The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 16

Gye. Gooniny Cl New Conservation Dress---Four Gowns in One MADE REVERSIBLE, OF LIGHT WEIGHT SERGE TACKED TO FIGURED CREPE— DESIGNED ALIKE INSIDE AND OUT—SIMPLY REVERSE IT AND CLOTH MORNING DRESS BECOMES SILK AFTERNOON GOWN 7 , %; » MAY 22, 1918 Wounded British Corporal Crawled 600 Ft. Under Fire and Captured German T’rench Performed Feat Single Handed and Lying Down, Though in Trench Were Two Machine Guns Firing at Top Speed—One Story in Book “Front Lines,” by Boyd Cable, English Artillery Officer. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall WEDNESDA -WEDNESD ——_$——— ee | MAY 22, 1918 The following verses were written by Matthew Wayman of the Canadian Army. Mr. Wayman was «t the Battles of Vimy Ridge and the Somme and was wounded four times. Before entering the army he was connected with the Evening Telegram, Toronto, Canada, He and You ILE the boys are hunting Heinies where the flammorwerfers whing And machine guns spit around like leaden rain, Give a cheer, applause and holler, but, above all, give a dollar, When we pass the hat for Red Cross work again. Every night there in the ditches, on the craters, in the saps, ‘There's the boy who slipped through hell the night before. He 1s fighting for you dally, with a heart responding gayly, ] | And he’s asking you to do a little more. in i Two other variations ate ~ advance line of the attack which OW a badly wounded British Corporal crawled under shellfire 200 H yards through a wild tangle of shell-torn wood and captured, #! ngle-| handed and lying down, a German trench, with two machine guns | firing at top speed—that ts but one of the soldier-sagas told with terse) conviction by Boyd Cable, a young English artillery officer, in the last of several books of the Great War, “Front Lines.” The soldier-author went into the war in 1914, and) the foreword to “Front Lines” was written on the western front early in the present year. The book ia! a collection of thrilling chapters of trench life, not only | observed and lived but actually written close to the ‘ i firing line during a period beginning with the later struggles at the Somme. Boyd Cable tells of the “Suicide Club” (the Bombing Company), the young Australian rman WO learned how to “see red” and kill at close quar- Eoms ters by being forced to watch his own mates shot’ down in cold blood when prisoners of war, of the right-flying aviators Wee came down in Bocheland, yet shook hands over their escape, of the scout- ing Lieutenant who left his coat hanging on barbed wire four hundred | yards behing the German lines. The author wanta, frankly, to dissipate | “war weariness” among those at home who have only to work in safe | factories and fuss because of the shortage of tea and oleomargarine, But) “Front Lines” is not merely an antidote for slacking; it is a glowing reo | ord of peril, endurance, achiovement and brave laughter. The best story in the book, and| ~~~ ee certainly one of the most remerka- ble individual “stunts” of the war, is entitled simply “In the Wood.” It is the story of the Corporal who awoke, after hours of unconsclous- ness, where he had dropped in the of the continuous firing. The British line seemed driven back, He de-| spaired, for he felt that he had used up his last ounce of strength. Then things happened quickly. A new bombardment was the prophecy! of bee td British attack. Almost at arm's’ gth, in the trench below the Corporal, were two machine guns and a group of Germans so situated that they would prove the worst ob stacle to the coming attack. “At that a rlot of thoughts swept) the Corporal’s mind. If he could wipe out those machine guns—but | how? He steadied himself deliber | ately and thought back. He remem-| bered crawling past a dead bomber) with a bag full of Mills’ grenades veside him only a score of yards| away. Could he crawl to them and back again? The Germans in the trench might see him; and anyhow —hadn’t he tried? And hadn't he found the last ounce of his strength | gone? “But he found another last ounce. ! He half crawled, half dragged him-| self back and found his bag of gren. ades, and with the full bag hooked over his shoulder and a grenade clutched ready in hia hand felt him- self a new man. ‘The personal side the question of bis own situation and chances of escape—had loft him. | He had forgotten himself. His whole | had surged back and forth for days through a certain wood. “He was lying, ‘badly wounded and helpless to defend himself, where the Germans could pick him up a prisoner or finish bim off with a saw-backed payonet, as the mood of his discov erers turned, His left leg was bro ken below the knee, his right shoul der and ribs ached intolerably, a scalp wound six inches long ran ‘across his head from side to side.” Thirst was bis first spur to effort. His own canteen had been punc-| tured by ‘a bullet, and be managed to crawl to “a dead body and its full bottle.” Next, he conceived the ides of crawling back through the shell wrecked tangle of trees, brush and holes to @ point nearer the lines of fighting where he might stand a bet- ter chance of rescue. He bound and) splinted bis broken leg with