Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 27, 1919, Page 4

i PAGE FOUR "HOSTESS HOUSE FAMILY_REUNION How 1t Happened ta Entertain Only A. E. F. Mother Who Visit- ed Army of Occupation. 'BIG CORPORAL DUTIFUL SON. } —te i {Me Knightly Gourtiers Ever Acted With Mere Gallantry to Lady Fair Than Did He and His Doughboy Pals to This Little White Haired Woman Drese- od Exquisitely in Black. By GRACE GOULDER, [CWith the American Y. W. C. A. Over. soxd) Coblenz, Germany, « March 28 (By Mall.) It happened right here in Coblens. A big corporal carhe into the Y. V. C. A. Hostess House and asked for the director, Miss Ruth Woodsmall, whe icomes from Colorado Springs, Colo. | “Could my mother stay here?”’ he 'began at once, trying his best te cover (his excitement. “Your mother!” gasped Miss Wood- small, “How did your mother ever gef here?” “Well, she Isn't here yet, but’if she comes will you keep her?”’ | “Of course 1 will, but—" | She didn't finish, for the boy bad amashed his cap back on his head and sas out of the door on a run. ! The corporal’s visit remained a mys- ry for two days. Then one evening Just at dusk a little white haired wo- man dressed exquisitely in black ap- peared in the sitting room of the Hest- ess House, and the corporal was hover- ing behind her, trying to be beside her and back of her and In front of her all at once, He was carrying her ‘coat—a big fur one. With them were three doughboys, pals of the corporal. They trled to keep in the background, bat their eyes were glued on her face. Everyone in the sitting room sat at attention. There- are mno English speaking men or women out of uni- form in the Third Army area, Yet here was a woman fn civilian clothes. Mothers are unheard of with the army. Baut this was a mother, everyone knew, After awhile someone found out about this mother. Had Been interned During War. ) She and her husband, who were porn In Germany, but had been nat- iuralized, lived In San Francisco. Be. fore the war they left for Welsbaden, Germany, that their invalld daughter might have treatment at this famous health resort, I They bhrought thelr other children ‘with them. One was Walter, a small ‘boy, and the other was Ralph, now Corporal Stepp of the Araerican Army. ‘When the war was declared they went Ralph back to Anerica, because he was of military age, and they did not want him teo fight for the kalser. Then America entered the war, Mrs, Stepp—Mrs, Anna Stepp she s =-—told this part of the story: “Until a month age I hadn’t hear! from Ralph for two years and & half-— even before America got in the war mail was held up. 1 didn't know whether he was in the army or not— but 1 was sure he was, because—well, because he Is an American” Here she stopped a minute to smile up at him. N “After awhile we heard from some friends that he was in the army-—and that he had come over here, That was all I ever knew. It's nearly five years since I have seen him! | “Of course It was awfully hard—T couldn’t get word to him jand he couldn’t to me. My hushand used to tell me it wouldn't help Ralph any for me to cry. T tried not to—before the rest of them anyway, My daughier got worse steadily-—she is no better. 'We couldn't get the proper food for her after awhile, And she hailed to see me worried ahout Ralph, so I nsed to try to keep up beforc them, “Last January my husband ¢ame to Coblenz about his citizen papers. An American soldicr in Ralph's company who was in the office heard his name and asked him if he was any relation 'to Ralph. He didn't tell him Ralph was In Coblenz, but went after Ralph, iHe didn’t tell Ralph his father was (here, When they met they couldn't believe thelr eves. “Ever since then I have been trying to see Ralph. He couldn’t come to |Weisbaden because it was out of the fAmerlcan area, and I couldn't get {through wuntll today—more than two |months.” | They asked her If her Raxlph ha |ehanged much in all that time. | “Oh, yes—very much. But de yom know, I think it {s because all that ilong time when I didn’t know where {he was or how he was—I got In the ;hablt of thinking of him as he was ,When he was a baby—I kept seeing him as a baby znd remembering the- way he felt when he was little. Isn't that queer? And now look at him I” And the corporal tried not to see the idorltlon in her eyes, “Five years Is a long time to walt ‘to #ee your boy.” she murmured. and |kept her eyes on hiw., Again she had iforgotten the people around her. i The corporal cleared his throat, |“This 18 why I ask.a you If you could keep my mother, Miss Woodsmall, I {dldn’t want her to come unlese she had a good place to stay. Ah, e-e.r— thanks awfuliy.” And that ix the story of how the Hostess House happened to entertsin the only known A. E. F. mother who has visited the Arumy of Occupation. ———— -3 " o e = Y. W.C. A. Provides Home For Actresses at Camp Dix, N.J l . THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER/ g S APE ST T \ Actresses who play in the Liberty Theater at Camp Dix, N. J,, find a touch of home In the Players’ House which the housing committee of the Young Wonien's Christiab Assoclation, of which Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr, I8 chairman, operates for them, Because of the distance from any town where they might stay, it was necessary to provide some sort of living accommoda- tions for the