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Show H I H A badge of honor has boon cn-Craved cn-Craved on the left shoulder of Lady I J Decies. formerly .Mi?. Vivien Gould, who was severely wounded by a H; piece ol shell while acting aw a rud H' Cross nurse on the battlefields of H' Prance. The fonmr Miss Gould la the first of the American girls who married foreign titles to be wound-ed wound-ed in the scrice of the land of their hual ands. while -many Americans seek to discredit the title seeking heiresses of this country, Lady Decies has done much to counteract the unfa-vorable unfa-vorable opinion by her action in the present war. With other Amerl-can Amerl-can heiresses she lias gone to the I front and shared the dangers of mil- I 1 itary life with Lord Decies. It was during a raid of a Zepp? lln airship that Lady Decies was I wounded She was raring for some I wounded soldiers when a bomb was dropped near her. It burst into fragments and one piere struck a H' little French peasant girl. Another fracment struck Lady Decies. A!-though A!-though wounded severely, Lady De-Hes De-Hes rushed to the aid of the little girl. She bathed the wounds of the I peasant blld and carried her out of I I the flanker zone. When physicians I i came to attend the titled English- I j woman she pointed to the girl, who I j was suffering most. I 1 War is a great leveler Perhaps I j after this war is over Lady Deelrs I j and all the other srand ladles will I 5 retire to their palaces and fine I 1 house", where their fellow beings I 3 cannot enter. They probably will go I 1 back to their old diversions, but for I w the time being they are human and I m deeply Interested In those around I 9 them. In time of peace Lady De- I a cies could not have been a nur.-e. It I 3 is beneath her station. In tunc of I war there Is no station. Ixrd De- I M can get BJ muddy as the gamin I m from London. Lady Decies can do I m the humble work just as woll as the I 3 lowly women from the' poorer sec- I 9 tions of Liverpool. I M Perhaps from the hospitals these I a women will have opportunity to see H more of the evils of war than If I M they were on the firing line. Th( I' J men see onl the glory and glamour of the fighting. Only occasionally I 1 do tb-y have .time to reflect on th B ;." 1 awfulness of it all Rack In the hOS-Is hOS-Is :w pita Is whore Lady Decies and the K, & rest of the nurses spend most of ft'-'.' jj Iheir time they hear the stories from the front with the glamour ellml-ftt ellml-ftt M nated. -Ji The story told to a New York srirl In a Jetter from a French hospital, j fittingly describes the hospital Ufa fti'tift Tho letter was written from the -v-ffl Mi'inRPst Captain In the From h ft-jj'v'i Arm) at Orleans It follows mj SHELL STRIKES IW'I LABORER'S COTTAGE. I cause mv ankle is broken, and rr back and m body ore cramped up and my head scratched, hut that is nothing: a few Scratches and a small fracture will keep me where I am about a month, w lien I hope to go back to my regiment. J am to afraid It will be all over before I return; but I have had luck! "I was in a laborer's 111 Mr- rol-tace, rol-tace, keeping it as a lookout telephone tele-phone station from which to dire, my battery of four beautiful cannons can-nons nil my own because I was nind a Captain on the battlefield of Wallly Our position was surely reported re-ported to the Germans by spies, for on the morning of the" fourth day thy opened fire on our little cot-tare cot-tare I was on the first floor with friend Captain and six of my men were beneath on the ground floor with the telephone. "The first shots shook, the earth around us, but we had heard so much shooting for months that we paid no attention and went on writing writ-ing orders, not being able ourselves to fire at the time Then came a terrible crash In the bouse next to uf It was' from their heaviest guns, shooting a No. shell. We were delighted; they had missed us. But In the moment of our rejoicing rejoic-ing there was a terrific explosion and everything blew up. I remember remem-ber it all so clearly, for I did not lose consciousness and saw it all. "The dark walls were suddenly Illuminated nnd in the sky lino huge black splinters w ere flj ing. 1 felt a terrible noise in my head and L sank gently until 1 found myself on my feet in ruins. Not a wall was left standing, I never saw the roof again; it was carried away through the air by the rush of the shell. And then to find myself alive! It was so queer and so wonderful that I began to laugh. "I saw my friend. Captain , and two other officers, and their faces were streaming with blood, as was mine. Rut at the lime we didn't notne it. We only knew that we were alive. Then I heard terrible groans and cries for help. They paras from one of my men burled beneath a heavy stone