| Show WORST OF HORRORS visit to war hospitals described by writer procession of the blind soldiers leaves an impression of the awful hideousness of war that tha can never be effaced by GRACE ELLISON northern france A little town nestling in a wealth ot 0 trees in peace time it Is almost unheard of now it is an important military station this is my next li halting alting place olace every house Is occupied by soldiers every building gf dt importance to Is turned into a hos boa phal so near the front there are cases velch need all the science 0 of the trained nurse to pull them through men alen unnerved almost to madness men who mistake all the male staff for or the enemy one has only to listen to the ravings of these poor men to know something ot of the strain of 0 war on them I 1 I 1 was taken to the eye ward to see the operations there of 0 all the her horrors of war is not this the worst I 1 abo jaws smashed beyond rec 99 WIlon 1 auman beings who had bad tor for l names men who can live to a ripe old age and never baa q with the 9 great eat laem but tny procession process lon of 0 blind mert men or men iho 0 be 1 ibling blindin abdu aB let tian lim allm assion jot act r prat f 1 nfl nal 10 vall t ll 11 fofi never 1 I be e effaced i i I 1 cee as nave ft H A awa ara b n ce rge 6 but it h worked add faed 0 o give alis son sent hs rc nance nie son has gone through with fling colors now he is blind ile he was lying in jle the eef ward nard beef flaw hunt hwa e war rd was wads lark dark pra bothers Auf fering he had b ad in his hand a portrait of the little girl hp Aad adver seen edaa andagan j jan instant in stanl that I 1 may m ay girl he pleaded 1 I dare not answered anSter abbt ered ed the doctor who will have the 1107 courage lodrige to tell him the ruth aruth T A poor man has como come iff trenches tte fie blood Iss tillon lit his fice his eyes are bandaged an old od aijian ian lead shim in and tha urse pre lees one sees the the answer on the docter doc tir a asce ace 4 lind blind orle one after another one dare not think the horror of jt alt all seems to numb ones very soul h alart a LO e ai 9 IL 11 Is another examination of 1 I 0 our P papera apers Q j fa a seem W beibel th 6 carr car what Is bilks hy mystery my story listen carefully up from underground and and d disappear Is appear the horrid uncanny idea ide tren chwan dwar tat Is fit it coed and somehow seem 9 ee in katr ali and square quare S asins the road he french i soldiers idlers have christened the jaws of death A young pepper even r one who ile eyes up no that lial i 1 yonee IS VA te a the excel alo ti 0 M U fa h 9 wr passage W r way it by ady any chance clauce 1 14 t q lini nashed shed yet if 1 we go too 0 quickly we shall make a cloud of lust dust As aware are part svia iwvin ot Alitt lu sty 1 keep beep my eyes on the lines I 1 and awl on ejup fal j P ne ii indurie ana are bate a e aga again a for a while on and on oil we NO ga 99 mora and more ell y it quiara where ran fa g a are re we we N are on a nd u d r denly we 1 is ig akans ju abka trenA fl flea ranc J lae rs bre durstine DurB u Rs tine on all sides gides they are going to bombard i ta loc cj jal has a id already rea d y flo andl inart all abd tbd 1 I abl a N I 1 tants tanta are entile in 1110 bellara cellara ce cellard llara A group groppo gro lor three women 0 O bulb out ait from rom a n neigh elih buse boube lorie la Is biting her shawl sh awl another ja Is gobbling ag bitterly and I 1 yei yet another cries les in anguish angul jih year in j earlif 60 tiow how long g m 9 we are ordered into the tb cellars rel lars A german aeroplane Is ia there to direct the firing we have been seen this time we re have to go through the shells they will finish us now our only hope is speed one shell has burst 80 yards from the car another Is sent ahead it has struck a farm slid and the farm arm blazes up in pillars of 0 smoke and tire fire MY mr chauffeur drives right through it ou on and on like a flash of lightning have they ceased firing 1 I shall ackall hear bear those shells for or days an and d days I 1 am too tired even to be tired all along th road the troops are moving they are so covered with dust they might be and the sun has browned them to a manliness a woman cannot tall fall to admire it was a curious visit I 1 was glad I 1 went but how strange they look these dwellers in the bowels of tile the earth in one trench Is a root of hurdles covered with leaves which opens and shuts like the fairy book trapdoor there Is a mud and hurdle seat on which letters are being written to those loved ones left behind and they are all so well and happy and confident these soldiers and so courteous and so manly can it be possible they are the parisians Pari we knew only a year ago the ordering out of 0 the pale undersized males who lounge along the boulevards the taking from the cafes drawing rooms and theater wings the idle youth of 0 the country and turning them into dweller dwellen of tavi th forest and plain with a sense of danger and duty Is not this the only side of war that Is ol erable |
