EXHIBITION AND SALE

OF ORIGINAL
DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS
AND
MANUSCRIPTS

AT THE
AMERICAN ART GALLERIES

(BY COURTESY OF MR. THOMAS KIRBY)

6 EAST 23D STREET

ON VIEW FROM SATURDAY, JANUARY 22 (9 A.M. TO 6 P.M.), UNTIL
THE DAY OF SALE, JANUARY 25
AT 3 P.M.

THE DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, AND MANUSCRIPTS CONTRIBUTED TO
THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

COMPILED BY

MRS. WHARTON

FOR THE BENEFIT OF AMERICAN HOSTELS FOR REFUGEES
AND THE CHILDREN OF FLANDERS RESCUE COMMITTEE

**AUTHORS** Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Paul Bourget, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad, Eleonora Duse, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Robert Grant, Thomas Hardy, Paul Hervieu, W. D. Howells, General Humbert, Henry James, Francis Jammes, General Joffre, Maurice Maeterlinck, E. S. Martin, Alice Meynell, Paul Elmer More, Comtesse de Noailles, Josephine Preston Peabody, Lilla Cabot Perry, Henri de Régnier, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmond Rostand, Edith M. Thomas, Herbert Trench, Emile Verhaeren, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Barrett Wendell, Edith Wharton, Margaret L. Woods, W. B. Yeats, André Saurès, Vincent d'Indy, Igor Stravinsky.

**ARTISTS** Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Léon Bonnat, Dagnan-Bouveret, Walter Gay, C. D. Gérôme, C. D. Gibson, René Ménard, Claude Monet, Renoir, Rodin, John S. Sargent, Théo Van Rysselberghe.

COMMITTEE: MRS. CADWALADER JONES, Chairman; MR. HENRY W. MUNROE, Treasurer; MRS. J. LLOYD DERBY, Secretary

# Heroes of France

A Fortnightly Bulletin Issued by the French Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund, Inc. 2 West Forty-fifth Street, New York City

Number 2

November 4th 1918

## We Have With Us

It is not necessary to introduce Edith Wharton to the American public or to readers of *Heroes of France*.

Her books are in the library of every home, and the fame of her work for the suffering people of Northern France has spread throughout the world. The admirers of Mrs. Wharton's brilliant literary work, of her extraordinary artistry, may not all know that since 1914 she has devoted the full force of her wonderful intellect to relief work in Paris. Five thousand penniless and well-nigh hopeless people are cared for by the American Hostels for Refugees of which Mrs. Wharton is the founder and president. Hundreds of thousands of desperately wretched women and children have been restored to some semblance of happiness and health by her tender

ministrations and her wisdom and care. The work has long outgrown the private fortunes of Mrs. Wharton and her friends, and the pub-

lic has been asked to contribute. So splendid a work with its efficient organization and its trained workers must not be allowed to lessen its usefulness for lack of money. The French

Heroes Fund has taken over the American Hostels as one of its associated bodies and one of its responsibilities. The Hostels need 50,000 francs a month for running expenses and this we have agreed to furnish them. The work consists of: a cheap restaurant serving 500 meals a day, a women's workroom, a day nursery for the children of the women employed in the work-room, a dispensary, three medical consultations per week, a dental clinic, five lodging houses, an organization for distribution of food-stuffs, a rest home for women and children, an organization for the distribution of bread, an employment agency, gifts of furniture to refugees who can provide themselves with clean

and healthy unfurnished lodgings but cannot afford to furnish, and a staff of inspectors and visitors.

France may be restored in the fullest sense, in order that the mark that sufferings and privations have left upon the children of this generation may be wiped out, and that the lessons taught by days of adversity may not be lost, our work must now follow a new road; and this is where it leads us.

"Tuberculosis is the scourge of France; all sorts of reasons are at the back of this situation, but they can all be summed up in two words: fear and ignorance. The French lower classes are ignorant of the causes of tuberculosis, and afraid of its worst enemy, fresh air. And yet, if we look back on the work which the affiliated Committee of the American Hostels—American Convalescent Homes Committee— has accomplished within the two short years of its existence, we know that it is only a matter of a few years before the French public becomes wholly converted to a sane view.