actresses. The Y. W. C. A, built the house, supplylng it with all convenlences such as sewing machines, washtubs and lroning boards. Camp Upton, L. L, has a similar house. Y. W. C. A. UNIFORMS 10 CLOTHE STUDENTS Suits Worn by War Workers Will Be Given to Penniless Stu-. dengs in Switzerland. Official uniforms of the Young Wo- men's Christian Association minus the Blue Triangle, the Assoclation in- signia, will be worn next winter by women students who have been strand- ed In Switzerland during the war and who, because of lack of funds, Inabili- iy to re-enter their native country, a desire to finish their university courses o lecause they have no family to which to return, will remain there next year. abeth M. Clark, who has been In Switzerland for ten years under the World Student Christian Federation, bas appealed to the National Student Cammittee of the Y. W, C. A, for cloth- ing for the 300 foreign women Stu- dents In Switzerland, The scarcity of oihing last year among these almost - refugee students made it necessary for two girls to share one’eoat so that oniy one could go to-classes or go out of doors at a time. Four large packing cases of all kinds of used clothing, save hats, which Is In good condition, have been eollected hastily from women college students in the- New England States, Ohlo. West Virginta, Pepnsylvania, Maryland and Delaware by the Stu- dent Committee of the National Y. W. (. A, to he sent over in response to Miss Clark’'s appeal. This clothing will b dyed. cleaned and made over In Switzeriand, In addition to the clothing collected fiom students in colleges nearest New York a ease of uniforms, which have heen turned in by Y. W, C. A, secreta- ries who did war work, and the official gray uniform ulsters is being sent, As uniforms are being turned in by war workers they will be claimed by the Student Committee, which will remove . the Insignia and prepare the uniforms =0 that they may he worn hy these women who have heen forced hy world events to remaln in Switzerland for scveral years, QUEEN MARIE INVITES * Y. W, C. A. TO RUMANIA Exterids Invitation to Overseas Work- ers in Paris. Paris, April 21.—Queen Marie of Rumania, following a conference with R’ representative committee of the American Y. W. C. A, held at the Ritz Hotel, Paria; has Invited the American Young Women's Christian Association to come to Rumania and open work under’ her patronage. Among the representatives of the Y. W. €. A present at the conference were: Miss Harriett Taylor, head of the American Y. W, C. A. work over- scax; Mise Mary Anderson of Hudson, Wis.: Miss Mary Dingman, head of the Y. W. C. A. Industrial work In France; Mrs. Margaret B. Fowler of Pasadena, Cal, and Miss Charlotte Niven, head of the Y. W, C. A. work ‘In Ttaly. A notable guest at the meet- ing was Madame Catar)i, wife of the secretary of the Rumanlan legation in Paris. ok deode deide ok ok ok ok kR Y. W, C. A, WORKER 18 DECORATED. + Miss Marien Perter of New York City was decorated the other day in the name of the Chaplain General of the Amerl- can army with the Church War Cross. Her citation was for her moral and spiritual contribution to the war, For more than = year Miss Porter has been at a hospltal center in Vittel, France, as a representative of the Y. W, C, A. in charge of a nurses’ club there. 2222222222222 2822 A2 22 22222 2R RS S LA AR AAEREE LR RE S PROHIBITJON TO BRING COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE L, Hazel MacKaye Advises Using’ Build. ings as Centers for Drama, Com- munity Sings and Enter. tainments, Why not turn the corner saloon into a community playhouse when the law effects the closing of these gathering places, asks Miss Hazel MacKaye, di- rector of the Department of Pageantry and Drama of the "atlonal Yeung Wo- men's Christian Association? “1 went over on the West Side of New York one night recently to attend a community drama meeting,” Miss MacKaye says in explaining her theo- ry, “and as I was riding along I noticed how many saloons there were—one on every corner and another in the mid- dle of the block, it sebmed, all just blazing with lights. Those ll‘his ought not to go out with prohibition. They ought to shine for sometliing worth while to all of the people, and what better than community drama and sings?” Miss MacKaye feels that the war has given a great impetus to popular interest in drama and that through pageantry and drama a great deal in the way of Americanization can be ef- fected. 3 i Through the community center, it be in_a district populated largely of one foreign nationality, these people could present pageants of the life in their wmother conntries; translating! them into English, so that Americans| and also the younger English spenkif\;' members of thelr household could un- derstand and appreciate thelr tradi- tions, American art would be wreatly enriched thus through the drama of all of the nations whose peoples have settled in this country. On the other hand American ideals, American his- tary and American festivals, even laws such as child labor and minimnm wage, could be interpreted to these people Ay means of pageantry. “People have been learning not only to work together, but to play togeth- o says, “particularly since the war, when the people stood together in drives and large pafriotic community entertainments.. The op- w,-!unn.