The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1918, Page 12

MONDAY, MAY 6, 1918 Two Plucky American Girls Relief Workers Under Fire Behind F rench Battle Lines Misses Esther Sayles Root of New York and Marjorie Crocker of Boston Drove and Repaired Automobiles, Were in Paris During One of Biggest Air Raids, and Tell Their Experiences in Book, “Over Periscope Pond.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall WO American girls under fire, and the gallant, laughing, feminine i pluck of them—that is the splendidly sharp picture which illu- ' mines the pages of “Over Periscope Pond,” one of the simplest, fmost human, most genuine of the war books. It is a collection of the letters home” of Miss Esther Sayles Root of New York and Miss Mar- jorie Crocker of Boston—letters written without thought of publication and therefore with a most charming freshness, fulness and spontaneity. We all know girls like “Rootie” and “Marje,” the authors’ nicknames—self-reliant, attractive, pleasantly flippant young persons. And we must be glad to know that in their fields of patriotic service, in the hospitals, - nq «(the «Canteens, the war relief stations, these girls are meme, serving as loyally, courageously and efficiently as their brothers in khaki. < Miss Root and Miss Crocker of “Over Periscope Pond’ went over @ in the latter part of 1916, having volunteered to assist the Rev. and Mrs. Emest W. Shurtiefl in a carefully organized war relief for the dwellers in invaded districts of France who had been compelled to leave their homes and most of their possessions and take refuge in Paris. At first the girls worked chiefly at the Vestiaire, where the refugees, and Plinded soldiers also, were fitted out ak rl ut | ‘with clothing. The Late: gave = inten Hated Se the clothing and Miss Crocker At-| wtase night tended to the huge mall, typing for .many hours each day. Later they Grove automobiles from Paris to the front, conveying the war relief heads on important missions, taking all the care of their cars en route and even letter in “Over Periscope Pond.” a . 31, 1918. was it—the biggest raid they've had on Paris. in | warm bed I had forgotten all such | possibilities down my | | “When I snuggled | Suddenly I heard that siren that means one thing, and one XX < aN a 1, CO, ae os | | — are trim with striped Jersey. Have You Made Your 1918 Bathing Suit? | THESE MODISH DESIGNS ARE THE LAST WORD FOR THE COSTUMES OF THIS SUMMER MERMAIDS. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1918 Girl Scouts, 15,000 Strong, Help in Home War Service | From Knitting to Farming Under Leadership of Their President and Organizer, Mra. Juliette Low, They Have Proved Their Usefulness to Food Administration and Liberty Loan, and Are Keeping “On the Job"’ Wherever They Can Be of Service. By Alex Sullivan {AT are the Girl Scouts doing to win the war? _ Although there are only 15,000 of them, @s compaied to 400,000 Boy Scouts, the girls are no whit behind the boys in M loyalty and in real patriotic effectiveness. Girl Scouts are making sur- al bandages, are knitting sweaters, are raising war gardens, and in the -iberty Loan campaign that has just closed, Girl Scouts have done superb ofticers have thought it unwise to send the girls on house-to- house canvasses for the loan, and therefore they have worked from booths set up in many important centres, For instance, at the Plaza Square box In Washington and Bosion, strongly organized, they have also | raised large sums for the loan. It} was only the other night at a meeting held in the Clara de }!irsch Home of this city that $2,500 was eub- | Seribed as a result of the efforts of Girl Scouts. So many boys who formely did farm work have been called to the 1 the girls have raised a half where the Girl Scouts are million dollars. army and navy that farm hands are| {s where the Girl) puts are going to prove life savers | for our country and the Allies. Hua- dreds of young Girl Scouts are en- gaged in strenuous garden and farm work and have pledged their ser vices for the growing of vegetables and things that will keep those left scarce—and amaking