Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1915, Page 22

| | z PR s e o e3> \ Dain Exquisite Girls Like Lady Diana Manners tySociety Deauties and Miss Gladys Nelson Who Are Act- ually Rescuing Wrecks of Shell-Torn Humanity from the Inferno of the Front London, May 28. ANY beautiful girls of the M most delicate breeding have gone to the front to nurse the wounded-—to see the worst hor rors of this most horrible of wars. It must not bé assumed that they have merely gone to the base hospi- tals to attend to the wounded sol- diers brought to them from the front and carried to them through the dangerous area. Some at least have gone right to the trenches into the midst of the inferno of builets apd shells and poisonous gases, where the air s filled with the groars of the dying and the stench of the unburied dead and where the very soll trembles from the force of the new and devilish explosives that re- duce humanity to a pulp. The sights that these delicately reared girls must witness can only be hinted at. Many strong men IRE M T it Th 5 E) i Eg E% i gi i EETEES E§;§§ fen Bi % ¥ i i oy b 5 : before the deadly fumes reached her. All the risks of death and injury, however, would seem to be less of an ordeal to a woman of sensitive nerves than the sighty she must con- stantly witness, The hodles of dead and wounded have been turned black, green and yellow, so that they become in many instances a carica- ture of humanity. Then so furfous is the fighting and 8o difficult the work of attending to the wounded that the dead have often been left unburied for days. The wounded are often terribly mangled and sometimes left to lle in the dirt for hours or even days before the ambulances can find them, Before they can be relleved at all their clothes and boots may have to be cut from them, and in this process very often large masses of flesh come away with the garments. These and other services are rendered by the women ambulance workers. The exquisite Miss Gladys Nelson has been doing her share in this terrible work, and, according to last accounts, doing it very ecreditably. ‘Will she come come tarough the or- deal a stronger and nobler character or will she break down under it? One of the bravest English nurses is Miss Murfel Thompsen, of the First Ald Yeomanry Corps. She be- longs to a well-known English fam. fly. She is a pretty girl of robust physique. She has been right up to the trenches in one of the worst cen tres of carnage in the whole fleld of war. Many badly wounded Belgians, who had no hope of medical atten- tion from their own forces, were carrled by Miss Th/mpron from the firing line. King A.bert »/ Belgium presented to her or whe vatilefleld a medal for brave:y. The beautl'ul Marchisness of Drogheda, a ycung matron of the highest aristoc’acy, is nursing the wounded in a houseboat on the Yser River, in Belgium, where some of the most terrible fighting of the whole war has occurred. This is the spot where the Germans put forth their greatest force in the West last October to break down the allied ines and reach the English Channel. The Germans in their eadvance either killed the Belgian inhabitants or at least drove them out and de- stroyed their homes. The allles in their anxiety to stop the Germans flooded the country and destroyed hundreds more Belgian homes. The world has never seen a more pitiful and death- strewn waste than this once very populous sad prosperous regton. The Marchioness of Drogheda anu some other English women are la- boring among the wounded and starving on the Yser, within sound of the guns to relieve some lttle part of the unspeakable misery. Two of the most noted beauties of the British aristocracy are in train- ing to act as war nurses. One of them is Lady Diana Manners, daugh- ter of the Duke of Rutland and sis- ter of the former Lady Marjorie Manners, whose heart affairs have been of so much interest to the world. Lady Diana 1s one of the meost charming, dainty and sprightly girls in the liveHest set of fashionable so- clety. To think of such a girl amid the blood, dirt and horrors of trench warfare gives one the greatest sheck ot all. It has not yet been decided: where Lady Diana will take up her dutfes in the war area, but her friends say that her spirit is se great that she will go to the most dangerous places that any woman bas yet ventured to. Another beautiful girl of equal so- clal prominence who has been train- ing as a war nurse is Miss Monica Grenfell, daughter of Lord issbor- ough, one of the moq' noted sports- men in Eagland. - In the earlier stages of the war considerable adverse comment was excited by the numbers of soclety women who foreed themselves through thelr influence with high officials into the fighting area, where they were not fitted to be of help and were often a serious hindrance. This evil has now been nearly eliminated. With a growing sense of the awful seriousness of the war the most frivolous of society women have become subdued. Under the “This Beautirul and Dainty Girl, -~ 'TE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE MAGAZINE PAGE| Miss G_hdyl Nelson, Daughter of Sir William Nelson, One of the Richest Men in E_r;{l-nd, Is Actually Running a Motor Hospital Ambulance rouqh the Blood, Dirt and Horrors of the Firing Line.” Joffre the army officers and other ofticials have refused to allow any women, however highly connected, who were actuated merely by curios- ity, to proceed to the fromt. Only women qualified to nurse and belonging to recognized war nurs ing erganization are now allowed to 80 near the fighting area. At one time eriticism was excited by the sight of Lady Derothy Feild- ipg, the twenty-year-old daughter of the Earl of Denbigh, standing among & group of admiring French and Bel- glan officers at the front. It was as- sumed that a girl of such an age and such training could only be a hindrance among the fighting men, and it was even hinted that she was addicted to flirting. Whatever she may have been at first, the young Lady Dorothy has now changed all opinions of her and become a real herolne. With train- ing and experience now lasting for months she has become a most valu- able as well as courageous nurse in rescuing and caring for the wounded. Naturally & strong girl and accus- tomed to athletlc sports, she has shown herself peculiarly fitted for this kind of work, Many ladies of rank interested in the wounded have lately shown their good sense by not trying to go to the fighting area. The handsome and skittish Duchess of Westminster, Wwhe excited some attention at first by bustling around among the sol- diers in France has now gone to Serbia, where there is the Breatest need of Good Samaritans. The hos- pital founded by ner at Le Touquet, mear Paris, has doue geod work. The comdition of Serbla is such that any woman who ventures there must see the extremes of human misely. The whole country has been turned into a charnel house by the invading Austrians, followed by the still more terrible typhus fever. Men, women and children are dying of disease without being able to find a bed to lle on or a roof to cover them. One report statell that youn, Paget had died while nurilng Ey';:?x{ patients in Serbia. Her mother ig the wellknown American Lady! Paget, wife of General 8ir Arthu Paget, and the daughter is marris to & distant cousin, named Sir Rich) ard Paget, British Minister to 8 bia. Later news came that yol }Ad’ };.(at hhndh not died of th lever, but she scenes of horror m “‘:IW been kuown {p Rurene for thras santnries X