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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1915)
ie Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page . I In I I 7 j Exquisite Girls Like Lady Diana Manners and Miss Gladys Nelson Who Are Act ually Rescuing Wrecks of Shell-Torn Humanity from the Inferno of the Front M London, May 28. ANY beautiful girls of the most delicate breeding have Cone to the front to nurse the wounded to see the worst bor rora of this most horrible of wara. It must not be assumed that they have merely gono to the base hospi tals to attend to the wounded sol dlera brought to them from the front and carrier! to them through the. dangerous area. Some at least bare gone right to the trenrhea Into the midst of the Inferno of builets and shells and poisonous gases, where the air Is filled with the1 groans of the dying and the stench of the unburled dead and where the very soli trembles from the force of the new and devilish explosives that re duce humanity to & pulp. The sights that these delicately reared girls must witness can only be hinted at Many strong mea before the deadly fumes reached her. All the rinks of death and Injury, however, would seem to be less of an ordeal to a woman of sensitive nerves than the slhts she must con-' stantly witness. The bodies of dead and wounded have been turned black, green and yellow, so that they become In many Instances a carica ture of humanity. Then so furious is the fighting and so difficult the work of attending to the wounded that the ' dead have often been left unburled for days. The wounded ere often terribly mangled and sometimes left to He In the dirt for hours or even days before the ambulances can find them. Itefore they ran be relieved at all their clothes and boots may have to be cut from them, and in this process very often large masses of flesh come away with the garments. These and Other services are rendered by the women ambulance workers. , . The exquisite Miss Oladya Nelson has been doing ber share In this terrible work, and, according to last accounts, doing It very creditably. Will she come come tnrough the or deal a stronger and nobler character or will she break down under Itf One of the bravest English nurses Is Miss Muriel Thompson, of the First Aid Yeomanry Corps. 8he be longs to a well-known English fam lly. She Is a pretty girl of robust physique. She has been right up to the trenches In one of the worst ceo tres of carnage In the whole field of war. Many badly wounded Belgians, who had no hope of medical atten tion from their own forces, were carried by Miss Th'.rapfion from the firing line. King Art j'l Belgium , presented to ber oft 15 e U'efleld a medal for bravery. The beautii'ul Marchioness of Drogheda, a young matron of the highest aristocracy, la nursing the wounded in a houseboat on the Yser River, in Belgium, where some of the most terrible fighting of the whole war has occurred. This is the spot where the Germans put forth their greatest force in the West last October to break down the allied Hnes and reach the English Channel. The Germans in their advance either killed the Belgian inhabitants or at least drove them out and de stroyed their homes. The allies In their anxiety to stop the Germans flooded the country and destroyed hundreds more Belgian homes. The ".,jv-V The Picture Below Show Lovely Lady, Diana ( Manner, Most Picturesque Beauty of the British Aristocracy Who Has Been Training to Be a War Nurse. i ,v r 'IV. ,.. ., f r v 4 Cnslibh Society Woman , Turned Nurse, Taking Care . of One of the Hindu Soldiers Wounded at Neuve Chapelie. have turned bIck at the same ex- perlence, and even veteran soldiers are only able to endure their sur roundings by smoking tne strongest kind of tobacco. How the spoiled darlings of society will come through their terrible experience must be one of the mot interesting problems of the war. One of the most strikingly beauti ful girls at the front is Mtus Gladys Nelaon, (laughter of Sir William and La ily Nelson, who have a house noted for Its art treasures In Hill stroet, Mijfilr, the mokt aristocratic quarter of London. Sir William Nelnon is a great rail road magnate, having large enter prUea of this character la the colo nies and otner parts of the world. He is probably one of the wealthiest men In the United Kingdom. He has two sons in the army, and four daughters married to army officers, llli only unmarried daughter, Miss Gladys, determined that she would not do leu for ber country than any of her family. Mies Nelson is the purest and most refined type of English beauty. She is tall, lithe and athletic, with beautiful golden hair and a very delicate, fair complexion. This exqulMlte daughter of millions Is actually running a motor ambu lance from the trenches in the North of JVance to the base hospital. Bhe lielps to carry th poor wounded oldiers lo ber car back of the firing Hue and then drives them to the baae hopU&L (She has been re peatedly under fire and runa the rink of being aliied almost dally. he was within the firing tone when the Cermans frt htma their use of ,poUonuus Kaues, and llswas only be jtauee iiie bud a full load of wounded she moved to the rear ..lit ' '.. v ' t . j : 1 i 1 - t -A ' 1 Lady Dorothy Feildins; During An inter val F rora I Ur Work of Caring for the Wounded By the Yser River. - '$: ! ,v. "A 1 a tmMim . . .'