## For the Future of France

THE American Sanatorium for tuberculous women and children at Groslay is a centre of propaganda, an example and an encouragement to repeat the same experiment elsewhere. Our Houses at Arromanches, where children with tuberculosis of the bone are treated, has a waiting list that would be a disgrace were it not a compliment. It was

literally impossible until two years ago to induce any French person of the people to go to a sanatorium for tuberculosis until it was too late, and their reluctance is not to be wondered at, for in the average French hospital no attention was paid to the most elementary principles that guide the treatment of consumption. Public opinion is changing rapidly; the word "tuberculosis" has ceased to convey a sense of unmitigated terror. More and more people come to us crying to be saved, and our means for helping them are hopelessly inadequate. Time after time, women have come to us to implore us to help their children, but what can we do, with two hundred beds at our disposal where two thousand would be too few?

"This is the direction in which all future development of the work for refugee women and children, and especially children, should tend. You cannot help children without helping the mothers too. A mother's care is the first and the greatest blessing to her children. If privation and neglect are threatening a mother's life, she must be made to live for her children's sake. Every refugee woman or child who has been dragged back from the edge of the grave is a centre of propaganda against the disease, and in order to save the children of France, this question, which is at the root of all future prosperity, must be considered henceforth as the first and most important of all."

The FRENCH HEROES FUND was organized in 1916. In January 1918 it was incorporated as the FRENCH HEROES LA FAYETTE MEMORIAL FUND.

The birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette, at Chavaniac in Auvergne, was purchased, and there have been established a school for French orphans, a sanatorium for children threatened with tuberculosis, and a museum to perpetuate Franco-American friendship.

But although these purposes were the direct outgrowth of the war, sudden emergencies have enlarged the work. Since the German drive in the spring of 1918 the main energy of the French Heroes Fund has been devoted to the care of

French refugee children—both at the Chateau and through already existing French committees.

One hundred cents in each dollar contributed for a specific purpose will be devoted to that purpose without deduction for administrative expenses. Designation may be for any of the purposes mentioned above. Undesignated contributions are credited to a General Fund, which is appropriated for relief at the discretion of the Board of Directors and from which also administrative expenses are drawn.

Checks should be made payable to James A. Blair, Jr., Treasurer, and sent to the French Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund, Inc., 2 West 45th Street, New York City.

["EDITH WHARTON'S\nWAR CHARITIES IN FRANCE", "MRS. CADWALADER JONES, Chairman\nMR. HENRY W. MUNROE, Treasurer\nMISS PAULINE RIGGS, Secretary", "## II. CHILDREN OF FLANDERS RESCUE COMMITTEE.", "Mrs. Wharton, President", "Founded by Mrs. Wharton in April, 1915 at the request of the Belgian Government.", "This organization boards, lodges, clothes and cares for over 700 children from the bombarded towns of Western Flanders (Furnes, Poperinghe, Ypres, etc.), and about 200 infirm old men and women, with the Flemish Sisters, who care for them. Some of the children were in orphanages, others were picked up in ruined villages or on abandoned farms. One baby of twenty months had been living for five days, alone and without food, in a barn; two others, a little older, were taken from the arms of their dead father, killed by a shell while he was escaping with them. After they had been in Paris for a little while, twelve of the older children were told, as a lesson, to draw a house from memory. Ten out of the twelve drew a house in flames. These children are now happy and contented and are taught by their Belgian nuns.", "The Committee who represent her in New York earnestly appeal to all who are proud of her as an American author, and to all who believe she is doing good service now, to help her.", "Cheques may be sent to Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, care of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 21 East Eleventh Street, New York. Gifts in kind should be sent through the New York Clearing House, 133 Charlton Street (or any local branch), addressed to Mrs. Wharton's work-rooms, 254, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris or else they may be sent by express to the care of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, who will acknowledge and forward them.", "While I am speaking of the trenches, I cannot help adding a word in behalf of what is now the other most pressing requirement at the front: the portable douches originated by Captain Paulhiac, which have been approved by the War Office, and are being dispatched to the trenches as fast as funds come in. These ingenious bathing machines can be rapidly taken apart and packed in three small crates. The smallest of the three sizes can douche four men at a time, and 150 men in six hours; the next size douches six men at a time and 375 men in six hours, and the largest douches eight men at a time and 500 men in six hours. The prices (shipping charges included) are respectively $81, $97, and $115. The sanitary value of these appliances can only be understood by those who have seen the mud-covered worn-out soldiers in the trenches, or coming back from a weary march in the heat and dust. Hitherto only the wounded have been washed; surely it is time last to give this best form of rest and refreshment to those who are holding the heroic line from the North Sea to the Vosges. The cost is so small, the blessing conferred so great, that I hope your readers will forgive my appealing for the \"Bains-will forgive my appealing for the

## LETTERS FROM FRANCE.

### Miss Schroeder Writes of Her Work With Edith Wharton.

Miss Winifred Schroeder, of Montclair, is working with Mrs. Edith Wharton in her war relief and refugee work among the children of Flanders and the tubercular war victims of France. She is the only Montclair girl working among the French war sufferers. Following are extracts from letters recently received from Miss Schroeder:

Mear M—:—It is hard to realize that the end of April is almost here with no spring weather, frosts every night and no heat anywhere, because of coal scarcity. The opera house is turned into a distributing coal station and long lines of people stand hours, sometimes way into the night, for their pittance or coal at fabulous prices. This is the coldest spring since 1873! War luck!

