THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1917.
Adelaide Kennerl
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Ella Fleishman,
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Mrs. Max Fleischmann
Leaves for Cincinnati
Owing to the illness of Mr. Henry
i eiser, student of the balloon schopl
and a nephew of Major Max Fleisch
mjtfO, Mrs. Fleischmann has remained
arrort Omaha since the major's de
parture for France. Mrs Yeiser, who
was formerly Miss Louise Fleisch
mann, daughter of Mr. Julius Fleisch
mann, has also been at the fort since
her husband was taken ill with pneu
monia. Mrs. Fleischmann, accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs. Yeiser, left
this afternoon for her home in Cin
cinnati, where she will remain until
Major Fleischmann returns from
abroad.
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An Anneal for Children.
H Will von hitv nme cramps (nr the
children of the South Side Social
Settlement? Mrs. J. W. Robbins,
president of the settlement board,
issues an appeal to those who would
like to give an inexpensive Christ
mas gift. The games may be left at
the Campfire girls' headquarters, Red
Cross rooms, court house.
Thirty young Russian men or
ganized the Russian Progressive club
to meet Sunday evenings at the set
tlement. The club is to promote so
ciability and the better understand
ing of democracy.
A gift club, has also been formed
among 25 of the older girls. The girls
are being taught to make Christmas
gifts.
Announcement Tea.
Mrs. Frank H. Myers will enter
tain at an announcement tea at her
home Sunday afternoon in honor of
her daughter, Miss Dorothy Myers,
whose engagement to tieutenant
Marlon Brando was recently an
nounced. Relatives and intimate
friends of Miss Myers will be the
guests of the afternoon.
Dinner for Noted Men.
IlF. h. Divine of New York of
the"ibme Missionary society and Mr.
Bruce Kinney, general superintendent,
wejre honor guests at a dinner given
by Douglas county doctors at the
Loyal hotel Wednesday evening. Cov
ers were laid for 125 guests.
"Mother's Spread for
Soldiers? Bread' is the
Slogan of W.C.T.U.8
Camp Dodge, la., Dec. 14. "Moth
er's spread for soldiers' bread" is the
slogan employed by the Women's
Christian Temperance union of Iowa
in its campaign for "home-made" pre
serves, jams and jellies for the na
tional army men here.
Forty barrels and 20 boxes of
"spreads" have been delivered to the
cantonment through the agency of
this organization and the delicacies
liaveV' been distributed throughout the
campi'with some favor shown the
350th infantry and 339th field artil
lery, two strictly Iowa regiments.
Mrs. Bacon in Charge.
Mrs. C. W. Bacon of Des Moines,
state superintendent of the depart
ment of war work of the Women's
Christian Temperance union, has gen
eral charge of the work, which was
undertaken in line with . resolutions
adopted at the annual meeting In Oc
tober in Waterloo. "
Thirty-five cities and towns have
contributed so far in the campaign,
which it is hoped to extend to other
states represented at the cantonment
in order that the various state oi gani
zatfons may. concentrate their efforts
soley on the men from their respec
tive communities.
Thanks from Captains.
It is evMent that the men appreci
ate the contributions of sweets and
Mrs. Bacon, has received numerous
I"ers of thanks from the captains of
companies that, have been recipients.
After the Christmas holidays the
Iowa Women's Christian Temperance
union will undertake similar work for
the former National Guardsmen and
national army men of this jtate now
located at Camp Cody, Demmg, N. M.
The Hunger Flag Waves
From Belfry of Lanaeken,
Belgium, as Help Comes
It has been more than a year since
this news came from Amsterdam: "A
few days ago there was displayed from
the belfry of Lanaeken Belgium, the
'flag of misery 6r 'hunger flag,' and
the tocsin was sounded to let the sur
rounding country know that the' city
wm dying of hunger. There was nothing-more
to eat anywhere; no bread,
no potatoes, not one of the abso
lutely necessary foods. Measures
were" taken at once to relieve this
town but who can tell how many
hunger flags will fly from towns op
pressed by the bodies?"
Not only Belgium, but other sec
tiotis must see the hunger flag unless
every housewife helps us to win the
war, helps in the kitchen by caring
for not only her own son, but all chil
dren, by giving wise war service, or
by joining, or training to join, the
ranks of labor.
Foreign Sisters Are
Suffering Privation
' At German Mud-Camp
Another prisoner who has returned
to Washington from Holzminden re
ports on the dreadful state of French
women, civil prisoners, held there by
the Germans. They are forced to do
the hardest and most wearing work,
iei unraveling the nets of fishermen
(that the blockade has fut out of
business) and winding the thread on
reels. If they refuse and some of
them will not work for the enemy
a series of deprivations begin, the
itooL the straw matress, the bed are
taken away. If they still resist they
are shown the letters and cards which
have come to them from France and
told "when you work you shall have
these; not before 1" This is the well
known "Mud Camp."
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National Woman
Suffrage association, has the distinc
tion of being the only woman who
ever preached in Gustav Valsa cathe
dral, the state church of Sweden.
Seventy-five young women dental
students of Columbia university have
offered to look after the teeth of army
recruits before they go to camp.
Mairf parts of the .south report a
demand for women to work on the
truck farms.
The University of Alabama has 125
women students at the present time.
JJadte (Kirini .and Silmr
By GERTRUDE BERESFORD.
