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near Namur. Their father and worked
Id a Belgian factory nntll the German*
took It Over; then he quit.. He did not
get enough to eat, and last winter he
died. Their mother worked in one of
the municipal kitchens uml made a
DURING THE SNOW SEASON ON WEST FRONT
£n<vvX<w.-:
hare living so, hut not quite enough for
all three—-so she sent. them otit to
France to grow {at and happy while
she tolls olTIn tht^souiTR11Chen.—-
•y'i<
weepy as they told their story, hut they
brightened quickly. It Is always morn
ing if one Is young enough. “We're
going to good friends,”* they, an
nounced, . ^
“Do .vou ( kiio\MJkSj.iere you are going?”
**No,” they su» 1 (4-f‘_“lxu^ J^tfs sufiep-tQbje
like this, mid they'reigning to hh ‘good -
friends..” -'J-
^CARPET BAG AGAIN IN VOGUE
Scarcity of Leather Brings -Back An
cient ’Satchel, Says Chicago
s Merchant
Ne\V York
I'he high cost and short-,
age of I uy-fh eE_AvHi-.be responsible for
u revival of, the old-fysllioneil carpet
hag, according to .1. N. Daley, a leath
er merchant. of t’hleago.
Mr. Daley declares that the carpet
hag already is appearing in some of
the western cities he has just visited.
'They are pruviug popular, and .he ex
pects Xo see them iu the Hast shortly.
“The war,” says Mr. Daley. “Is go
ing to revive a lot of discarded neeessi-
<i) Wrad-rn N.-»>.i-.n»i Union
Motoreyele web 1«*::«!< d w>lh American soldiers making Its way through u
•nowstorm hark of the lines iu Fnir.ee."
ties , of our forefathers
carpet
PROCESSION RIVAL
OF PIED PIPER’S
hag will he one of the first. The.short
age »>f leather will eventually preclude
the making of leather valises and grips
if it continues, and there will lie noth
!ng else left hut the old carpet bug—
aud it may. prove |n-u as serviceable
as the mony modern equipment."
Five Hundred Little "Children
Refugees From Belgium,
Tramp Into Allied Village.
HELPS DIRECT RAILROADS
Ison with the momentous happenings that* daily occur oti the western
> war is hplng conducted In Mesopotamia. A -British,,-army i> steadily
rther and farther lido the'desert. While .the .Tommies tighting In the
;y rtieir rrnnrfutes itt tlte ''Httphfqfes-Tigri'- valley, the men lighting in
i* more heat-than they can stand.; tin* arid desert is intolerable to while
itisli official photograph shows one of their lug field .pieces, just as it
MAKES SWEATERS FROM
RAISING SHEEP ON UP
Seattle, Wash.—Six heavy J
sweaters which recently were •
giv^jn to tiie Sedro-Woolley *
branch of the U<d\i'ross were •
made at home in the old-fash- *
loned way. Mrs. S. D. Benson •
raised’tlie sheep from which, the £
wool was taken on her farm at •
Siskiyou. / J
While experimenting with hark •
preparations Mrs. Benson dis- £
overed a way to dye the yarn •
in the regulation shades of gray •
and khiyKi, and finally knit tlie J
sweaters herself. , , •
tli^ desert are not having a picnic. They
Yet they are keeping at it, and Mil
tired, making the Turks step lively
men
was
FRENCH TROOPS WITH MITRAILLEUSE DRIVING BACK GERMANS
Worn by Hunger, Tired, All Sing Na
tional Anthem—Big Celebration at
Evian for Them—Glad to
Escape Germans.
hundred lit
Evlan-les-Bnins.— Five
tie children, a Trifle tired-looking, per
haps a little hysterical because worn
by tlie strain of three days on the train,
tramped joyously up the street, their
wooden sabots pattering a triumphant
tuttoo on the hard pavement, skipping,
some of them, to the blare of the
trumpeters who led the way, uud„cry
ing “Vive la France” at every welcom
ing tri-color. 'They rushed 'up by doz
ens to shake hands with anyone-who
was on the street to see them at five
o’clock in tlie morning.