Yesterday I took Countess d'A. and Mrs. F. with me out to St.Ouen, where I showed them over the Children of Flanders' House of 350 refugee children. They were most interested in the lace school and bought one of the designs that a poor little kiddy had made. Then we went on to Groslay, with its hospital of 100 beds, which Mrs. Wharton has opened for the sick refugees, as there are no civilian hospitals in France, everything having taken over by the military authorities. This hospital is full and I have long lists of people waiting to get in. Really, each time I think of this place I realize how wonderfully well Mrs. Wharton has managed it and the splendid work that just this one branch of the refugee work is doing.

I am interested in seeing other work that is being done in Paris and this morning went to the Gare du Nord (North Station) where the troops leave for the front. The French Red Cross cantine has a place in which the soldiers sleep as the trains are often slow in departing and arriving. Then the cantine for refugees that are coming in by way of Switzerland from the invaded districts has a sleeping place and a vitiated (clothing) bureau, which is run by the American Fund for French Wounded. Many of these poor, wretched refugees when returned are too weak and sick to stand up and are destitute of everything except the rags they are in, the German having even taken away a way their identification papers. So, you see, we have plenty to do to find homes or lodgings for them and work when they are able to do it.

This afternoon I took some eggs and condensed milk to a woman with a two-weeks-old baby. She, like all the others, was put out of the hospital when the infant was only nine days old. There is no room to keep them longer. She has about twenty-four cents a day to live on. I could write you indefinitely about the awful conditions of these poor people coming in from the invaded districts, and the awful things they tell about. Also the people who have been to the destroyed parts; you could not believe it possible, the tales they tell, unless you knew them to be absolutely truthful.

Mrs. Wharton tells men many interesting things about her trip to the front, but I suppose you read her article in the New York Sun. The German human bone and oil factory has been in existence for the last eighteen months. All the machinery was brought from the United States by way of Holland as "necessities" for Germany from their sympathizers in America! It is too awful to think of. As ever,

WINFRED POWER SCHROEDER.

### Mrs. Wharton's Appeal.

To the Editor of The New York Times:

I implore friends at home to remember at Christmas my 755 destitute children of Flanders and my 160 helpless old people and nuns. I have now less than $2,000 in bank. Another $10,000 would carry us through the Winter, otherwise we must close our five houses and the lace schools. Please help.

EDITH WHARTON, Paris, Dec. 1, 1916.

I am sure no words of mine are needed after these from my sister-in-law, but as I have worked with her, and know how great this need is, I beg to join my earnest appeal to hers. Checks may be sent to Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, care of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 21 East Eleventh Street, or direct to Mrs. Wharton, 34 Rue de Valenne, Paris.

MARY CADWALADER JONES, Chairman Committee on American Hostels for Refugees in Paris, and Children of Flanders Rescue Committee.

New York, Dec. 14, 1916.

### For Mrs. Wharton's Work in France.

I have today received this cable from my sister-in-law, Edith Wharton:

"People now pouring in from ravaged district utterly destitute. Our hostels for refugees unable to cope with this new burden, situation heartrending."

I know how hard she must be working. Will any one help her by sending a check to Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, care of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 21 East Eleventh Street? The money will be cabled to France at once.

MART CADWALADER JONES.

New York, April 10, 1917.

"People now pouring in from ravaged district utterly destitute. Our hostels for refugees unable to cope with this new burden. Situation heartrending."

MART CADWALADER JONES.

New York, April 10, 1917.

### Mrs. Wharton's War Charities.

The following contributions to the charities of Mrs. Edith Wharton, in France and in Flanders, have been acknowledged:

Miss E. Neuhaus, $1,000. Mrs. W. H. McLeod, $12
Mrs. R. P. Keep, 100. Mrs. W. P. Hamil-
ton, 30
Miss Porter's Sch., 100.
H. W. Farnam, 20. Mrs. F. W. Williams, 25
Mrs. M. R. Driggs, 25. Mrs. H. Bingham, 50
Mrs. T. G. Bennett, 100. Mrs. W. H. Carmalt, 20
Mrs. B. Fenn, 25. Mrs. V. M. Tyler, 25
Mrs. L. S. Storrs, 25. Mrs. C. R. Smith, 30
Mrs. H. S. Porter, 50. Mrs. E. Whitney, 25
Miss A. Kingsbury, 100. Mrs. W. M. Bunker, 25
Miss E. Kingsbury, 100. W. A. Delano, 200
Miss E. R. Hooker, 100. Mrs. A. R. Kimball, 50
Mrs. M. B. Bristol, 50. Mrs. W. B. Cutting, 100
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Friend, 50
Tuttle, 25. Mrs. J. Flint, 25
Mrs. E. S. C.

