Show i X- X iy pu S c r 7 J Y h f 4 f. f if it r 1 1 M I lh oH N IY I r aves 1 ce J r How the Nob Noble e Devotion of W Women men Is Multiplying Ah t I 1 By Helen Hoffman Special Euro ean for This N RE HE you rou Miss i iss America ready to take talce a blind A- A AL' AL AHE ed cd husband 1 Are Arc you willing because you rou youAL rouha ha have 0 love 10 enough In your our heart and because be be- cause causo you OU feel that ono one sacrifice deserves es another to marry a man who not only Is 15 blInded but Is perhaps hopelessly crippled In the tho bargain 1 t o id i you stand at the tho altar as La venno did and promise to love honor and cherish until death a man who had not only lost his e eye but both hands this war ar came such Euch n a sacrifice might have hao seemed something to bo In a rare Instance But the tho war has changed over everything The Tho blinded represent n. n tribute tributo laid on the tho altar of country Women who watch this devotion especially It seems women omen who have ha been close enough to the tho disaster to get its full terror are likely to be inspired by br n a splendid corn com passion It If ho he has done this for tor his country says Bays worn wom an It If he has done his part why should I not do domine mine Scores of marriages are arc constantly being recorded reo re- corded between men blinded at the front and the young woman instructors In the special lal trade trade schools conducted in France for tor these men The Romance of n a Hero Mush Interest aroused over the recent marriage mar mar- ot of Paul Thuat a 1 hero ot of the tho Infantry who won the military medal and war cross for tor his bravery but at the tho same time lost his eyesight After months spent In the expressed n. n desire to attend the tho school for tor the tho blind In Paris He began n a course ob 00 lessons In massage massago A beautiful young woman one of tho Instructors at the school took toole a special Interest in His adaptability his patience and his good humor Impressed tho teaching staff but appealed particularly to ono one of at members Its its' lie He lieIs HeIs Is so eo bravo reflected the young oung teacher and so 50 good bood natured In his misfortune And this growing admiration finally led to a deeper affection Their marriage was recently recorded Shortly after their marriage Mme wrote an appreciative letter to the committee of U tho D. 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F n. n BlInd War Var Fund In Paris In which 1 she sho said Vo Ve begin begina n a new Uto full ot of confidence and energy There Is perhaps greater happIness In having h marrIed a blind man and loving him than In having married an ordinary healthy man because there thero are moro more opportunities of showing him kindness and at Such a marriage does not need much courage as people sa say about us but much lovo loro The now occupy a small apartment ot of their own In Paris and Mme l continues her work at tho school More than of his comrades all blinded In battle battlo at tho and Verdun filled a little the tho suburbs of Paris recentlY to attend the wedding ceremony of Georges Roy and pretty Marguerite Lavenne Roy Rop is 15 a hero ot of three battles ho he was wounded at the battle battlo of the Somme at Verdun and finally at Aisne when hen ho he volunteered for tor a sudden attack on the enem enemy A hand grenade struck him a at t the tho Marriages Marriages' with Blind Soldiers and Even Meeting the Hard Test of Redding Men 1 Who mho Have Lost Los t h B I 0 TH HA HANDS AND EYES I. I r. r 1 moment when the order was given to fall badIn bad In tolling his story of oC the accident which robbe him of his two hands handstand and his eyesight Roy sa saho sal ho he grasped tho grenade grenado to toss it back Into t tb German lines when It burst In his hands For weeks ho lay in a military hospital I France rance Ono One day dap his mother came camo to see hi She Sho was accompanied by Marguerite 1 j jt t 9 4 r N to 1 rp iii I 1 1 l J 3 t. t t Y Y I Your Y our Work Is Finished Says the Bride of Georges Roy Wh Vh t tHas Has Lost Both Hands and Eyes and and Mine Mino Now Begins I I k r r r 13 A 1 1 S 1 i Fr x i r I I t tl l 1 i a J j 1 I J A vI vI v- v ix p a aw I y w wYl b 4 r 1 I Ik k t tL fk 5 f rI t L' L 4 weM lt J i j r. r t d e n I 1 0 I Ir I r r f c c 3 P I a S r n 1 w t Jc Blinded 1 Paul I and His Bride Since the beginning or of the war Marguerite had bad been Leen at school in a convent near Paris And during duro dur- Ing the cOn en da s 's she often thought of Georges Georgos son ot of a neighbor and her childhood friend Do YoU suppose he has been killed 1 she sho used to inquire In in- quire of oC the sisters But the tho sisters could give her no satisfactory Information And then ono one onoda da day p l fihe ho wont want homo home to visit her hor parents and met the mother of Georges Come with me to the hospital and you will see him Georgess Georges's mother told IH r. r A Girls Girl's Devotion His helpless condition at first brought a painful shock to Marguerite He was so handsome she raid and ancl now now- And then Ulen Georges smiled she said the same wonderful smiles I remembered when wo e went to school together and my heart went out to him Ho seemed so so helpless now and he needed nw me Your work for Cor France has finished Marguerite Margue rite told him Mine 1 now begins I ant am ready to devote m myself Belt to rou your In m my misfortune wrote Geor Georges es to the Paris 4 1 1 f J r 9 i I II I Ij j ti r z c j s I Ir 1 r r J I I. I I I I I r rI I II I I 9 I e V I r rV I I I I f t a I i r 4 y I r 1 f c I I 1 J J. J L- L L V I r t i 7 j I committee of the B F. F B. B I 1 have havo seen a ray of happiness shining on my horIzon Tho young oun couple are now living In n. n little home or of their own in Bandal Georges receives a small pensIon from the government These men scores or of them who laid their liveson lives 11 on tho altar of oC sacrifice for country have through this c a sacrIfice found a new lifo life something finer and pore nore endurIng than the they ever dreamed that lIfo life could give Though maimed for tor life liCe and suffering Buttering ono one of at the greatest tragedies that man can endure these men have havo shown a wonderful spirit ot of gratitude and happiness In the tho devotion de ot of their faithful lIghthearted light brides The enemy has destro destroyed ed their former homes tho little farms they used to till the thc call caH to arms as as sounded now lie In ruins but the tho unbreakable able ablo spirit or of these men the tho fury of the enem enemy has hns not been beon able to touch That Pity is akin to love Is shown over and andover andover over again ill in these marriages man A deep pit pity for mEn who have ave borne themselves so bravely and who ho now taco face life lIto so courageously with Ith their great handicap takes hold ot of a womans woman's s mpa th thy particularly when she Is asso associated with them thema day a after aCter day and her time In furthering further further- ing their interests The Tho Independent spirit ot of these men in fn their desire to learn a trade and become supporting soIl makes a strong appeal to the tho normal nor nor- mal fine fino spirited woman And so In this struggle gle gc to aid these men women have lost their hearts h arts but willingly given their hands to assist them In lifes life's further battle battlo It Americas America's Ordeal The tIa day Is coming g when hundreds of American soldiers will wiH come home without the tho power to see seethe seethe the shores they left elt behind or to meet the tho pitying gaze of sweethearts and friends You who read 1 these heso lines ma may lie be called upon to make a momentous momen momen- tous decision In III any case YOUr sympathies will willbe be called upon to contemplate and to consider on one of the most dramatic and significant crises In social evolution Not that such sacrifices are new newIn newin In the tho world Love has proved itself thousands ot of times But the tho crisis consists In the number and the tho modern complexity or of the cases that Issue their call to the human heart |