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Show V i . , h Peasanfe . 'S .' l If I- - 4. Ull iruk -- I r- I) . i The Flavor Lasts ! li9 V FAjU'- 0 V - rtv -- fTf VA T7?; u.' '' x J. i w nl - t - - ' J$kk rK vV ' 1 ,W-- t f r L 1 v.i Afe vfi s ' 4 A 'I Xw. V . i V? N ,,u, ' ; o S vawv X the price f I f ' Tb. i ' tax ,V& H ..US A - v A N O Tight-K- ept '"'N 2V . '-- 7 A CAJ-H.v. 3ZArCZuD5 Of ctrtt? h'i;J i, nz.z it&Az&zift? rzaZz nsjrry ZF zr f CTttn L QiyZY C&2ZZ ZrcyT'AD Rltfht W a C'77l?J7Ar - Their aim in life is to get back on their own land and . -1 , they face the future smiling & v J, -- wr 2YcnrriAm' By LLOYD ALLEN, xzzlZd cRsn&rAzxDjmz&r Special Staff Correspondent. face had softened into a perpetual smile. Most (Copyright, 1919. Western Newspaper Union S ustorpary governmental red tape delay must he of his teeth were gone. Mme. Blanchard, also OISSONS, FRANCE. Yon would exendured. And in the meantime the soldier had Very old, was more sprightly. The old couple had pect to find the peasants of France a to sleep on a bed of straw in the severest part of one joy In life besides being back home again after gloomy lot as they work their way winter, with only ids overcoat for a covering. He across country back to shattered four .tears as refugees. That Joy was a big, sleek had no monej to buy food. white cat. homes. Nothing seemed to dismay them. One of ilie American committee women took They had a son in the anny, and while waiting for his return were patching up the care of the dls barged fighter. He was given the They filtered rom, their havens in the house and refurnishing It Of the several hundred south of France in a thin, ragged line barest necessities and Jusf enough food to keep people that had lived In Cutry, the Blanchards always smiling. They were facing the going, and he was saved from a lot of hardship and were two of twenty-fou- r future cheerfully. They have only one that had returned. , suffering. . They picked up pieces of timbers from great aim in life; They want to get back k The soldiers experience was typical of the comto their lands and they are willing to suffer houses for fueir They worked by day patchmittee's wotk. It Is for cases like this one that In their privation in order to get ing up their house and slept in the cate at night. American aid from the Red Cross warehouses will broken-uThe American ttouieu',of Soissous kept an homes. They are numerous, numbering be a godsend. eje on the' old folks; brought some more than two million. I have seen and talked to for Red Cross Work. the cigarettes old man every now and then and saw to it that hundreds in the devastated country around Six big w n rebouses are being established In where aoores of towns are wiped off the map. they had food enougH to keep them going. France by the Red CrosR, end two in Belgium. and found not a single soul starting life over again It was always a re 'letter day In Cutry when For Freiuh relief work these storehouses are with a grouch. the committees anfo Wk appeared loaded with at Lille, Amiens, La on, Chalons, Verdun, There is no doubt that much needless suffering supplies. Driven by a lpical American girl, the Mezieres; And the Belgian sin I ions are at was caused by the eagerness of tjie peasants to little truck would swing briskly tip the village and Courtrni. Here the supplies brought to get back to their homes before the French govstreet, would take the hairpin turns leading up France originally for use of tin American army ernment had fully organized Us relief machinery. the big bill toward the church and would druw up are to he withered and distributed In Each peasant, however, knew that the 1919 growwith a fionrHh in front of the euve dwellings in with the Fiench g6vernnient. There is n vnst suit-plthe old quarry. A big ing season, In order- - to be productive of fair rebell had been of stuff available; There are many motorsults, must begin with the spring plowing in Febru--a- ry mounted on a pole near the spot where the mertrucks and hospital supplies no longer needed by with the disappearance of the snows. So chandise with which the truck was loaded was to the American Expeditionary forces. And they will each family head made great effort to get back to be sold. The moment the young woman truck nsvit the French jeop!e in their tremendous Job his land in the bitter weather of January and early driver rang the bed 24 refugees dropped their of reconstruction. tasks and came hurriedly up the street, anxious to February In order to get some kind of a shelter Aiding In reconstruction bfre in France, ns secure some badly needed goods. If they lacked ready in which he could sleep and eat, before viovud by a majority of the Americans who are his days were given over to work on the land mony and really needed stuff no difficulty was trying to help, is a proposition of giving first aid and the production of food. lil a cod in the peasants way to secure the masupplying a small iron stove and some bedding Most of the refugees were the very old or very terials. While the bartering and exchanges went and a little food and not taking on the actual reon the young American woman chattered French joung. During the early weeks of the peace con-- J pair of destroyed houses, except to