Mrs. Wharton's activities are devoted to the American Hostels for Refugees in Paris and to the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee. The hostels have cared for thousands of refugees, while the Flanders committee cares for more than 700 children and about 200 old people. Gifts of clothing to the Hostels Committee should be addressed to the committee at 12 Rue Boissy d'Anglais, Paris, and sent through the Rellier Clearing House in New York. Checks for the Flanders work should be sent to Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, care Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 21 East Eleventh Street.

NEW YORK TIMES,
SUNDAY, APRIL 8,

### Mrs. Wharton's Charities.

The report of Mrs. Edith Wharton's war charities in France, covering the activities of the American Hostels for Refugees in Paris and those of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, shows that for an expenditure of $5,250 a month all the branches of the charity are maintained. Refugees of all ages have been housed, fed, and medically treated. Many of the children are suffering from tuberculosis of the bone and glands, and for them a villa has been hired at Arromagnac, France. A leading part in the revival of the lace industry in Belgium, has organized lace schools at Sevres and Saint-Quen, where the children from Flanders are taught by a graduate of the Ecole Normale de Bruges.
The total number of children cared for by the Rescue Committee exceeds 700, and 900 old people have been maintained. The officers of the New York Committee of the organization include Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Chairman; Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, and Miss Pauline Riggs, Secretary. Mrs. Wharton is President in Paris at 21 Quai de Bourbon. The New York office is 21 East Eleventh Street.

From Mrs. Wharton.

I sent you last week a report of the work we are doing for the French tuberculous.

The next day I received from an American nurse who is caring for the wounded in a French provincial town a letter, from which I ask you to publish the following extracts:

Dear Madam: A French nurse asked me to accompany her to see two men who had been transferred to the hospital for tuberculous soldiers. I am not blaming any one. They are all doing what they can and in their eagerness to do for the wounded, they are doing the things possible. I can't say how long the consumptives have been in No. 19. It is a horror.

I have read that you were interesting yourself in the tuberculous soldiers. Now, I have not the least idea what you can do. Let me just state conditions as I found them. The building is old and of course not intended for its present use, but it is a very passable sort of building. There are windows, but I suppose a miracle, an earthquake, or at least a command printed with the seal of the service de santé untilaire de France is the only possible hope of prying these windows open. I spent my childhood in Colorado, and the nine years prior to début of the war in Southern California, so I am not totally ignorant of what is necessary, at least on the subject of air. Sixty or seventy consumptives in one room, windows and doors closed, a small smoky stove, insufficient clothing, reoding, wooden beds, filthy bedding, dirty dishes, dirtier men nurses—and I asked the doctor who was showing me around what they might need. Well, he needed! It was useless to talk about air because he immediately began telling me about the dangers of “draughts.” Germ-laden air, so long as it was warm, seemed to be quite the proper thing.

This is the situation of things that are nurse crying, for remedy in France. As the nurse says, “I do not blame any one.” But I do feel it is the duty of America to help in the world show the most heroic people in the world how to fight this enemy as gallantly and how successfully as they are fighting the others. EDITH WHARTON, Paris, Dec. 22, 1917.

AMERICA AT WAR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—So much stress is being laid on the material participation of America in the war that some Americans are apprehensive lest the far greater importance of the deep moral sympathy of their country with the cause of the Allies may to some extent be left out of place.

I hope, therefore, you will find space for the following extracts from a letter just received from a man of business in New York who may be trusted from the sober and impartial view of his environment. May I add that I have not a single young man relation, and do not know of a single young man among my friends, who did not volunteer the day we declared war?

I am, Sir, yours very truly,

EDITH WHARTON.

53, Rue de Varenne, Paris, Sept. 8.

Copy.

"New York, August 15, 1917.

