| Show H S 4 f S ol cli t an t i t i A x C I W i I 1 a ai The Splendid fd Service of Devoted Women I 1 A r J 1 1 Which Has Not Only Taken the Form of 1 Present but Reaches Help v Mrs L. L L B. B Woodruff rig I r i iI I 4 y a Beautiful Be a ii t I Iv 1 Climax C 1 1 in a x in Who p Period Herself of Suffered Blindness a a. i Has and Now NowR 11 I 1 R Romantic I Given Giyen i n up Society Oman IC M to Care for 1 f the Blind r 11 I I 1 I r I r y r I c I. I f J. J s I I Lull 11 4 I i 7 p. p J I If f mi i J fr E aj a 7 1 Kr i. i Ji j I I I I I i f S i I A W lr vJ 1 1 I r I I 1 I I I I I iTh i I j i t I JC r r d 1 r h. h r I K r r UN It r 9 u w a Il r rI I rw I r I Y y KY Y r 1 I II 1 I II i Ti rf I I I I t I r l jj-l r rv r r o Y ii t v s i tY r I r rA 1 r rS' rS hp A J 1 y h hJ y J V r 1 5 1 1 j r A Ay y t s. s t I i 4 i r h f Cg r r rr q ro r f fi i r T 1 4 f J q x 1 r I I Miss Esther Cleveland Daughter of President President President dent Cleveland in Her Service Uniform at St. St By Elizabeth Van Benthuysen OVE no longer sings Drink to Me Ie Only with LOVE U Thine Eyes Eres for or the war has brought the thc sail sad fact that love is sometimes actually as as- aswell well as theoretically blind bUnel And American n women aided aid ald ed cd b by the experience and the mone money of ot American men Wen are doing much to tale talce the sting from the actual blindness while that old reliable performer D D. Cupid Esq is attending to the task of keeping an any any- little thing like tho the mere loss of f sight from t Preventing the consummation of oC a romance So well has young Mr Cupid succeeded that the highest authority in France says sas that not one ono cf d the engagements that existed between young o ng folks before the war has hns been broken but on the happy other hand hundreds 61 or new love 10 affairs 11 have avo come from the misfortune of or men who lost l their lr eyes ces in their service s r for their country Of or the hundreds of or new romances that are recorded in the daily dally grind from Paris it was the woman oman in ever every instance who offered her ber hand to the man who could no longer lonser see and it was the woman oman who sought to let her bel service begin where v the mans man's had hael been brou brought ht to a close Your dut duty to Trance Prance has ended Mine is about to begin If H you are willing I will marry you OU wr wrote to 3 Mile Marguerite Lavenue the belle of a a. Norman orman y village c to Georges Ro nO Roy of the infantry who ti was as in a a. hospital with nth his sight forever fore gone You Yon have havo opened for tor me a new light on tho the world answered the man Then she did her her duty dut dutto to France The picture Is typical i. It illustrates a chapter in ingrim grim war as no DO other event might It brings to the fore the kind l of ot people that AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean women Miss Esther Cleveland Miss Winifred Holt HoIt and a n score Ecore o of others are serving In an effort to supply the light tight of training for the future path path- wn scat nf or those who t see sec They are arc su stI toting the tho sense of or touch for tor the sense of or sight and doing it with a knack that promises well How great this held field for work ork Is cannot be appreciated appreciated appreciated ap ap- without a stud study of the record And how fine tine a field fiehl the blind god of love picks for tor his wanderings afield can only be realized when ono one knows that amon among the blind of ot France alone are the picked men of ot the land Jand selected for the most daring assaults and the most critical mo nio moments clo ments aunts of great fights lights I can say gar with truth that no engagement that existed before beCore the war has been broken because the theman theman theman man lost his sight said Eugene Brieux the famous fa ta academician How well these psychological matches will result time lime must tell but they ther were founded on tho the highest sentiment and tho the noblest sacrifice As all the world loves lo a lover Jo there attaches particular interest to Mss Miss Esther Cleveland as an American worker amon among the blind She is engaged to wed Capt Alfred D. D S S. S 0 O. of oC the Coldstream Coldstream Cold Cold- stream Guards that Guards that crack command that has made its place in war and in peace and is known wherever where men know soldiers Report had it that h ho he too had lost Jost his sight In battle but Mrs Thomas J J. J Preston mother to Miss Cleveland eland sot set that report at rest with a statement that tho the captain cap cap- tam tain n has his eyes Miss 1158 Cleveland daughter of oC the late lato Grover Cleveland eland was a White House baby From her birth the American people have had more than thana a n. passing interest In her doln doings s. s When hen tho war came on she went out to do her part and sho she hit upon the service of the blind as one of ot the