The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1918, Page 20

FRIDAY, This Is a Day a After F our NOVEMBER 15, 1918 of Triumph For Belgium’s Royal Couple |_| Years of Woe the German Oppressor Can Still Be Humanity _ To-Day, at,the Head of Their Army, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth, History’s Most Picturesque! sr" fs enesse Royal Pair, Re-Enter Brussels, Capital of Their. ; Wy War-Torn Kingdom, in Whose Struggles Against , c They Proved That Royalty if It Is Made of the Right Stuff, and Won by Their Heroism and Their Labors the Undying Love of Their Subjects. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HEN King Albert of the Belgians and Queen Elizabeth reenter to | | | | day, at the head of their army, the royal capital of Brussels the world will rejoice with Belgium in the personal triumph of Bu- and Queen. 13 ‘There is small question that King Albert and Queen rope’s fighting King Elizabeth have endw are referring with 4, MER Emperor and and great King of my little country, embodied in beauty the deep will of h Indignantly refusing the German any other pair of rulers in this war-torn world. ing contrast to members of that family to whom we all red more danger and hardship than In shin- such solid eatisfaction as the FOR-; Princes of Germany, the Belgian SO King and Queen have been, almost literally, under fire| “, for the four years and over that th war lasted. i . From the war's inception the King of the Belgians | | ESS played @ herote part in resisting Germany. “The young | " Maeterlinck has called him. ‘is people.” | request that Belgium depart from “He {ts honprable neutrality and allow the passage of the invading forces, he fasued on Aug. 4 to the Sena my brothers, At this supreme hour the entire nation must be of one mind. Thave called together the two Houses of Parliament, so that they may sup- port the Government in declaring that We will maintain untarnished the sa- ered patriotism of our fathers. Long tive independent Belgium!” At once he took personal command of his armies and went to the front. He was present at the gallant of Liege, and for his service in the ‘field received the Modaille Militaire from President Poincare, When the former Kaiser sent personal messages demanding the surrender of the forts of Liege and threatening to take them by force, Albert responded laconically, Try." He was at Louvain and with the gallant Belgian Army in !ts stubborn fighting retreat., He directed the re- aistance at Antwerp during Its bom- bardment. While leading the army toward Antwerp shrapnel burst ten yards away from his car, tearing off one of the rear wheels, He ascended in a balloon for military observation and was shelled by the enemy. “{ will ever leave my army,” he declared at this time. After the fall of Antwerp, in the fighting near the coast, he was entinually among his men, encourag- img them and sharing thelr risks and discomforts, truly a royal Democrat, ‘My skin is of no more value than in yours," he smillngly told staff when they urged him te leave the trenches and seek safety. | “My piace is on the fighting line.” * He was stubborn in bis defense of| the last few square miles of his! country, where he and his army stood | with their backs to his sea, He did| not remove his headquarters from Wurnes unti) shrapnel had practically | wrecked the building, One shell ex-! ploded within a few feet of a-window| near which he was sitting, “He has| a0 dwelling,” some one wrote of him) a few weeks later, “He does not quit his soldiers, He eats the ordinary fare, changes bis shirt when be can, works| eighteen hours a day and has slept| four nights running on the cushions| of bis automobile.” Early in 1915, however, he set up his genera! headquarters and his homie in the littie Belgian town of La Panne, Promptly it became the! German objective in a series of acro- plane raids, All through the bitter winter campaign of 1915 he went from point to point along the Belgian lines, wherever the artillery fire was heavi- est, not even wearing an overcoat, | ‘The house in which he and the Queen have been living until recently is the) simplest and most unpretentious of country villas, furnished with great plainness. ‘Throughout the war he has been in almost as much peril of wounds or Geath as any common soldier, In the first year of the war his chauffeur, Albert, according to the story, shot the man dead with his own hand, In Queen Elizabeth has been worthy of #0 fearless a man and King, She took her children to England early .n the war, where they were the guests of Lord Curzon, but she herself al- ways bas remained at the Belgian and Chamber of Deputies the following noble “Our fatherland is in danger. Let me make an appeal to you, ————— She has visited the trenches, even the front line of trenches, more than once. Two years after the invasion| of Belgium, she made, at her own re- quest, an aeroplane trip over a part of the country held by the German army of occupation. Last July she flew) over the Channel in a seaplane, a: companied by King Albert in another, in order to be present at the silver| wedding anniversary of King Georgo 4nd Queen Mary, Almost at the beginning of hostili- ties, King Albert turned over his pul- | ace in Brussels to the Red Cross, | With the loss of the city to the ¢ mans, this refuge was of course de- Died to Belgian wounded. Almost as soon as she was settled in La Panne, Queen Elizabeth had a large hospital , opened at the Hotel de l'Ocean, which |< then became the Ambulance VOcean. It accommodates wounded, and, being from the trenches, the worst cases all are taken there. One of the featuros of the hospital is its most eMiciently Conducted pavilion for the restoration of maimed and crippled soldiers, Unlike most royal women, tho Queen is also a Professional woman, de 1,600 only two hours! having won her degree as doctor of i medicine at Leipzig before her mar- riage. She not only superintends the Workers in the Ambulance de l'Ocean, but day after day she herself has spent long hours in a Red Cross uni. form caring for and cheering her wounded countrymen. She has done without the services of the ladies || er personal suite, er pernapel And they too have And now, in the autumn how we all have thrilled to eran did mareb of triumph of the Relgians —the Belgiuns, who, before any one else was ready, suved Paris, England. the world. In the last days of Sep. tember the new Belgian offensive be- gan, lod by King Albert. On Sept, 30 Field Marshal Haig sent him special congratulations on “the magnificent results achieved under Your Majes- ty’s supreme command.” Belgium had “come back” with « rush. “Belgians, French and British Sniashed German Line in Flanders,” “Bruges Has Been Occupied by Belgian Infantry,” “King Albert and Queen Elizabeth Enter end,” “Courtra! Greets King of Belgiutn,” read the splendid headlines of the last few weeks. For four years King Albert might have repeated that kingliest of sayings, “All is lost—save honor.” Now all is regained, } | Never once has his courage fal- | |tered. Four years ago next month, in the dark December of 1914, the Val- ley Forge of Belgium, he prophesied |confidently: “Some day I shall ride |into Brussels at the head of the Bol- \gian Army.” To-day he is no longer | ja King without a country, and his | | dream comes true! Football’s Patron Saint | OVEMBER brings the festival N of St. Brice, who may be called the patron saint of football Players, not alone because his feast day comes during the season for the gridiron game, but for quite another reason, St, Brice’s Day was long gen- erally observed in England, und in the year 1002 the celebration took the form of a general massacre of the Danes. It was on that day, accordin mallitary headquarters or as near them a8 possible. Therefore, she, too, often exposed to aeroplane at- once, when she was review- t directly overhead. dy to tradition, that the Englisti game of football was invented, with the head fof @ Dane as the ball. St, Brice, of LD a if cello {3 oO rs And the Ro, emer tt 287M — BELGIAN RERUGGES Leaving: RR HOM Rs, peeled = yal Palace, Brussels, Which They May BY CANDIDATE AR (18th Training Battery, F. A.C. Camp Zach, Nov. 7, 1918, EAR MAE; Well, another week has flatwheeled by since I buzzed to you last and | %m that much nearer to my commish, Of course there is many a skid between the blue Delft chinaware and the chin, but I think that I will breeze in under wraps. I am leading my battery in about everything that is cracked open. Everybody around here acts as if they studied in a correspondence School when the letter carriers were on a strike. I sure am stepping out and a epider would have a tough job spinning a wed on me, Last week I averaged 4 hundred in eating, sleeping and falling out of for- mation. Not bad, eb, what? Don't worry about lil’ brighteyes not making good. I'm makihg good, This stuff is sweet cookies to me. On Tuesday I saluted an officer so well that he made me do it a hundred times. One salute with ninety-nine encores is some act. That shows that I have this stuff cold A lot of birds out in this neck of the woods are limping around wearing theif chins at half mast because they can't grab the stuff They haven't got the system. 1 don't grab the stuff either, but I don’t let anybody know it. The firing problem bunk Is harder to dope out than a Russlan ukase, but if you keep your hat down over your ears, course, ot responsible for either the massacre or the football game, having died some six centuries be- pat La Panne, fore, He was a Bishop cf Tours and! strong cart horses, measuring more lived in the fifth century. how fg anybody going to know what is inside of your skull? Give me ec has built and equipped a commo- a mail order catalogue and a spanner wrench and I will breeze through the sasennuk on 3 Weer elaine ith 40.000 books aod apy math course in the tournament © service under the pbann a staff of five librarians, Got my firgt slant at a threo-inch gun the other day and they made | ihe American Library Asso “At Camp Upton we not only wo me gunner right away. Guess [ laud my shoes shined better than any- | ciation, one of the “We Are S n," at the camp but live within its body else, 1 was stepping out fine until I picked out a column of smoke name “Mary Gr effelin limits," explained Miss Schieffelin, for an aiming point. Some fool mess sergeant let the stove fl ant Librarian, A, Cainp “alWays we are under strict military out and gummed my parade, Can you beat It? The loot tn charge Library Building, Camp Upton." Be | supervision and Sips lin soreiher buzzed me to set off 2,400 