The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1918, Page 14

RTE — WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918 Women Who Faced Death On Battlefield for Wounded Here Recruiting 50 Others Mrs. Mary E. Symons, War Cross Winner, and Miss Ethel Langdon Drake in New York to Organize Women's Ambulance Section for the Front, Have Been Through Ordeal They Ask Others to Face. By Taylor Kennerly (350) 1¢ battlef ne, appealir of glory ¢ or no dang em men die young girl who wants lot work where there i don Drake, who has smile. “But that is exactly what we w death,” declared Mrs. Mary E. Sym Drake to organize and equip a new a front, and who is one of the only th wear the Croix de Guer but when it comes to discussing whe silent. “It is useless. You cannot get Miss Drake. “So you had just a Started to—about the fifty women I ¥ There will be a chance for each and e cross—that is, if they are willing to has done.” But first, who are these two very, unusual women who have done and are still doing so much for the cause | of the Allies but still refuse to sat- isfy an anxious and curious public as to their personal deeds of hero- fem? Ask them and they will tell you Miss Ethel Langdon Dru formerly of Boston but for the last ten years @ resident of Paris, and Mrs, Mary EB. Symons, whose greatest honor and pride in life is the fact she has @ son fighting In a British regiment. Both Mrs. Symons and Miss Drake ere women of means. When the Ger- mans began their march through Belgium the former was with her family near London, happy and con- tented. The latter was in Paris, A call came for the men, Tho men went. Then came the reverse of the French—the long retreat beforo the glorious stand and victory at the Marne, Casualty lists came pouring in. It was a call to arms to a natlon— not merely the man power of a na-| tion, Miss Drake heard the call in Paris, Mrs. Symons heard it in Lon- don. Their life of society and ease was at an end, for the present, at least. They answered the call, They | healthy women who are willing and ield in France. Room 1201, Apply or encouraging to the woman or id medals for a little patriotic war er, does it?” asked Miss Ethel Lang- by the thousand and is still able to ant—women who are not afraid of ms, who is in New York with Miss. mbulance section to be rushed to the iree women in the world entitled to It is a decoration a queen could be proud of, n or how she got it Mrs. Symons is her to talk about herself,” put in well let me tell you about what 1 want to take back to France with me. very one of them to win the coveted take her chances and do what she is doing in this war, France and the other allies can never repay her for what her people did even before war was actually declared on Ger- many, This I must say, though. I do not believe the American people to-day see this world struggle of ruin and death as we seo it, 1 do not mean as England or France sees {t, but as we women workers at the front see it. “They look upon it, I fear, too much as a whole, in a general way, They see the war and they see the men by the thousands in the field fighting. But they do not see the poor lone” soldier, mangled and bleeding, as he is picked up where he has fallen, They do not see him as he 1s thrown into the ambulance, with a dozen or more wounded and torn comrades, and rushed three or four miles back of the lines to a place which, perhaps, he will never leave. It 1s a hospital we take him to, but not the kind of a hospital most people think {t {s. It {s just a row of small houses—houses that can be torn down and moved on a few moments’ notice, Maybe when he arrives there have already been hundreds of other torn and bleeding men to arrive »»- fore him, It is hard for the person who has not been there to see this. Copyright A the Jazzbov Americ MRS. MARY E, SYMONS, DECORATED FOR HEROISM AT THE FRONT CARING FOR WOUNDED PWAGEZ IIe ‘Mother’s Day’ Our Chance To Show Our Appreciation an Woman Who Won War Cross SOLDIERS, AND HER CO-WORKER, MISS ETHEL LANGDON DRAKE. _ Of Her Supreme Sacrifice \ Her Day Is Next Sunday; She May Not Get a Letter From fan ine tn estamos a | scenes Serpe S » Miss ETHEL “Which Explains Everything’’ There Are Two Sides to Every Question, but When There’s Only One String to a Bundle, Carry It by the Ear, and Don’t Stand Up in a Canoe and Use a Spoonful of Vegetable Soup to Point Out Places of Interest in the Host’s Whiskers a Tomato at Him—You’ll See the Point, Maybe, When You Read the Story. