Show In Northern France It Is strange and antI terrible to visit Paris and no one can be happy happ but butto butto butto to one who has loved France It Is far tar worse to visit the lovely northern country There Is here a sense of emptiness as If It terror still hushed the normal cheerful noises of mankind The people of these regions have lost e everything their houses are bu burned ned their animals even the rabbits are gone their farm Implements are shapeless pieces of grotesquely melted patched shelters and In the houses built by the Society of or Friends or mass themselves In some nearby village vii vil lage luge that escaped destruction at the hands of or the crown princes prince's retreatIng retreating retreat retreat- ing lug army After Arter a time In this silent country one gets the sense that destruction destruction destruction de de- de- de Is normal and tears start to toone's toone's toone's ones one's e eyes es at the sight of an undestroyed undestroyed undestroyed unde- unde French village smiling in the sun So changed are all values alues that I could feel nothing strange In the words of or the woman who told me Fortunately m my husband is a hunch hunch- back Mary Iary Mary H Heaton aton Verse In the Century |