Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1918 — Page 2

REIMS CHILDREN PLAY WAR GAMES

Emerge From Cellars, When Bombardment Ceases, to Frolic in Sun. AIL HAVE THE SAME SPIRIT No One Ever Saw One of the Children Down-Hearted or Discontented — Will Be Great Help in ReJ building France. Parts. —Only a few months ago Reims still sheltered some 600 children, although the Germans almost dally bombarded the town. How these children lived in the cellars and the special shelters while the Germans fiercely bombarded the ♦own is a pathetic story. Though these cellars and shelters were dark, dreary and damp, where the sun’s rays never once showed themselves, no one eVer saw these children downhearted or discontented. Whenever ♦he bombardment let up, even for a few minutes, these children swarmed out of the cold cellars to play in the sun.

Duty and Resignation. A correspondent during one of these lulls walked down a narrow street bordered by the walls of houses of the sixteenth century, or such parts o' them as had survived the German bombardments. He met a youngster standing in the middle of the street gazing at one of the wrecked houses. Asked why he was gazing at ♦hat house, the hoy answered: “That house over yonder, monsieur? I was born in that house. When war broke out father was mobilized and mother went to live with an aunt in one of the houses on the outskirts of the city. Once a week I come here to look at my old home, or what is left of it.” “But aren’t you afraid?” “Afraid of what? My father is at the front, my mother is still here, and as long as she stays here, I will.” This child is a type of all. All have ♦he same spirit of duty and resignation, these children of “the Martyr City.” They tell how they received instructiol s to put on the masks against the poisonous gas; of how they played in shell holes filled with rainwater; of how they used walls which had escaped the German shells to play their game of war.

Play at War Games.

Nearing the cathedral, almost completely gutted by the bombardment, the correspondent met a crowd of boys playing at their favorite game. He watched them for some time. After playing In quickly constructed trenches in one of the courtyards of

WOUNDED YANKS IN A LONDON HOSPITAL

These American soldiers-are convalescing from wounds in a London hospital. They are receiving the best of treatment and seem quite content with their lot.

D’ANNUNZIO GETS EVEN

By WARD PRICE.

Italian Headquarters at the Front —Maj. Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italy’s _ - who led the raid on Vienna, has carried out an adventurous personal reprisal for an Austrian night air raid during which one <rf the enemy machines dropped a bomb literally within yards of his sleeping quarters. The bomb did not explode, but its impact knocked over and broke a glass from which d'Annunzio had drunk an hour before. The soldier-poet gayly started off in the afternoon with his pilot in a new type, of a fqst, weight-carrying land machine. fie*’ about one hundred miles straight across the Adriatic sea to Fola, the Austrian naval base, dropped 14 bombs on the arsenal and returned safely to his aerodrome. I was waiting there when he arrived amid a round at cheers from hi* squadron. “There was a heavy barrage fire,”

a destroyed house, where they had ingeniously placed their toy machine guns, the attacking party was Just jumping out of their shelter when the gas alarm was sounded.' All the boys quickly donned their masks and continued playing, rather stimulated by the unforeseen reality of their game. So interested were they that they never thought of finding shelter, but had to be ordered to do so by patrolling soldiers. ■ ; But these things could not go on. The youngsters had too much free time, as all the schools were closed and days were spent in holiday-mak-ing. The municipality established schools in the huge cellars of the big champagne houses of Reims. Every day the teacher had to go through the deserted streets uider heavy bombardment, and very often the school children had to be kept in after hours when the town was being shelled. These children, having grown up under these conditions, will be a splendid help to France in rebuilding a nation of valiant citizens.

BACK WITH HER BOYS

Joyful Welcome Given Mrs. Haring at the Front. “Godmother of the Polish Army" ♦Greeted With Cheers by Officers and Men. Paris.—A woman alighted from the train at what remains of a little railroad station very close to the front. Her hair was a trifle gray but her cheeks were pink, and she seemed to be very happy to be arriving in that place. Very soon the reason became apparent. A military policeman was on duty in the station. He stared and gave a shout, “Mrs. Haring." “I got here at last," she said as she shook hands —a handshake such as is exchanged between friends long separated. “You’re going to be with us?” “As long as they let me.” Mrs. Haring went out and up the street, searching for the daily shifting headquarters of the Y. M. C. A. — for the war was moving with great rapidity since the new offensive began. An automobile containing a captain and three lieutenants stopped with a screaming of the brakes. Young men boiled out of the car to surround Mrs. Haring as if she were the belle of the season. Another car stopped. More officers. Around the edge privates lined up waiting their chance. From that moment hers was a triumphal progress up the street. It seemed as if

he told us, “and once I thought our trail had been struck. Bpt not a single one of the Austrian chaser machines got up after us. The Austrians were very keen to get me, but they missed a good chance this afternoon.” D’Annunzio will wear henceforth In" his flights an ivory-hlited dagger. This weapon is the distinctive mark of the Italian storm troops, and all the eight airmen who took part in the raid on Vienna have been named by their comrades “The Storm Troops of the Ah'.”