necessary repairs. |thing only. It’s a dismal, foreboding at home and those fighting acrosa Wsther” was at Flavy-le-Martel sound. There's also an ‘alerte’ a ;the sea from starving Fj mas yoLIeTE Lome fast September during a battle be- t of horn, that blows at the ai tween German aeroplanes and the|°%t Of horn. that blows at the a One of the busfest places in the}... city {s the headquarters at No. 99/the girls will never participate in anti-aircraft guns, “I was all for time, thal sounds as though a flend Park Avenue, where the girls, under | any of the strenuous work that the standing with my neck craned, walt-| were putting lis whole lungs into it. |, the supervision of Mrs. Riker, are|phoys perform, yet in anything that ing to see what*would happen nest,! “Marje and I, for curlosity's sake, || making up surgical bandages and) {s not of a too masculine nature the feut the soldiers gave ono laconte} slipped into our fur coats aud went } | doing knitting. Thousands of band-| girls can be depended on to do thetr Yook at the signs In the heavens and/out on the balcony. The guns grew }\ages are sent across the Atlantic | pit walked off to the ‘abri,’ or shelter,”| much louder. We were thrilled. We! | |every week, the result of the patri-| “The girls have thelr nattonal camp she writes in “Over Periscope Pond.” | counted as many as fifteen aeroplanes 4 jotic and busy hands of the Girl/at Twin Lake, Interstate Park, To: “Our Lieutenant asked us to follow, at once, flying in groups of threes or 5 | Scouts, |ledo, About sixty girls a week from go down we plunged into a little cel-| fours or widely separated. The girls are now busy throughout / different sections of the country are Pariike place after the soldiers. the country arranging for demon-| accommodated there, and they have “Which of the deep booms were Five men were wounded here] guns and which bombs? This thought } |strations this month in which they! great fun walking, cooking and im yesterday by pleces of flying shell,’| wan dreadful. Bombs actually being i, | Tal show what: they ‘are capable of /other ways raid one of them. |dropped in the suburbs of Paris, on)! j /S0lng ih fhe wey of Heat Bie and): Sin out organisation) thore vane "Tt had nevor occurred to me that] buildings, on our friends, on the ref-| Recaees | Peel Rote ENR 6s Well aa ocr: & Girls a thing would ever come down and | ugees, on anydody. i line and belt i The girls at the outbreak of the/all creeds and natio es belong, Bit me. Zum-zum! and here I am, crouched down in an abri with some pollus, and a German biplane a mile “Suddenly a flash lit up the Place the trees stood silhouetted against a | red glare and an explosion thundered are of black and white stri Jersey, while war offered themselves to the Med {Cross and were assigned definite du- tea by each local chapter, In this city, any numb Newport eve nee, there are Scouts who vi y slimmer, but they are a ale hreliht ovat. ay hand sie the garment The Food Administration was} taught to forget class distinet aera opines it 1 ved ke Se AObTA mE JE: ROE DHG (Ue ENE iteelt tsa quick to recognize the usefulness of| they ass ah fica ower Wouldn't it ve funny -I_ wond \t never shall forget it. We were = : greyish: blue. alma ey nee nes ee associate with the poor girls how thick the roof of this place {3,| speculating as to how far away in| / — girls, 80 yeeven of|from the east side without the eign @nyway? Zw, zum, ZUM!" But it was after more than a year |feet and inches it had hit, when! | bang; bang!