The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1922-01-21
Few Are Homesick and Want to
Go Back to Europe but They
Are Exceptions.
I. W. C. A. OFFERS ITS HELP
Clubs Formed in Various Cities and
Young Wives Attend Glasses in
Enalish-Some Still Coming
to Join Fiances.

New York-Not all French brides In
this country are so homesick that they
long to return to France. Speaking OF
the recent incident of Marshal Foch's
tour West in st. Maries, Idaho, where
three FreEch war brides tearfully
begged to go back to France, Miss
Eleanor Killer, who directs this work
MT the National Board of the Young
Women's Christian association and
under whose chaperonage nearly 4,ooo
war brides OF all nati0nalities came TO
this country, emphasized that records
show the majority of them displaying
he utmost fortitude in adapting them
selves to American ways.
Nothing was said of inconsistencies
or a desire to return to France when
Marshal Foch recently received the
gift of silver plate from the Union
les Femmes de France, one of our ma
.ionality clubs largely made up of
French brides in Boston, although the
personal greetings were warm and en-
thusiastic," said Miss Killer lin fact,
nediately followed the 'Vive la France
as he passed by. Small as the incident
was, nothing could be more typical of
the spirit many OF these young women
are displaying in endeavoring to BAN
ish their inconsistencies and adopt the
new country to which their American
husbands have Brought them"
Turn to Y. w. C. A.
Due to their acquaintance with the
Young Women's Christian association
in France, and the warm personal re-
lationships established when they were
/ officially chaperohed by the association
on the trip across. in many cases, it
was to the Y. w. c. a. that they have
/ turned for guidance and help, it was
/ explained.
French clubs, or French War
Brides clubs, as they call themselves
in some of our center4 in other cities
which they themselves have organized
are not for sociability and compan
ionship alone" Miss Killer explained
''To learn English is their immediate
the first have been immensely popu
lar among them. Glasses in infant
care. including prenatal care, have
also been repeatedly asked TOR ant
well attended. In tie great majority
o. eases which we touch we have fount
them anxious 10 overcome all the hand
leaps which are so new and(strange Il
them in their new homes.
An example given was that Of tht
Union DIES Femmes de France, an or
sanizati0n of their own attached II
the Y. W. c. A. of Boston. This club
Of which Helen Lufberry. sister o
Raoul Lufberry, the ace who was
Killed shortly before the armistice
was the first secretary. gives beneti
concerts and other entertainments 70
+ war orphans or young women of thei
own nationality who are i'll or in dis
j tress here From. the outset thef
American husbands have been enthus
iastic in its support.
Tragic Exceptions.
The tragic exceptions to the major
fly of cases which have APPARENT
turned gut happily. Miss Killer salt
only infrequently come to her notice
only last month a young woman WI
contracted tuberculosis after the brit
of her baby, sailed back to France.
she continued. "She had been deserte
by her husband. Two cases of bigam.
for which the men in question are no.
in prison. are also pathetic. Althoug
in one case the man begged his brid
! TO stay. she scorned his offer of loya
+. ty to her rather than to the wife thu
he had left here when he went owe
seas. She'has gone back. and the I. v
a