FROM "somewhere east of Suez,"
came the inspiration for this
evening gown, which is oriental
in line and decidedly eastern in color;
though it is designed for the "neater,
sweeter maiden of oar cleaner, green
er land." Jade green chiffon crepe
forms the plain bodice and straight
gathered skirt, which is the perfect
background for the girdle of silver
cloth, embroic.red in beads of green
turquoise, bl ck jet, sapphire blue and
topaz yellow. Babaric and splendidly
colorful is this cincture. Long stoles
of silver cloth form the shoulder
straps, and, passing beneath the girlde,
end in a border pf similar bead em
broidery. These stoles supply the
train, without which no evening gown
seems complete.
where food for, persons in the de
serted district alone cost $2,870,300,
were: Belgium, J7J0.001; lingland,
$!,0o6.520: Italy. $4,000, including
$750,000 for emergency relief work
due to the Austro-Gmnau advance;
Russia, $1,359,440; Roumania, $1,518,
309; Serbia, $493,203; for Armenians
and Syrians $1,800,000; other appro
priations. $U3,12; total. $8,034,574.
.For raising and collecting the war
fund the total expense is proving to
be less than 1 per cent,1 the deposits
being distributed among 3,500 banks'
in the name of Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo.
Fifty-four Base Units.
"Forty-nine army base hospital
units and five for the navy haAe been
recruited, organized and equipped,"
the report also says. "More than
12 of the army units and two of
the navy have bean mustered into
their respective medical corps and
are now seeing service in France. The
Red Cross is scrying 3,423 military
hospitals, both French and American,
through the hospital supply service,
which operates sixteen warehouses
and a motor transport system. Ap
proximately 15,000 .tons of material
hospital and general relief supplies
are distributed monthly from 'these
warehouses.
"The Red Cross has also organized
45 ambulance companies, with a per
sonnel of 5,580.
'The Red Cross , is co-operating
with local health. authorities m main
taining the best possible sanitary conditions-
in the zone just outside mili
tary jurisdiction at the training
camps and cantonments. Twenty san
itary units have been organized for
this purpose. The Red Cross has
placed field directors of camp service
at 38 camps.
Millions of Women Mobilized.
"Fourteen thousand Red Cross
nurses have been enrolled for duty,"
continues the report, "and approxi
mately 3,000 have been called into
active nursing service, of whom 2,000
are working abroad. Millions of
women have been mobilized for work
on surgical dressings, hospital gar
ments, refugee clothing, knitting gar
ments and comfort kits, and the
value of their work during the next
12 months is estimated a,t $40,000,000.
"Since April 1 the Red Cross has
sent abroad 13,336 cases of surgical
dressings, hospital supplies and
clothing, containing approximately
13,000,000 articles. The Red Cross
has promised to send 3,000,000 surgi
cal dressings to France every month
for the next six months."
More than 34,000 women, the re
port adds, have completed courses in
instruction in elementary hygiene
and home care of the sick, and 75,000
certificates of proficiency in first aid
have been issued.
Human Salvage in
France is Shocking
A bi section of France must be
rehabilitated. German shells and Ger
man wantonness have razed more
than l.(XX) French villages and towns.
A Red Cross worker in a report illus
trative of the utter devastation cites
this instance: In company with a
man who had owned a mill in a town
of 2,000 inhabitants, this worker re
turned to it after it had been evacua
ted by the Germans. The miller had
lived his life in the town and knew
every street, lane and house in it.
"When we reached the place," said
the Red Cross worker, "my miller
friend had to get a surveyor to locate
the site of his mill, so complete was
the razing of every building in the
town." .
The Red Cross is not going to un
dertake the task of rebuilding the vil
lages of France. But it has initiated
on the human side a comprehensive
plan of givinpc a fresh start to those
who have been left destitute by the
ravages of the Germans, hut who are
able to work. Here is the plan: To
begin by reconstituting 60 families of
five nembers each in each of four vil
lages. The hope and expectation is
that they can be made self-suppor'ing
and that the movement will spread.
From "What Our Red Cross is Doing
in France," by Marion G. Scheitlin in
the American Review of Reviews for
December, 1917.
Red Cross Putting Funds Where
They Are Needed Says Report
Washington, Dec. 13. In the first
semi-annual report of the war council
of the American Red Cross, made
public today, Chairman Henry P.
Davison tells not only of the work
done in this country and Europe, but
gives an accounting of the money col
lected and expended. He also points
out that notwithstanding the war, the
Red Cross has continued to adminis
ter to the relief of persons afflicted
by other disasters. It has given aid
in 64 calamities and recently answered
a call for help for flood victims of
Tientsin by sending "$125,000.
Has Expended $88,000,000.
"Up to date." says Mr. Davison's re
port, "approximately $88,000,000 in
cash has been collected for the war
fund. The demands, however, are in
creasing with great rapidity, and on
the present basis of expenditure the
$100,000,000 war fund will not last
much bevond snrinar.
Between May 10 arid November 1,
the report states, the war council ap
propriated Irom the war tuna
969,816 for work in the United States,
as against $27,885,816 for work abroad,
of which $20,601,240 was for use in
France. But as $7,659,000. which was
advanced to American chapters for
purchase of material, is to be re
turned, the net appropriations amount
to $32,613,659. The direct approprja.
tions for work in this country were
divided as follows: Hospitals, $503,
500; sanitary service, $184,500; camp
service, $2,538,729; miscellaneous, $9J,
487; total $3,310,316. . '
Appropriations outside of France,
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