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS’’S BAER. 1918, by te Vress Publish LIYHOUGH this is the seventieth annive of forty pinochle, there is still much method pointed clockwise somewhere in an Atlantic port {s superior to the Gloop method of cooking bam and eggs with all the e It’s a Breach of Etiquette—If You'd Be Polite, Toss La Foolette suburbs, is one of the greatest self unmade men in the world and Also that the ancient tribe of Urff Indians had the quaint ordering whole cocoanuts for dinner in order to foll the here ain't a waiter in the world who can get his thumb into a whole cocoanut without losing his thumbnail, The only parallel to this unique superstjtion 1s the habit of the modern tribe of Wowks who wear red underwear with (The New York Breuing World.) ary of the discovery jon as to whether with the tps custom 9 waiter. of cutting asparagus deleted by “Over There,” She May Be One Who Has Given to Her Country Her Dearest Possession—We Cannot Give | Equity, but We Can Give Her Our Respect. By Nixola Greeley-Smith T Sunday is Mother's Day. And this annual festival of honor for the mothers of America has a new and a deeper significance this year For we shall celebrate, not the tender, smiling, placid mothers of peace, as in other times, but the mothers of | iberty—the women whose sons are fighting for us in France to-day. Each man of our fighting forces abroad will take part in the national coronation of Motherhood by writing to his own mother. But it is the mothers for whom no le from ove: ers will come , the mothers whose sons have already given their lives for Freedom, who should have our highest honor. Not everything the power and intell nd wealth of the world could combine to give them would have th will never come. weight of a grain of sand against those letters which But we can show these mothers—all the mothers wl sons to defend us—that we have understan of their priceless sacrifice. Let no one pity ther alone have paid the perfec rol! bandages, knit, belon i0 have given and appreciation yur pity. They t among us may y to motor leagu in one way or another all the fine and necessary services which war has imposed upon American women, But all these things are slight compared with Other: tform any mother's offering to her country. a] For she has given her Ww he sum of all her dreams, the thing she has created and wrought, through love, sacritice and, too often, overtaxing drudgery. The sculptor who has seen his marble miracles destroyed, the painter watching flames consume the soul he has incar- nated in paint, the author who has precipitated the visions of a life in a lost book—even these can have no realization of the mother’s gift, the mother’s loss, We are asked sometimes why woman has never produced a sculptor of the rank of Michelangelo, an artist like Rembrandt, a poet like Shake- speare. Yet which of these great men would not have preferred to use human flesh rather than stone or canvas or parchment as the medium of his {mmortality? Woman has never produced one Michelangelo? masterpieces by millions, Every lean, swift, lithe young panther of our fighting armies 1s a woman's masterpiece. And is it any wonder that women, who can be artists in life itself, should have dedicated their ener- | gies to that larger task? Every mother {s a sculptor, Every mother {s an artist. Every mother {s a poet. Her chisel shapes the contours of character, her brush colors the soul of the race, her pen shapes the destinies of | future ages. She enjoys a spectal immortality, that belongs to no other human being, So let us honor mothers, | And let mothers honor themselves. Let