deflection on the panoramic Meht and that {hind it lies not the usual case iw ith the Y. M,C. A. girls, we share ' ¥ cne year in library work, but that of | : {a house assigned to us on & company kinda stopped me for a few minutes. There & lot.of knobs and | OP9 2s girl who not only forsook Iecreet, When not on duty, which in- worm gears on this gun piece and I ain't so ken for twisting knobs |) Vint of gayety at her family’s| \¢ 2 / cludes night work daily, here we sleep ever since the time that I strained my thumb trying to get a dime | country place near Bar Harbor, tor t land eat. Save for the Red Cross piece of ple in the Automat |9 hours’ arduous duty in the dust and] \\ »/ niirses, the ¥. M. C. A, workers and | Anyway, I etalled around playing a tune on all the gears and | heat of an embarkation camp, but £> lthe A. L. A. librarians are the only handles I could Jay hold of. I was busier than a Swiss bell ringer. | took a whole year's course of study to , women allowed to live at the camp.” One dog with two sets of fleas wasn't any busier than I was, After | quality for it! iets During the recent quarantine at I ran out of knobs the loot recovered from his ewoon and told me that “I am so tremendously enthusiastic SCHIEFFELIN Camp Upton, Miss Schieffelin said ff I ever aimed at Berliy I would hit Constantinople. about this library work that I adore their work was doubled and trebled — ae - to talk about it, Only, you see, the ty that I kmow that when the| “With all the shows closed, men . others in it are so much more im-|necd of the A. L. A. camp work 1s| literally stormed the ibrary for | Horses on Rations. pounds of nut fodder and the same! iortanti” modestly begun Miss |over I shall never be satisfied to re- |Teading matter,” sald Mise Sohieffelin, (By United Prew,) | ler horses are given 2.2 aarate Schieffelin, when seen at her father's |turn to ordinary life!” Despite what |®dding in . matter of uot way teat COPENHAGEN, Oct. 16 (by mail), of But fonder, and 33 pounds of mo-|town house, No. 5 East 66th Street, | ordinary life’ must include for her, ee ee bead okie wee -Danish horses are now on rations, eee teeta pounds of nut | Yesterday. “I am only an assistant} Miss Schieffelin 9 such a breeay, nolien pasrons were, Under Strong cart, horses, measuring more | fodder and the same amount of mo- [0m the staff, you soe, But I love the | buoyant type that some outlot for her! “Such ridiculous ttle | misplaced json fodder, Love Letters From a Candidate to a Candidatess THUR (“BUGS”) BAER O. T.S., Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.) | I chirped him that it wouldn't make any difference. Both burgs | are enemy aliens, ~ ‘As I said before, you have got to use your noodle in this gun park And the only noodles [ see out here are in the soup. But, I'm there with both brogans. ROGER. to get by. | don't worry about Roger getting by | Yours until somebody counts all the flivvers, Belgium ’s Triumphant King and Queen Now Reoccupy : | dinner, or the wife's Babylonian con- : |duct In getting back from a matinee |a half hour after he came home. } | palled by a | } | course,” he said in describing to me ; | the | AX Ny SS WSS FRIDAY, Husbands THE SCRAP \Y when asked which in heaven. They flercely despite separate them. | Sometimes, to be sure, the contro- » versy wages over serious matters. But for one couple who quarrel about questions of state or ethics there ure fifty who disagree over really’ vital subjects like which one loves the other the more, the name of Aunt | Jemima .Perkins's second cousin's | third child, the husband's horrible neglect in being ten minutes late for An old New Yorker whom I know very well visited not long ago a Western city and was somewhat ap- what seemed to him the | License of its society. | “We all have family skeletons, of manners and customs of the |strange tribe, “but out there they |hang them on the front doord” | Which chamcterizes perfectly difference between the scrappy couple and other disputatious husbands and wives We have always heard that babies must cry in order to expand their lungs. ‘There may be some equally good reason of nature why the scrappy couple should choose the houses of their ériends and public restaurants and assemblies in whieh to wrangle. But as yet no scientist has discovered what it is, = ‘There are some happy conjugal ‘ leombinations in which both the man and the woman are equally scrappy. | hen nobody cares who wins, and be- yond casting an anxious eye on the . costlier bric-a-brac no considerate Jhostess dreams of interfering when if the row starts. Many scenes couples originate wife's determin. “between scrappy because of the n to be a fortunate In such cases it is considered the first | duty of the husband always to create the impression that his wife is popu- lar to the verge of scandal, I know} NOVEMBER 15, | We Know (Second of a Series of Articles) By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) OU may not be fortunate enough to know a happy couple, though, on the other hand, you may be a member of the firm. But, at any rate, you will recognize as old acquaintances the scrappy couple the man and wife who, while-cherishing a sound affection for each other, : |seize every opportunity, preferably public, to disagree. Their sources of dissension