Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOSTESS F How lt Happened to Entertain ? Only A. E. F. Mother Who Visit ed Army of Occupation. BlG CORPORAL DUTIFUL SON. Ho Knightly Courtiers Ever Acted With More Gallantry to Lady Fair Than Did He and. His Doughboy Pals to This Little White Haired Woman Dress ed Exquisitely in Black. By GRACE GOULDER. !<With the American Y. W. C. A. Over seas.) I Coblenz, Germany, March 2S (By Mail.) I It happened right here in Cohlenz. . A big corporal came into the Y. W. iOL A. Hostess House and asked for the ?director, Miss Ruth Woodsman, .who comes from Colorado Springs, Colo. "Could my mother stay here?" he began at once, trying his best to cover his excitement. "Your mother!" gasped Miss Wood small. "How did your mother ever get here?" "Well, she isn't here yet, but if she (conies will you keep her?" "Of course I will, but-" I She didn't finish, for the hoy had (?mashed his cap back on his head and iwas out of the door on a run. ! The corporal's visit remained a m.te it'ery for two days. Then one evening ?just at dusk a little white haired wo (man dressed exquisitely in black np 'peared in the sitting room of the Host Jess House, and the corporal was hover ing behind her, trying to be beside her and back of her and in front of her all at once. He was carrying her I coat-a big fur ono. With them were three doughboys, pals of the corporal. They tried to keep in the background, but their eyes were glued on her face. Everyone in the sitting room silt at attention. There are no English 'speaking men or women out of uni form in the Third Army area. Yet here was a woman In civilian clothes. Mothers are unheard of with the army. But this was a mother, everyone knew. ! After awhile someone found out about this mother. - j Had Been Interned During War. ; She and her husband, who were born In Germany, but had been nat !nralized, lived in San, Francisco. Be fore the war they left for Welsbaden, ?Germany, that their invalid daughter! .might have treatment at this famous j .heahn resort_^,^^^->~.-~ 1 They" $fought their other children I with them. One was Walter, a small ?boy, and the other was Ralph, now iCorporal Stepp of the American Army. } When the war was declared they sent Ralph back to America, because he was of military age, and they did 'not want him to fight for the kaiser. iThen America entered the war. ' Mrs. Stepp-Mrs. Anna Stepp she Is <-told this part of the story: j "Until a month ago I hadn't heard <from R.flph for two years and a half ?even before America got In the war 'mail was held up. I didn't know whether he was In the army or not ?but I was sure he was, because-well, because he is an American." Here she stopped a minute to smile up at him. "After awhile we heard from some friends that he was In the army-and that he had come over here. That was all I ever knew. It's nearly five years since I have seen him I "Of course lt was awfully hard-I couldn't get word to him and he couldn't to me. My husband u?ed to ,E*!i2_irZi * y??g ?Qt to-before th? Jggi fff tfc?gT jPyway. My daughter jtft w'?T-'^st?ad?Tj-|he^Ts* nQ better, i We cou?dn't get the proper foocl^for ?her. after awhile. And sh? haled"lo .see me worried about Ralph, so I used ?to try to keep up before them. "Last January my husband came to iCoblenz about his citizen papers. An [American soldier In Ralph's company iwho was In the office heard his name 'and asked him If he was any relation ito Ralph. He didn't tell him Ralph ?was In Coblenz, but went after Ralph. I He didn't tell Ralph his father w?is :.here. When they met they couldn't ; believe their eyes. ? "Ever since then I have been trying ;to see Ralph. He couldn't come to Welsbnden because It was out of the American area, and I couldn't get through until today-more than two months." They asked her If her Ralph had changed much In all that time. "Oh, yes-very much. But do you know, I think lt ls because all that long time when I didn't know where he was j>r how he was-I ?ot^ lu the habit of thinking of him as lie was when he was a baby-I kept seeing him ns a baby and remembering the way he felt when he was little. Isn't that queer? And now look at him !" And the corporal tried not to see the adoration In her eyes. "Five years is a long time to walt to see your boy," she murmured, and kept her eyes on* him. Again she had forgotten the people around her. The corporal cleared his throat. "This is why I ask d you If you could keep my motlier, Miss Woodsman. I didn't want her to come unless 'she had a good place to stay. Ah, e-e-r thanks awfully." And thnt Is the story of how the Hontifss House happened to entf In the only known A. E. F. mother .