Show SALVATION ARMY LASSIES bb BRAVE rk PERILS tER ILS OF BATTLE ATTLE heroic women carry doughnuts and pie where bombs are smashing PROUD RECORD OF SERVICE karn admiration and gratitude of armies they serve day after day they stuck to their posts ministering to the boys in front paris tales of bravery and ex cx wa ordinary courage hown shown by women working with the american and british armies continue to interest us at very every turn over here day after day and month after month women stuck to their posts in hospitals Sio in advanced dressing stations in work of ministering to the boys behind the lines without the slightest lightest show ot of fear or hysteria while falling shell shelf and bursting bomb tore lore up the earth about them these women have earned the admiration mi and gratitude of the armies they served among this big number it tf courageous women are two young members of the salvation army capt loul loule louise e young and stella young of new york city they shared the he hard hardships hips and dangers of the AL merican doughboy in the battle tones of 0 france and are now dow continuing their work of sowing sewing on his buttons mending his clothes baking ples pies ind nd doughnuts dougli nuts writing letters home nd being a sister in service wl with th the first american army division now on german soll soil their record of work cork Is a remarkable one not alone tor for the wonderful assistance they were able to give but because pt of the opportunity they had by reason of the confidence placed in them by the military authorities for service in the furthest advanced post alons permitted to women born into salvation army these two young women were virtually born into salvation army work tor for their parents for years were working members of this great pence peace army they wont went to france last february the following notes ot of their work jotted down in diary form gives in part the interesting story of work done by these two plucky american girls february at last we are in fr france a n CC W we e have a quaint old I 1 house ouse tor for our canteen and where do you suppose we sleep in a dugout under the house next nest door I 1 say s sleep but for several alg nights gats niter after we arrived here we sleep much the village Is bombed almost every night two days after we arrived we had our first introduction to real warfare we had just finished cleaning up the canteen preparatory to opening for bu business cines the next nest morning we used up a scrubbing bru brush ah end arid several pieces of soap and a lot of washing powder but the place shows lt it my arms feel it we have gone to our dugout there Is IB something about this accommodation reminds one of wild animals en crouched in hillside holes this comparison suggested itself to me as I 1 recalled the thousands of men in the armies in france who live like moles in the earth in trenches in dugouts dug outs in shell shelf holes und and rifle pit pits thankful for cots but we have army cots and blankets and a wooden box for a dressing dresing table with a supply ot of wax cand candle leg the candles find and the cots mark the dividing line between civilization and the early cave mans state how thankful we me tire are for thle these e cots how tired hired wo we arel we feel quite luxurious lying here wrapped in hi blankets hundreds of soldiers through here today tw I 1 wonder where they are now dow and what th they are doing what Is that dreadful noise I 1 all never y er heard anything like it in all my lire life except once in the thundering crashes of a tornado out west when ahen I 1 was a girl of ten I 1 ut lit the candle and dressed perhaps a bomb had bad killed some of our people I 1 hurried upstairs where all was quiet it is 11 cold id and damp outside but the moon Is bright I 1 walked over to the canteen I 1 lit the candle in the front room all was peaceful there so I 1 went through the next room and into the kitchen 1 I could have lave cried with the sight I 1 s saw aw the alie kitchen was or hild had been covered co vereil with glass A bomb hall had been dropped on that glass gleiss and our kitchen hitchen which we had scrubbed to almost snowy whiteness was now a mass of broken glass and splintered wood tile the day after we are promised a canvas roof for our kitchen the debris is cleared away two of our men have arrived with a truckload of supplies at last we are at our real work of baking pies and doughnuts the men have carried gallons of water from a nearby well and have helped us to prepare the coffee 1 I have seen enough things on wheels today to encircle the globe they all pass through here on their way to the front huge lumbering wagons carrying tons and tons of ammunition others carrying tons of food and other supplies aceres of rolling kitchens liens ambulances too numerous in to count and several cars carrying both french and american officers we tire are ready to serve we too are now a part or of this big program of warfare I 1 am eager to meet the boys one feels a queer little thrill ot of excitement as they come marching lip ill the road one big picture of moving khaki doughnuts surprise boys our big tank of coffee Is placed on a wooden box bos outside the canteen it Is boiling lot hot hundreds of freshly baked doughnuts furnish a surprise to the boys as they tilt their tin hats backwards to get a better view of the refreshment counter a bit of a curl curiosity in this place it seems how lid did you ever get up here one lie asked arent you afraid of the boche bombs when lid did you leave the states arid and dozens of other questions the roof of our dugout Is covered with sandbars sandbags sand bags but the enemy Is determined ter mined to wreck the town aurmen leave lave news to that effect we have been told by the authorities that we must leave as the danger is too great groat this hi s has been a busy center cente f for r many i y weeks find and we give it up reluctantly two weeks later I 1 thought it was quite an event when I 1 distributed doughnuts to the boys in the trenches but here we are in the thick ot of the battle itself traveling since six in the morning at two we reached a small mail town from which ahe the germans had been driven only a few hours before the earth at times seems to tremble with the Ni vibration bration of tue me guns as we stand before the improvised evacuation hospital while our men unload the big supply of oranges lemons and sugar we have brought with us sister and I 1 report to the doctors A continuous moving line of ambulances Is bringing in the wounded americans americana french and germans lilice As their wounds are treated and dressed they are placed in other ambulances arid and sent ta ra the tha special trains waiting and thence to the base hospitals doctors work like mad the doctors doctor are working like mad the chief surgeon scarcely looked at me inc yes ile he said get then them something cold to drink and get it quick we have let lemons rions and sugar I 1 said we can make lemonade do it quick he snapped and have it cold while we squeezed lemons into a bucket billy hale bustled olt oft in the carillon camion in search of water it take him long to find a spring with water clear and cold as ace cc lie ile filled the huge tank and sped back to us we soon had gallons of lemonade ready to serve to the boys hot arid and feverish from the fight they are arc wonderful these boys of ours being an american this moment thrills one with pride battered and broken in the fight find and surely suffering terribly from the awful wounds that war has inflicted these boys are marvelously brave brac lying there on bloodstained blood stained stretchers calmly mi patiently waiting the doctors cali 11 hand n d no 0 complaint Is uttered there Is no outcry from these young heroes almost superhuman it seems to me la in their super self control |