no mother sin against motherhood by harshness, by {mpatience, The eorriest sight any of us can encounter {s that of a mother drag. ging some tired, bewildered little child through the streets at a Pace too quick for him, and railing at him because he {s unable to keep up with her, No, she counts her a certainty of continuance met on the battlefield, That was in Thole Tal: deaea claraeme Webi. the And next to that is the mother who permits her young daughter to go 1914, It was their first meeting, but |! Understand how they do not, can-| the censor, There are two sides to every question, and allowance SANE Ni boon Be eo NAS WAL we Will elsraering DELS ey (Be |. cirerith: her tuce atreaked with paint like) a camouflaged battleshi they were two kindred souls in a sin-| not, know what {t all means. But| must be made for the fact that the world is slightly in a scrambled quart Instead of the pound Dowaa't seem more than ive inches ago And next to that—after all, this ts no time to tell mothers of their pti gle work and with a single thought, |e point I want to make 1s that| condition due to the Kaiser's ambition to see how the Paris air affects on the calendar that we were complaining about the dealer giving ue Ones. They have never since separated ex- | they can help, even though they can-| the starch in his two-pronged moustache. @ quick one He a ee oe aa It you have apsends e san aa |. _ Gas) fora bide inturval. not go, Their money will buy the Exhaustive tests made before a jury of unblased vegetarians were the winter w Hho losing your elbows in eeabiy, Boned rerolriay Work 1s all these two women have | “uings we must have, More than ono} progressing splendidly when one of the experts sprained his thumb doors, don’t thin that you are beariog Sharad lite end san play 8 | lf h een | It M 5 known for nearly four years—work |>rave soldier—I will not say how] in @ mechanical restaurant and starved to death in the midst of aeulte wh le ain ing hie a san Two of the most unpardonable nseins. ness S a yt : tn the portable hospitals just behind |™4ny—has died under my very] plenty. A relief yard of nickels falled to reach him in time, as the breaches of social etiquette are to : and up fn @ cance and to uso a the front line trenches, wherever the |¢¥es for the lack of proper nour-| Jeader of the rescuing party complained that mezzanine floors always spoon full i v ' able boy ae) point out places of interest {n the By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregor ' 1 nebes happen to be,|!shment after he had reached the| made him dizzy. But there is no record of any great scientific dis host's whiskers, It’s unpardonable to polut. If you must attract at- . : y. front Une trenches bappen ;|hospital in “a seriously wounded| ¢overy being made without intricate hardships being suffered by the tention to the fact that the host 4s cutting his whiskers instead of the OW often it 19 that we hear the are “acting for thetr own happinese” ponte: pay that Waal ys biaaartia epntitios fe intrepid explorers, Doc Cook had to take at least eleven swigs at the spaghetti, toss a tomato at him, But don't point. An old Japanese H question, “Is there really such | would be absurdly and brutally false, «dala dell Mla sR a ag Pee pipe before discovering the northern pole of the world where our resident of the Eclair Islands 1s authority for the statement that get- & thing In the world as ab-| The making of such statement know just what was best to do, ss Drake and Mrs. Bymons are huge terrestrial gumdrop revolves around its axis, Sir Isaac Newton ting rid of an alarm clock {s a tougher Job than shaving with @ |solute unselfishness? Is not our sen-|would argue an abysmal ignorance where their vices: were: moat | ROr MALS AR TACLIRUALD OF AD ERR RA)! SO lowbridged with an apple that had reached an unripe old age, sponge. You can't drown ‘em. You can't starve ‘em to death, You |ttmental talk about gelf-forgetfulnoss | of the finer humanity on the part of meeae Hu, like § season fir ata: aie with the result that the discovery of