Jan. 19, 1917. 
NOR DHUSHOR EB RBZ 
A LETTER FROM FRANCE 
To the Friends of France 
in America: 
If you were here in France today 
you would be doing your part person- 
ally in building up again that broken 
and shattered soldier life into new 
strength and power—that soldier life 
which gave itself to be broken for the 
world’s life of freedom, and which is 
struggling back to strength again in 
the Hospitals of France. 
As you cannot do it personally, we 
want you to let us represent you in 
rendering a real service to the wound- 
ed soldier of France. The necessi- 
ties can be had in the Hospitals; but 
we want to do something more than 
that. Life tied down to the bare 
necessities is a hard thing to endure 
when one is well and strong; and you 
all know that life really consists, in 
all its hope and all its possibility of 
growing strong, in the little things 
which are more than the necessities. 
The best of doctors and surgeons are 
handicapped in their efforts to restore 
health and strength to the ill and 
wounded, by the want of supple- 
mentary nourishment. 
The Military Hospital Service 
Board has asked us to organize this 
special service for the furnishing of 
the extra comforts, the special diets 
and foods, the nourishing and appe- 
tizing things, which the sick and 
wounded man needs and craves; and 
which put new heart and strength 
and hope for recovery into him. 
We will need an automobile service 
to distribute these things efficiently 
and quickly, especially in the sections 
just back of the battle lines, and 
where anything more than the neces- 
sities is pratically impossible to find. 
For this we will need money. We 
will need money also to buy cocoa, 
chocolate, jams, biscuits, fruit, cor- 
dials, and all such things. We will 
be deeply grateful for the gifts of 
any of these or similar articles for 
this service. 
La Présidente 
MaroulisE D’ANDIGNE 
(Formerly Miss Madeleine Goddard, 
of Providence, R. I.) 
It is in behalf of this fund that 
Miss Winthrop is to speak in the 
Manchester Town hall on Friday 
evening, February 2d. Tickets (25c) 
may be had at Bullock Bros. and at 
the door of Town hall. 
“So you confess that the unfortun- 
ate young man was carried to the 
pump, and there drenched with water? 
Now, Mr. Fresh, what part did you 
take in this disagreeable affair?” 
Undergraduate (meekly): “The left 
leg, sir.” 
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REPLY TO SUFFRAGIST 
Editor North Shore Breeze, 
Dear Sir: 
In the “Equal Suffrage Notes,” in 
your issue of January 12th, the writer 
states that “even in Europe the wo- 
man movement is advancing * * * * 
because the war is so vividly reveal- 
ing the importance of women to the 
state.” I have so high a regard for 
my sex that the extreme scorn which 
suffragists feel for women’s work is 
a source of unending surprise to me. 
Only when women undertake the 
work of men do they cry out in ad- 
miration, “Behold what we can do.” 
There is a legend that in a certain 
savage tribe the men suckle the babies 
whom their wives have borne. The 
legend may or may not be true—! 
confess to skepticism—but the point 
is that whether such a tribe exists or 
not there is no further story of their 
progress; the swapping of work be- 
tween the sexes has not led to great- 
ness—either in fiction or in truth. 
The European women, because of 
the great need for men, have nobly 
undertaken much of men’s work, in 
order to release all possible to do that 
work which men alone can do. No 
one contends that work of this kind 
is good for women, nor that it can be 
done by them as well as by the men; 
iideed the more difficult work of men 
the men still stay at home to do. This 
taking over of men’s work by women 
is recognized to be one of the mis- 
fortunes of war. The first year of 
the war, owing to the great care given 
i France to women in childbirth the 
infant deathrate there was low, but 
this last year it has not been so—the 
time for the strain upon the women 
to begin to show has come and, 
through the women, upon the future 
race. No man was ever heard to 
clamour that men were as good as 
women because they could cook and 
keep house and sew—and bathe the 
baby, too, if necessary. Are women 
so much less proud of their powers 
that they must needs clamour because 
they also are able to do some things 
for which men are better fitted? 
The way to achieve usefulness is to 
ac well that which you are best fitted 
to do—to do it with proper respect 
for the work and with due self-re- 
spect, not untinged with humility 
truly, yet it is hardly necessary to 
feel, and certainly it is not wise to 
publish to the world, that you con- 
s:der the only thing really worth do- 
ing in life to be something that some 
cne else can do much better than you. 
If I believed what the suffragists be- 
lieve about the relative importance to 
the world of men’s and women’s 
powers I think I should be too proud 
to admit it. 
Mrs. Wiittam LoweEL, PuTNaM. 
January 16, 1917. 
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