Photograph from Harriet Chalmers Adams. 



A CORNER OF THE DINING-ROOM FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS: LYON HOSPITAL IN IO/I/ 



In the multifold activities engendered by war woman has many spheres of usefulness, 

 but none where her labors are more fruitful than in cheering and comforting the convalescent. 

 A hospital dining-room would be a dreary place indeed were it not for her presence. The 

 atmosphere of home is brought by her to the otherwise desolate places of earth. 



BELGIUM'S PLIGHT 



By John H. Gade 



Of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium 



YOUR brothers tell you their sons 

 lie dead. Your heart aches and 

 you try to understand it. You feel 

 it — you think you feel it. 



But it is not your son and you have no 

 conception, even though he be one of the 

 nearest in the world to you, of what your 

 brother feels. It is your brother's son 

 who lies dead. In six months, in three 

 months, in one month your own son lies 

 dead. It is for you to bring before this 

 country now what it feels like to have 

 your own son lying dead there. 



You are about to issue the S. O. S. call 

 to this country, to save it to a certain ex- 

 tent from ignorance, but also from in- 

 difference, and also from carelessness, 

 from selfishness. 



I come from northern France, from 

 southern Belgium, from the gallant 

 strongholds in that great district. There 

 firm virtues were the order of the day ; 

 stern mercies were before you from hour 

 to hour, and the flames of chivalry still 

 burn in the hearts of men and women. 

 The horizon was dark, and it is difficult 

 to bring it to this country. 



REFLECTIONS OF ONE BACK FROM BELGIUM 



When I came ashore, it struck me like* 

 a blow in the face. Is it possible this is 

 the same planet on which I have lived ; 

 that this is the same world? Have I left 

 the basic reality of things behind for the 

 rudiments of life? 



Where do these people get all the 



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