gravitation cost him 8 cents can’t fine ‘em for overspeeding. A tourist in the Durable Mountains |#!! ean aie te ae Paes forgot Seance ey ey earned 4h Army in France and their work| more for his laundry that week, Nothing worth doing was ever done confessed that he had tossed an alarm clock out of the window with aa ae great number ie number|{e very often the cese ee ee ft Tne ay of the hour then, Ks the ; . Gano for nothing. Sir Walter Raleigh discovered smoking tobacco and dled the Idea of knocking {ts works out, Instead the alarm clock swatted :, Ice de attended cee wey Memreaaria er today, was for adequate, woll |S, peas Ue ae SOA BOS) eee te rie TeALae OAT Gitte, MaHnOHETO wat A DIRGG @ cat on the bean and knocked the works out of the cat, Which ex |°"0.. yoy ever read Baron Roche-|but by the very reve happiness Mivipped boepitals, to ibe oad aeons stg tap 80 ‘i bean A nearsighted bird's-eye view of the situation would Indicate | plains everything and makes you realize that even @ coward will show |e rtute*Masiine"? And do youland most. ore unhappiness eee Wanted: 1 was in hospital supplies | BY SOUUIARCOR SAAT OFAUIAN MOTEIRL | Cree ae cecoue to carry 4 bundle by the string and that | what stuff ts in him when he gets seasick. |remember what Jobn Stuart Mill aid| deepest pain of body und mina’ oe and ambulances that Miss Drake and|™onths ago are now awaiting ship- dail ditt eta \of them? That they aro “unanswer-| Speaking after the manner of Mrs, Sym put t own private | ment from New York, and they will be | ——————_—— 7 = Beer retreat ae. te eee Faire the viewpoint of the eelf-| what sort of na pepnrdeses it me fortunes and gave every minute of | Teady to return to their line of duty seeker and the cynic.” lured Father Damien on his Journey their time, db} A8 9000 BP thEy SO 08 Uecgse| | “Like sees like, “As a man think-|to the Molokat lepers? Death meant nothing to them, They | *4"Y hospital equipment they must| eth In his heart, ao ts be," and vo] What sort of “happiness” way $e s00n got used to that. But saving | bave and the fifty women willing to] is everynody else {saat 63 ed ace Darling out tnte Trl Ai eas ches eae or | ght, and, if need be, die at the front, | Putting bistory and hearsay en-[° stormy sea, when tho chances meant everything. How many lives} “Do you think you will get the ; Ana " tirely aside, we aro able to say from @ hundred to one against her (per gehiseyy: >| women you want?” Miss Drake was re ; i ; he: them are ma n full grown, and promise to eat | yr own personal knowledge that} thing back 5 me Bet vebeteane eaihi r a |kaked |Now There's a “Chorus Girl” Shortage, but Only} good on tho ‘vig ime! Orners nave | spar EN ta a ati Our ote teem who Are absolutely] tt amounts to nothing to say that when for over three years they have| “If I don't here I will somewhere | Sworn “Bachelor” Girls Need Apply. arriod, ‘This may explain the altuae | | (Note to mothers Heap your ute | tis | Darlings soiey dutty ns on Pane treated thousands of wounded sol-|lse in the United States,” she re-| Srey don't make!‘em Ntielilee” aud citer ace agsrtaationeciaa Jaro out. TEI | earn. are donde shat are done. pat Mt cannot be maid that they alise? plied. “You understand, there | 66°T” pape ill-matched because small giti8| ~he war has more than tripled the — : for reward ut wholly for “lova's) the thougit of privation “I'm confident it 1s no exaggera- | Women Who give their all will not| " Nope; the conversation | have disappeared altogether from the| numbor of profe nal marriages. | aya, _JusT SUPPOSIN sake,” or in obedience te ih pas 6?) suffering and deat " tion in the least," said Mrs, Symons, | be only working for the English and |... apout the size of the lunch coun-| ranks of the chorus Date ce ‘ even Daye’ | anit the Pretty girl who sold you lot duty, which guieen 208: 10. 