—more bombs; funniest | Two-toned gre; striped Jersey makes thisa {them fn Washington as home demon: |strators, who have pledged their Sat of a superior air. This 1s what we want to do for the girls of the coun of freezing in Paris lodgings, eating! thing—we all took a backward step| ;* striking design Jet | urdays and holfdays to the work of| try, to w them closer together by | pes ‘ster stri Hy . } war rations, working indefatigably | into Hannah's room. i Broader oo lines pHi pls bed ver demonstrating canning methods and/the exchange of ideas; and then we yet always with a smile, and all 80! “Wo gaw a plane with a red light striped fabric the garment buttons on the| 1 | "8" cookery tn clubs, schools and|devire to benef the motherhood of far away from the home folk to whom | oy {t—certainly a Boche—fire his! [ affords ap- left shoulder, thebelt fastens a | i Curches. jthe nation by making our giri @o bravely gay letters went regular- | mitrailleuse, and then down fell an-| } f ropriate Frimming: little to the side of the frock. The Girl Scouts have also taken} healthier through life in the open.” pleasure In sending scrap books an¢ Jy, that the real test of the Ameri-|other bomb. It was fascinating to Seiten ; the bere veren' th “Al he Girl Scouts average between can girls’ nerve came. see him so plainly; but as the sound] ne : _ fs ae eee at sinh mn , Be ee years, but the mem They were in Paris during the big- vi HUT ee aH * y | ney ats ¥ 4 m Usa De on't have to leave the organ y of his engine became louder and we| ki ih stn ES SC upon thousands of trench torches verte gest of all the German airplane raids Bombs fell three short New York blocks away from them, Did they furry into the bomb-proof cellars? They did NOT! In fur coats and could see him flying toward us, one | charge of fear went through me, To |fool that an enemy ts flying right over you, ready any second to drop a bomb that will blow you and Marje | Bang That Fly on the Beak zation upon reaching the age Mmit, as they can act as leaders, Gtri Scouts dress in khakl, after the fash ion of the boys, but with skirts, of which they have made with paper and paraffin. Another thing that Girl Scouts are doing ‘* to keep other girls from | course. entering the cantonments, | Girl Scouts are organized in 60: Mrs, Woodrow Wilson 1s Honorary | cities and towns in this country, The President of the Girl Scouts of/Girl Scout plan fils wherever elght slippers, slipped on over thelr night} and people you love, and the house id wear, they stood on the balcony and|and the street and everything to BY ARTHUR (“BUGS’’) BAER. | watched and laughed and thrilled,| finders; to know that you can't do for all the world like a group of co-|anything—that not even pulling the| Caner. 1048, We The Foes Paiishing le, ie Hews Derk Wrvaing Wot | greats in his title, Unless you carom your full set of knuckies off a fy'# America, Their organization was| girls can be banded together. Some aa Nisas sirlai pagan a tctokilcht Renee ae poset ay Hag ol! Aa the time that the revolving doors turn sour on the edges surprised expression at buckwheat cuke time in the morning, hie grand- | founded in vannah six years ago|of the most Inte resting troops ars uaialp flex thé Winnng.of THE meatas tion te Ravstn wall wait tf and the frost 1s off the steam pipes, old Mr. Fly stops pounding child will be bivouacking tu your delicatessen dinner tn the evening. A | by Mrs, Juliette Low, who now ts! formed tn deaf and dumb {nstita game of the year | enilaienn hang Ap ieabulie Byes his ear and decides to assist the June college graduates to run fly doesn't do anything to earn his biscults, If he helped you carry up |Natlonal President. While visiting | tions, ? * , or page the Janitor 18 somethi: ; . Buta fi Ingland 2 obs r eal) (Tha Natte But let “Esther” of New York tell|and then wait again to ece whether the world. the coal or page the Janitor it would be something else again. Bu a fly England abe observed what gr at) The Natlonal Headquarters were , Bas | stalls around while you cut your thumb trying to open the condensed |penefits English girls were reaping|opened here three years ag MH herself. he'll let go that instant or not—woll, | Just wbout the time that the nap on your mall orfer catalogue over- 8 ago, Dr. milk can with a buttonhook, and just as soon as the job is finished old from a similar organization, the Girl | Ja Russell, Dean of Teachers‘ Guldes, founded by Agnes Baden-| Coll pitas ecame an officer and fs stil) “Dearest Family,” begins the last|as Marjo s ‘It may be all right coat Is almost as short as the time between payments, and the spinster Gus Fly steps in and acts a_ If he had recelved one of those invitations lady with the mole on her third