\'ho baa visited the Army, of Occupation. Y.W.C.A.Provides Home Fi Actresses who piny In the Liberty of home In the Players' House whlcl Women's Christian Association, of w chairman, operates for them. Becaus they might stay, it was necessary to \ tlons for the actresses. The Y. W. C. conveniences such as sewing machine Upton, L. I., has a similar house. Y. W. C. A. UNIFORMS TO CLOTHE STUDENTS Suits Worn by War Workers Will Be Given to Penniless Stu dents in Switzerland. Official uniforms of the Young Wo men's Christian Association minus the Blue Triangle, the Association in signia, will be worn next winter by women students who have been strand ed in Switzerland during the war and who, because of Inck of funds, inabili ty to re-enter their native country, a desire to finish their university courses ur because they have no family to which to return, will remain there next year. Elizabeth M. Clark, who has been in Switzerland for ten years under the World Student Christian* Federation, has appealed to the National Student Committee of the Y. W. C. A. for cloth ing for the 300 foreign women stu dents in Switzerland. The scarcity of clothing last year among these almost refugee students made it necessary for two "girls to share one" coat so that only one could go to classes or go out of doors at a time. - Four large packing cases of all kinds of used clothing, save hats, which' Is In good condition, hava been collected hastily from women college students In the New England States, Ohio. West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware by the Stu dent Committee of the National Y. W. C. A. to be sent over In response to Miss Clark's appeal. This clothing will he dyed, cleaned and made over in Switzerland. In addition to the clothing collected from students In colleges nearest New York a case of uniforms, which have been turned In by Y. W. C. A. secreta ries who did war work, and the official gray uniform ulsters is being sent. As uniforms are being turned in by war workers they will be claimed by the Student Committee, which will remove the insignia and prepare the uniforms so that they may be worn by these women who have been forced by world events to remain In Switzerland for several years. QUEEN MARIE INVITES , Y. W. C. A. TO RUMANIA Extends Invitation to Overseas Work ers In Paris. Paris, April 21.-Queen Marie of Rumania, following a conference with a representative committee of the American Y. W. C. A., held at the Ritz Hotel, Paris, has Invited the Anjfrican Young Women's Christian Association to come to Rumania and open work under her patronage. Among the representatives of the Y. W. C. A. present at the conference were: Miss Harriett Taylor, head of the American Y, W. C. A. work over seas; Miss Mary Anderson of Hudson. Wis. ; Miss Mary Dingman, head of the Y. W. C. A. industrial work In France; Mrs. Margaret B. Fowler of Pasadena, Cal., and Miss Charlotte Niven, head of the Y. W. C. A. work in Italy. A notable guest at the meet ing was Madame Catnrjl, wife of the secretary of the Rumanian legation lu Paris. ??*?***??***.***** * ? * Y. W. C. A. WORKER ? * IS DECORATED. ? * - ? * Miss' Marlon Porter of New ? * York City was decorated the * .k other day In the name of the * * Chaplain General of the Amerl- * * can army with the Church War -fr * Cross. . ? ?Ar Her citation was for her moral * *. and spiritual contril>ution to the * x war. * * For more than a year Miss .** * Porter lins been at a hospital * * center In Yittel, France, ns a * * representative of the Y. W. C. A. * * in charge of a nurses' club there. * * * MT Actresses at Camp Dix, N. J. i the housing committee of the Young Mrs. -John I>. Rockefeller, Jr., ls p \>f the distance from any town where provide some sort of living accommodn A. built the house, supplying it with all .s, washtubs and Ironing boards. Camp PROHIBITION TO BRING COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Hazel MacKaye Advises Using Build ings as Centers for Drama, Com munity Sings and Enter tainments. Why not turn tho corner saloon into a community playhouse when the law effects the closing of those gathering places, asks Miss Hazel MacKaye, di rector of the Department of Pageantry and Drama of the rational Young Wo men's Christian Association? "I went over on the West Side of New York one night recently"to attend a community drama meeting," Miss MacKaye says in explaining her theo ry, "and as I was riding along I noticed how many saloons there were-one on every corner and another In the mid dle^of the block, it scorned, nil just blazing with lights. Those lights ought not to go out with prohibition. They ought to shine for something worth while to all of the people, and what better than community drama and sings?" Miss MacKaye feels that the war has given a groat impetus Io popular interest In drama and that