of our
story.
Directly after the signing of the
armistlce Nine. Sartoris went to
France in the interests of the French
Restoration Fund to confer with the
various officials of the French gov
eminent. the Minister of the Block
ade and Liberated Regions, the Di-
rector Of the Special Service for
the Reconstruction of the Invaded
Regions, the Minister of Public In
struction and Fine Arts and all the
rest of EN- as to the plans for han
ding this gigantic undertaking.
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Enterprise in the
Private Schools

The campaign in the private
schools has already begun, or. at
least, has had what in theatrical
circles would be termed its spring
try-out.' Four schools. all within
two or three hours distance from
New York, have been visited by
Mrs. Sartoris, as d sort of opening
wedge to see how the idea of re
building the schools of France
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many clubs and committees in Eng
land as we had over here. That was
because the English committees be
gan by being more of family mat
ter. Relatives, usually elderly
women, would assume the support
of one or two Belgian families.
They would give them a house or a
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for small consideration which goes
toward rebuilding a schoolhouse in
that desolatcd country across the
sea.
One of the first boys schools to
raise its quota was famous insti-
tuition overlooking the Hudson
River, which numbers among it's
pupils Herbert Charles Grant Sar-
toris, the twelve year-old son of
the vice president of the French
Restoration Fund and great
grandson of General Grant. All
through the war this lad has been
attending school on the outskirts
of Paris, where the boom of the
guns on the western front and the
voice of Big Bertha pounded out an
accompaniment to the teaching of
the three Rs. With the presence
Of an eyewitness of the sufferings
of the children of France. is it
small wonder that this particular
school raised its quota so speedily?
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by the French architects in the
trenches.
The plans have been carefully
worked out so that the schools of
each department. shall be rebuilt
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ters and photographs, Of course,
and the little French children Will
be stimulated to learn the English
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a Lesson i'm Beauty From the Old World

4 n NE of the chief charms of the
W Old World gardens of Eng
land and France and Italy
Of Italy-is the glimpse
which one gets here and there
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No Overhead" Burdens
This Labor of Love

There is one point about the work
of the French Restoration Fund
which must not be forgotten. Every
penny subscribed for its work goes
direct to the object for which it
was given. There are no overhead
expenses, no office expenditures TO
be deducted from the subscriptions.
The officers and directors of the
organization pay all of its running
expenses out of their own private
purses.
So much for the restoration Of
the schools of France, but this is
only a small part Of the task con
fronting the directors of the French
Restoration Fund There are
100000 houses, 800 public build
ings; 200 churches. to say moth
ing Of the hundreds of bridges and
railroads and industrial plants to
be rebuilt, and that, gentle reader,
is where you and ! come in. We
shall be asked before very long to
do our share toward the restoration
Of France. We must "stop lively"
if we are not to be outdone in
generosity by our children.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
BERGER JURY
NOW ON TRIAL
Investigation of Irregulari-
ties in Deliberations Dur
ing Recent Espionage
Case to Be Conducted.

Chicago, Jan. "a. = Investigation
of alleged irregularities in the jury
deliberations in the recent trial oil
Congressman-elect Victor L. Berger
of Milwaukee and four other social
ist leaders, who were convicted of
conspiracy in violating the espionage
law, will be made today by Federal
Judge Lands.
Subpoenas have been served on the
IL jurors who heard the case, sum
moning them to appear in court and
be questioned.
The investigation was ordered to-
DAY on the plea of the defense, which
claims to have an affidavit from
Thomas &C. Nixon, a juror, who is
said to have alleged that prejudicial
remarks against the defendants were
made by certain jurors and a deputy
marshal while the trial was in prog
ress. Nixon is said to have voted for
the acquittal of the defendants for
two ballots and later agreed to YER
dict of guilty.
District Attorney Charles F. Clyne
and attorneys for the defense de-
clined to discuss the subject.
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WILL PROTECT
J0bLESS MEN
No Soldier Will Be Dis
charged Into Unemploy-
ment Against His Will.
May Remain in Service.

Washington, Jan 25.-To solve The
problem of unemployed discharged
soldiers, the war department has or
dered that no man be discharged
from the army until such time as he
can obtain employment in civil life.
1t was announced today that or
ders had been telegraphed to all de-
partment and division commanders
at Secretary Bakers direction to re-
tain all men who desire TO remain
temporarily in the service, without
prejudice to their subsequent dis
charge to take employment.
The order follows; All command
ing officers will take steps to insure
that every enlisted man in their com
mand understands thoroughly that
the war department does not desire
to discharge any soldier who cannot
secure civil employment. 1t will be
made clear to every soldier that
where he would normally be dis
charged under orders for demobili-
cation, he may remain temporarily
in the military service at his sown
written request until such time as he
can seenre employment. The fact
continued on Page Four)
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HOW THEY HELPED
TO WIN THE WAR

Manchester, England, Jan. 25.-
Cotton spinning has been profitable
industry during the year ending Nov.
30. An analysis for the returns of 40
companies shows total of 3576, 134
on the years working, or an average
of G14,4O3, against e5,0S5 per COM
pany in 1917.
After allowing for depreciation
and interest, the profit works out at
over "a per cent on the capital stock,
compared with 13 per cent last year.
The height of prosperity is said to
have been reached in July and Au-
gust, when the profit for spinners
was abnormally vide. Since then
there has been reduction in earn
ings.