are manifold. A peaceful Sunday afternoon call upon your household may suddenly develop into 4 riot just because the scrappy wife remembers that her husband gave unsatisfactory answers the night before island completely surrounded by mea. | Sy; aw » ee TOW 1918 and Wives PY COUPLE @ man ehould love more, his child or his mother. The child may be imaginary, the mother generally are, But the row rages its purely theoretical character and every one present is drawn into it, taking sides with one or the other combatant, untfl the two make up and decide that the entire audience is in a conspiracy te of one very tame husband who ree marked indignantly when describlog a’ feud that, had arisen between his wife and her lifelong chum over tho kidnapping of an admirer: , “Ethel really played Mollie a mean trick when she stole Gladstone-Jones away from her, I don't wonder that Mollie won't speak to her ‘any more.” If by a strange mischance the selfs constituted siren finds herself unsure rounded by ravening admirers in any public place the husband must drop. all interests of his own and hastet to her side ‘standing by" until an« other’ man appears and asks her to How many have heard started by ladies who had been left to languish unattended for thirty seconds by delinquent lords who had lingered over a highball. Another frequent subject of recrims ination between scrappy couples ta the constitutional aversion to asking directions which seems universal in the male sex. I don’t know how many, times strange women, heedlee: of sulky muttering com) ions, have accosted me in the street or publio vehicles with: “Oh can you tell m where Saint Patrick's Cathedral Is? We've been wandering around all morning looking for it, and Hi simply won't ask anybody!" I supply the information, of course, become immediately a German spy in the husband's eye, and the scrappy wife continues wearily: “Isn't it funny how men won't asi¢ irections—silly, I call it, They are just so conceited they don't like to admit there is anything they don’t know. Why HE won't allow to stop policemen, and if I ha ed you we would be wandering ar till midnight for we just got | ce. Scraps W> me the outraged husband the wife retal But I not _ English Like American ‘Jokes and Ragtime Says R.G. Knowles, After Years Abroad G. KNOWLES, noted traveller, | IR lecturer and music hall art-| © Wet, who for more than thirty | vears has made the people of two| continents laugh, has returned to America to undergo an operation and does not expect ever to yeturn to the stage again. Knowles has spent twenty-seven and a half years entertaining the English public when he was not run-/ ning off to out-of-way pla for| Mary Schieffelin Only Society Bud a To Qualify as Army Camp Librarian Daughter of Wm. J. Schieffe-| “ | lin Forsook LuxuriousHome, - Put In Year of Training for) Her A, L, A, Post at Camp Upton, and Now “Will Never Be Satisficd to Return to Ordinary Life.” | 4 | Whole Camp Upton work and life so Lenergiés is essential. So.anajous was haennenegyan ane etCT —an { *s she to do this work when she learned | the importance of the A. L. 4. book | service to men | in the camps and abroad, that she took a year’s library » at*the Public Library Train- shool in order to qualify for it. July last at her urgent request she was sent to Camp Upton for-duty. ‘As at forty-three other training camps in this country, the A. L, A. bibs they were!" laughed Miss Schiet- material for his lectures or slipping over to Amer or a few weeks’ eu gagement, “The interchange of actors, betweea the two countri best thing that the linking up of a las between England and Ambassaor in a fore with him, to us retinue of spies. The theatrical that pass between countries are for the interchang pleasure and cement a friendship that does not come in any other way, “English audiences cannot get enough of American plays and play~ ers. Elsie Janis is the feature of a review at the Palace; Doris Keane is at the Lyric in “Roxanna;” Frani he said, “Is the happened for ing friends America, fn country te plain ianguage bassadors the Lawlor is one of the big features ta “The Lilac Domino” at the Empire; “Her Fred Dupree is the hit Soldier Boy” at the Apo! Coyne is head of “Going Up Gaiety, and Drury Lane has a big hit in “Shanghai,” written by the Witmarks, All are doing big buste ness. ot “So far as English audiences not appreciating American humor ts cons cerned, it is all rot, I am supposed to be the fastest talker on the Eng- lish stage, and never once in twenty- seven years did they fail to get me, “And certainly they do like our rage time! Why shouldn't they? Rage time {# the music of youth, The , world is being regenerated and raga time is having its effect. You cam depend upon it that anything that is popular here will be @ hit in Engs land felin, who confessed the: Vv thought of olan eirals of the influe enza, “Why, of course, we stuck om the job! There was ever so mifh exe tra Work to be done, particularly at night. ‘Two of us went over for hos: pital duty to help out, typing tele- grams to relatives and helping to lool for them when they came, whenever we coul get relieved f1 u pres- sure of duty.” re, oe In January Miss Schieffelin hope: to get assigned to A. L. A. Hospital Librarian Service tn military recon. struction hospitals, ' 4