Held Captive Four Hours.

Green Bay, Wis. —After being held captive by the Huns for four hours in a shell hole, Dr. Clarence C. DeMarcel le escaped when the territory in which the shell hole was located was captured by the Americans. Doctor DeMarcelle, who is with a medical unit in France, told of his experience in a letter to his father in this city.

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WOMEN AS FORESTERS

English, women foresters are taking the p|fce of the men at the front. Here are two of the land workers engaged in putting a sharp edge on their ax for tomorrow’s 'toil. These women are showing themselves, to be worthy successors of Britain’s lumbermen. The felled trees in theback are a proof of that.

the whole American army wanted to follow her. It was a happy party, a laughing, handshaking, congratulating party that surrounded the little Y. M. C. A. woman. She was back, back with the troops she had served and left for a time. They were doing their best to show her how glad they were to see her and were succeeding wonderfully. The record of Mrs. Augusta Haring of New York city is enviable. She is a musician. It was she who, with Miss Myrtle Sanson of Greenfield, 0., organized the Y. M. C. A. work in the new Polish army, most of which was recruited in the United States. For four months she worked among these men—this army which will be without a country until the war is over and victory comes to the allies. Her proudest moment was when the commander of the Poles, in a public manner, bestowed on her the title of Godmother of the Polish Army.

HELPS MOTHER OF SOLDIERS

Yank Takes Woman’s Flowers, Collects S4O for Her and Sends Her Home in Taxi. New York. —A certain white-tiled rendezvous, famed for its batter-cake acrobats, w r as filled to 'overflowing early the other morning with the motley jinkle-jumble of night birds, semirespectables and the curious. The place is all that is left of the pre-war night life of Gotham. A little whitefaced woman eddied into the place with just a few bouquets, soiled by an evening of handling, which she shyly tried to sell. On her black blouse was a service pin with three stars. An officer of the National army alone at a corner table washing down a sandwich with a glass of milk saw her. He did not hesitate. “Come,” he said, taking her gently by the arm. “Selling flowers is no occupation for the mother of soldiers. Let me have them.’’ She gave them over with a look of wonderment. He went among the crowds and collected S4O for her for the flowers, then he put her in a taxicab, paying the fare himself, and she rolled away, leaving the officer at the curb with his head bared.

HONOR CLEVELAND’S HEROES

Plan to Grow Trees in Memory of Soldiers Who Fall in Battle. Cleveland. —The city forestry department has adopted a plan whereby each, Cleveland boy who gives his life in the great war will be remembered; As soon as tree planting time comes this fall a liberty oak will-be planted for each boy killed in action or who dies as the result of wounds. The trees will be planted along North Park boulevard, which will henceforth be known as Liberty Row. Each tree will carry a bronze marker bearing the name of a soldier who has died.

WAVES OF HATE FOR KAISER

League of Optimists at Given Hour Daily Will Wish Dire Things for Huns. Chicago, Dt—A league of optimists has been organized In Chicago with the avowed purpose of beating the kalsed by “waves of hate.” Branches are to be formed In every part of the United States, according to Doctor Sheldon Leavitt, president of the league, who calls himself a “holy emotionalist.” Here is the idea: Twice a day 20,000,000 <stimists shall at-a designated hour concentrate Intellectually, grit their teeth, stamp their feet and simultaneously wish dire things for Potsdam crowd. The enemy shall be mentally annihilated. The ritual carries with it a “hymn of hate.” The formula outlined by Doctor Leavitt is as follows: “I call down upon the German government disaster, catastrophe, ruin, disease, pestilence,, annihilation and the plague.” Then all that remains is for the allied armies to crush the foe. °

WORDS OF WISE MEN

The greatest homage we can pay tn truth Is to use it —Emerson. Let a broken man cling to his work. H It saves nothing else it will save him. —Beecher. 1 .• - ■ » The great secret of success in life la for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.—Disraeli. ; The truest style of eloquence, secular or sacred, is practical reasoning animated by strong emotion. —Anon. Things that never happen are often as much realities to us in their effects as those that are accomplished.—Dickens. Eloquence Is the transference of thought and emotion from one heart to another, no matter how it is done. — Gough. There are men whose Independence of principle consists in having no principle on which to depend—whose free thinking consists hot in thinking freely, but In being free from thinking, and whose common sense is nothing more than the sense that Is most common.—Dr. M. W. Jacobu.

