Show WOMEN MEMBERS ARE LIVE LEGIONNAIRES A A. bursting shell In the Chateau- 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 tor forthe forthe the fact that Mrs J. J W. W Atkins Is la still alive so alive so much so that she Is counted one of the livest L Legionnaires of which the Lowe McFarlane post of the Legion Shreveport La b boasts The energy and spirit that enabled Mrs Atkins to enroll many members In the McFarlane Lowe-McFarlane post recently Is the same she displayed In the great war She served sewed six sir months as an ambulance ambulance ambulance am am- driver at the French front with Miss Anne Morgans Morgan's famous unit the American Committee for tor Devastated France which did volunteer volunteer volunteer volun volun- teer service with the Third French army Mrs Atkins If It she so minded could relate many vivid and thrilling stories of her experiences while driving lag ing her ambulance and caring for the wounded She was at the battle of or Thierry 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 sas She did ld all the repair repair repair re re- re- re pair work on her ambulance that did die not require the service of a skilled mechanic On one occasion she repaired repaired repaired re re- re- re paired 17 punctures In one day on her machine Nor Is Mrs Irs Atkins the only woman member of ot which Lowe Lowe McFarlane lane post boasts Many any years ago a sparkling little girl playing outside the walls of ot St. St James palace In London caught the eye of a prince who called h her r to him and gave savo her a string of ot beads bends sayIng sayIng say- say Ing lag Youre a bright little girl here take these beads to go with wIlli your brightness The prince later became King Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward of or the British empire and the little girl grew Into refulgent womanhood womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood retaining and emanating the same cheerful spirit as a United States army nurse which had once pleased the prince of ot Wales Vales and which incidentally is now pleasing the members of McFarlane Lowe-McFarlane post of which she Is a most active member and member Mrs Butler was born near St. St James palace In London but followIng following following follow follow- ing her marriage came to this coun coun- try During the war Mrs Butler Joined up as a nurse and made existence existence ex ex- brighter for the tho boys at Camp McArthur base hospital Waco Yaco Tex Following her discharge she went to Shreveport where she is successfully operating a small poultry farm known as Blue Bird Cottage a homey little little little lit lit- tle bungalow place surrounded by lowers Sowers and und shrubbery Although Mrs Butler lives 14 miles from Shreveport Shreveport Shreve Shreve- port the lithe little lad lady of Blue Bird Cottage Cottage Cot Cot- tage tuge very ery rarely misses a Lel Legion on meeting and is always alwa's smiling when she gets there |