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S Men Men Resent Red Cross Cros Garb GarbIs Is Over There By Id Idah ah McG MeG lone Gibson Author of Confessions of a Wife who has just returned from a trip to France I under the auspices of the American Red Cross and The Telegram Telegram- Herald ican I As the readers of The Telegram Telegram- Republican Herald probably know I Iam Iam Iam am wearing a Red Cross uniform It is one ono that was designed and given to mo roe by the American Red Cross and It has been worn by me in alt all my roy work worle abroad and I shall wear it until the end of the war to fo for which I have en en en- listed In it I took tea with Mrs Sharp the wife of our American ambassador I wore It when I visited President Poincare at the palace of ot the Champs sees Ely by special appointment It was very much in need of cleanIng cleaning clean clean- ing log and pressing when General PershIng Pershing Ing log received me at his headquarters for the l before I held a a. baby in my arms for hours in a cellar while the city was being bombed This uniform to me seems see very sacred and I am very proud to wear It because first of all it signifies that I Iam Iam Iam am trying to help the great constructive constructive construe construe- tive contingent of the American army the the Red Cross BROWN SPOT REMAINS Down near ne-ar the hem of the short skirt of my uniform Is a dark brown spot that could not be quite obliterated b by bythe bythe the cleaner It Is a tragic memento of a a. brave French officer who went we west Just as ho be reached a base hose boa pital pockets Th The pockets ets of my mv coat are somewhat somewhat some some- what out of or shape for they have often bulged with smokes and cand candy r for our boys at the front and I have seen whole wards of convalescent men smile In the midst of pain as I left three or four cigarettes on their b beds ds where they could reach them or handed them thema a few chocolate creams My shoes do not have bave the wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully wonder wonder- fully dainty French heels that the American woman who wears a skirt as short as mine usually affects They are heavy and made for service These boots however have b been n covered with the mud of devastated tp and they have been sticky with the evil smelling debris of ot the trenches I have often felt that they weighed a aton aton aton ton as I wearily drew them out of shell holes and ruts made by enemies' enemies guns and our marching men CANE IS PRIZED I am carrying a cane a cane given to me by a brave English officer under circumstances which to me make it seem almost a war decoration Over OYer there no French or English officer passes me without saluting the Red Cross on the front of my hat and andI andT I T take it as it is meant a tribute to the most efficient sympathetic symer and fundamental war relief the world has ever er known It is only when I come home that I find how m my countrymen the countrymen the boasted boosted chivalrous American men look men look upon a woman who is supposedly dressing I for Cor something beside alluring their fickle tickle fan fancy y Until last November when n I went I I abroad I wore as up-to-date up feminine frills as my salary would bu buy In other words I was always supposed to be dressed as any woman should be to please some man I might be hoping to be complimented complimented me by the admiring glances of m my mr sweetheart 1 if I were not married or I might be a walking advertisement 01 ot of I my husbands husband's business prosperity if it I were married I could with fashions fashion's full consent and the approval of the world take off or put on anything Inthe in inthe inthe the way of clothes if by so doing I plainly showed that I was asking the admiration of men purely because I Iwas Iwas Iwas was a woman GREETING RESENTED I have found however that when a puts on a dress that Is perfectly perfect perfect- ly suitable for her work work work-It it may be a as quiet and conservative as sis my Red Rec RedCross RedCross Cross uniform or it may be any other uniform that the exigencies of this war have brought to women women there there wilbe will wil willbe willbe be men who will resent relent It because It I silently tells te-lla them that tha t the women who I wear it are on hu business and not on them intent All An this is called up and boiling In my system because a well wen dressed man manthus manthus manthus thus accosted me on the street th theother the other r day Why hello dearie deane when did you come And have you brought 3 your cane with you too I whirled on that reptilian specimen n of human misunderstanding and said Yes I have vp- vp brou brought Ih t my cane cano from 1 the battlefields battlefield of France and If it had hac hadnot not been bee given mo roe by a brave soldier I who was out there spilling his red blood that such whisk whisky soaked r slackers slackens I as you might live Id I'd break It over your I II head he I suppose I have proved m myself as unwomanly a as my uniform uniform certainly certainly I I know I was human |