Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1918 — HELPS MOTHER OF SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

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.