Each of them wasKdressed in tiis or
her Sunday host, and rating a home
made pack. All tiie time tip* six old
ex-Boil us tooted away on their trum
pets .as they led the bobhetty proces
sion. It reminded one of the Bled Bi-
per who piped strange tunes iu llume-
lln ’and led away all tlie village chib
dren When their elders refused tq pay
him for rhldiug tlie town of its nits.
These trumpeters were leading Bel
gian children to a warm meal at
Evian. Five hundred children, who
had left their mothers and fathers in
the land where food is scarce, were
on their way ton big refuge i n't he ohl
Chartreuse tnonustery at I,e Ginndier.
days, when the trains bring in’tlie
Frpneh repatriates.
There was a lug celebration in the
Casino. The mayor of "KVlari’ made a
speech, hut most of the children were
obviously much too tired to try' to
puzzle gut his big, words. They were
much more interested in the hand.
The hand played “The Savoyard,"*the
anthem of Evlmi's mountain -province,
and then it played the "Brabiineonne,"
CLtrtfDINSr
the national hymnnf Belgium
Those children stood upon thetah’.cs
to uppbmd ami wave their Imndkeq.
chiefs! They knew it. every one of
them, ultlmugh they had not been al
lowed to sing it out loud for three
years. Some of them weye so sinalf
that they must have learned it behind
dpsed shutters. Off in a corner half a
dozen * little girls joined hands and
danced.
Too Tired for Candy.
But they w ere tired nut; there were
Miss Frances Hawthorne ' Brady
daughter of Thomas Grayson Britdy'of
Washington, I>. <’., is the first and only
woman tin the staff of the rHrei-trrr gen
eral of railroads, William CJ. McAdoo.
Miss Brady's capabilities make,her
a most handy person in any organiza
tion where directing ability,, and crea
tive. ideas .. are. needed. Miss Brady
was selected because of tlie ability and
efficiency she has shqyffi in Liberty
loan work in the treasury! She ia_ihe
second appointee of Mr. McAdoo as
director gcneniDof railroads. , f
Since leaving a fmisliing school in-
Wasiiington Miss Brady lias been
prominent in all the affairs of tin*
younger set, but when the wijr started
Wt-ilfr n
one or two
the candy placed beside them—and
that is very tired, And in tin* middle
of the second verse of the “Bruban-
conne,” one small son of Belgium laid
liiS’ head jrm his- arms, and went to
sleep. A^id before the “Marseillaise”
was sung there •Arere' sleepy, little
groups, oblivious to tiie noise about
them, at every table. _
, It*was daik when they enternl the
M’asino— inueh too dark for tiie pic
tures that oijght to have been taken
of them—and it was still very gray
.twilight when they came out.
One of the America united Dross,
nurses 'who- was Helping—«rare for
them saw two little girils arguing
sleepily about something -or other.
" Vest-ee. pas?" the tinier of tin' two
and has mow ed- rimrir nraTn^
mitrailleuse at the foe. ,
Not Enough to Eat.
They were pot orphans—just chil
dren who were not getting enough to
eat. Buck in Ijelgium a^ Belgian com
mittee had picked them but as under
nourished and asked their mother* to
let them go to France, where wheat
and sugar are not too plenty, but
where thy rations are-more liberal.
The commission for relief in Belgium
brought something to -them in Bel
gium, but.-especially since tiie Ameri
cans left, it had Pi lie stretched a-lorig
way. 1 • X
“Aren’t., you hungry? 1 *" smile one
asked om;.<^.the Belgian children.
"Why, no," tlie tnn-yeiVr-old replied.
*‘I ate yesterday."
'GERMAN WAR BREAD AND SOAP
HAD HONEYMOON TRIP ABOVE THE CLOUDS
she felt the > all for patriotic duty and
offered her services to t tic* government.
