The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1919, Page 28

Pt ‘Women of “Old 69th” a Kept Wolf From Door Of Doughboys' Homes SAW TO IT THAT NO WANT OR DISTRESS VISITED NEEDY MOTHERS OR FAMILIES. The Women's Auritiary to the 165th Infantry (the old 69th) not © ely kept the home fires burning but the home pots boiling too for the Boys who went to France to fight for their country. They hastenea payment on scores upon scores of allotments due the needy samilics of heroes who made the supreme sacrifice, Kept many whole families from destitution by securing jobs at good wages for sisters and wives and light work for mothers of doughboys whose @eath or absence from home brought the wolf near the door; went deep into their own pockets in many instances to tide over tem porary emergencies pending receipt of moncy from the Government— @nd in as many more inftances where their prompt assistance, not con tingent upon Government aid, kept comfort and cheer in homes where, without it, real suffering would have ensucd. And the following story tells about these good works and the good women who performed them, There are 800 “gold star” mothers in the organization, (1,400 boys of the 165th Infantry were killed in action.) By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 1919, by the Prewe Publishing Co. (The New York Prentng World.) HEN those intrepid shock-absorbers, the Old 69th, como home this month the boys will find every one of their 1,800 Nearest-and-Dearest with a smile of well-being shining through the tears of welcome. Not a Johnny's mother of them will havo a tale of want to tell. Nor 4 little sister whose boots wore thin hunting a job. wrong and things looked dark and threatening. The “Women's Auxiliary” is the reason. Women's Auxiliary to the 165th Infantry, U. 8. A. Inc. (The Fighting 69th), is its full name and title, Its president is Mrs. George R. Leslie, wife of the banker, and she is, !f you will permit the phrase, “some president.” She probably inherits the “some- | 4 ness” from her son, Lieut. Langdon J. Leslie, of Com- pany L, who is known throughout the 165th as “Regular Guy Leslie,” be- Ing thus dubbed from his Plattsburg days, The organization is head- huartored at No, 68 Lexington Ave-) ~ hue. It has reception committees, en-| Many an old mother, needy and fertainment committees, hospital com-| alone, was helped and cheered and mittees, and it works with its sleeves | steered into light employment at the Folled up and all decks cleared for| Red Cross or elsewhere. There was} action. Yet these bare facts give no| Mts Casey, for instance. We will warm MOTHERLINDSS, | cail her that because that is not her @f geod works it has|name. Mary Casey's only boy was a from the|69ther. The allotment didn’t come, when 2,72] “Rain-|and trouble did. But she was proud. Mills te begin their Even her netetbors in the old fash- overseas. foned tenement on East 2ist Street, goodby tears had|/where folks know one another and 69th's womenfolk had) are good to one another in ways the er to help their lads and/ upper west aide wots not of, were other. By November, 1917,/ ignorant of her plight for a time. ell paid tn their 25 cents] But finally they sensed it and brought dues which were to defray| her down in her fadad old shawl to| Mra, Nelson, who began filling out “team cases of warm duds home-baked| blanks like lightning. Some money cakes and home-cooked candies made| went home in Mrs. Casey's pocket. for the men whe may truly be| Just where it came from I don't know | Rane are eee vere #¢'tee Aeter any more than she did. But after Fal army. the aMotment was received I know Many of these famous fighters! that Mother Casey camo down to a Ut ti [ i fh E £ g i FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1919 | Nor a wife who didn't get help when allotments went | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Cepyright, 1919, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World.) 1s Sir Thomas Lipton a bomb-proof bachelor, although he is rich, popular and a W wero the only sons of widews. Lots Mrs. Nelson's office again. This time more were the firstborns of big fam!