29ER lute unselfahs “when I say I have personally | French iiers ar American | tee goughnut or we pay envel-| “I know that some Broadway man- ¥2come br “ j Your liberty bond should be as glad |ql considerations o| Sig AP t le, It 1s a tact, ¢ boys, you } ow fig’ Pgs . ed Ne ape é ee : i "sive | to See you THIS week, | It ts probably true that these noblelone of the solidet facts inv haified pore five thousand |t you know, are now fighting in| qpes, ‘There's n Yr and produ: n& pony a small girl nutive i tua nem tcallos\aresaac® coe |otid Gee tae nancies? ab earth; Gutlerein: this old mounted saidiess from the front tine | Wis Trent Wrenches ave Menar Us) ener sae Paras Bie EA GE DBE aA 90 ould sell at calico prices, | the happiness comes to them by the] ‘Times without number In the eo trenches to the emergency hospital 1s pot a le warned Mrs,|theatrical pr sper bb A hagers | Broadway od into # Broadway hat Fifth Avenue trafic believed | way. ‘They do not deliberately go out} of human history and women a few miles tot It w Symon and the women who want |t bowalling the size o} uot Abe are eH ng ‘ i v iy biph nse . of ne | theatrical : | [Sra t; it finds them while they are have Sun, A they were given 1 tre to go with us must not so consider! “They're | eye 4 er to H Fa aes nen peg is em wi +] Sho used to wing in the village chole er should choke on| engaged with higher things. eral eyh into the 6 mudh, oF more women, WORGA Who can Give a imioe | MEN Lo” sult chorus girl] ‘Mediums, ext size In chorus Seen wasiane ia alien BOUQUETS IN ORDER, SOIRUR) LE ARES AUPTON® O08 Us Ma [tne day that’ are. gol men aa Miss Drake, who had been feeding | tor car and women who can care for famine. le ex Aree too, These fe didn’t need t all, An awful lot has been said about | ake themselves the means of goud) wom re for peising Orang little brown dog themselves where death {8 @ part of)" whore, ob whi uve the 5 girls are drawing fabulous salaries in Ne producer grabbed her—held her |what the handsome “Ilue Devils |t° others i‘ ; oe a MouRht Of pert Mascot of the Section Sanitaire, as|the game, None others need apply." | pono? ;New York and elsewh We are] with his skinny hand. With his other|think of the New York girls, Haye| Their “reward” is the consciousness] Honal Bain, *y gladly and their hospital t is officially —-_— | Either they've grown up into great | obliged to fill the chorus girl's pl Ac® | skinny hand he grabbed a Bible, you heard what the N. Y. girls have | of the fact at sty aro trying t }willing for ¢ MON ed Cause, known, exp) d there was some PLAYING SAFE | big girls or the w yread diet has’ this year with women of many years'| “Repeat after m ordered. to about the e Devils?” | make toa world's i ue Hepple: ond | labor o afte i t thing she wanted to say aud didn't) Mr wed—Will you have @ plece| made them too husky to kick rs experience—some as old as thirty-five] “1 hereby solen swear that I| Heard on Broadway juste payers A Ee ccupenatiione | Taner ts . know just how to say it Mitel eteentcue teenie acce | OXeE nem Jol the jand forty—to ‘get by havo no idea of getting married at] “Oh, Maudie, aren't they BWEurt | have nos to the contrary notwithe |e, Vaudeville, staue “What I'm going to tell you now you-—er—know I don't care much tor | Sake doors lone T cannot explain the shortage of |any time during tho season I just adore devil! men sanding, We are aure that we know |" There iss nobler wara’ 4: ecttuearceiicing in inlasea Dil vou kee 1? | "So-called ‘y ue girls cans |giria | It has been growing on the| +1 have no other ambition besides| And while we're on the subject, |standing, we ore sure that we know) Theis ja, tn Nord than any pe must not take es oriticiam, Skis |oeke Did you make it? | i ee va My: Davids |t w yeas Many en att Have you noticed the way tho giris|of such beau peor) a zag axe for us, ideals’ tha Bet so intended. No pne can com-| Nie News Noi mame apnt it over. oe front nll the big 1 f ¢ irle—the "1 will not become @ Red Cross are tipping thelr “tame” over one| "do God's will and’ know it noti"’ narrow of craven fur 7euy Plela of what America has done and | inijanapolly Star. ’ | Broadway productions-—-even the "Fol- ponies!.ave got Vaudeville acts to- nurse ear? Vo gay that these beautéful ones) selfish greed a