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Show WOMEN MEMBERS ARE LIVE LEGIONNAIRES A bursting shell in the Chateau-Thierry Chateau-Thierry area overturned an ambulance but the woman who was driving It was pulled out of the wreckage only slightly injured. That accounts for the fact that Mrs. J. W. Atkins Is Btlll alive so much so that she is counted one of the Iivest Legionnaires of which the Lowe-McFarlane post of the Legion, Shreveport, ' La., boasts. The energy and spirit that enabled Mrs. Atkins to enroll many members In the Lowe-McFarlane post recently Is the same she displayed in the great war. She sersed six months as an ambulance am-bulance driver at the French front with Miss Anne Morgan's famous unit, the American Committee for Devastated France, which did volunteer volun-teer service with the Third French army. Mrs. Atkins, If she so minded, could relate many vivid and thrilling stories of her experiences while driv-ing'her driv-ing'her ambulance and caring for the wounded. She was at the battle of Chateau-Thierry where her ambulance was overturned by a shell. "We were there to help and not to be helped and performed service just as a man," Mrs. Atkins says. She did all the repair re-pair work on her ambulance that did not require the service of a skilled mechanic. On one occasion she repaired re-paired 17 punctures in one day on her machine. Nor is Mrs. Atkins the only woman member of which Lowe-McFarlane post boasts. Many years ago a sparkling little girl playing outside the walls of St. James palace In London caught the eye of a prince who called her to him and gave her a string of beads, saying: say-ing: "You're a bright little girl; here take these beads to go with your brightness." The prince later became King Edward Ed-ward of the British empire and the little girl grew into refulgent womanhood, woman-hood, retaining and emanating the same cheerful spirit, as a United States army nurse, which had once pleased the prince of Wales, and which, incidentally, Is now pleasing the members of Lowe-McFarlane post of which she is a most active member and member-getter. Mrs. Butler was born near St. James palace In London, but following follow-ing her marriage came to this country. coun-try. During the war Mrs. Butler "joined up" as a nurse and made existence ex-istence brighter for the boys at Camp McArthur base hospital, Waco, Tex. Following her discharge she went to Shreveport, where she is successfully operating a small poultry farm known ns "Blue Bird Cottage," a homey little lit-tle bungalow place surrounded by lowers and shrubbery. Although Mrs. Butler lives 14 miles from Shreveport, Shreve-port, "the little lady of Blue Bird Cottage" Cot-tage" very rarely misses a Leg-Ion meeting and is always smiling when she gets there. |