Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1919 — SHAMING THE DEVIL. [ARTICLE]

SHAMING THE DEVIL.

It is said that the devil always claims his own. But there are times, we fear, when even the devil would hesitate to claim certain undesirable specimens of humanity masquerading in the guise of fair womanhood. Out at Port Sheridan, HI., are a large number of maimed and broken heroes who fought in the world war and came home nothing but battered wrecks. Some have no lfegs, or no arms, and others have neither legs nor arms. About twenty-five of these heroic but helpless men were invited recently to attend a musical in Chi r cage which was largely attended by the women of high society. Some of these women> protested against the presence of the crippled soldiers who had given their all for their country, on the- ground that the iodoform with which their wounds were dressed was distasteful to aesthetic sense of smell. They even went so far as to write letters of protest to the lady who gave the musical and invited the soldiers. Did the devil smile T He did not! He hung his head in shame —for even he, .in all of his diabolical baseness and debauchery, had not sunk so low as that. There wfll be a-dance given by the Odd Fellows in the Woodmen's hall in the I. O. O. F. buildirig on New Year's eve. Music by Healey's orchestra. All Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are cordially invited.