put) tees, bayonets and trenching-tool| handles, He put @ water-soaked pad on his wounded head. “Then he set out to crawl,” Boyd) Cable writes, “The penetration of| such a jungle might have seemed im-) possible, even to a sound and unin- mind was centred on the attack, on| Ey | obtained when either surface if worn onthe outs side by tevetsing the gown pack to front As a Mo’ a a, Georgette Rar ee Ri ie ing Gown | of a thin serge in | onesolid color with | impe of white Crepe For Afternoon wear the wn. istutned inside | But, making it a dress of | figured drepe sti. | he was lying alone, without friends, and surrounded by people who spoke only French, which he did not undery When a lad ts lying wounded on the field or down the hole, Bandages are needed badly by the There's bacteria and tetanus fighting score. P hard and sometimes getting us, So he needs the Red Cross stuff, and needs it more. And he just forgets his rations when But bully beef and biscuits are no t the shrapnel hits a wing, reat. Yet when he {s safely going to the hospital he’s knowing How the Red Cross gives the dainty things to aat. Say, I’ve been through all the horror and I've lots of things to say, If among the stingy slackers you are found; But, delleve me, there's no other like So come across and smile when she the splendid Red Cross Mother, comes round, MATTHEW WAYMAN, Canadian Army, Toronto, Canada Nurse’s Armful of Roses For Sick U Really Saved His Life . S. Soldier \ Incident Described by Red Cross Worker, Who Tells What Now in France A in Paris when a message was one came in from a@ town in the desperately ill from pneumonia, had th stand. gant bouquet. American boy; fever. He was terribly ill, and his ¢: Our Aiding Red Cross Means to Our Seldiers and to Their Families at Home. By Bessie Van Vorst, —~ Prominent in Red Cross Work in France, SMALL incident sometimes illuminates a whole situation. ‘About @ month ago I was with one of the Red Cross workers brought to her—a hurry call. Some suburbs to say that an American soldier, been carried into a hospital, where ousands cf miles from those he loved We gathered up a few things which we thought might be of use, and as we set out another Red Cross worker joined us. bunch of American Beauty roses. Of course, with a war tax of 10 per cent. such as exists in Paris even on Gowers, we looked She was carrying a big askance at this extrava- ‘When we got into the hospttal ward it wasn't hard to pick out the his hair was so blond and his cheeks were flaming with yes had that vacant expression that seems to be searching in vain for @ famillar face. ‘We laid the roses on the bed. The boy lifted himself up, he clasped his arms around the flowers ‘and eank back with them held close to his breast. From that moment he ‘began to get well. Another night, down fairly near the front, we were serving hot win the Battle of the Marne?” Nor would Americans, if they could only realize the good their generosity is doing, set any limit to the amount they are going to give to the Red” Cross during the “drive.” Think of a man who has been ting since 1914 with no news of , the effect of those machine guns’ Feith : coffee and sandwiches to the figh jured man; to one in his plight It) 8 si his family. Then su: ow \fire, on the taking of the G j Phatot by Joel Fed, “ me of them stood for ® . suppose Tat FR appeared mere madnees 0 attempt) gran, 6 of the German ; ‘Cantral hots Seen Yanks.” 0 that his wife and children were liv- Every yard was a desperate struggle, | ts $ “The machine guns were chatter- ing and clattering at top speed, and as he pulled the pin of his first gren- ade the Corpora! saw another gun being dragged up beside the others, He held his grenade d counted ‘one-and-two-and-throw nd lobbed the grenade over into the trench un- der the very feet of the machine every fallen tree trunk, each tangle of fallen branch, was @ cruel prob- Jem to be solved, a pain-racked and | laborious effort to overcome. A score of times he collapsed and lay pant- ing, and resigned himself to aban- doning the struggle; and a score of times he roused himself and fought down numbing pain, and raised him- Every Old Washboiler in the Land at Sea, so Far as This War Is Jar the Fruit aad Fas ee the Kaiser Is Worth a Battle Cruiser of the First Line Concerned, for It Is in the Old Washboiler long time leaning against the can- teen counter, asking for nothing, but just staring at us. Finally he said in a low tone: “Gee, but I wish I could see my wife to-night!” So it goes. Man doesn't fight with war engines only, he fights with his heart and his soul, and these have got to be sustained. The Red Cross ing and could be brought back to him. How much would you give to see them united, laughing and ory- ing all at once, their poor wan faces drawn with misery still, yet relaxed at last for the first time in almost four years, because of the joy you had given them? How much would you give? Jor ti, :, ‘ ’ If you actually realizer i self on trembling arms and knoes|UITe "i That the Nation’s Fruit and Vegetable Food Is Being Preserved, and Food is the American soldier’ ‘a beet a <a Tae aa Tea rigs the stily pulled another pin ans ‘ . A 7. ; - en you