There Is a broad distinction between character and reputation, for one may be destroyed by slander, while the other can never be harmed save by its possessor. Reputation is In no man’s keeping. You and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us, and we can only do this by acting squarely up to our convictions. —Holland—Chicago Post.

SHORT CUTS TO KNOWLEDGE

Used matches have little or no value in Iceland. * The common sparrow will not, as a rule, attack a man unless provoked. The inventor of pajamas died without realizing any considerable fortune from his idea. ■■ The offense of “masquerading in female attire” is not punishable by death in the United States jjavy. Tn Vermont, the horses outnumber the marriageable males; over in Venice it’s, the other way round. Platinum has been suggested as the best material for golf balls, but nothing has as yet come of the proposal. A Scandinavian archaeologist has proved conclusively that the Garden of Eden was not surrounded by railings. The ordinary house fly can lift nearly eight times its own weight, but it is seldom employed for this purpose in America. A small cork, thrust to the bottom of a bathtub full of water, will, when released, come to the surface rapidly. This can be tried at home.

TEXAS TIPS

• As a general thing we greatly admire a black frock coat, but it doesn’t look nice on a man who perspires through it. Another reason why a man never gets quite enough money is because be always wants one more piece of property. ■ What has become of the old-fashion-ed gallant who put woman on a pedestal and left her to starve to death up there? Our position simply is that no man ought to be allowed to grow the kind of whiskers tlAt look like nonessential industry. If the truth could be discovered, probably it would be found that it makes a horsefly pretty sore to try to get blood out of a flivver. Of course we have other troubles, but we don’t have to press our hair down with one hand while we put our hat on with the other. —Dallas News.

NEW READINGS

A coaled cellar makes a warm house. It’s a short lane that hears no gossip. Truth Is not stranger than good fiction. Second thoughts are best, but not second-hand thoughts. The proverb about the pen being mightier than the sword is temporarily canned.

STATISTICAL NOTES

New York has more than 679,000 registered women voters. United States in 1917 used 5,100 tons of peat in stock foods. ’United States last year produced L--216,816 pounds of sheet mica. Pennsylvania railroad now employs <854 women to replace mem

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

. Til— — ■ Many, Willing Aids of Dan Cupid in Emergency INDIANAPOLIS.— Four hours Cupid was foiled, a blushing Jaride perturbed and a waiting groom fidgety all because a telegram was late, but the timely intervention and assistance of the Indianapolis canteen workers at the uniom

station set things aright. Miss Tillie Nelson of Rochester, Minn,, sweetheart of Private Alfred A. Fuller, Company M. Twenty-second engineers, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, wired him’ that she would meet him at a certitfn time at the union station —then the big event. But the telegram was late. When Miss Nelson arrived she hopped from the train all expectant, but alas, no sign of her boyhood sweetheart An.'hour later Private Fuller hurried Into the station hoping against

hope that his “intended” had waited or that the train had been late. Neither happened. After searching the room and inquiring of trainmen if they bad seen Miss Nelson he told his “troubles” to the canteen workers at the station. Immediately investigation began. Miss Nelson was located at the Hotel Lincoln and hurried to the station. Then began a hunt for the marriagelicense. But alas! the county clerk’s office was closed —it.was a half holiday. Further consultation between the unhappy pair and the canteen workers resulted In interesting Will Hough, a Greenfield attorney, who was waiting for a train home. Mr. Hough telephoned the clerk of Hancock county at Greenfield of the plight of the couple and the clerk volunteered to meet them at Greenfield and issue the necessary permit. Just a few minutes before midnight the marriage license was issued. Meanwhile the lateness of the hour loomed as a hindering factor in finding a minister to perform the ceremony. The county clerk and Mr. Hough suggested that the mayor of Greenfield was a “good fellow” and always ready to go out of his way to help Dan Cupid. So an appeal was made to the mayor and in a few minutes, with Mr. and Mrs. Hough as witnesses, the ceremony was performed. Escorted by the county clerk, the mayor and Mr. and Mrs. Hough the newlyweds were taken to the Greenfield hotel, their troubles at an end. Private and Mrs. Fuller were playmate lovers.