\- to bulld up a great commu- nity organization is now at hand, and the time is ripe for it. WRhy not utilize the cornet saloon?” DEPARTMENT ADVISES ON PLUMBING AND CURTAINS New Bureau Opens in Y. W. C. A. Overseas Office. A new department of finance has been organized by the Y. W. . A, for Its work In France. Miss Constance Clark of Pasadena, Cal,, Is the execu- tive, Miss Clark hefore her recent coming to France was director of the big Y. W, C. A. Hostess House at Camp Lewlis, Washington. All contracts, leases and rentals for new buildings will be handied by Miss EAith Austin of New York City, an (xperienced architect and builder, who wil! work through thls pewly. cre- atedd section. Plans for remodeling and decorate ing rooms, clubs and hostess houses taken over by the Y. W. C. A, will be in tlie hands of Miss Mary Buchanan, an interlor decorator, who comes orig- inally from 8cotland, but who has been working in France for the American Y. W. C. A. since the beginning of its war work there. ¥ In addition, the department ls com- piling llsts, suggestions and general rnopping guldes for all the buging of the Associntion in France, including ail kinds of building equipment from cretenne curtains to plumbing sup- plies. A cafeteria expert will have a place in the department to act as general ad- vigor on restamrant and cafeteria proj- ects of the Association throughout France. In short, the department is to be more than finawce alone. 1t is tor he 8 kind of general advisory department and clearing houde for all other de- partments in_ the Fremch association—— a departmens where dollars will be i3 aved newde T S— V | AMERICAN FRAME “HUTS’" FOR ITALY Possible Solution of Housing ! Problem by Municipality of Milan. The municipality of Milan is now examining offers from several Ameri- can firms. to supply wooden huts for homes for the laboring masses. The house famine is as acute as ever and Is further ‘complicated by lack of con- crete, brick and other building mate- riak to say nothing of overland trans- -port difficulties. In fact, it is easier and quicker to ship huts from Amer- fca to Genon than thence by rail to Milan. Italian labor does not take kindly to \\oJulen huts. It prefers brick or stone.” and public authoritles also find § stone’ better in districts where _the people’s habits aré very unhygienic. But American huts have the great advantage of being cheap, solid and easily fixed, nand have stood the test of Lard usage in Messine, Avexxano and other districts where entire vil- lages were destroyed by earthquake. American business enterprise will filnd full scope in this directiom, for thou- sande of cheap homes are urgently needed all over the country. The Italian government has as yet assigned only $8,000,000 to meet the cost of putting up homes now; but as this sum will not even cover the needs of devastated districts, other granth will certainly be made. : Housing conditions meanwhile grow daily worse. Demobilization swells the city populations. In Milan more people are now sleeping in the open than a week ago. In Rome, with that indifference to facts which too often marks municipalities all the world over, the nuthorities have just densol- tshed xeveral rabbit “warrens which, bad as they were, gave shelter to & large number of families. The consequence is that some forty families, averaging ten members each, have absolutely no roofs over their beads at all. Keep the ga_rd—én_l‘and"busy, As soon as one crop is off put in another, DONT GIVE UP When you feel all-in, no ap- petite, no ambition, almost ymh iyou were dead. Your diges- tive system is upset, storeq up poisons are sapping your vital- ity, your energy is strangled. Nature and science have pro- duced a real remedy, “Hollis- ter's Rocky Mountain Tea.,"' a combination .of life-giving Herbs for the rélief of constipa- tion, stomach and bowel trouble, Expelling® the poisons ‘and creating new vigor. 'Ypu will feel vour old self again, vagorous and . happy. Cost trifling, Lenefit surprising. Get a package today. City Drug Store Tan Street Oxfords oxfords, any brown is color. ed designs your close in the { Phone 638-W S AT RS ROSSS for rags metals, scrap iron. on all out of town shipments for 100 pounds and over. > prices paid for hides. ’GOLDBERG'S HIDE & FUR CO. DRY CLEANING Cleaners for Men, Women and dren STAHL-JACOBS | Furniture Renovators All work guaranjeed. Work called for and de- liwered. i g General Repair Shop Phone 488 311 6th St. UR every pro- fessional act is_ performed in a satisfactory man- er. ' Our experi- ‘enced methods and the justness of our businass conduct are .above critl- . . The young lady Next door Says That when her Brother Comes home From service He will Have his Photograph taken In uniform Before he Puts it away And that Hakkerup Photographs Please her The best. lends its ap- ASHION i Fproval this Spring to and mahog- the accepted Here are two new welt- that deserve spection. Style No. one is smartly perfordted and carries a modish imitation tip. Of finest deep brown calfskin. $6.00. Style No. two is of brown kid, very trim, Louis heel, pretty for af- ternoons. $7.50. Knapp’s Shoe Store WE PAY, . highest market price rubbers and We also pay freight Highest 112 3d Street BUSINESS AND ( PROFESSIONAL DOCTORS DR. L. A. 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