The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1919, Page 9

| ( | AY } N \ With Americ Hardships, Risk Adverse Conditions, T. Were Giving and Comfort They Were Admin- istering—Earned Blessings of Grateful Soldiers. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Wrentng World.) OW Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt sr. bomb in tha Argonne Forest H today, when Mrs. sonal expertences gonne sector diet Bel, who was with me, got out and| lighted a match. “Damn you, souse those Hghts!” rang out from a camion not far from ™ “Capt. Bell immediately shouted back that there was a lady in the car, “The man answered: ‘Well, it's a hel of a corner for a lady.’ “No sooner were these words out of Me mouth than not a hundred feet away crashed a bomb, scattering @hrapnel broadcast, fortunately no Pleces of which bore the name of any one around us As we drove away from the spot we looked back to see another shell explode right where we had stood, During this trip I did not take off my clothes for four nights and the cold was intense.” But this was not an isolated expe- rience for Mrs. Vanderbilt, On many cocasions since America entered the} war she has been under fire, has slept ovt of doors in caves, has not been able to change her clothes for days at! a time, bes gone without meals when | she was hungry im order to mect @ rush of work. Mra nt Astor has fricd eer asa part of her wer work, Mrs. Theo- dore Roosevelt jr, has made dough- nuts. Somebody asked Mra, Vander- bilt If she too had performed the manual tasks so foreign to women of wealth and distinguished position in the pre-war days. DISAGREEABLE WORK CONSID- ERED A HIGH PRIVILEGE, “Every American woman over there who was there for servic did whatever car lied Mrs Vanderbilt, “We 1 floors, scoured tables, 3, swept, did anything there > In the early days, not pout it as scrubbing floors sagreeable but tak- fng it as a high privilege to be a small factor in the rreat fight for right.” “The Red Cross can have every- thing I've got!” a young warrior enthusiastically excla me the ra story how a [ted ¢ ad “saved h SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1919 Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr.| Tells of Being Under Fire Workers on French Front Was Last American Woman Under Fire and Once Narrowly Escaped Death—Says Women Endured ed Lives, Did Menial Work Under and the last week of the war was made known for the first time vice {n the war zone, told much of the great work of the American Red Cross and something of her own per fean Red Cross canteen, which fed thousands of Amer. fean and French fighting men. Mrs. Vanderbii woman to be under fire at the front. vember she was called upon to organize in the Ar. leacing from influenza and pneumonia in the various evacuation hospitals. This is her description of the bombing incident: “On our way to Bar-leDue we were in @ bro ing along over the roads congested with camions and ambulances, Our motor suddenly collapsed and Capt. ¢ 7 4 \\\ ma’ an Red Cross hinking Only of Aid They Just escaped death from an enemy during the first week of November Vanderbilt, after four years of ser as Directress in charge of the Amer ‘ MRS VANDER @iLy ret cou A TN AnmoLeem | QinT mine Syme os it perhaps was the last Armerican Early in No kitchens for American boys conva- without suMicient heat and, many en machine which kept) tmes, not enough blankets, And they took every bit of it as a | lark. No matter what the emergency they could always meet it. I have life’ with coffee, doughnuts and cig-| io smile every tims I think of one arettes when he, being temporar'ly | pretty girl in a hospital whom I found penniless, had appealed in vain to @! bending over a large slop Jar in which certain war relief organization, AS | she was cooking, over a brazier, gal- head of the canteen department, |lons of oatmeal for the boys who were Mrs. Vanderbilt reports that thirty taking their first nourishment after American Red Cross canteens ted! operations. from 6,000 to 10,000 soldiers daily, n|LANSING SISTERS IN FIRST addition to other canteen work for GROUP OF CANTEEN WORKERS. the French goldiers and for the avias | “In the first batch of eanteen work- tors. Nor was there anything of the) ers were the two sisters of S8eo- “embusque” about the Red Cross|retary of State Robert Lansing, the canteen worker, The big guns bad’ Misses Emma and Kitty Lansing, who no terrors for her, like many other American women of MANY WORKERS OFTEN UNDER | prominence were real workers, never SHELL FIRE. ‘imposing upon their high connections “We were near the front on many |in order to shirk or receive special