.': v... .v;-. ;&., .-.v'. I ' ' ,V; ;..v -i'"";''" v' y' ''r ' "'. ' 1 ' . 'v' ' . .? . . , .; . . &:..... ; , . . .. - ' ,,.v.r,- . ...,.,r. - '- ' .... .; .. 'x';;': , A ' . , v . .- ..-.." .. . ..... ' : ' "'' - '-;.'v . ! " wS-:: ' " mm::m : . ''' " Iy 'v,'v.-y--'-''..-. v'-- ' v- 'Jl'':',:.V"'':,::.:.;:-, .;o.'":". , . . 1 v - , v .--. .. V.-; ' -v' '' k- I ,.','.:.. I ' V " : - "'-... : : ,. ' -' , V - . k ., , , :;s": : v; v i: v - " . ". i'- tv ;' . ' -v, '' ' y - : " , ' world has never seen a more pitiful and death strewn waste than this once very populous nd prosperous region. The Marchioness of Drogheda auu some ether English women are la boring among the wounded and starving on the Yser, within sound of the guns to relieve some little part of the unspeakable misery. Two of the most noted beauties t the British aristocracy are in train ing to act aa war nurses. One of them is Lady Diana Manners, daugh ter of the Puke of Rutland and sis ter of the former Lady Marjorle Manners, whose heart affairs have been of so much interest to the world. Lady Diana is one of the most charming, dainty and sprightly girls in the liveliest set of fashionable so ciety. To think of such a girl amid the blood, dirt and horrors of trench warfare gives one the greatest shock Of all. It has not yet been decided where Lady Diana will take up her dutlea in the war area, but her friends aay that her spirit is so great that she will go te the moat dangerous places that any woman baa yet ventured to. Another beautiful girl of equal so cial prominence who baa been train ing as a war nurse is Miss Monica GrenfeJU daughter of Lord ixisbor ough, one of the most noted sports men in England. In the earlier stages of the war considerable adverse comment waa excited by the numbers of society women who . forced themselves through their Influence with high officials Into the fighting area, where they were not fitted to be of help and were often a serious hindrance. This evil has now been nearly eliminated. With a growing aense of the awful seriousness of the war the moat frivolous of society women have become aubdued. Under the direction of such masterful mea as General Kitchener and General "This Beautirul and Daintv GIrL Mis. Gladys Nelson, Daughter of Sir William Nelson, One of the Richest Men in England, Is Actually Running a Motor Hospital Ambulance Through the Blood, Dirt andHorrora of the Firing Line." Joffre the army officers and other officials have refused to allow any women, however highly connected, who were actuated merely by curios ity, to proceed to the front. Only women qualified te nurse and belonging to - recognised war nurs ing organization are now allowed to go near the fighting area. At one time criticism was excited by the sight of Lady Deretby Felld ing, the twenty year-old daughter of the Earl of Denbigh, standing among a group of admiring French and Bel gian officers at the front It was as sumed that a girl of such an and such training could only hindrance imoni the flarhtinar and it waa even hinted that she was addicted to flirting. Whatever she may have been first, the vounsr Ladv Dm-nth now changed all opinions of her and become a real heroine. With train ing and experience now lasting for months she has become a most valu able aa well as courageous nurse in rescuing and caring for the wounded. Naturally a strong girl and accus tomed to athletic sports, she has shown herself peculiarly fitted for this kind of work. Many ladles of rank interested In the wounded have lately ah own their agts be a men. at has good sense by not trying to go to lt?,MKh if rea- Th htBd' an In! !L.DrheM of Westminster, who excited some attention at first by bustling around among the sol dlers in France has row gone to 111 here there is the greatest need of Good Samaritans. The hos pital founded by her at Le Touauet. near Paris, has done good work. The condition of Serbia to such that any woman who ventures thero must see the extremes of human mteeiy. The whole country has been turned into a charnel house by the invading Austrians, followed by the still more terrible typhus fever. Men. women and children are dying of disease without being able to find a bed to lie on or s root to cover them. One report statea that young Lady Paget had died while nursing Tyn S!i eBt, SerbU- Her mother ii the wel known American Lady PMe!' Wlie of General s" Arthurt frt VlVh' duhr is married to a distant cousin, named Sir Rich, ard Paget. British Minister to Ser bia. Later news came tbat young Lady Paget bad not died of the fever, but ahe is passing through acenes of horror that have not bee? known 1 Sunn tar thre mmmttutmm