"I have wished so often that you could be here in these striving times, for you would be so interested to see the gradual change that is coming in the minds and temperament of the people. You meet men in uniform, officers, soldiers, and sailors, everywhere in the cities, villages, and country, and there is no question at all that the seriousness of the war is at last being realized. We are taking things as a last being needed. We are in a matter of course that to me are very surprising in a matter of course that to me are very un military, country so accustomed to peace and so unmilitary. The draft is working smoothly, and, I believe, there is a lot of no disturbances thoroughly, and I have heard of no disturbances anywhere.

"There is a splendid spirit of determination abroad which means to see this business through. It is very hopeful for the future spirit and character of the country, and is a sign of a real underlying intelligence of the perils facing us in the future if Germany is not beaten, and of sympathy for what other countries have already suffered at her hands in the past.

"The reception that our troops had in France, and our engineers in London, has been very gratifying to all, and has added much to the already strong feeling towards our Allies. I believe we are now passing through an awakening of a people that means to do its work thoroughly and from the highest to do its work with the greatest success and the greatest of COURAGE and BOUNDERS; but what country has not suffered from them?"

The Pugwashers.

New York, Nov. 6, 1916.

Some time ago there was a controversy in your columns between two of your correspondents as to the relative merits of the Plymouth and the Jamestown colonists, in which I have no wish to enter, for, like other patriotic Americans, I am equally proud of and grateful to all the early colonists for the example of bravery and self-sacrifice they afforded, and for the inestimable blessings they bequeathed to all their successors upon this continent.

It is but right, however, to correct the statement that was made by one of them in regard to religious persecutions and trials of witches in Plymouth Colony. There is no record of any persecution for religious reasons in Plymouth Colony.

Of cases arising from witchcraft, there were but two in Plymouth Colony. "The first case arose in 1661." Dinah, wife of Joseph Sylvester of Simeon, claimed to have seen her neighbor, the wife of William Holmes, in conversation with the devil, who was in the form of a bear.

"The sensible Holmes brought a suit for slander, which was tried by the General Court, Governor Precision, and the Attorney General, Mrs. Holmes's life would not have been worth a day's purchase, but Plymouth showed a degree of common sense altogether novel in such cases."

"Dame Sylvester was declared guilty of slander and was ordered to be publicly whipped, or to pay Mr. Holmes £5; or that she openly confess her slander and repay Holmes's costs and charges. That she chose to do the latter is no more remarkable than that the result discouraged witch searching for many years."

"The second case was in 1677 (N. S.), ten years after France's death

For Refugees in France.

I am profoundly grateful for the generous response to my last appeal for my refugees, but the unprecedented cold weather and the increased cost of living have unexpectedly reduced our funds, and I need $20,000 more to carry our sick women and children and a thousand destitute French families through the Winter. Please help again.

EDITH WHARTON.

53 Rue de Varenne, Paris, Feb. 3, 1917.

Will you allow me to second my sister-in-law's appeal? I do so with all my heart, for I know her work and that every poor given her goes direct to these poor people. Checks may be sent to Henry W. Munroe, Treasurer, care of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 21 East Eleventh Street, or direct to Mrs. Wharton, 53 Rue de Varenne.

MARY CADWALADER JONES, Chairman Committee on American Hostels for Refugees in Paris and Children of Flanders Rescue Committee.

New York, Feb. 14, 1917.

DEPARTURE.

OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks.)

Not for a great while have I met a story at once so moving and so simply made as Summer (MACMILLAN). Of course at this time the art of EDITH WHARTON is no new discovery; but to my thinking she has never done better the work than this tale of a New England village, and the wakening to love of the girl who was dowsing away her youth there. It is all, as I say, so simple, and written with such apparent economy of effort, that only afterwards does the amazing cleverness of Mrs. WHARTON's method impress itself upon the reader. Charity Royall was a waif, of worse than ambiguous parentage, brought up in a community where her passionate and violently sensitive nature was stifled. Two men loved her—dour middle-aged Lawyer Royall, whose house she kept, and Lucius Harney, the young visitor from the city, the fairy-prince of poor Charity's young visitor from the city, the fairy-prince of poor Charity's one great romance, through whom came tragedy. You see one great romance, through whom came tragedy. You see already the whole stark simplicity of the theme. What I cannot convey to you is that secret of Mrs. WHARTON's that enables her by some exquisitely right word or phrase so to illuminate a scene that you see it as though by an inspira- tion of your own, and feel that thus and thus did the thing in fact happen. There are episodes in Summer—for example the Fourth of July firework evening, or the wildly ample the Fourth of July firework evening, or the wildly macabre scene of the night funeral on the mountain—that seem to me to come as near perfection in their telling as anything I am ever likely to read, and when you have enjoyed them for yourself I fancy you will be inclined to join me in very sincere gratitude for work of such rare quality.