Photograph from Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 WHEN PEACE AGAIN BROODS OVER EUROPE THESE LOVELY DAUGHTERS OE ALSACE 

 WILL BE CITIZENS OF FRANCE 



The wreaths of immortelles some day will be removed from the statue of Strassburg 

 which stands in the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, symbolizing the grief of France for her 

 lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Tn that day the great Republic will take to her arms 

 again her Alsatian children who for nearly half a century have wept for La Patrie. 



Francis Joseph, prayed that she might 

 rest. Even a savage would revere and 

 preserve the ancestral tomb of an allied 

 tribe ! 



Madame Mirman motored us to the 

 barracks on the outskirts of the city, 

 where the refugees from the Hun-de- 

 stroyed villages are housed. We found 

 as many as ten in one room — grand- 

 mother, mother, and children. With food 



and stove supplied, this was luxury com- 

 pared with life in their ruined village, 

 but with the shortage of coal throughout 

 France this winter, there is great suffer- 

 ing, I fear, in those bleak barracks in 

 Nancy. 



The old women make sandbags for the 

 trenches. One told me she had made 80 

 in a day. The children attend school, the 

 boys learning trades, the girls domestic 



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