Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1920 — TYPIFIED SPIRIT OF [?] [ARTICLE]

TYPIFIED SPIRIT OF [?]

Elderly ' unt V/'mi- • • Had Given Three S r. Ij Her CcJovcd Country. “While 1 was In Frame <evm- d other [ boys and l.were Hiking a Sun lay as rIfoon hn<e”an(T as we jtpproa' Ucd a illtie village we overtook a poor ant woman, whose bacß was l» tit with toil and care, whose hair was gray ! with years of sufTering. slowly hob- , bling along carrying a hetivy pulr ot| wooden shoes on her feet and push ng . a whee lbarrow Irraelcd wtthTittte r''ces | of wood that she had spent horns in ■ gathering.” says the “Flying Person.” j Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, in his ar- | tlele, M 'i’he Thrill of High A in Roys’ Life. “One of th ■ boys offered • to push the wheeiharto-A for her. but ; she, being so ci. ■ ■ ■ n'd to -.m-li fa ‘ voTs, lookt a : i.ioi in tistonislu.icnt as ! though she thought he wished to steal ; her wo > 1. "Soon she was convinced he was i friendly and allowed him to push her.; • heelbarrow for her. The expression j of joy and happiness that beamed ■ through the wrinkles of her careworn j face I shall never forget. She insisted that we go to her with her. We i did, and there found an humble little.! stone bitiltling. unattractive, unfinished, . and with no modern conveniences to • add to its comforts. Seated in this cold, damp little hut she told us ot real saerflee. Although its floor was , stone, its stove, which was the fireplace, its table; and its beds were all j in one room, it was a home, and with- ; iq its walls had been horn and reared three stalwart and brave sons of France, who had given their lives for their country. This poor woman —I thought she must be poor—was happy and proud. Proud that she had given tliree. sons to the cause of France. To her they cou:d not have been born for a more noble cause. She would not have had them die otherwise. Was she poor? Far ’from it. With such a spirit no one can be poor.”