chin figufes there ain't any use of loiter- with R, 8. V, P, on the corner, A fly ain't any more use than a two- | Powell, sister of Sir Robert Baden-|active in formulating educational ing under the mistletoe any longer, old Gus Fly tumbles out of the hay colored flush in poker. | Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts. | policies for the § Fellowships aad bth ik tsa Medan i Ged ad a, The time to swat the fly {s when it is tlme to swat the fly, Don't wre. sow said |for the trainin % There are just two birds who should be knocked for goals thi Hatter about strafing the fy and then roll over cn your other ear for. | “dt ts our ambition to have the Gir! |lished: et Teachers’ Colle on od a few yards more of beauty sleep, The folks who start in to swat files | Scouts ome day just as large an or-| University, Johns Hopking Univer. month, One ts the Musca Domestica, or common house fly. ‘The other e Just like the folks who are going to return your grass mower when | ganization as the boys, Of course elty and New York University Ix the Horridus Bil!helmus, or d-by-the-censor common Kalser fly. they are through with it, By the time they are through with the mower | ‘While we ave busting the Kaiser Sip on the none, don't forest to care & your grass s festering under a triple crazy quilt of snow, sleet and ice. hoot for the other fy. We ¢ belfeve in making the world safe for After arin : | Bang a fly on the nose while he ts still a bach flies, And the house fly and palace fly are cousins, If you don't get d said and done we realize that th re is more said than done. r, or within six minutes eight dozen wives will be suing him for non-support, Don't be tender hearted, well drag the files tn too, augmented orchestra of € And when It comes to vot calluses on your shoes from stepping on files, the fly will get corns on With all the world at war, we might as | his brogans from stepping on you, A ‘oachelor fly in the morning will have an ndchildren pulling at his whiskers by night, & contests, a fly is Just as popular as the guy The strange thing about @ fly ts the suddenness wit comes a great-great-great-sreat-great-great grandfathe mu 1 by forty-seven mo’ greats, Just like that, Blopp, He's got a couple more who gets his hair cut on Saturday night and then goes home and shaves | i — — aiid ice i him j| for the soldiers, but T feel distinc tly| Boston grips, Marje? If so, no metal Scientists clalm that everything serves somo purpose in this ol4 like “women and children,"' jean touch you!’ ‘Here, here, you! vale of Crown Princes, celluloid collars, subway straps and other handi- | “It lasted two hours, and we stood| great bonehead Boche, you came to| caps, We can utilize the Mexican hairless pup in starving flees to death, there in our catch-as-catch-can cos-| get Lloyd George and Pershing and) We can commercialize empty charlotte russe skins, and some gentus In tume, trying not to feel the cold stone|Gen. Foch and that crowd—don't| Souse Dakota has even discovered that a } tte oan be transferred of the baleony through our kid night/break up our happy little home| into heat units by smearing tt with o!! and tossing It into the furnace. slippers. ‘The hum of aeroplanes | life!’ | Which 1s the proper place for a lorgnette, Even a set of summer furs was continual and the explosion of And when it was over—in true can be cut up Into breakfast food, Out tn De t, horse collars were guns frequent, When one would be | college girl fashion, they made some| supposed to bo a total loss, but now they raw a dozen of 'em together especially loud, some one would call) chocolate, then went to bed; ‘ | and make garages for filvvers out of ‘em © old fashioned wax taper asus , out, ‘Attitudes of defense, girls—turn | oh, how we slept!" | holders for lighting gas can be used to stir soup with. ( See ——————--" == |p your coat collars—here comes the| “Over Periscope Pond” ts published | Ss . a > - | | | ESTHER SAVYLEG ROOT |Crown Prince!’ ‘Have you on your|by Houghton Mifflin Company / ) : f But find us some use for a fly and we'll eat it. Wulk on that fiyte AMER) nose before he walks on yours,