Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1918 — One of the Women of France. [ARTICLE]

One of the Women of France.

I saw a very good-looking nurse in a French hospital dressing a man’s head which had been seared in a powder explosion. She chatted in good English as she prepared the wound for another application of the remedy. I did not know until later that she was the Baroness de Rothschild, herself the founder of the hospital. When I dined at her chateau that evening she told me that she worked with the wounded every day from 7 a. m. to 1, when she went home to .luncheon; that she returned to her task at 4 and quit at 7 in the evening. It gave me a new sensation to hear this beautiful woman in evening dress and jewels, vs;hose wealth it would be difficult to estimate, telling how she had become one of the working women of France. It was odd by the old standards, but c’est la guerre. —lrving Batcheller in the New York Independent.