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Show SSOF SOLDIERS ' 1 BED IfJ FLOWERS i t :f of France Is Silent ,jj Mingled With Pride ? ,nd Great Confidence. ,;iVALftY DOMINATES ,my Dead Honored il Rg With Those of is Britain and Belgium. .x CaN 10 TSe Tnbimo. it J Paris hv 0c!t sTn tc ,te m- ' tlrir j'ori?v.5 dead, soVmniring "m d 1 Toussaint." Xever Vis 5c'' ''normous quantities A s the trains from the south :: io lie markets every day. to be 't cp almost as quickly aa thev k is been the saxe all over France, ? :racneal:v every family mourns 'J'ot a son. s brother, a" husbstm her railen on the field ot" honor. -ici tie Parisians have made pil--j--:- to the battlefields that are , -'few kilometers from their gates ; :o:sv oce does not find a single ? oi l French. Belgian or English on French soil which is not hid-i'aier hid-i'aier a mnlti-ee'.ored cover ot -:t! most beaucifui flowers. have beeD no manifestations of t. the rief that holds all hearts ."i3 is silent and mingled with . ij" cheerful confidence that all re:, whose ruemorv has this . :?:::rd have not laid down their "... - i vxo. This noble sentiment ot - 52d confidence permeated the at here everywhere in the ehurehe; isforcettable. soul-stirrin g ser- ve:e hefd, in ail the cemeteries from -est Pere Laehaise, ontparnasse i ? jI;atrr.artreT to the humblest village i ; :-:f.-r. ad on the elorious battle- jl j of the Marne andihe Aisr.e, at ''I Soissons. Souchei, in the Ar-I Ar-I ::, izi in Artois, where thousands lLer.wfl are, sleeping beneath a soil fl -ritea with blood. 1 lav Dead Honored. . even the graves of the fallen en-'X en-'X have been forgotten. Manv a :i" woman, many a mother who, 2 herself mourned the loss of a : :a thought of the bereaved moth- X 1 udrcany and placed a simple lit- qset or wreatn on the last rest- ,1 . :j;e of a German soldier in her I1 or in the fields and woods just Cotpijny. lives the Dareau fam--ttpigLv b a small hamlet in the "Z'.m of Eure, on the plateau . - irerlooks the valley of the rivers i' izi Seine, where everr cottage j ; i tie midst of its own" orchards. ue rolling of the drum called to ) rare last year the older Dareau, maer of five children felt a mo-)r mo-)r i-T panj of pain as he thought of -i was to become of his family. : tee) so worried about vou," he .Otis wife. "In spite of his ear-:er.re, ear-:er.re, Louis can never provide for the Little ones. I have onlv :!?e-ihey may not find me strong for active service and send me l-LJTd?n't sIeak e 'hat, father," h -Uiis, who was then 14 years of ?p!e will think vou are a shirk-.f shirk-.f '? won7 about us. I shall man-JJinjht. man-JJinjht. 'ion do your dutv, and flo mine. ' geous Children. , , W of u When his father left : Vf eataered up the ;. - -ua an the ploughing, gathered ; -ops. put the soil, fifteen hec-;llMt" hec-;llMt" aPin. Pt in grain, -Btatoes and other vegetables anj (fathered in the crops. ;; aol9 family assisted him. The of course, did the housekeep- The , ff1Mly heiPed in the - --. xL vlli' Senriette, who is 12, i. '"tie brothers, Eugene and : J.'nnt 9, years respectively, 'o 3 6 P,0ttlti TChile EraBt, liZ behind th ;itir,id.vhi; mtaer, unaided. k ,r3 and,one need not be e L? ',Ze .wbat that means. ,. - .astieal circles here it is no sae, - I 6 poPe' whose hobby 1b I'vaM; " h'hor w'h thai to " m tZTTeatei at tbe peace after ?kt0 SeMl9 tha fa'e of Jter the present war. |