occasion. Mra Vanderbilt de-! privileges. They were real soldiers clared, “Many of our workers were|and good sports, working day and under shell fire. They have known | night tirelessly, going under fire when what it is to sleep in the abris or necessary, always ready at a mo- tents for days and days at a time, | ment’s notice to do the difficult task. scarcely closing their eyes at night| Many of this type of women were at when awakened by the ominous|Chalons and Epernay before Ameri- whirr of the Gothas, At Chalons | ¢a’s entrance into the war, and they some of our girls did not sleep in| buckled to immediately after April 6, beds for five months, They just |1917, organizing equipments and get~ wrapped themselves up in blankets ting ready for the big duty that was and, taking pillows, went Into the | to come,” | abria or tho woods, where they were| The work was also carried into Italy immediately after the Piave dis- helled and shelled and shelled. . : smetimes Just a handful of them,| ster. “The American Red Cross was five or wix, would serve from 8,009 to @Axious,” nid Mrs, Vanderbilt, “to show that America was there, sympa- thizing and holding out her hands to | them.” Those famo Salvation Army doughnuts were not the only ones our boys got in Fra ‘There Cross dougiinuts too and lots of othor goodies, according to Mrs, Vander- | bit, 19,000 men a day, working in elght- hour shifts, but aften rallying to emergencies and working as long as twenty-four hours at a time without even taking a minute to lie down. “ate tilly also they were bomb- ed constantly. In the Evacuation Hos- pital the canteen girls worked con- tinuously, sleeping in tents in the) «i, «no foto! Regina in Paris,” #he mud just as the doughboys did—and! gai4 spies, ico cream, jellies and vor a word of complaint from them. | gougnnuts were cooked by the ton They looked upon themselves as Just) ong sent out in camions to all of the| as much a part of the game of war|nownitais around Paris, It was in- as the boys who were fighting in) teresting to note the difference in the the trenches, realizing that theirs was) temperament of our boys and that of but a minor part In comparison with| ine boys of other countries, I have the tremendous misery and privation! see, Frenchmen with both arms and f the soldiers, I tell you our girls! jegs gone sitting up in bed with a| over there were just wonderful. No| high fover eating a dinner that would vork was too hard for them to do| have done credit to a sturdy farmer and no hours too long, and when it! | who had done a whole day's work, was over they did not return to warm|GAVE “MOTHER TOUCH” ms in comfortable homes. AMERICAN LADS, “Even in P i tiny rooms] “Our boys were Just like children. TO New Who Will Have to Be Introduced to Their Fathers always the dying murmured of her | with their las “E must thing of tae oys' appreciation of our efforts, As n example I mention a boy of Jabour twenty who had given his VIRGINS DODGE GOLPEN ~~ GAMES DGYRE oi Bind: Tk DROASHRIAD Io. A teen 8 had been badly wounded. Ho 66TTNOM left to right, Virginia Dodge Golden, and James Doyle jr."—| thought surely he wa ng to die, two more New York babies who were born while their daddies were| "4 he called to one of the Red aia meee earn Cross workers who happened to be Virgir Private Daniel W, Golden, of the 805th F, A. Head. | Passing through the ward: quarters Co, 77th Division, He sailed for France April 26, 1918, and it was}. 1°Ur@ ® Red Cross girl, aren't Just as long after the? ft mber ae It took fi er sald w and he replied, to get to France from 3289 Br ‘ity, that the boys of his|+woll, I guess I'm going to bea It | company started calling him "Pop Golden," and “Daddy Long Legs" for|to the other side, so if you will look ho is the only father in his company, in my pocket you wil find a $10 bill, Private James Doyle of the 37th Engineers who sailed for France in| It's all I have in the world, and I May, 1915 In't be Introduced to James Jr. when he came into this big,} want you to give strange worl, for that event didn't take place until July 10, two months| Maybe it will help out some other tater, But there was a granddaddy to be introduced to in the home at No. | gejtow.? 229 Fast Sixty-first Stree The Evening World wi Madies who were born while thelr daddies were overseas elther soldiering | #10 or s for Uncle Sam, Just send a photograph, with brief partioul: oF the Was Baby Bitar, New, York Evening Word. meneame Feber, — They were real mother boys, always York ar Biadves. |e imagine how these little things helped. as mother explains in her letter. 