give e France te crawl aga, te wriggle through me riveplley aka ec Will Win the Conflict—American Wives Are Putting Everything Up in Jars with beter When yor ar you are| Was turning toward you for comfort, e wreckage, to elt ove 7, 5 ee would you fail her? On ‘ Kerse’ ciniasle, (0: ARDY: Ris way 00] fr SmPke And: dual lonped: from the Except Hubby’s Old Overcoat. giving for, then giving wil be 107 Tle arent dail Lents Oe ee for another yard or two.” e him and the first gren- “ oe and not a sacrifice. ink less a eared \ . ° ° the work the Red C: ‘ He came upon a deep trench cut- ue crash-crashed, he went on BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”’) BAER. the war, FEEL it more! he SUT, eB ehaed 1s doing tn ting his path, and as he waited “he pulling the pins and flinging over Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ‘As I drove down the Champs if 7 Sy A 4 was aware of gray coats moving others as fast as he could pitch. IAT stuttering nolse which sounds Ike a family of wild dishes ? Kitchen statistics furnished by the National War Garden Commis- | miygee about two Weeks 880, on that used to see black in the bottom along the trench toward him, had The trench spouted fire and dust clattering the wrong way up a one-way street is the old kitchen sion at Washington show that the washboiler 1s equivalent to @ pattie | U7 'enlous avenue which in April of aay. heer But now the Amort- sense enough to flat and flying dirt and debris, the ground orchestra tuning up the cooking acoustics, ‘The kitchen band |s cruiser of the first line, An ancient washboller with mother at the steer- used to be 80 packed that you could {cans ave come I don’t see black muddled and sti! tho Germans shook beneath him, he was halg| to only orchestra that ts led with a spoon, While granny is tuning up ing wheel end granny stoking the furnaces has @ cruising radius of 10- | scarcely move between the Aro d@|82y more. had passed. stunned with the quick-following re-| ‘he @ string on the old washboller, mother ig testing out the treble 000 preserving miles, And wasnboilers are being wed all over thO | meiomphe and the Place do 1a Con-| She was speaking for all. Show “His broken leg never ceased to ports—but the machine guns had| ©" the kitchen stove, Sister is running a few practice octaves on the U. S, at the rate of eleven boilers to every fourteen feet of laundry on | corde, I counted just twenty-four burn and stab with red-hot needles stopped on the first burst, colander, while daughter is rattling off a few bars on the recipes. the old back yard wash linc, A fleet of washboilers loaded to the | motors, most of them bent on war of agony; and for all the splints tn- "That was all he remembered. This is the time of the year when the sweetest harmony in the gunwhales with boiling preserves s steaming up and down each nelgh- | errands, yet Paris seems to have |Caring for Rubbers to Make casing it and despite all the care he This time the last ounce was really| Works is a yard of cooking chords out of the cook book. Music hath borhood in each city in the country. been consecrated by her long effort Them Wear Longer. took, there was hardly a yard of his gone, and he was practically un-| charms to soothe the savage beast and the sweetest music In the lists ‘The only vacation the old boiler gets is on Monday, and then It | o¢ endurance. ‘The alr raids at night JBBE : assage that was not marke: conscious when the stretcherbear.| tution is a flock of treble and bass notes out of Mrs, Cookie's well known is full of clothes, €o that aint much of a vacation, On Tuesday, rdments during the UBBER overshoes, like every< passag, d by Ir and the bomba bd thing else just no some wrenching catch on his foot, ere found him after the trench was| bymn book, All the world knows that food will knock the Kuiser loose Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday the boller is loaded to the | Gay pave given the city a new sort pensive, and poli are ex- ” 5 otimes hard some jarring shock or grind end taken. oh hail from his iron hat, and @ cooking vendetta has busted out {rom the ears with steaming preserves buzzing away lke a soused cricket, of beauty, @ peculiar Aistinction | cet at any price. Any pacing Mf grate of the broken bones. Fro: nes” {6 published by B,| 25-cent bathing houses on Coney Island's strand to the one-piece bath- The slogan of the National War Garden Commission is “Can vege- which comes with suffering. What | to how to make them last longer } “He lost count of time, he lost|** Dutton and Compsny, = tog suite on Cailfornia's golden coast, American housewives are putting | tables.and can the Kaiser,’ They elove that every spoon is a bayonet, |the immensity of this sufferthg is |therefore, be appreciated, ree ae count of distance, but he kept on everything up in jars except the hubby's old overcoat, every washboller a battleship and every housewife an Admiral in the | most Americans cannot, at this dis-|give them a little extra care and at. | crawling, “He was utterly inditer War Stops “Sea Bathing” Provervas will win the war, The Homme, was some Bie i th | ORE ok Salita ie gucitwr iar. tate Nalen tance, imagine. an tention you