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ready two wheel chairs for them. We are also sending 
out a gramophone and a pianette, as it happens the doctor 
is himself a pianist and a great believer in the power of 
rausic to soothe irritated nerves. Games and Flemish 
books are also real medicaments in these cases; a libervl 
supply of these would be very welcome. The chief doc- 
ter was an old friend whom we had known when he was 
in charge of a hospital at Dunkirk (which was evacuated 
when the town was bombarded), and he had been think- 
ing of our Fund and had just resolved to write and ask 
us for help when he received the letter saying we were 
on our way to visit him, 
The next hospital we visited was near E _-and 
was in a convent building. There were about 250 men 
here, many of them in bed, and there were two English 
nurses. They were very glad to see us as they had ex- 
liausted their resources, and showed me their empty 
clothes cupboards. These we promised to refill as thetr 
desire to give each man a clean shirt and pair of socks 
every week did not seem to us unreasonable, though it 
seemed quite impossible for them, as they were, to realise 
this ideal. A good real of mecano-therapy is done here, 
and still more will be done when they have the means. 
We next visited V , a depot for the mutilated and 
ainputated situated on the banks of the Seine. When 
the first idea was broached of having a school for such 
cases, a beautiful estate of many acres in extent was at 
once placed at the disposal of the authorities by a pat- 
riotic Belgian gentleman. This estate is situated on high 
ground overlooking the Seine, and the soil and position 
are all'that could be desired. The work of clearing the 
ground and erecting the huts only began last July, but 
already there are 600 men as permanent inmates, and 
there will be 2,000 when all is finished. There are work- 
shops for teaching them carpentry, metal work, basket 
work, tailoring, printing, architecture, bookbinding, and 
electrical fitting. There are class-rooms where the illiter- 
ate are taught to read and write, and where commercial 
classes (such as book-keeping, typewriting, short-hand, 
etc.), are held. As each new hut is put up new trades 
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can be undertaken, the idea being that with plenty of 
variety the exact piece of work which the man is able to 
perform best within his limits can be discovered. The 
officers have themselves done their part in the field, and 
can no longer undertake active service. They are men of 
wide knowledge and sympathies, and their whole hearts 
seem to be in “the work of making life again a good and 
happy thing for the patients, W hen one remembers that 
few of these ever hear from their people one can well 
imagine the depression to which they are all liable. To 
avoid this as much as possible a salle des récréations will 
shortly be provided; we saw the plans prepared in the 
Architecture Class for the hall in question, and the site 
on the edge of the hill. The men will provide their own 
orchestra, their own theatrical company, and there will 
also be a canteen. Each man receives a small sum for 
every working hour, and he is encouraged to put this in 
a savings bank. He has also his small pension of about 
fourteen francs a week as “disabled.’”’ It is expected 
that everybody will have a little capital at the end of the 
war with which to start himself in the trade he has learnt. 
There is a similar institution at another town where the 
same sort of work is done, only there they are already 
accepting contracts from the British Army, and are tura- 
ing out the goods as fast as they can. This depot is 
specially interesting because the capital with which to 
start 1t was lent by an English lady married 
Atter about three months’ working the capital is already 
repaid, and sufficient money is in hand for further ex- 
teusions and developments. A good deal land is un- 
dei cultivation and agriculture is taught scientifically, and 
the why and wherefore of every piece of work in the 
ficld explained by instructors in the class-rooms. 
The policy of our Fund has always been to help the 
Belgians to help themselves. The instances I have de- 
seribed in this article will show what a splendid use they 
can make of any aid that is given them. 
Next week | hope to describe the other depots we 
visited, not, alas! in such happy pect uens and also my 
to a Belgiaa. 
ETROIT’S debutante ball given by Mr. and Mrs. 
James Thayer McMillan for their sister, Miss Doris 
McMillan, at Hotel Pontchartrain, was one of unusual 
heauty and gave society an opportunity to meet one of the 
most charming girls in the year’s garden of buds. Mr. 
and Mrs. McMillan and Miss McMillan were assisted 
receiving by Miss Elizabeth Muir. Mrs. McMillan’s 
gown was an imported model of blue and silver and Miss 
MeMillan was lovely in a creation of white tulle and sil- 
yer lace which very effectively brought out her particular 
type of beauty. Of the many dinners preceding the bail 
Waswone by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Remick, and Mr. 
aud Mrs. Philip H. McMillan were among the guests aut 
auother. Miss McMillan is the grand- daughter of Mrs. 
James McMillan of “Eaglehead,” "Manchester and Was)- 
ington and is the cousin of Mrs. Preston Gibson. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. McMillan gave one of the 
r-ost notable private functions of the season last Friday 
night at the County club for their debutante niece, Miss 
Doris McMillan. The white-carpeted ballroom with a 
copy of Christmas greens and the walls festooned with 
greens and clusters of brilliant poinsettia made a fairylike 
piace for the 150 young people who gathered for the din- 
rier-dance, 
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Of interest to the younger set and a wide circle of 
friends not only in Detroit but also in Boston, New York 
sl ort visit to Belgium. -Rosk ALLEN, 
and Washington, was the announcement at a dinner given 
Monday evening by Mr. and Mrs. James Thayer Mce- 
Milan, of the engagement of Miss Doris McMillan, a 
debutante, and Stewart Lansing Pittman, Mrs. 
tiome Wise of Flushing, L. I., and the late Lansing M. 
Pittman of Detroit. 
son of 
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that man in the kitchen with you last 
Norah ?” 
“Did you say 
right 1s a relative, 
“Ves mum.” 
“He didn’t look like a close one, 
“CO, well, mum, 
cvcened the door!” 
Wii TE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Christmas festivities «it 
the Greenbrier consist of a fox hunt, a dansant a la 
giace on the new artificial ice rink which adjoins the sun 
dining-room of’ the hotel, a mistletoe tea and a Sania 
Ciaus dinner, all of which has an alluring sound, Carols 
will be sung around the Christmas tree in the spring room. 
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ormonde (Katherine A. Jones) 
of Pride’s Crossing and New York, who have spent Sev 
eral weeks at the hotel, are leaving for St. Augustine 
where, they will spend the holidays and will go later to 
Palm Beach, returning to the Greenbrier in the spring. 
INGreoe 
you should have seen him before you 
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