most most- nee needed ed things before beCore the world After a month at S St. St Dunstan's In London sho she went over oyer to Paris where she is now with Miss lIss Holts Holt's Paris Lighthouse aiding In the tips tion of or blind To facilitate her work worl she learned the Braille system of or stenography tc and she be is teaching disabled sightless men how to use the s system and antI to make malee for themselves a n place pIneo In the bu business world orld in spite of or fate And Ancl there Is Mrs Lewis B. B Woodruff called by bp Penryn the most beautiful of or authors authors- The Dresden China Author who Author who Is keeping her Interest in the great work undiminished This pretty woman has bas a much more personal reason for Cor her devotion to the cause than an any of her sisters sisters sis because for two years following an attack or of illness she too lived Jived In a world without a n. light The gifted woman Md not know that she sho would see feu e again and when the tho light did come it brought with it a valued worker for Cor all of or those thosa who suffer In the Those who had read rend her L Lady Leidy d of or the Lighthouse Light Light- house in which is told the tho methods b by which tho the New ew York Lighthouse for the Blind lends leads its charges to mental view of a world orld they ther cannot see can appreciate the deep feeling that she has hns brought to the task Probably no writer of or the period has so thorough h an appreciation of the subject sub and one can almost feel ci his hs Wa way through her book as it portrays tho the difficulties and difficulties and the hopes of oC the blind bUnd And Anel their charges from the field of or battle Ta Take e a it peep behind the scenes in the great war and watch them here re le is Joseph Amar who came cam from Y Wash H h. h ington He lie was in Lyons at the exposition when the war started lIe He went as did man many gall gallant an t men from other lands Into the Foreign Legion When he be came back bad from one charge it was as n a sightless ss man Pretty Mile me Madeline Rosseau of Paris did not find in his blindness an any bar to love lo And when the they were married at nt the mayors mayor's office many Americans came to witness the ceremony and wish them luck George Artel a n hero of Les that Inferno to the southeast south south- east cast of ot Verdun where man many men died to hold back the tho German horde was led sightless to tho altar by Mlle Mile Amelie Margerie There was a luncheon and a n grand concert after the ceremony and here hore again Cupid decreed that the tho mans man's Infirmity should be no nobar nobar nobar bar to his happiness There was much ceremony wh when n Lt Cantera Cantara who lost not only his eyes eres but his left arm it t Vauquois came with Mlle Mile lIe Marcello Marcello Marcene Mar- Mar cello cene who had been an nn instructress at the Tunis normal school to bo be married The Jean do Castellane sister law to Count Doni Boni do de Castellane and Miss Winifred InUred 1711 o 1 fl VH n 1 t C- C ut i L ue l' l been cna engaged ed before beCore the war and anel when the lieutenant came caDle homo home doomed doome for life liCo never ne to see sec tho the woman he loved she came to him and there was an early arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment went for the ceremony The Tho mayor and the attendants watched the blind bUnd bridegroom with solicitous care as QS he ho came to meet his bride Monsieur the lieutenant will willbe willbe be excused from sl signing the register register regis ter said the sympathetic mayor There was a moment of or hesi hest tation Yes yes es he ho can sign said the bride quite prettily He lie would rather do It H and besides Mon lion le Ie Mayor laor I Jean can help him Slowly I and painfully the blind and crippled man wrote his narn name across the pa page e guided gullied tenderly ten ten- derl deny derly b by tho the woman who loved lon him It was to weep and the persons who ho crowded crowd crowel ed cd the room shed hed tears as the act of oC devotion de was per per- formed Thus IR Is the world caring cartag car ctr tag Ins for Its blind Thus is love Jove declining to bo be killed on the Held that thet takes life lICe and sight l ht ItS Science ee 8 says says- U j S M. M Brieux does oes not k know Ii if o 0 w w- how s SI such u e c h marriages marr will turn out But then what on earth does sc science know about love lore anyway any 1 i y H I 1 I J 1 r rd d l d' d N S 'S v ar 19 T c r 7 M t. t 1 i fi S i. i r r 1 7 S Mm JM- JM ja t A 1 rV E I r i t r U 35 f y t f w m f. f r 4 b. b r t S t. t i. i S d t 1 1 i t Sr jN lr R L 1 jj f 1 I jj N f. f i iff LaA 4 W- W Mlle Mile r Madeline adeline Rosseau of Paris and Joseph Amar of Washington Washing Blinded in Battle Erttle as Photographed Just After T Their Marriage 1 Service 1018 i. 04 t. t i li 1 J 1 fi r 1 I f Jt li T- T If 1 I W vZ jf i. I. I t i. i y T. T s 's M. M h l' l f o h I |
