The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, May 22, 1918, Image 21
#HIS IS. THE TRUE
RED CROSS SPIRIT
A Little Story With a Big
Thought in It.
A month ago the Ied Cross chapter
in Bay City, Mich., received a hurry.
up call for 150 dunnage bags. Troops
were about to move, and through at%
oversight their equipment was not
complete. The bags had to be made
aV sent within 48 hours. A request
for help was sent over the town, afid
the stores were searched successfully
for the right materials. Among those
who quickly responded and came to
the chapter workrooms to help were
two little girls, sisters, about ten and
twelve years of age, each eager to lend
a hand and do something for the boys
who were going to the front. All day
long the fingers of the women and
the little girls were fairly flying. Bag
after bag received the last stitch un,
til scores were piled up ready for
shipment. Closing time came, and the
woman superintending the making of
the bags counted those completed and
announced that if every one of the
workers could come early the next
morning and work all day the bags
would surely be finished in time for
shipping by evening. Two crestfallen
little girls, the little sisters, were wait.
'm for her at the door as she do.
Red Cross Dunnage Bags.
"VWe are awfully sorry, ma'am," gid
the older of the two, "but we can't
come back tomorrow. You see to*W.
row we have to-" And, without fa.
ishing the sentence, she looked baok
wistfully at the pile of bags.
"It is too bad you can't come back,
said the superintendent, "but I want
to thank you, and we all thank you,
for the work you've done today. You
two have been a wonderful help, and
that pile of bags wouldn't be nearly so
big If you hadn't been here. Good
night."
The next morning when the super.
Intendent came down to unlock the
workrooms for the dj she was aston
ished to see the two little girls stand.
Ing in the cold by the locked door.
"Oh, I'm so glad to see you I" she
said. "I thought you said you couldn't
coie?"
"Oi, we knew those Red Cross bags
just had to be finished for the sol
d(ers," excipime(l the little one, with
glistening 'eyes, "and we got up at
three o'clock this morning and got tle
washing done enriv I"
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Mared Gets His
Barn Mended
Red Cross Helps This 15 Year
Old French Boy-and His
Family.
Marcel is at man. ie is just fifteen
years old, but yet he is a man. I say
he is a man because in the last four
years' time has burned into his child
heart marks that should wait for stern
er maturity. lie is a man because he
has the responsihility of a wioman. le
has no father. The Germans saw to
that. Marcel has had to stand by and
'see his small brothers and baby sister
ask in vain for food while lie fought
off the pressing call from his growing
boy's stomach. lie has had to see
tears from his mother's eyes drop on
the plowed ground as she worked the
soil his father would have tilled had
he not gone away out of the peaceful
ness of the Marne valley into the iron
hall of the Alsn and on into the here
after.
The boy, who was now a man, work
ed hard, yes, too hard. With his hair
less hands and his boy's strength he
fought almost alone the unequal fight
against want with what little help his
frail mother could give.
Mother Can Kiep Children.
One of the 70 or 80 local societies
in France, handicapped by lack of
funds because deluged by calls for
help, tried to releive the family by tak
Ing away the children. But to the tor
ture twisted brain of the woman this
seemed like losing all she had.
And then when everything seemied
lost and despair caie they heard the
news: "No, it could not he true,
They would help them with food and
clothing? They would till the soil?
Mend the barns and stay near by to
see that things went well?" Yes, and
thle children Could stay, Said thle Ited
Cross, as they had said to hundreds
af otliers.
That was tiwo years ago. Tody thui
famil y is self supporting and has somea
to spare for the more needy one:,
still are being helped. Little J n Is
taller. lie lioks well fed--nli hIe Is
About The Ai
ou know that
;established and is c
ie in Fr ance to care
iditions in that secti<
ousing and feeding
y from the danger o
iedivided the entire i
t each point to dishr
ing?
vides builders and i
Ften before the walls
>ringing over two hu
y-five tons are reshij
roviding an artificia
splints?
t will YOU give to 1L
& LEWIS
P~ECIALISTS
Post Office
wel teu. T1he imby is so rolly poly
that the dlmples have coilo again.
They are in gool spiritu-on their feet
once more.
Ai( Marcel. Ile has flnishned tho
course that the lied Cross gave hint
in fn agricult uiral school. It is Ie whoI
has been rutming the farm'so well, ll
(lid it all. At least they let him thilik
so, for heaven knows le has Sneen tihe
hottom of the bitter cup. And I know
that the lied Cross will want me to
say ho did It, for that Is the way they
wNorck-quietly, earnestly, efilviently,
without stint, without waste, without
boast.
THE LITTLE OLD LADY
OF PANSY SQUARE
TImIdly she entered the Red Cross
Bureau and stood Just within the door
way.
. Her poor, dimmed old eyes spoke so
eloquently: "I'm friendly, ladies, but
a little afrald."
Several of us rose, but Mrs. Craw
ford reached her first and asked her
to come in and sit down.
"Oh, thank you so much," quavered
the old lady as sihe sat down. "You
see, my boy-my grandson-has gone
and"-with Spartan fortitude she re
strained tihe tears that glistened in her
eyes-"gone with his regiment. Now
I'm all alone in rny litth cottage in
Pansy Square. And, oh, ladles, do any
of you know the dreary loneliness
when there is no one who comes home
at night?"