In a heap of debris. I managed on my knees to push away the stone to liberate him hut I ean't describe it. It is too dreadful to write. At last help came and I ordered what was left of my men to be carried away. After that 1 thought It was about time to get away myself, and It was then I discovered that my leg was broken, for I could not walk. It Is extraordinary how your nerves kill the pain during the time you are obliged to give, orders I crawled away on all fours, or rather rath-er on all three, for 1,800 meters The others were too terribly wounded wound-ed to help me. And then for the first time I was afraid. The Germans Ger-mans continued to sprinkle us with shot and my only thought was: 'Qh, if those shells would spare me, now that I am wounded, it j not playing tlm gams to fire now And they ri i i miss me, every one of th m, and I crawlcd'at last to s-ife- my poor uniform in tatters " MFX DRIVEN TO INSANITY IN TRENCHES, Buck in the hospitals the women see the effects of the life in the trenches where men arc driven to insanity by the strain. The insanity wards Jn the hj government hospital at Netley are filled to overflowing, and all tho hospitals In the south of England have many patients who suffered absolute nervous collapse and have been sent back to England for treatment treat-ment Mo-it of the cases show decided improvement a? soon as the men Honor Dadfe For American Heiress Lady Decies, Formerly Vivien Gould, Is First of American Titled Women Working As T"i 1 C T is.ea ross iurses to Receive a f' ' '' ' - suffering with nervous liflic- HpffiSSSHB tions ami who declared when the left Hclglum that the- roubl n .';fflMKt . i r inrtiier service under 'ho uwSHraSt SE i I ' ?' t-'nns. l.inioi to return ffiS'f i lie f.eldts ,-,f n, don as soon as 'xftjii& KBB they ret a grasp on their nervea An amazing number ,,f in a wBSIBBSbP P . r been ton. h'-d by. U;f ' W a bullet or shell and show no phy- wBEmEM -W sic-1 1 ,- n-i 1. 1 ilis.-i ;.hi. Some of Sis lranl the must desperate cases are hu m VMS 'i S'- ' i ibl dio. ki-il by shell- iU jftJWS 9 v.hhh exploded near them. One : Bf of IS. who rc.-crilly Kfe VfXH , Vffifc left N. i ley to lt.it hip relatives In I Iwa, Jfct-' Wani hi rter, was hurled through the '),- for Rfiv feet by the for. e ol an 1 iwll HW M hiding shell, not a Traginent of I g8Ll tj whi-h tone-he.) B ifim fWWKPlli BB'i Both of his eardrums were broken and he was unconscious for sovcral days. His brain was so affected lhat ho was unable to pee anything lor weeks. If he became the least excited. When he left the Netley hospital h still walked somewhat unsteady and complained that dar,k spots frequently appeared before his eyes Physicians send such pa-tients pa-tients away from hospitals as speedily as possible that they mav be more free from military surroundings sur-roundings ami reminded less fre-ou fre-ou ntly of their experiences in the field. As is the case In nearly all military mili-tary action soldiers are on rare oc-caiions oc-caiions found shooting their own h.inds or feet or exposing their arms and hands to ths fire of the enemy that they may get wounds which will relieve them from service in the trrmhep. This is attributed to shattered nerves in many caser, although al-though there arc occasional court-martials court-martials in cases where there Is reason to believe that cowardice In-: In-: plred such action. In engagements where the fighting fight-ing Is at such close range a In the present position In Belgium, It Is a simple matter for a soldier to c-xpose his hand or arm and catrh a bullet from the enemy's trenches. Ead teeth are playing havo? with the English troops exposed to cold and dampness In the trenches. Many dentists havo been sent to the front to treat defective tcth which have caused neuralgia and disabled men otherwise sound. Recruiting officers were at first extremely particular about the teeth of applicants for admission to tho army, but it soon her o me necessary neces-sary to let down the bar?. .s the middle and lower class people of England take Indifferent rare oi their mouths and seldom hae their teeth treated, dental troubles have been numerous. "I am not going to bite the Germans," Ger-mans," was the protest of an Ens-lishman Ens-lishman rejected at the opening of the war because of deflective teeth. But the developments of the last three months have shown that no soldie, is any better than his teeth. Inability to masticate tho coarse army fare properly ha? Incapacl-. tated large numbers of soldiers who were actually forced to leave the front because of aching teeth and swollen Jaws aggravated by standin for days in wet trenches. It is not unusual to see recruits who have part of their front toth missing and others badly decayed Rut such men are turned over to. the dental