1 be pleased to print pictures of other New York You seo they were just the mother touch which the American Red Cross was able to give them. For let me \say right hero, that itds always the mother wh ples the sacred spot in the American lud’s heart. No «mat- | ter how much a boy misht talk of his sister or wife or swee eart in his moment is mother who his vision and came it w | bee me the “Io aida't ate, but he aid give his He lives to sing the praises of Red Cross wherever he goca.” ‘Mrs, Vanderbilt was one of the few ‘American women in France at! © BAn News s Ae ar ar AY \ D>» h Y MRS the time of Germany's invasion and] immediately went to work to lo what} she could to alleviate the suffering of the women and children and to minister to the comfort of the pollu. It was she who was responsible for | bulance Hospital And, of course, little group of ho were the first at she Red to show were Teed | United States Military Hospit | the foundation of the American Am Neuilly, now was in the ross pl rs Brance at America really was in the war ‘This is her vivid descr early days: n of those RED CROSS QUICKENED MORALE OF FRENCH ARMY. “It wags the American Red Cross, | immediately after our the war and before our boy entrance n to arrive, that helped more than any | | | other agency, I believe, In revitaliz- ing the morale of the French Arm There was just a handful of us, oneers, we might been called, who were there before the personnel arrived, We saw the need for heart- ening the French soldiers and took immediate measures to fulfil this need, “In June, 1917, thirteen Red Cross men workers arrived under the direc tion of Major ( Murphy. Im mediately we travelled along the en- ure French line of communication loing what we could to encourage | France, which was at Wat time d pressed and tired, fearful lest at could hold out no longer, and pray day by day for the reinforcing troops of the American Army, ‘Armed with ten thousand Amer- lean flags, we began our work at th railway giving the Frenc soldiers cigarettes, comfort bags, serving them with coffee and sand wiches and placing Au un flags in their hands with the words “Pell the Roches we are here-AMERICA here, and our b are and | coming fast! Take heart MRS. VANDERBILT ALSO DID GOOD WORK IN ITALY, Into Italy, too, mercy. Mrs, carried the Red Cross Van banner bilt of “Major Grayson Murphy," she ex grap plained, “t Italy and to see what and to help carry American co-operation. are @ proud and yy. was ne the messag The Ita sensitive pc it to the Red Cross, | TheY cannot be approached b So It was necessary for us to show them that we were only there to co-operate. They had |howpitals, their surgical dressiags— lost thelr everything—in this terrible invasion of the Austrian, #o Red Cross helped to the American establish new . t) in 66 > OS \ gy _ ‘ VANDE QV Snapshots of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt at Work Helping Red Cross Activities in France Tey) ah eal At NEQILLY, FRANCE AS NURSE 9 ow “IF YOU MUST TELL in marriage. Anyhow, nobody | self-analys'! jany one. ‘many of us would bother with being in love if It were not for the joys of taking our emotions apart and putting them together again, But men do not seem to derive the same satistac- \tion from the discussion and dissec- Jtion of their emotions, To be sure, levery man Ifkes to have @ woman tell him once just what she felt ant |thought when she met his eyes for the first time and all about the bitud ling glory of his first kiss, &e, for levery man's favorite fairy tale is “Pygmalion and Galatea.” Yes, though he marry the daughter of the regiment, he prefers to think he is bringing a statue to life, But when \the statue begins to talk she soon |talks herself out of bis imagination fand by her mania for explanation de prives herself of love's greatest ally, [stone curiosity. “Women,” said Oscar Wilde, “are sphinxes without riddles.” It is never Juntil the sphinx begins to talk that a man ts led to make that cynical dis covery. So, if you must discuss how anJ why and when and where you began to love him, raise the maid's wages and tell her about it, pay @ fortune- teller $5 to listen to you, or turn un both faucets in the bathtub and sing jit to yourself. Do anything, everything but choke @ man's imagination to death with petty details, If the worst comes to the worst, keep a diary, though 1 shall have my opinion of you if you do. Sometimes men are accused of pre- She’s “‘The Li‘tle Mother In the Black Shawl’’ And Good Medicine Too! Doctor Prescribed ‘Mother’ for Homesick Wounded Soldier in the Debarkation Hospital, and She Came All the Way From Illinois, in Her Quaint, Old-Fashioned Black Shaul, to Give Him Boyhood Goodies and Comforts, and