will be more than ee ent to the turmoil of the guns, to . Bilthelm. Verdun was another large sized jar, But the biggest jar of all id that eve e¢ »_anoth ‘ aisor. ‘To many French people to-day the . Popular Science | the rush and yell of the near taliing| _ #2 London Homes. ta the jar that contains preserves. - — —| To many Dresctonger of any per-| monthly offre the following sugy | shells, the crack of their bursts, the UMORISTS have recently added Let your motto be, “Jar the frult and Jar the Kaiser!" ayy TT i i 1 Tonal but only of @ patriotic inter- |@ei Ont : § 5 : All oils, fats 1 whirr of the flying splinters.” to the list of the war's alleged There have been millions of new-fangled inventions designed to Chinese obacco in American Cigarettes. est, because they have lost on the] ~ : He 8 “a Ut or acids win ( He had crawled perhaps two hun- horrors the fact that London-| assist young wives in defeating apples, cherries, apricots, tomatoes, HIF increased shipment of South | to tobacco for the use of Chinese resi-| pattiefield all those they loved. Sr ear duleK rete Ae dred yards and reached @ point near |{"* re no longer bathe in eee water! string beans and carrots. A Juvenile wift will attack the canning game China tobacco to the United/dent in the United States. ‘The ex-|mnoip homes have been pillaged.|them away from your fore kee Ths sdee of tas word BAR Juss adore | ote eran nie ane 1 tA) with. more paraphernalia thane drumiuer hae to Bay Ih & sont rer a einen ee era ete Gwe promise & value of about HM| tel property destenyed, thelr Duals )When soiled, wash the rubbers shred beso epor" ar Mo- o the present year in even increaS-|000 for the first quarte 918, oF e @ trench held by the Germans, 8D-| chanics, as follows: It seems that ae Bhe will Buy automatic spoons, collapsible jar lids, folding stove lifters, Jing bath and there is reason to| substantially three times the ship-| "ess ruined, their sons, their hus-|lukewarm water, Do not put them parently forming the point of the| years one of the English railways has| double action kitchen linoleum, three-ply cooking books and six-cylinder |peiteve the trade will continue att | ments for the corresponding perio bands, their fathers killed, Theirjnear a hot stove or steam pipe, as s ye bas rT & period . 1 British attack, which was just be-|maintained @ “sea-water’ service,| cooking pots, And her canning tournament will turn out to be a foul |the war. Normally Chinese tobacco] year ago, magnificent courage {8 unbroken, but |the heat wil make them crack. Do ginning with fresh vigor. He knew|For the small sum of 12 cents it has| bail, But when granny and mother start out to do a little jarring, all |can be had at much lower rates, com- With tho shutting off of the supply all the joy has gone out of their lives, oe vege ‘ ae Ea ere outside of the that a successful advance would | delivered to any customer a large can| the apparatus they need Is a set of elbows and the old waahboller, They |paratively, than the tobaccos from of Turkish and Near Eastern tobacco| The hope would be gone as well if It pouk ap neds or sun ht will heat + tring him within the British lines, 6 ron oaee Farer toe POLins pure] toag the apples into the old boiler, cook ‘em until they go Democratic, |Turkey and the Near East, which it) (p the United States, a fleld for the| were not for the work of mercy be | axe ee Nita in ae au also, He watched with feverish intentness |POe OM IRE FOr, ver Tondoners,| shovel'em out into the Jars and the result is the finest Jelly you ever has been supplanting in the American South China product has been opened| ing accomplished by the American) ely to crack when they are oe but helpless to move. British sol-|who pride themselves on being “the! aimed your face at. multiplied by six, Bo, when you steer some of that and Kgyp'!an markets. Shipments of| for use in cigarette mixtures, Red Cross among this civil popula: Of course it would be rank 5 diers pursued Germans into the best tubbed people in the world,” . ree B * és tobacco to the United States througb| ‘The continuation of this trade ‘ ank foolish dasner. wed a fow yards trom bia, “ ior| old-fangled apple jelly toward your epiglottis you don't care whether |yiongKong last year were valued at{after the war is largely @ matter of tion. ness to try to wear high heeled rubs eth ia : he Re »|the railway has discontinued it sere| school keeps or not, It is the greatest stuff in the world, and it was | 461,474, as compared with a total of silver exchange, Ai present the high] When the Germans were at the | bers on low heel shoes, or low heeled ¢ could not attract his com- ar conditions. + 08. 00 b wl price of silver renders the cos¢ of rubbers on high heeled shogs, ieutheattention inthe ete ry mugt suffice cooked in an old, battered washboiler without the aid of adding 0,994 in 1916 and $35,073 in 1915. Be-| Chinese tobacco to American imgort- gates of civilization, Joffre did Dot | cither Regn ee sopra wot ae terri machines safety razors. dlotanhones, whattsiaraphs and whooranolan, re the war shipments were confined lars about twice its normal prica, ‘ask, “How many lives will it take to ‘goon break out at the heel,