yf NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
tinued custom of flattening the babies’ heads by pressing 
them against a heavy wooden splint. 
The most exciting part of the trip, perhaps, came 
toward the end, when the trip to the Canyon of Chelly, 
through the quick sands, was undertaken. Owing to 
continued sand storms the party was held up for some- 
time as the going was extremely dangerous. Finally an 
old Indian, who lived up in the canyon, was requisitioned 
and the trip was started. Everything went finely until 
the waters were reached and then the horses sank stomacn 
high in the treacherous quicksands. The guide turned 
back -and having tethered the horses high and dry, a sec- 
ond start, on foot, was made. 
No stop into the canyon was attempted as the con- 
tinued sucking of the sands made any such move danger- 
ous. After this dangerous trip the only thing visible was 
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June 30, 1916. 
a group of tiny dwellings way up on the high rocks, and 
inaccessible. These were the ruins of a prehistoric peo-+ 
ple of whom nothing is known, as research in that direc- 
tion is still young. 
From the canyon the start for the end of the journey 
was made and by easy stages the remaining miles were 
ridden across the edge of the desert extending into Foit 
Defiance, New Mexico. This was accomplished without 
accident through the wonderland, which dry as it is, stil 
is full of the teeming life of the insect and bird world. 
Miss Rantoul from the seclusion of her Beverly 
Farms home, looks back from the quiet of her seaside 
life, to the hours of joy in the fullness of one of nature’: 
greatest wonders, the desert of America, with its thou- 
sands of delights. ; 
Call Sent out from National Headquarters of American Red Cross 
NORTH SHORE people have been working zealousiy 
the last two years in behalf of the French Wounded, 
the Belgian Relief and numerous other causes incident 
to the war in Europe. Now the call for relief is nearer 
home, for a call has been issued in behalf of relief work 
of the American Red Cross in connection with the calling 
of the National Guard to the colors. Miss Louisa P. 
Loring of Pride’s Crossing, secretary of the Essex County 
Chapter of the American Red Cross, has received the 
following call from the national headquarters of that 
body: 
“In consequence of the calling out of the National 
Guard for the protection of our southwestern internation- 
al boundary, the Red Cross will collect, forward and dis- 
tribute, suitable articles for the soldiers in the camps.. 
Every Chapter of the Red Cross is expected to make im- 
mediate arrangements to receive and forward supplies. 
Before it becomes necessary to actually begin shipments, 
full instructions will be sent to every Chapter. It is the 
intention of the Red Cross to establish receiving and dis- 
tributing depots in San Antonio and El Paso. Competent 
persons will be in charge of these depots, and supplies 
sent to them will be distributed in the camps in accord 
with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by 
Something About the Work 
N Mrs. E. S. Grew’s coach-house in West Manchester 
hangs an interesting file of letters received from head- 
quarters by the North Shore branch of the American 
Fund for French Wounded.. The one under the date of 
June 2d. was given to the writer with the suggestion that 
a synopsis be made of it for BREEzE readers. It is a re- 
port of Miss Elizabeth Perkins (a Paris Depot worker), 
who took a recent trip through France to some of the 
village hospitals. Miss Perkins writes: 
“T wish that all the nundreds of thousands of Amer- 
icans who have spent happy weeks motoring in France 
could see the country today. I do not refer to the destruc- 
tion, but to the desolation. Miles and miles of straight, 
poplar-lined roads, and never a sign of life or motion, 
silent villages with no more loungers at the trottoir cafés ; 
churches with neither worshippers nor verger. Occasion- 
ally the throbbing sound of a hurrying motor or a military 
automobile of gun-boat grey would whiz by on Govern- 
ment business. The fields were tilled and vineyards trim- 
med, but no sign of labourers was visible, The few 
the military authoritites. In connection with this work it 
is essential that the Chapters observe the following: 
“(A) Supplies cannot be accepted which are intend- 
ed to be forwarded separately to designated individuals. 
Supplies intended for companies or regiments may be ac- 
cepted for forwarding by Chapters, with the understand- 
ing that if such delivery is found to be impracticable these 
supplies may be donated to other troops. 
“(B) Supplies accepted by Chapters for shipment 
should fall within the following approved list: reading 
matter, games, comfort bags (See A.R.C. 115), pajamas, 
cotton socks (medium weight, large sizes), towels, pipes, 
and smoking tobacco, cigarettes, electric fans (to hospi- 
tals), chewing gum, chocolate in tin boxes, George Wash- 
ington coffee, evaporated cream, and canned fruits and 
other delicacies in tins. 
“wlany articles will be offered for forwarding which 
for sanitary and other reasons cannot be accepted. Per- 
ishable, heavy or bulky articles, and articles of food and 
drink which are harmful should not be accepted. It 1s 
necessary that the instructions of the military authorities 
be observed in all these matters, as they are responsible. 
for the health and welfare of the soldiers in camp.” 
Among the French Wounded 
workers of the soil whom we saw were old, double-bent 
women; even the menders of the road—in the only place 
where we saw road workers—were women. 
“After hours of lonely travelling we approached the 
towers of a medizval gate. We passed tarough the en- 
trance into a village street, and at the further end two 
other towers flanked the exit to this little town. A church | 
stood midway; a stationers shop opposite exposed fly- 
specked, unbought postcards in the window, but the town 
was as deserted and silent as the city of the sleeping prin- 
cess.” 
“Even in this deserted town the travelers found a 
hospital for the wounded. It was in a convent and kent 
bv the Sisters, who gave a cordial welcome. The sisters 
had dismantled their chapel, and the light shining througa - 
the stained glass windows fell upon a white table that 
stood where the center aisle had been. The altar was 
gone and the surgeons’ paraphernalia was at hand. It was 
now a refuge for suffering bodies rather than tortured 
souls, In the linen-room of this convent was a great pile 