furnish whenTerence there were Very few soldiers returning to with the jieasants, exchanged jokes and generally ever possible stub items ns a few of oiled the land. Eightjy per cent of the French army helped promote the gospel of good cheer. pnper to patch up a few windows in order to give consisted, of menj from the farms, and the demobiic-Red Tape Causes Suffering. the family one room that can be warmed lization rate was comparatively slow. So there were many bright spots such as this cold the weather. during At So.ssons an American organization,, with a Ktovee-- , for Instance, ore very difficult to obtain. through the 6.000 square miles of devastated French name, was rendeHng valuable assistance A small sheet-iroheater that would cost about France,, In all the ravaged territory which will to the people. This committee, which was known bear the scars of war for generations the Job of $5 In America, ponslldy Ics, costs flD to $20 at s the Comite Americain pour Ies Regions reconstruction was starting with all the atmos-pher- e the iisu.tl French supply house. It is an Inadede la France with Mrs. A. M. Dike of of fl ho!Iday7 notwithstanding the sinister quate stove at best. It gives out very little bent as and Miss Anne Morgan of It barely f; :es the chill off an ordinary sized room. background of disrupted roofs, crumbling walls, (Raltimore as president vice president, had branches in 20 Yet It is m 'Xiwnsive Item streets and ruined public buildings. the French and What dlcTItTnutter that France had half a surrounding villages where supplies were being n English f. tories are not producing at full ca- cither given away or sold, depending and because when the stove has been houses truck by shells, with a quarter of a the finanpc city-yecial condition of the fanners. If the It Hi difficult to transport It. manufactured to reduced rubbish million The war was heaps? returning nan or woman had, money with which to buy . over and the big task of rebuilding was Seventeen per cent of the personnel of the starting aoods. a charge of cost plus 10 per cent was with an impetus that demonstrated the fanner's French railroad system was mobilized and lias not ade. The 10 per cent profit went to the French implicit faith in the future. yet been put back to work. Consequently there Is man or woman Two and a quarter billion dollars' worth of running the store. Funds to conthe spectacle of hundreds of trainloads of vital duct the organization came from America and household goods in ail France had been destroyed, necessithi sidetracked and delayed indefinitely. were raised by popular subscription. The relief committees use their iowerful Influaccording to official estlnntes made soon after the Cutry, a Typical Village. armistice signing, when he first calculations Inence to get hold of the stoves that can be found Not far from Soissons, which Is dira! ed that Trance's v , damage for actual deby hook or crook In France. They endeavor to get peppered with machine gun fire rnd shattered by big shell explothe stoves donated, or pay for them at cost prices, struction of property would amonnt to something sions, is the little hillside town of Cutry, a typical and are then able to either sell or give the stove like thirteen billion dollars for everything. As destroyed village, with only about 10 per cent of to the peasant at a fairly low figure. Ten dollars the statisticians check over their figures there will the bouses remaining habitable. The American be some alterations made on the grand is considered a fair price jv hen a sale Is made. probably women of the committee peddle In Cutry total of thirteen billions, At present that Item supplies the work of Miss Anne Morgan's . Throughout once or twice a week. Twice a week a woman stands as the probable los in France, to property an effort Is made to refrain from paucommittee doctor from the committee visits the place. In in lands overrun by the Germans. perizing the peasant, which Js difficult, because Cutry 24 peasants live with the most cheerful outB.enin court not far from Sols sons about DO jieasant i inherently thrifty, aud as a general rule look on life. Twelve of them sleep in a big cave Is just an Item on the long cent I 'super! ration, is very anxious to be pauperized. per destroyed. on iLe hillside. Rough boards have been French indemnity bill against Germany. Here the placed when viewed from th standpoint of a peasant In the cave entrance to keep out the wind. Inside, Germans had full sway until they were drireu out who is a war sufferer, and whose money U always in the dark, a small stovd sen es to in the keep the place few weeks of the w ar. Now the French at great expenditure of,lalMr, is not an eaiyied fairly warn. families are beginning to get back into Iiieran-couor an undesirable condition. word, ugly Due old woman, one of ;he happiest creatures hi and begin life over again. M. and Mme. Peasant by the hundreds In ffict, the w orldapplarently, was living alom in one One of the fir4 to arrive was a French soldier will bring .errlhle tales of privation to the comof thecavern. Adjoining her teinjHirary home honu-ah'ilili.