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aiaru nau iu icoo i,certainly, there are few soldiers who have borne discomfort with more zest and gayety.Only Building Upared a- Stable.For some weeks the girls fretted impatiently in Paris, awaiting permission to establish themselves in the army zone. Such things go slowly, even where the object is laudable and the persons concerned are above suspicion, but at last the authorization came and about a month ago the entire party was dumped down in the middle of the night in this desolate ruin. They slept in a shack, which had been built In advance, but when day dawned- on the scene of their new labors their hearts sank. The only building the Germans had spared was a stable and in that dw'eit the mayor of a neighboring community and his family, who had been burned out of their own home.But no difficulty could dampen the spirits of this expedition. The girls inspected the eleven scattered ruins of villages which were to be iu their care and, finding that in all the refugee population of 1,200 souls there were no able bodied men left to help with the manual labor they set to work to do everything themselves, even to chopping their own wood. The chateau had served the Germans as a hospital before they destroyed it. In the cellar, several rooms of which had resisted the general collapse, the girls
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Fri, Oct 19, 1917
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