Show f I. I 1 1 1 1918 11 b I I I L 1 1 r. r e me x t v J d 1 I r. r L I t She e Tried rte on the Prescribed re Headpiece Didn't e ea rece In Like Life t e een Its Looks and Went en Through Stormed Shell-Stormed Verdun r. r 7 V y 1 TJ On Her TT er Errands r ran i so of r Mercy hiT e rc an and 7 Helpfulness TI e 7 u ness vv Wearing earing A ii Just Her Own Plain Automobile Hat Hal R r r G a x t I t tr jL r c 1 r 1 r 1 J c Ih x db t I f ro L' L 1 l' l i I r i i t I o I r 1 itt I A t 11 j I T I i A i 5 j j I r. r r I orr 1 j 1 She She She took one of them r into the office and 3 held communion with I J a mirror but when she she sheI i ra r- r I 4 came out a few minutes later she was still wearing ng her simple It auto bonnet an and d ve veil c 1 f t R. R rISI l' l 4 By W. W w B B. Seabrook t us y- y O Of Ofie the ie American Field Ambulance Service in Franco France ranee o 1 e A of I bO boys returning home recently AMBULANCE from France brought a thrilling rr r account of how Mrs William K K Vanderbilt r was the and only American woman to enter nI the war war war-lorn torn city of ot Verdun But But the most unique feature of her adventure has never been told in this country l. She visited the bombarded city and arid the battle Lu 1 T un t s feel helmet h t. t f. f front without v wearing the ut Ui cus omary 01 f. f and is probably one ono of ot the few living people who i ever went so close to the lines without one x 71 w Of course there was a reason and a feminine reason at that Mrs lire Vanderbilt Is a charmingly attractive person per per- son in addition to being a great Red Cross executive r tive Uve and it if you ou ever have happened to see one of ot those heavy French steel helmets you OU may i shrewdly guess what tho the reason wa was The Dreadful Metal Helmet r I I Milliners In tho the nuo do de la Paix have bayo successfully successfully success success- fully copied the dashing peaked caps of the aviators avIators aviators avia avIa- tors and the picturesque berets of the one may see them adding chic to smart costumes in Paris and New Nev York York but but no modiste has yet evolved anything becoming out of tho the metal hel- hel met As well use an inverted soup-bowl soup for a amodel amodel amodel model But to return to Mrs When she arrived one afternoon In the little village where the ambulance boys bos were camped she ehe found them sharing an old barn with ra rats s cooties and a couple of artillery horses borses The best hospitality the they had to offer was a broken chair and tea out of or a battered tin Un cup But Mrs Vanderbilt was as ns gracious and as much at ease case caseI I as is If the barn had bad been a palace She and Platt Andrew head c of f the field service had bad come In a big military car from Paris and were planning to go o Wn the same samo afternoon to r. r i i Verdun and the dressing dressing stations near the line Une Shells were dropping occasionally in the village and anti there was a st steady ady roar from the direction of or the front Mrs Van Vanderbilt was much Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested in tho the gas masks s which each man carried and the steel helmets which were alwa always s worn when one went under Sunder shell fire The helmet is re a great protection for Cor while it cannot withstand bullets it is proof against shrapnel balls and shell splinters Many Manya a returning from tho trenches proudly exhibits exhibits ex ex- hibits hibits a n. ripped or dent dented d helmet in instead tead of ot a cracked cd skull A headpiece was dul duly provided for Mrs Irs Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Van Van- but hut sho viewed I it askance She had ac ac- copied the tin cups and the shrieking shells with equanimity but equanimity but tho eternal feminine in her drew drow back nt at tho the thought of wearing that that ugly helmet She took one of them into the office and held I communion with a mirror but when she sho came out outa a few Cew moments later she was still wearing her simple auto bonn bonnet t and veil J 1 They went not only to Ye Verdun but out over the hills that night tto lo to the most dangerous angelous dres dressing stations amid tho the star-shells star calcium flares and crashing batteries but batteries but when Mrs Vanderbilt returned returned re- re turned the following morning she was still without with out the tho helmet still dressed as simply simp and becomingly becomingly be be- a as if for a ride In the peaceful peaceful country at home Womans Woman s vanity you ou say Well Vell if you ou think feminine frivolity is the tho point or moral of this cis episode de Just pull yourself up sharply and hear lear tl the tho o other ollier side As tho the result of t that that visit to the front the dressing stations and tho the field service through Mrs Vanderbilt's efforts were I equipped with adt ad- ad t T T'S S r X 4 y r i P r. r f f 7 t r k ti fr r r k r t riT Vr r a 4 II r Y f rJ Pf Y A r w i r Jr r sc r r t t 02 rys 1 r k r r f S rr J S 1 r r e ed d A i ih I h j- j A m s vr i Y 3 i fr Y r 9 gr 4 f f lk M I r M Mrs William K K Vanderbilt Who Braved the Dangers of Devastated Verdun and Who Preferred Her Own Hat to a Safety Helmet facilities that eased the sufferings of thousands thou sands and probably helped save sae the lives of thousands thousands thou thou- sands more And that tr trip p to t the e front for a noble purpose Is Is' Is only one of the many courageous and devoted things Mrs s. Vanderbilt has done In tho war She has endowed the great American Ambulance Hospital Hos Nos- pital lital at she has given untold thousands of dollars to other war activities she has donn donned d tho the nurses nurse's garb and worked long days and nights at atthe tho the bedsides of or the wounded Wounded she she has bas devoted her whole life liCe since tho the outbreak of the war like a W 1 1 A J 1 0 Shells were occasionally in the village and there was a steady roar from the direction of the front second Florence Nightingale to the relief of ot su fering Heart Needs and Heart Answers Her conspicuous position in American society has given a special interest to her devoted labors amid scenes and under circumstances that In all the habits of her every even possible wa way reverse life Much ruch of the work she has done will wm never J herself hersell should be bt known to lo the world unless she choose to tell of oC it it a and r d this this Is not likely for she sher is reticent about matters that concern the deeper deeper- emotions of human service She has hag been actuated actu aclu actuated desire to serve b an impassioned evidently by the great cause at the points offering the tho largest and effort opportunity opportunity to individual sympathy i have been within the where here these opportunities t reach of or gentle genUe hands and a humanitarian imagination social magic of ot a name can help the work lion tion No 0 labor in the grim shadows behind o of i ibe wars war's front Where here need Is la so 50 vital ital s service must Where hearts cry out only hearts be vital ital too Here is the that really count J can sus answer in ways was of the profound results of womanly iL v veal al secret to exemplified in the sacrifices of J sacrifice as Vanderbilt are other noble Am American women And there who have haye made Simil similar ar sacrifices women sacrifices women whom only seen perhaps in their luxurious you oU have ve limousines on Fifth Firth avenue In their glittering boxes at the opera In their homes surrounded s l wealth an and ease Perhaps you have never fully f b hy by realized that there is another side to the picture- picture of these women during the past three that man many worked with ith consecrated devotion and have baye years ears unfailing heroism And they the are still working j j The most beautiful part or of It is that through i ever everything the they are always alwa's always women The eternal feminine remains eternal and man many a poor fellow r out there has bag thanked God for It ill The feminine I touch on tho the fevered revered brow the female hand band to bind up wounds the womanly sympathy which neither man man friend frie nd father or brother Is quite ca cs f pable pablo o or of giving A poet once wrote some clever cleyer lines about f a about her frills and 4 j woman women In her hours of ease foibles but It was the concluding tribute to woman worn worn- i an as a ministering angel that made his verse immortal |