We almost hugged the dear old lady,
so forlorn, yet so brave. We drew up
our chairs closer, and she told us her
story.
The little old lady owned a vine
embowered cottage in Pansy Square.
There she kept house for her grand
son, who worked in ta downtown oflice
When America took up cudgels for de
mocracy the lad. In patriotic fervor,
was among tie first to enlist.
"Ah, how I loved him and needed
him !" whispered the old lady broken
ly. "But my dear country needed l him
more. So I told him to go. 'But
what wvill you (o, granny?' lie asked.
I told him I had .enough, and so he
went. Brave, brave heart I My his
band was a soldier, and I have his
pension. Ihtt it Is small. After pay
ing the taxes on !m.? cottage there was
little left, and nov it Is gone. I'lr, old,
but I'm willing. All I ask is a chance
to earn my breald till-till lie retun s."
TIlrough lie loie Service workers
of ler eommnml ity the little old lady
of Pin1sy Square lhas been proviled
wIth slimple iasks, such as makil-ng lre.
SeMv an dellelolus enkesex an1 mj1e'! (,
a Inhor of love for ler and 1an) minfail
Ing souire (if revete.
Somne day, lh.se God, her sibdler
boy will eami baek to tle lit1le o il
lady rlf Inmnsy Squanmre, and he will lind
her as he loef ler-huppy, comfortablu
and seli reliaiant.
rnerican Red
perating twenty di
for the needy famn
>n ready for our tro<
thousands of childre
f gass and shell fire
Var Zone into six mn
ibute cooking utensi
-eady-to-put up bui]
of the destroyed he
ndred tons of suppli
pped to branch ware
1 lirnb factory outsid
~eep this Hand of M
CONTRIBUTED TO T
EARNS 14 CENTS A DAY;
I!AS WIFE AND BABY
And Yet This True Story Has a
Happy Ending.
Even a irenehimian sometimes loses,
for awhile it least, his "unfaliing"
Sense of hminior.
Take, for insitnce, the case of a
m1n1:1 from 1-1110, 1 soldlier, WN'aeltele by
name and oiily iwenty-three. le had
donle prrtty well, for the youingsIer. had
ailready his own printing shop iII that
northern French (own, which Is still inl
side the Gerian lines. In the trenches
Waieltele developed tuberculosis, and
le was sent to a hospital at Grenoble.
There lie was considered incurable,
and after the usual three months of
treatment he was granted his 14 cents
a day eni)MIlon. Said1 his fatherly army
doctor, "My son, you caln perhaps cure
yourself if you will live in the mnoun
tains, if you lwill eat plenty of tbour
isintg food an(d, above all, if you don't
worry."
Waeltele should have smiled, but he
didn't. He was thinking of his baby
and his wife-and his 14 cents. "Don't
worry!" The humor of it entirely es
caped him.
Then the lied Cross steppd In. lie
was found by an Aierienn woman
with some Amerlean lied Cross money
for Just sueh cases, and within a few
hours lie no longer had need to worry.
le was Sent to tile mountaIns at La
Inure, In the French Alps, happy in
the knowledge ithat his famliliy wis be
lig ('ared for by these nonzingly kind
Amtierleans.
And now the army doctor's words
nre comilng true. Waeltele's lung Is
healing fast, and he Is dreaming of
another printing shop and of living
again some day with that little family.
There have been over 100,000 new
cases of tubereulosis in France since
the war started, and to care for these
eses naid check the White Plague's
spread is merely one of the hIg jobs
the Amerlean Ied Cross has set out to
accomlplish.
Plier ':.i ed In 6 to I1 I )rys
oiut rreftti ." oncy if V.A zo
(I ?.l T. in tote c m anx case of ISt.'ii
Cross
spensaries in the
ilies there and to
>ps?
n in the War Zone
ain districts, with R
Is, agricultural imp2
dings to house
mes have cooled?
es every day into Pa
houses over Francei
e of Paris, in additi<
ercy at its work?
HE RED CROSS BY
ELECTRIC APPLIANCES
OF ALL KINDS
LAMPS FIXTURES
STORAGE BATTERIES
RE-CHARGED AND REPAIRED
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Bring Your Battery for a Free Test
We Will Endeavor to Supply Your Needs
In Eleetrical Goods as Soon as Made Known
EDISON MAZDA LAMPS---PRICE LIST
10 Watt Lamps---$ .30
25 Watt Lamps----------.. .30
48 Watt Lamps..-- -------.30
60 Watt Lamps - .35
75 Watt, Type C. Lamps .70
100 Watt, Type C. Lamps 1.10
200 Watt, Type C. Lamps 2.20
400 Watt, Mog Base Lamps 4.30
500 Watt, Mog Base Lamps -6.50
750 Watt, Mog Base Lamps 7.50
SAV OLD B 3
Save the bra bases I broken lamps. We
will allow two C ts one old base on purchase
price of each ne amp bought of us.
A TRIAL SOLICITED
PROMPT ATTENTION AND SERVICE
Laurens Battery Service Station
J. F. HARNEY, Proprietor
E. Main St. Old Express Office
!merican
improve
to keep
edl Cross ""I Q""If 0 " ti" ""''"'*I 11"""""
ements, beds,. bedding, food
sin the devastated
ris, from which one hundred
)f to special plants for the
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