Dainty Maids May Oust Solemn and Stately Butler CHICAGO.— Trim maids with white caps, immaculate gowns, smiles, and the alluring curtseys seen in old English comedies will remind denizens of the North Shore villages that the rigors of war may be softened. For they will replace the grim-vlsaged butler, the

gaged in household work are in nonessential occupations and should develop their muscles, flaccid and atrophied by lack of use, in occupations that will add to the national war efficiency. He thinks women should buttle, chauff, cook, garden, and do-all the manifold other duties that custom has decreed shall be performed by men in the homes of the social elect. To this end he has asked a ruling of Charles A. Munroe, state chief of the federal employment service, and hopes to receive a decree favorable w to his contention. The North Shore is viewing the situation—if not with equanimity, at least with resignation. It realizes that it, too, must make its sacrifices to the war Moloch. And the “younger set,” at least the male portion of it, has a hard time In conceaMng its delight at the prospective change. Most of this younger set is in the army or navy anyway, and when members come home on furlough they would rather be greeted by dimpling smiles on a face wreathed in an aureole of wavy curls than by the formal genuflections of a butler who would not smile for fear of eternally disqualifying himself for his profession.

Her Particular Brand of Patriotism Discouraged I QUTSyn J.E —Miss Lulu Tate, who is fifteen, landed at the headquarters of L the department of justice. She will be turned over to the probation officer for the violation of two paroles. Lulu wait denied the privilege of selling War

Savings Stamps because she was too young. But she was a Pershing patriot, nevertheless. So she hied her to a costuming company and obtained a khaki blouse and skirt; also a fatigue hat and hat cord, which she charged to the woman who refused to let her work. Then, away to a Thrift Stamp booth, where she announced that she had been sent there to help. Her assistance consisted mainly in

entertaining Jackies, and she was doIng this to the. queen’s taste when nabbed by federal agents. They recalled a somewhat similar exploit of Lulu’s about d week ago. She said then she had been sent by the department of justice to go with five Jackies on a tour of investigation. A taxicab was placed at her disposal. Also the requisite number of S&iIOITS The “investigation” Included certain ice cream parlors, quite a prominent woman’s club case and about all the parks and boulevards The jackles were delighted, but the official who had to foot the taxicab bill will know better next time. ~ ... Five months ago, police officials state, Lulu eloped with a soldier under the name of Evelyn de Vere.

Invader Not Bold Burglar, Merely Lovesick Hubby n ROOKLYN.—Charles Pons of 319 West Fiftieth street dollied sneakers, put B skeleton keys and a wire lockpick in his pocket tucked a ro P« his arm and scaled the wall surrounding the Inwood home, formerly the Magda-

“Before Igo I want much to see her," he said. “I want to have her home a little time, so that I shall have something to remember. I can only think now I must get her out before I iJb, maybe for good." The wife, Senta, is a German, two years older than he, who came here with Charlotte, the skater. Pons was born in France, of Italian parents. Neither speaks the other’s native tongue, but .they made love in broken English and were married early in the spring. Then Mrs. Pons was taken in a raid on a disorderly resort and sent to Inwood home. The waiter was released under a suspended sentence of six months after Miss Dillon’s charge of burglary had been qbanged to one of disorderly conduct ' ‘ '

sober houseman, mayhap, even the chef, the gardener, and the chauffeur, if the federal employment bureau hands down a ruling such as is expected by Hervey C. Coulson, director of the United States employment service at Waukegan, and by virtue of bls office industrial monarch of the gilded Chicago suburban residence district comprised of Lake Forest, Highland Park, Glencoe and adjacent territory. Mr. Coulson holds that all men en-

lene home, Dyckman street and River road. Inside he ran plump into Miss Mary Dillon, assistant superintendent. She leveled her automatic at him and called the police. Pons appeared later to explain to Magistrate Corrigan, In the Washington Heights court, that he was not a burglar at all. He was only trying to free his wife. • ~ Pons is a waiter, twenty-one He snid he had'been called by his draft board and must soon go to camp.