- @ cloak and bonnet had replaced the | lies whose mainstay they were, Now, ded shawl. And she had good news. | ot course, there were “allotments” and ny ag ee heard from, and was, made here was the money, pepennce ond al! thet. be born please, and God blexs yer! She h va the first allotments came more or less work, glory be. And that $10 had to} safely vo ma and the kiddies, More P° Pald back, papers bad to be sent ¢rom the other! Then there was Margaret Kelley aide, bowever, and you can tmagine! (that tm't her name either), Mrs. bow easy it would be to make out Kelley had allotment troubles too. your allotment papers tm @ trench with When Mrs. Nelson started making your two feet deep in mudand-water out the blanks she found Mrs. ‘and the Germans dropping shells on|Kelley’s name and the name of her your tin hat. Naturally your hands|#0ldler son did not agree, ‘fare occupied, and your papers don’t) “Ie he your stepson, then?” asked get made out Mrs. Nelson. They found those sheafs of allot-| “No, he's me ow: ment papers in the pockets of dead) “But the names"—— ‘and wounded officers, Sheafs more on| “Ah, yes, the name. Well, then, if} the boys who bad been dropped by| You must know, Dinny is me own enemy Lullets or who had "gone west” |1ad, only he's me noighbor's son HH {nto the big silences, So it caine Inevi-|mother died when Dinny was a wee tably to pass that the wolf slunk| it lad, and I loved hor. I had a mighty close to certain doorsteps.|raft of youngsters anyway, did one Mother didn't know how to get her/more matter? It did not. I took him allotment. Sister Sue was confronted|in and he grew up with mine. But with the need for immediate earning. his mother’s name was a good name Something had to be done quick to get and I wanted him to keep it." {he youngsters clothed and fed, Whole} ‘That 4s the story of a baker's dozen families faced calamity. of the 69th women folk. They have Here is where the Women's Aux-| Deen entered on the blanks as “foster Wary in geweral and Ida M mother,” and Uncle Samuel it's Welson in particular came oping | right } to’ the rescue, Mrs. Nelson's name| Fourteen hundred 69th mothera will @des not appear upon the letterhead |never seo their boys again, and there of the auxiliary, though #he tsanim-|are some seventy-five others who portant member of it, Her particu-|since way last July or August have lar war job is being head of the Bu-|been simply Isted as “miasing in Teau of Allotments, Shipments and |action.” It's the heart-wringing mea. Insurance of the United States Ship- | sage to get. Bocanse you don't know ping She ka much too|There's no grave or anything. young t ure a ttle that awful “missing.” Just ewe ght to work about] T thought it might be a good idea hose delayed allotments," she tokl/to pair up these lonely mothers and| mee in her cubbyh at the} Father Duffy's “lone by There Gusion House (she never says “I;"|are about 300 of these lads whom always “We') And got them pald|tho 69th's chaplain “donated” from by scores, tiding over the temporary | homes and institutions. fellowa who med from our funds, haven't any mothers or folks of their & “Then we saw to it that jobs were |Own. Well, we'll see, wo'll see. Tho re for the giris Who had to help out |auxillary may get round to that later family go0d sportsman? for all of his six ty-eight years, has Mohammedan | countries, Outside Haremland, the man who, like the gun, shines en the and the un-fatr, dodges @ woman but always asks another woman to come along, who all his life is the life of the tea party —that man is the bomb-proof bach- Is not a proposal before an au- dience utterly there never is a proposal matrimonial alibis and ex- ations I shall repeat to you in courso-—they cholcest brand of red herrings, submit that you have only to study ctures of Sir Pershing and other gre Thomas, which! cannot be expected to unveil their he did not give to me but which are The Evening World of| . | exist my char; charming British nurses on his All are beaming on and Sir Thomas beams There 1s another in @ merry in the plural instead singular—well, this is what hap- impartially on all pened when I asked Sir another Boston young lady| ! stands on the other side as a chap- budget immediately Just now they are preparing the Bevery girl in t telephone depart-|sreatest and grandest celebration tn ment of the Unit tes Shipping | the world against the return of their Board is | ror the wife of a 1 to be an oldef. 6th ey veprenent eight m- | 4 the old-fashioned “yinnics. 4 of théir men have y, with old-fashioned eh Phen killed in action, Two have been | latecakes and cocoanut pies and (w Say wounded, one having three ci- | Knows?) maybe “Irish turkey" too! ‘ations for bravery in his pocket] The mothers who have been cook- ‘When found on the battlefield, Theling and sewing and knitting ana Mg women we placed in this way packing box wg were enabled to earn $17.50 @ week.” sinoe way before the Battle of the States Army. my Pet i \ Deena ore trustees and members of the Wom- H for the fighter everjon's Auxiliary to the 165t% United | 't was a pun, My feeling about puns! women in England who will have no ds that of the man who said Charles Sir Thomas Lipton, 3 Bomb-Proot Bachelor, Proves ‘‘Safety in