-uged- . He was faced by terrible mittee workers In the hope that intensive pauperivas an Improvised stable, where site kept her diffiaiiti-He had nothing but his uniform, and zation w ill set in at once. And tho committee lias (knkey and four chickens and a tw'o-- heeled cart that had to he returns to the government But to go to some trouble to ascertain whether or not She Ind before the advancing German army the is Ftrr i ng behind this soldier in the tale of horrible misfortune is true. Usually wili the donkey and cart and four chickens; had his proLlem of repairing a home and the major of the villaze or some of the thoroughly kpt them for four years In the south of France, Tfio French government is going to give inhabitants know perfectly well what reliable i r.d ,n returning to Cutry rode back in st3le In the adequate nld for the whole period of slintlldbe done in, the jiustter., , And the coauniuee ' About fiWtrn were for CcScrted fidObC and V Ifswaa women rely on the Judgment of the French oflicials Down the street, in a boue that had suffered carge part of necessary expenses for the time and to a large extent. They also have a pretty fair work required for getting house and home V'erey from shell fire, were Mme. and 11 of the status of hundreds of amiiles knowledge K..tn iuird. O.d Riauel ard, a veteran of the But this money, ample as It will be when In their section of France, which, roughly speakloiMan war, was and feeble. His eighty finally received, it not readily available. Forma r ing, is a group of 3D villages between years r life on a small Trench farm had left him must be filled out checked and approved, and so Alsne and Solssons. because they have been worktlunAt d tVed up with the Infirmities of age. lib forth, before the money la actually paid. The ing In this section a couple of years. shell-struc- p Sols-hon- s, d Adln-kerk- e y shrUl-tone- d -- lr h n De-vaste- es shell-marke- d mil-4io- t. te lat rt see-t.o- n M. fU-- d war-damage- d recon-truc-b- nt fy n f XtnA'iSttfni tffJKfi ar v. Vie-su- ' the best buy for ' v H Always (. t:;vvV; r Vv N - jr , - , I - t The First Private Garage, The flrt private garage constructed Wounded British Officer Insisted on In New York city was built In tha spring of US )0 by a prominent New Waiting for His Turn to Have Yoik automobile enthusiast, who at Hospital Attention. that time owned three motor vehicles. REFUSED TO ACCEPT FAVOR The Bril oflicer, whatever Ids professional qualifications, always has Courage, solicitude for Ids men and a strict sesise of Justice. I have wondered, smjs Mr, Charles V. Wldtehalr in his recently published book, Out There.'' at the great love and sympathy that seem to exist between the British officer and his men. I had seen It In India before the war. I have seen it In all parts of the British empire. I know the reason now I n British officer among have yet tb the walking wounded who goes ahead of his men to have his wounds dressed. Outside of one dressing station sat a young colonel with n bad wound. One of the secretaries noticed 1dm and said, You bad better get Into the dressing Mutlon at once. It Is not my turn. I will not go out of turn. Some four hours Infer, the secretary, passing ont food and drink, again noticed the colonel. Here! Why havent you had jour wounds dressed? he exclaimed, I am waiting for my turn. But it was your turn long ago. Are you sure? Of course I am. Come, let me help si-- e you. Inio the dressing room he staggered. He had no Idea lhat he had done a : heroic thing. His Wife's Husband. I lost my Identity for two whole weeks last summer. Jones How did It happen? Smith Spent my vacation among wifes relations, where I was simply knowrn aa Anna's husband. Philadelphia Inquirer. Smith Unfortunate. Lady of House if you love work why dont you find itt BeSfaS Bill Alas, lady, love Is blind. Important to Motharo Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy, for Infanta and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcheri Castoria Making Preparations. Little Geoffrey had been very dislie appointed at Christmas time. had asked Santa Claus for a drum and a whistle, but his father had countermanded the order, as be had no wis- h- ta be driven- - mad -- wlth-nois- But things changed later. My mother Is romlng to stay with us, said Geoffrey's mother. said Geoffreys faOh, Is she? ther. Then, turning to the child, ha said : Look here, sonny, you wanted a drum and a whistle, didnt you? You shall have It tomorrow." Use for Old Batteries. In ojien fireplaces, especially where wood Is used for fuel, a gorgeous colored-fire effect may be produced, says Popular MeHianlcs mngaazlne, by placing one or two old dry cells among the hot coals. The substance with which the top of the battery Is sealed soon burns away, and the heat seta up a chemical action, producing a gas which burns with a flame of vivid blue, purple and graen. One old dry cell will continue the spectacle for s of an hour, from half to depending upon the heat of the firs In which It Is placed. No danger attaches to this production of colored fire. It costs nothing. Inasmuch as old dry batteries are ordinarily worthless, hut It will provide both pleasure and amusement at fireside gatherings. three-quarter- All Food No 'Waste If you want an appetizcereal ing ready-to-e- at that you can serve with no fuss and with fullest satisfaction, try - e. |