Conductorettes Capable.
— New York.■-'Throe hundred women
conductors on New York street’ cars
are. making*good. Bresident Theodora
B. Stionts Of t 1h* Interborough -1 {-rrtl-
road company, has announced that tlie
conductorettes are as efficient, as men,
equally honest and more polite.
soir?
Till* trumpeter
is morning,
isn't it? It’s not evening?"
Later, when the children were pass-
ing tin American Ited Dross doctor,
who examined them for contagious
diseases, tiie -nurse learned ’more. Lu-
eleiine and Louise, sisters, came from
Casino, where the women 'of Evian
IijkI laid <»ut a* luvukfast. Six oi* m*vcii
children, too weak to stand tlie mile’s
walk, were carried in the big Ameri
can" Bed Cross ambulances that trans
port' the old men. and women week
SAVES SEAMAN’S LIFE'
with his hand
Amateur Surgeon Amputates Leg
With Clasp Knife.
riioio
ealcrn N*w»p«prr Union]
Uejiatrfated. ’ British soldiers who
lufve returned to England to recuper
ate have brought home numerous
Souvenirs from * Herman., detention
camps, some-.nf w hich give an idea-of
•^he treatment accorded emimy. troops.
Steward Is Decorated for One of Most
Br*'V«~and Remarkable Deeds
of the War. <
Tlie photograph shows Sergeant Spoft-
der,»a Lewis gunner, with his daily
ration, of German sawdust war, bread
and ar piece of German soap made
chiefly from sand.
.London.--For amputating u man’s , wounded m:m. Mr. Fumhaiix also
leg with a claspknife bdt stHI saving
his life, Alfred Wiljiam Furnpux. a
chief steward in tlie mercantile marine,
lias been decorated by the king. The
stofy of I»is. heroic conduct and skill
fortu one of the most remarkable of
the many tales told since the beginning
of the war. The following is an ac
count of the services for which he re-
tf«lved the Albert medal in.gold:
tn April, 1917, the steam ship in
which Mr. F urnenux was serving waa
torpedoed by the enemy, and the l^gs
of a Lascar, who was on the spot
where certain deck plates had buckled
and broken, were caught so firmly bo-
jnyit niitijiBn ji.no me spifHf m
H. Wallace. ’’I’he insertion of tlie b>^
j bone-.-running from the middle to tlte
I back of. the neck, .has cOtripJetcly cured
! Wallace- of tutTPrcntnsts of the spine,
I from which he Imd suffered for a long
time. . . , ‘ *
About the Only banger They Face.
"Heard auXtlung of tlte kaiser's sons
lately?" \
POOR LUCK AS STOWAWAY
Wilt Have Rabbits' Feet
Japanese Laborer Tri4e to Steal Pas ;
sage and Makes Trip W4th \
Hands /Tied..:,
fHutehinson, Kan.—Kansas negroes
who go against"the Bodies will all have
tlie famous darky'charm, the left hind,
fixit of a raldiit; to keep him safe from
Teuton bullets. K. C- (Kroon) Beck,
"raitblt VC of Kunsqs, has agreed
to etfery ficfro deaf ted mao
“ltcniarkable how'well they ke^p in
the great war; isntyit?"
i “Yes. They st*em to He rather well
protected. The only* thing*the kaiser
has to fear for them is tf&t one of
them might get up Tn the (Wk and
nd wife (formerly Miss WTnifred Allen), who
• j>h lit. I^iw reiie« ; -B. Slurry
were the first to experience a
rled couple left YJovernor's Island apd airplaned their way to Massapequa
LJ I., the Sperry home, in 24 mintftea. Thfy Claim thls ls the only way tt
San .Frandsco.-i-Because he tried to
steabpassage on a Japanese liner from
the Orient to America, a Japanese la-1
borer was forced to make almost the
in the state a rabbit foot.
drink out of the w rung bottle.'
Hy enjoy a wedding trip.
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