through pageantry and drama a great deal in the way of Americanization can be ef fected. ; <?, Through the community center,. If It be in a district populated largely of one foreign nationality, these people could present pageants of the life In their mother countries, translating them Into English, so that Americans and also the younger English speaking members of their household coubT un derstand and appreciate their tradi tions. American art would he greatly enriched thus through the drama of all of the nations whose peoples have settled in this country. , On the other hand American Ideals, American his tory, and American festivals, even laws such ns child labor and minimum wage, could be Interpreted to these people by means of pageantry. "People hnve been learning not only to work together, but to play togeth er," Miss MacKaye says, "particularly since the war. when the people stood together in drives and large patriotic community entertainments. The op portunity to build up a great commu nity organization Is now at hand, and the time Is ripe for lt Why not utilize the corner saloon?" DEPARTMENT ADVISES ON PLUMBING AND CURTAINS New Bureau Opens in Y. W. C. A. Overseas Office. A new department of finance hns been organized hy the Y. W. C. A. for its work In France. Miss Constance Clark of Pasadena, Cal., Is the execu tive. Miss Clark before '-er recent coming to France was director of the big Y. W. C. A. Hostess House at Camp Lewis, Washington. All contracts, leases and rentals for new buildings will he handled hy Miss Elith Austin of New York City, nn cxpeifenced architect and builder, who will work through this newly cre ated section. Plans for remodeling and decorat ing rooms, clubs and hostess houses taken over by the Y. W. C. A. will be In tho hands of Miss Mary Buchanan, an Interior deo' or, who comes orig inally from R 'nd, hut who has been working I" ..ice for the American Y. W. C. .nee the beginning of Its war wr .1?re. In : . litton, the department Is com plllns dsts, suggestions and general shopping guides for all the buying of the Association In France, Including all kinds pf building equipment from crot? nne curtains to plumbing sup plies. A cafeteria expert will haye a place In the department to act as general ad visor on restaurant and cafeteria proj ects of the Association throughout France. y In short, the department Is to be more than finance alone. It is to be a kind of gonornl advisory department and clearing house fSr all other de pa rtment-3 in the French association u department where dollars will be measured up against deeds and needs. I desire to : field county 1 et for cqttc Saturday ni? will pay the g seed. Now i cotton seed i Meal and I at all times. A. M Candidate for Cotton Weigher. Having just returned from France, and receiving my discharge from the U. S. Army, wnere i nave been since September 1917, at the solicitation of a number of my friends, I hereby announce myself as candidate for Cotton Weigher for the town of Edge field, S. C. If elected, I promise to give faithful service to all parties in the performance of my duties. WILLIAM G. BYRD. HARRIS' PRESSING CLUB 1. take this"meanB of letting the people know that I have re-opem'c; my pressing club, and will appre ciate their patronage. I am better prepared than ever to clean and press all kinds 'of garments, both for ladies and gentlemen. All work guaranteed. Let me know when you have work and I will send for it and make prompt delivery. Wallace Harris Sheppard Building Down Stairs War The season for n ments is here, and we are in a better entire family than Since moving ir creased every dep? let us show you on DRY GOO: CLOTHIN< We are in a posi not fail to call at c Dail Next door to Lynch Drug S tton Seed ?V an ted! notify the farmers of Edge that I will be in the mark >n seed every day until L ght, the 24th of kay. I {.?vernment price for sound s the time to convert your nto cash. ?ulls for sale or exchange .. TIMMERMAN You Should Be Considering the Screen Question We believe our mill-made screens will more than inter est you. We manufacture them of various woods and of bronzed, iralvanized or black wire. Every order is special for either windows, doors or porches. We carry no stock of made up screens. Write for Free Catalogue and Prices. WOODWARD LUMBER COMPANY AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Phone 158 SERVICE QUALITY m Weather is Here daking a complete change of all gar we wish to inform our friends that position to supply the needs of the we have ever been before. ito our larger quarters we have in irtment of our stock. Come in and Lr large stock of DS, NOTIONS, SHOES G, HATS and UNDERWEAR tion to make very close prices- Do )ur store before purchasing. Ich Bros. ?tore