Numbers”? Rule Has Always Escaped the ‘“One’’ by Dodging Among the “‘Many’’ and Accompanying Pictures Show Him, at 68, Still Following Hi: Chosen Tactics. SR THOS. ANDABOSTON Giri WAC rer |who put the daisy chain about his| neck, ‘while her friend chaperoned her. Oh, tt's @ great life if you don’t weaken! However, Sir Thomas and Foch an4| generals ost precious strategies for a curio’ world, For what does camouflage Instead of pleading guilty t based on ibits A, Band C, that for sixty-e years he has gotten away with bachelorhood by being nice to girls f girl in the has never married e know that I would have done he declared, with a note of the f f tea! If only tea t 1 be a Tord to keep a wife And never a Dlush deepened th ne of bis broad, florid, jovial face I thought| But he had not quite the audacity to| t my eyes with his big blue ones. He kept them ever so modestly down- dropped. It was wise, As a hous eeper of sorts I happen to know ymething about the price of tea In a moment he tried again, | “1 ht have boen married,” he aekled but ye ly Al Ww 1iny ‘ I get my ey're Singalose Now, sure, isn't that a good reason I agreed it was as good @ reason as Thomas why Sia VHOs. LAPTON ano BAG. Lamb had two weaknesses, one for the bottle and one for pun-making, ind that the first could be forgiven him but the second couldn't. “Then there was what the old Eng- lish woman said about me," contin- ued Sir Thomas cheerfully, “In Lon- don, ye know, [ have men with sand- w boa walking about the . Th 1 mother was up from the country with her husband and he saw one of me sandwich m perfect old wreck with his in rags and no shoes to s took a quick look at him and his board was so twisted that all she could see was ‘Lipton. that’s Sir ‘Thomas Lipton ! ffed, ‘W wl Lean say ia 1 1 inge your min t a did d Je to tuhe a wife,” I lo you think you might rin America | rifty Sir Thomas shook bis head, albelt a trifle sadly, | ‘the water now," he reminded mo. ‘They are #0 high I am sure I never could get an Amer n wife across,” Do you sur knows ao little noir “wand sends them over vw 1 ought to give home | talent a chance,” L conceded, “A |cabled despatch the other day said there are now a million and @ half opportunity to marry. And they say of the freight rates across That didn't seem to alarm Sir Thomas, despite his apprehensions over the high cost of marrying. “It's a good thing,” he commented sagely. “The young men will all be marry- ing off, now, and old fellows like my~ elf will have a chance, Somebody ttention to us. will pay some One gathers from the above photo- | graphs that, in his native wilds, Sir Thomas is simply pining away for women who will pay some attention to him “Really,” I argued, “what are those poor million and a half women going to do, if other Britishers follow your deplorable example? Must the women emigrate? How can they find hus- bands?” “How can they?’ blandly agreed Sir Thomas Lipton, B. I. (Bachelor Incorrigible). Then a twinkle shone in a very blue eye. “Unless, of course,” he ventured hopefully, “the Government should permit each man to take three or four wives, Even two apiece might help to spread them around.” ut if England expects every man do his matrimonial duty even ONCE, what is going to happen ta matrimonial slackers like Sir Thomas? He will have to be a per- petual yachtsman and sail the seven seas—which are never dry and never, never domestic. | self cryin. An the Captin says “Well somethin to By LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER of the 27th (N. Y.) Division, (Author of “Dere Mable.’’) Illustrated by CORPL. G. WILLIAM BRECK. Eleventh of a Serica of Letters to “Dere Mable” from “Bill,” the Rookte, | Describing His Further Advvcntures in the Army. ERE MABLE D I guess | was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, though up to now I thought Id swallowed it. I told you Id make you happy some day. Now Im going to. Im comin home on a furlo. I always wished theyd kristened me somethin be sides Smith till now. Theres a fello named Patrick Smith what lives two tents down with a red Rose and hair that hangs down under his hat. His mother rote the Captin an said she was dyin. She said she didnt expect to live more than forty-eight (48) bours or however long It took for her son to get home. The Captin thought it was me. He called me up an says “Smith your mother is sinkin rapidly.’ I couldnt believe that though cause she woudnt never |go near any place where they was water. Then he read me the letter, I knew right away it was Patrick Smith's mother cause he was figuria last week on the most likely one to kill off sos he could get home. I never let on though. Quick. Thats me all over, Mable. I says “Gee, that's to bad” like I was all broke up. And then I said “Shes the only mother I ever had Captin.” I said it so sad that I almost got my- Smith, you been workin pretty hard an need a change. I!) give you a ten day furlo to go home to the funeral.” Nice fello the Captin when you get to know him. Im comin up Mable just as soon as I can borrow enough close and the lke, It seemed to me when I used to lay out my stuff for inspeckshun Saturday mornings that I had enough junk to equip the draft army. I just been lookin over my stuff to find r home. It makes a eel half nakid Im going to borrow the money to| buy my railroad ticket so you see the trip aint going to cost me a cent. I bet youll be glad to have someone round who aint skared to change a quarter once in a while. Its kind of hard to get a suitcase. Theres only one in the battery. The fe “| JUST FOUND YOUR PICTURE AT THE BOTTOM OF MY \ BARRACK BAG." fello what owns it says its made the > es. the looks trip north 25 tim m the look ted savin thrift stamps, I got ot it hes st, Else the last fello prety . pretty near two books full. Angus tied it to the end of the train and let # its got It all ov it drag all the way. I guess I ca0. cupons fix it with rope though Peels 7 ‘Then Joe Loomis has a uniform! premium departmene ny wrote the that he paid Aten dollars ($16) tor. | for one of their catalogs gt nacy It looks like an officers unless YoU! get a mandolin as tern aa antes wear it in the rain, Joes im th®/ enough. Joe Looims is aoe i get guard house #0 Im going to take {t! Ukaylay, I hope it wwen re an not say nothin, I guess Joc’d 40 stamps than he can ever nee, OT? the same for a pal. Besides he aint) Were getting some news ne rt got no Isick comin cause theres a rule now, Hetween you. a raft men cr United Segar When you get enough you 1 me there an that we cant speak to prisone: awful dum bunch. They dont know Joo got put in the guard house for the difference between squads right burnin down the stable tent where ang 4 I dont see how fellos they keep the horses serial, He was can fellos sittin in the stable tent while he know those simple things was on stable guard catchin a smoke. | 4 few of them is Jewish fellos fro Stable guard is a kind of night bell| New York. All they think about i hop and chambermaid to the horses. | how they can get some eee He heard the Officer of the Day|tho camp agd gell em to the fellos comin and stuck his cigaret but in| couple of them sold there equip. an oat bag. Then tho whole thing |ment the minit they was 1 P- burnt down. Angus MacKensle says | Angus says one of them was pgs pane thats what he gets for hidin his light | the other night and a fellow came under a bushel, Thats a skotch joke|® tong. He stopped him and pays though, I guess you wouldnt get it | “Halt, whose there?” an the Pieay Angus \s 1endin mee pair of spiral ®ays “Friend.” An he says, “Aad- puttys, A spiral putty is a flannel | vance, friend, an give the discount.” bandage what you wind round your | Youd hardly believe that, Mable. But logs sos nobody cant see that the) bein a girl I suppose you would, not buttons is off your trousers legs. The | knowin nothin about the military, fello what made em must have had} So T aint goin to rite you no more queer jegs cause when you get to the | ©@Use theres no sense ridin up on the top there aint no place to fasten, train with my own letters. I got a them, I guess they were built for|!ower bunk all hired. Im goin to fellos that was goin to stand still, | have it made up before we Jeave the As soon as you move they unwind) Station an I aint goin to get up til and drag in the dust till a horse|We pull into Philopolis. If the fello steps on one of them, Then you do|im the upper bunk aint got sense em up again enough to atay in bed he can ait on Ve as long as they have an not first step to co-operation, a hand--and a beart too, a man’s feelings and you rear an doubie-crossed QUICKER TANNING PROCESS, covered a new rapid tanning proces» with which sole leather can be tanned in seven days, calf skine in six hours and other skina proportionately quicker, Copyright, 1919, by the Prow Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wark) The Cross-Patch Is Double-Crossed + soft tongue rakes in the hard cash, Conciliation is the |tin married before the war cause Deference and delicacy bring dollars, Trample a man’s feelings in the dust and you yourself choke from the rising clouds, Respect | turlo, pricks men on, Courtesy makes for efficiency, Have an eye to your employees’ spirits and they'll have heads and hearts and hands for | tom of my barrack bag. It gave me your gross receipts. 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