the “Mother Medicine” Effected a Cure! ferring stupid women—I am always amused when I hear feminine discus- gions about whether men prefer brains or beauty, slender or fat womer Freeng or brunettes. In the bright fexicon of man's emotions there is no such word a or. Men never debate such matters beyond certain cvar mmonplaces, for they know that the type of woman man prefers ts every type of wornan—the brilliant, the dull, the slender, the obese, the blonde, the brunette, the red-haired, the albino. All are charming, admirable tm their own way, until they begin to explain themsei What is there about a woman on trial for murder that makes her #0 fascinating to men no jury will find SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, Three Sterling Maxims For Matrimony AY WAN y% 1919 ALL, DON’T TELL IT TO YOUR HUSBAND’’—No. 3. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1919, by The Prom Publinhing Co, (The New York Bromine Worl!) HE elephant has a delightful litle habit of hiding behind a palm trea, whenever an enemy approaches. Just how much of an elephant may de hidden by a palm tree J leave it to the reader to determine. that some prehistoric lady mastodon originated the ous tom, after listening to a lecture on how to preserve her mystery and keep her husband's love. also to decide just how much mystery may be preserved Personally, I believe I ask the reader will deny that the palm tree habit adds to the tnterest of the elephant. Every garden of love should have its palm tree and whenever a woman finds herself in the mood for turning out each nook and corner of ber heart and brain for a man’s tnspection, she should seek its sheltering, shade and spend the time In silence and mod!tation Instead. } Ut she must tell all—and which one of us has not the ghastly habit of —let her tell It to herself. She will be sure then, of not boring | LT have sometimes wondered how |to be sot free is to wear a black drems, look pale and interesting amd smile sadiy and mysteriously into his eyes. ‘ Take the case of Mona Lisa, who has smiled her way across four cén- turiea, A homely woman, if ever there waa one. Yet because of a adil, Jaded, erooked quirk of the lips, aie haa engaged the imagination of every man from da Vinci, who immortalised her tn paint; Pater and Gautier, whip eternalized her in literature, to the Ttalian thief who eloped with Ber from the Louvre a fow years ago, Suppose Mona Lim could talk? Sup. pose #he could explain that smilé? Men have invented a thousand fajj- tastic reasons for it, but the explana. tion must be very simple. Perhans she was bored with da Vinci, who course talked about himself while he Was painting her. Perhaps she was amused by some gesture of the must clans he employed to keep her ti terested, perhaps the innocent pratele of some child bloomed like a mudi primrose in her gray thoughts. Sif» may have been thinking even abaut her husband, though every man will consider it @ desecration for me fo suggem such a thing. rf Anyway, every woman knows thas she smiled at some simple thing < every day, some beauty, some of the hour; yet because she kaew enough not to tell all, her pale, ‘tile from perfect countenance has the of men for four hundred min years, Yet I have heard women call her stupid. me The charm of the woman other women s0 describe depends very often on the fact that she ts ¢ao lazy or too indifferent to explefm herself. Hence men endow her with mystical merits she is too stolid to deny, But no woman who marries successfully in our age can be oom sidered altogether dull, 4 For ahe has triumphed over many obstacles and much competition, Any one, no matter how limited, can marry a man under twenty-five or over sixty, But the girl who sac cceds in being led to the altar by’ ® desirable male between those ages has to be @ master of tactics and strategy. I do not mean to assert that she ts working out her own noblest destiny, necessarily; merely that, however empty her head may LE little mother in the black) Then the doctors began to wonder] i.) guiity? Her mystery, ‘The fact |4Ppear, she must be in reality @ highs shawl" ly the name they have}if he would ever see the farmhouse |inae even when she takes the stand |ly skilled fisher of m For thete for her in the Debarkation| There was no physical reason why he in her own defense the objections of |“re no more flounders in the sea of Mat Sixth Avenue and High-|should not recover—yet he was fail-|ine prosecuting attorney or her own|Matrimony. And who wants to catch teenth Street ng steadily, Instead of the fne-| Oungel prevent her from telling all.|a flounder, anyhow? ‘There is no fan Her other name is Murphy—Mra.