Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-03-05 | Page 15 | Belgian Countess doing Good Work

C' OUNTEbS DE HEMP TINNE, whos work in behalf of suffering Belgians is highly appreciated i' . BELGIAN COUNTESS DOING GOOD WORK i Sells Laces Made by Peas ants to Assist the Victims Vic-tims of War. Spec a Cable to The Tribune PAEIS March 4 The Belgian Countess de Hempt ane who formed an Amer can Belgian relief comm ttee and made a successful tr p to Amer ca to d spose of laces made by Belg an peas ants is rece ving many apprec at ons of her work Bene de Thoor one of the largest dealers in laces in Belgium wrote to the countess I thank you espec ally in my own name and in the name of my numerous workpeople for the good results you have obtained and that not without difficulty, for I know what it is to sell lace at the present t me The results of your sales permit me to rel eve hundreds oi poor families in Bel gium and at the same t me procure pro-cure for my own fam ly what is needed for the r support The work that the comm ttee is do ing is to see that the people who ap peal to it are properly clothed The most interest ng cases that are taken care of are those of d sabled sold ers They have no clothes but the r uni forms and those often threadbare One poor fellow who had lost a leg in the battle of the Marne came for an out ft to begin life aga n When the heaviest and warmest th ngs vere pro duced he sa d Oh Madame I can not wear the heavy things now 1 have not got used to my new wooden leg yet! Another youth of 17 years who had enl sted when he was barely 16 and had served a year and a half at the front had been wounded and discharged came for clothes He was a fine blue eyed boy, whose father had been k lied and he has the respons bil ty of the whole family to shoulder One old woman came with a most dilap dated old coat pinned together t ghtly and with the rema ns of what had formerly been a pair of shoes still hanging to her feet There was no trouble in f tting her out with clothes but the shoes She tried on dozens of pa rs of women s shoes w thout even a near fit nnt 1 f nally a pa r of man s shoes had to be used She wont on her way rejo c ng only to come back in a few days to beg that the shoes be changed they were too large and stiff to be comfortable An so the work began aga n All the largest of the women s shoes were brought out tried on or cBt aside and back she had to go with the same pair of men s shoes Her husband is a prisoner in Germany