Evening star., 1922-04-29
GIRLS WILL SWAP
WAR YARNS HERE
lassies Who Served Coffee
and Doughnuts '0ver There
to Hold Reunion.

The girls who served chocolate
and coffee--in the war are going to
meet in Washington next week and
have a cup for auld lang syne. This
will be the first grand reunion of the
women's Overseas Service League
since the war.
The Salvation Army lassie who
waved a mean doughnut cutter in the
war zone, the society girl who
"bathed" dishes wholesale in the can
teen, the college girl who played
checkers with the homesick dough-
boy In the recreation huts. the tele-
phone girl who kept q head on her
shoulders in spite Of the German ar
tiiiery fire. nurses. clerks, ambulaSRee
drivers and others who did war work
on tks ofhtf side arA going to hays
grand time reminiscing.
Glass Lines to ne Dropped.
Class distinctions will be obliterated
and the social leader who personally
directed relief In the devastated re-
gions is as eager for this chance to
talk it over" as the humblest little
hospital aid who was willing to-and
did-scrub floors in the service Of her
country.
Gen. Pershing, chief of the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces, Of which
the girls were SO proud of being a
part, will greet them at q great mass
meeting with the British and French
ambassadors also in attendance. Mrs.
Harding is planning a @ reception at
lington amphitheater will be thrown
open to the girls, and they will hold
there q memorial service for the wom-
en- who died in the war. There were
over $50 Of them-a fact not generally
known.
Want to Live Over Larks.
Tasks seem humdrum in the gov
ernment service on the eve of this
reunion. Many girls who served
abroad in the war now are tied down
to prosaic Jobs in the government de-
partments. They are impatient Of
the coming Of their comrades 'in
arms" They want to live over again
in memory such larks as sleeping in
houses from which the roofs had been
almost carried away by shells, with
the rain beating down and only an
umbrella to protect the bed. All Of
the dangerous and amusing expert
ences Will De fetolo ana Will thrill
anew.
The Women's Overseas League also
has q serious purpose in organizing.
one of the chief objects Of the league
is to ameliorate the condition of dis
abled veterans still in hospitals, with
Armistice day three years behind
them"
Hope for Paris Memorial.
Another OF their purposes is to
build q memorial in Paris to be given
to the Joffre Institute for French Or
phans, in memory of the American
women who died overseas. The
league is rescuing and preserving the
records Of the sacrifices Of fellow
overseas servitors.
Omaha names its unit after Marion
Crandall, who went quietly overseas
and was killed March 81, 1913, during
a German bombarlment Of st. Mihiel
on the edge Of the Argonne where she
was on duty.
Mrs Oswald Chew, president of the
league, will decorate the grave Of the
unknown soldier with the emblem of
the Women's Overseas League. This
emblem. which recently was adopted,
was designed by a member, Mrs. Anna
Coleman Ladd, well known Boston
scuiptress, who makes masks for
mutilated soldiers in Paris. On the
medallion Is an ideal woman's head,
shown in profile against the sea as q
background. On one side Is a
camoufaged ship, typifying the COM
mon experience Of crossing the water.
and ON the other side q lurking peri
scope representing the dangers and
hardships which attended the service
',over there"
Copyright, 1927