corps as rapidlv as possible pos-sible and given careful treatment. If recruiting officers in England were to demand the sound teeth re- UPPER LEFT tord and Lady I3ecies. Upper right A Red Cross nurse on the battlefield. Center I ..id v npfipv, IW'nrp h?r mir "J uvi IX 1U.1 riage. Following- her is Mrs. Anthony Drexel. Lower left Lord and Lady Decies on their last visit to this country. A nurse is carrying carry-ing their baby. At ritrht Lord Decies in uniform at court and Lady Decies in a characteristic pose. quired for admission to the American Ameri-can Arm they would get few rc-erults. rc-erults. The public schools In London Lon-don and other large cities are having hav-ing the teeth of pupils examined and encouraging proper car of the mouth. Ancient Sncz Canal. That the Suez Canol, figuring so prominently in the military operations opera-tions tc which Turkey is a party, Is not the first canal that joined the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, is told in a statement given out by the National Geographic Society. From the morning of history, the W est has sought to break Into the East by way of Suez. Somewhere during the yeara 1350-1300 B. Q. the Egyptians, under Seti I and Rnmcses IT. joined the Nile by way of Lnko TImSah to the Red .fi. thus operating a waterway, the archtype of the present canal, from the Mediterranean, over the Suca Isthmus, to the Orient. This canal was choked by sand in the course of ages tfeoho, about 600 ft C. began a canal from ancient Bubastls, and Darius Hystaspl3, 100 yeara later, completed tho work, once more bringing the Red Sea and Nile together. to-gether. Although nearly choked up hy the beginning of the Christian era. It was navigable to a degree as Into as the battle of Aetlum, and some of Cleopatra's ships escaped this way to the Red Sen. Trajan restored the canal. It fell Into disuse and choked up again. Amru. the Islamic conqueror of Egypt, restored it for the last time In the seventh century, connecting Cairo with the Red Sea. Napoleon 'caused the old route to be surveyed, but was forced to drop the project. isas vx After him, Melternich, the great re-actionary re-actionary Prime Minister of A.us-tria-Hungary, stimulated a Suez Commission in 1817. Nothing, however, how-ever, came of it. As tho world well knows, the Suez fnnal was built by the man Who railed to build the Panama i.anal Count Ferdinand de Ees-eps. Ees-eps. its original depth was twenty-six and one-fourth feet, and its bottom width seventy-two feet. It could accommodate ships of twen ty-five feet, but it was In operation eleven years, beginning In 18fi9, before be-fore vessels of such draft sought passage. By 1890 its depth had been Increased to twenty-nine and one-half one-half feet, and when the United States announced Its Intention to make a canal forfy-one feet deep and 300 feet wide at Its narrowest bottom point at Panama, the work at Suez was expended so ae ultimately ulti-mately give a bottom width of 134'4 feet and a depth of thirty-six thirty-six and one-twelfth feot. It "was expected ex-pected that this enlargement would be complete by next year, but the war has interrupted operations. Now much larger than the aver-.il'o aver-.il'o demands for a canal tho Pan-attla Pan-attla waterway has been made Is strikingly shown by a statement from Sues to the effect that only 1 per cent of the ships peeking passage pass-age by that route have a draft of twenty-eight feet. j Tn 18G9, ten vessels passed through the Suez Canal. In 1912. 5,373 ships steamed through, of 20,175,120 net tonnage, and paying for this privilege around $25,000,-000. $25,000,-000. Seven out of evory ton of these ships flpw the British flag. England has dominated the canal ever since the Khedive, In 187".. sold his 17G,502 canal shares for 120,000,000 to the British Government. Govern-ment. These shares are now worU close to J200.000.000. Catsldn for Soldiers. "We will fight to the last cat and S cine before wo acknowledge our-selves our-selves "beaten," declared the spokesman spokes-man of Germany in this country a few weeks ago. Already, according to a dispatch from S organs, near the Swiss-Austrian frontier, they are making a beginning with the cats. A novol appeal to the public has Just been Issued by the Mayor and corporation of Brausburg, a township town-ship of East Prussia. This district seems to be very prolific in cats, and the authorities have hit upon the brilliant idea of thinning out the oata and at the same time benefiting tho army in the field. They therefore call upon the citizens citi-zens to shoot the cats and send la Han- Th? Mayor prom- ! toes to superintend the conversion mit&; lnt body belts . d li Davy Jones's Navy. We have a feeling that when this k 1 var is over. Davy Jones i. 80in8 to V have a strong navy. |
