The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-16

story. CanaO1an porn, NG" I OTK bred, her father a United States citi- zen, she went to Europe to study and sing out after three years of work and play she married Polish noble man "and I have never regretted it' she says, flor until the war separat- ed us, not only by miles, but by arm ies. l was hapy as few women are" She went to live with him on the great ancestral estates at Suwalki. In those few golden years almost all that life could give was given her. Children came. A girl, Wanda, two boys, twins. Stanislaw and Wladislaw. The girl, six, and the boys five. when the war came. But how suddenly and terribly it was all changed; a rap on her window early on a summer morning; white-faced servant say ing, My lady, there's war" A card from her husband with the fateful words, War is declared. Come inn mediately with the children" ITO read that in the beauty of summer morning and feel ones t-world crumble about one!''
 | There is a smile on her lips, light l in her eyes and vivacity in her man | ner, yet about the Countess there is 1 an indescribable something which | only time and the wine press can except as it follows the terrible | tempests of life. and you suspect that | long ago she lost the ability to shed tears.
 never occurred me, Sne welt on, 'that there could be any one who was not for the League until saw for myself. I am amazed at America. What does she mean?"
 '"Those Baltic countries have got to have their independence. It is re-
 proach to the United States that their affairs have been left hanging I in the air. Those Lithuanians are splendid people and all their trouble
 comes from the fac< sat the League | hac nOt ratified
 l "Oh! That awful thing going on
 over there Snd up to this time Amer ica has not. helped a particle. It would
 not have happened if we had only ratified the League.
 l "Just as I was leaving to come to America this last time I had a long ! talk with the President of LithuanIa
 and almost with tears in his eyes he said to me, If America will quickly speak we will shed no more blood and then his final words as he turned
 away, Tell them, tell them over there we are waiting.' | "If America only would speak, She was up on q pinnacle and everyone over there looked automatically to her but now she has fallen down-way, way, down."
 She looked out of the window far beyond the yard from which there
 drifted through the window the happy voices of her children. Children who had seen human beings shot down without cause and had been near
 enough to German brutality to be spattered with it's blood. After a mo-
 ment she turned and said slowly: Do you know I sometimes think the ter
 ribIe European illness has come to America? The terrible condition of talking much and doing little. All those Slavonic people talk so much. I think it has been caught here. We
 talked so much and we have done SC
 little"
 think it will be a calamity ii ' the League does not go through. All this bloodshed which is going on over there now would have beer saved if we had been in the League I and if it was in full force Poland's imperialism would not be permitted f q sometimes think that we are 3 like a child who builds house ot
 cards and then gets tired and lay: t by its side and goes. to sleep an6 the house falls down."
 But I had the extreme pleasure I of seeing Senator Lodge turn pale e when We showed a committee a nov s ing picture of the execution of fivt I hundred innocent people"
 3 '.How did you manage to get thu
 picture?" the Times man asked - "A very simple matter" she re
 piled with a knowing smile, ''it onl!
 required a bottle of Scotch and :
 few other things
 .The thing which annoys me most
 which gives me actual physical un
 comfortableness is the European at
 
 thing about us now. They can sa,
 that we just got the business an' ' that was all we cared. We have n friends there any more, those peopl are furious because the League cam
 from here and now we have turne
 our back on it. When I came out o II Europe following my trip there afte
 the Arnistice and President Wilso
 had got home and the treaty was nc e signed I found great antasonism t n Americans there. If we had finish tt ed our work there would have bee t. none of that.'
 a "Those people over there can if understand it. There is blank amaze Ie ment. We helped to make the treat d and then are not willing to ratlfy 1
 It is a painful experience to be a 2. American and be among them an ly hear them ask about it.
 Id There are no two sides to tn ct League for me. Parties did nc n mean much to me before this Leagu
 matter came up. I think perhaps i- might have been inclined toward tt sol Republicans but waited for tf -I convention at Chicago. That decide
 me. There is a lot of pruning to e