|looking boy in the early twenties he} 1 nave sald often that I should be|in fivhing for something that comas ‘ius Murphy. Barly every morning,| should have b was coming to/atraig to kill a man, even in Nassaulover the side of the boat with no s before visiting hours, she resemble a worn old man, And in Alojunty, becouse of an unfortunate |more fight than if it were the old herself at the hospital le while kindly Capt, Bradford, the lane which would lead me to reason |oaken bucket, And if you want to J open before her. J 2 oftcer In charge of thel wien the jury, secking tu convinoe|trol! for bluefish cast for striped ‘s not jum & visiting moth levered thet ¢ © MUFPDY | hem intellectually, which would al-|bass you have to get up at 4 o’clowk he is a doctor's presaription. was Nterally dying of homesicknoss| oo certainly we sap keep your eyes n every nie loes she leave her place at her bo: and) mother kness The doctors) 5. every juryman must and you have to remember, also, edside until, at 9 o'clock in the eve- | admitted, after due o tion, that) oman who insists on explaining to|that a good fisherman never tals ng, he ta ready to shut his tired |if he could not sco b ier he} iim ought to be convicted if only for|much, even after the haul is all age yes Mat Are 7Ot 80 TARRY WHE WOvid Bot tive her stupidity, when all she has to dolsorted and ready for marke saxzing at her, and g leep. There was an appen! in the case} cnaahaemme: eornemeenemeamiainei —- When he arrived in New York, fust} which could not be resisted by “the . ae efore Christmas, Geonge Murphy, pri-|reatest mother of them al orge's ANSWER TO THURSDAY’S PUZZLE vate in the Headquarters Company of |father and mother, plain farming How Many Fighters in This Flock? he 16th Infantry, was suffering from | people, eould not 1 to come to 4 badly fractured hip, which had|New York, The 1 « s was just en hit by a ploce of shrapnel, He|on the point of sending for them at uld not be moved from his frac-|its own expense when word was re- ure bed, and it was obvious that at 1s and neighbors in nontt pass before he could be Il, had passed around the ent to the little old farmhouse in| hat and collected @ travelling fund, iendale, 11, where he was born and| George Murphy took the first step rourht WE on the road to real recovery the day | EE ° rd dod and mother were on! nt line hospitals and to equip|the way. Not many hours later they | y them.” wer beds(i@r-dad smok | Mr Jerbilt has been named] hia li 1 black cuddy pipe Imother several times over, She | mother Me brown eyes, her The diagram shows how four Spads might have taken positions in the jumbers 8 her foster children the her quaint old-fashioned black | contre of that formation to produce five rows with four to the row. iro Garibaldi) legion of 8,000 mon sti is cane —s battalion of over 15,000 Red Croas had met them at . BR s her work as directress jon, piloted them gently Which delighted George as a boy. The THREE IN ONE, 2 n Service of the Red mysterious maze of New , quiet, happy hours to- SPORTSMAN of great imaginae - ; x e corner of the ward,| tive gift was telling how at 499 she also spent her Saturdaya| York, and ‘ 4 then in a an goreened cif for] one shot he had bagged two an tr r of military hospitals} quiet home Ww th Street, al) best of it bs that the|partridges and a rab Hie jeme peli ng her Bundaye to the] at no expense to themeclven, A Radi oo nother medicine 16 help-| planation was that, though he had n Military Hospital No, 1 at| Cross au called for them ia ing George Murphy to gain steadily |hit only one partridge, the bird in y, which she had founded and|the mornings to take them to/ 0# ld! | Cit ot Me te bave| falling had clutched at another pare viich, during the firat four months | George's hospital, led hope he actually will recover | tidge and brought that to earth em f the war, she had helped to supe) Dad has gone back now to look! i.6 of the limba now motioniess, and |tangted in its claws, port, after the farm, but mother is stil, i “But bow about the rabbit? he wag can be and induced to does not consider finished the devoted work which she thout stint, but of widoh talk only in the will | cakes and jellies ehe has prepared gition and jead a life made reason- so that they know he will at least with her boy, Another hospital rule las bee stretched @ Dit and she; by and by from the hospital, tak brings in daily the dainty custards, examinations for @ clvit service po- herself from ¢he old fashioned recipes ably | grow well enough to be discharged | **ked. “On, was the calm reply, “my gue kicked and knocked me backward - and I fell on the rabbit as it ran —Boston