Show Devoted Her He- Life to Relief 11 i. i of Suffering Suffel-ing Humanity k Washington Dec 2 25 looking backward backward back back- ward over oyer n a most unusual career creer Miss Ulas Clara Car noted ROd Red Cross Cros worker I and ana th the heroine of ot over oer o'er forty years years' ers devotion oton do to her liar calling is today I passing g I her r fifty eighth birthday at her hr z I t home bomo hornet In nell Echo Icho I Miss t. t Barton during her bel eventful life Ufe has baa celebrated Christmas In mn many parts of or tho the world and und under r v cir clr- r cum Now that she abc has retired dr d. d anti and IB Is resting nUng after a life of or arduous r r I 0 1 labors such as u r befall few women the th In nt contemplation t day a wo was spent l nt pleasant tion 1101 of or what sh all h. h has haM hAi accomplished In tn InIz alleviating the of humanity Iz I Miss n. n Barton orlon was vas born bor in o j of Captain F MOM rau r. r and Is t. the daughter r. r Barton who fought und under r General Generl Gen lea oral eral erl Anthony Wayne I. I Jt was Vas at tho outset of the Civil Civit war ar ar b I IVas for tor ho in- in that her lite work be began giD ho tUIL nn an n advertisement emont In a 0 Worcester 4 pap paper r that she would receive stores and wound wounded soldiers Her rY money mone- for the 11 S r I C I appeal al W wad d liberally responded to and Ih h j personally dl distributed as promptly as al such contributions were sent her She stayed with the soldiers in the Virginia during durn almost tho the entire struggle being head heA nurse nune of at the hospitals hospitals hOI hOI- hos hos- among the armies of th the James In 1869 11 Miss I barton felt fel called caled upon I to go abroad to minister to the wounded wound wound- ed In 10 the great Franco Prussian gret Pru Fronco-Pru ln war She went at once to Strasburg and began be be- II gan the te work It I was wal In 1881 that the American a association n of o the Red ned Cross wars WI formS formed formed form form- S ed and In recognition of Miss Bartons Barton's great initiatory work she sho wa was made madE president This position she hc held until unU th the reorganization of the society a 0 few fow I years yearn ago when she resigns resigned on ou account account account ac ac- ac- ac count o of her aloIn age alo In spite aple of ot her bor advanced age Miss Bro Barton is Ie active both bot physically on and mentally lum taU y She really appears appers to he be much younger and lne shows today practically tealy none nono of the tho tho effects affects of or hor her tong long and arduous life Ure upon the battlefield 1 I land and fn in hospitals |