been mobilised with Ms regiment. °ft was four days before he was con- 
vinced that Germany had lnvadod Belgium. "Oh, I was awful prostrated, 1 
he said. 'She Swiss were in painful woxlety for the Germans could get 
into the ootmtry at Basle, She Swiss troops were concentrated there. 
He told of the work for the French refuges, train .lepdo of fchem. His 
wife took per* in the work, also. She women had baths pre;pared for 
the refugee. (I laughed inwardly — I had a mental picture of the Swiss 
meeting the poor things with soap and water. " 2rom what I've seen of 
this country so far, I wonder they do not scrub us at the frontier— 
I never saw such beautiful cleanness in ay life as here.) Dr. B 
said the poor frenoh peasants were afraid their babies would "be 
drowned, they were not used to such things. All the refuges were 
bathed, put into clean clothes and fed, then sent on into small 
Tillages. One day a baby somehow got left "behind, unclaimed, fihey 
put the baby on the arm of a soldier and sent him through the cars 
calling "«5J| whom the child;' 1 " and finally located the mother. He 
told of a girl who arrived with i broken leg. She had refused to 
get on the train, f they were being turned out by the Germane— pre- 
paratory to shelling the town, I suppose— and a soldier 'had thrown 
her on the train so roughly that somehow bar log was broken g Xhey 
filled the Geneva hospitals with the sick. Altogether the Swiss 
seem to me the finest thing in humanity I ever saw. The morning 
I got here so tired and dirty (1 wonder they didn't scrub no) the 
lovliness of the place struck me as I came to the hotel from the 
station. It was so clean, it was a joy to behold after filthy, 
smelly Italy. But there was a feeling of something else that I 
took in in big breaths— it was a glorious day— X suddenly remembered 
that this blessed country had not been indulging in an orgy of 
murder. I guess that accounts for the healthy, sane atmosphere. 
I)r. Bric.uet said that Switzerland had lost 60 percent of her wealth 
by reason of the war, through iereign investments, lose of trade,etc. 
