The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-12-08

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cheerful as they can. all have their
white curtains at their windows and
their little pot of blooming flowers. 1t
is so pathetic, this brave attempt to
make the best Of things
They are taking care of their dis
abled men," said Mr.. Blackstock. "All
the hotels and every place like that
employ all disabled service men in
every position they can. Everybody
that can employs them. And they have
another thing which we didn't see in
America. That is the feeling about
the unknown soldier In London the
body Of the unknown soldier is buried
Westminster Abbey. but the monu-
ment is placed in the heart of London.
Every man who passes it does so with
lifted hat. And the same in Paris,
where the monument is under the Arc
de Triumphe, not man passes there
but his hat is off. We were in Airing
ton after we came back, and people just
stand around there in droves with their
hats on"
That was very comforting thing
to the mothers in France and Belgium, I"
Mrs. Blackstock said. Every mother
who lost son and never heard from
him again just says with little smile.
Perhaps that is my boy and she
seems comforted.'
U. $. GRAVES WELL CARED FOR
And every American mother who
has a boy buried in France can feel
perfectly sure that mis- grave is well
cared for she added. "In every
cemetery we saw the American graves
nave the most care. They are just
simply the cleanest and best cared for.
just immaculate. And we saw so many
American cemeteries. We saw Gene
teries with ten thousand graves, ten
thousand crosses in rows. 1t was out
of the poppy season, but we found a
few and few lilies. which we picked. +"
The Blackstocks were through the
cemetery regions just two days before
General Pershing's visit. They gave
amazing accounts of casualties, which
still result from the war, the explosion
of hand grenades and shells, which are
dug up in reconstruction work.
1T was a real taste of the war
they said. WED hear a great ex-
plosion and see all this upheaval, and
them crowd would collect, and we d
hnd-that shell or hand grenade had
been dug up and exploded and killed
sometimes large number of people.
A party went out just head of us one
time in which there was Frenchman.
He picked up little thing that looked
like lead pencil, and it exploded, ut
terly DESTROYING him One of those spike
bombs dropped from airplaues. There's
great deal of that. and will be for
some time to come.
I'VE were in Paris the day they sent
the bomb over for Herrick, so it SEEM
ed real warlike then. too.
HOTEL SERVICE GOOD
They commented on the fact that
hotels are so clean and well kept and
serve such excellent food. though
nothing especially fancy. This is due
they explained, to the fact that the
hotels had been used as some kind of
hospital until just recently. and have
just been reopened. and therefore in
the best possible condition.
That was what we considered one
of the fortunate things about going at
this time, because the hotels were all
so clean. And some of them are very
old. The one where we stopped in
Venice dates from the sixteenth CEN
tury," said Mrs. Blackstock.
When asked as to the starving child
rem and people generally they say that
reports about that are exaggerated.
Children in Venice are all roly poly,
with rosy faces, and no one has the ap-
pearance of being in danger of starv-
! ing.
''Of course foodstuffs are scarce and
they eat everything things we'd never
think of eating. But somehow they
are getting something that makes
them well and strong"
AS to styles in Paris:
81 never saw such frumps in my
life, exclaimed Miss May Blackstock.
II never saw such dowdy clothes and
on the loveliest little old aides. Some
of them looked like Queen Victoria
stepped out of her picture"
They all laughed.
''You can wear ANYTHING you have
or ever have had or ever expect to
have, in Paris. added Mrs. Black
stock. I'VE saw everything imagin-
able, every sort of dress. And then
again we'd see some of the most won
Z darf1l clothas in tha uorld Thara I.