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w—-i ■ |PR1’.. ■ NO CANADIAN LAW M IN FLANDERS NOW ■ {• - ■ London, Aug. 1.—(Special.)—Col. Sam 9 Hughes, the blunt, forceful Canadian ^.minister of militia, who is now in this 9 country with Premier Borden, has many 9 friends here; but there are also many. 9 especially among the British military 9 party,’ who do not take kindly to his 9 ways. I remember being in the aom 9 pany of a very high official when the 9 question of Canadian troops came up for 9 discussion. It was said that "Colonel 9 Sam" was coming over and might give ■ the wav office considerable trouble, in; 9 that he would insist upon his rights to 9 supervise the Canadian contingent. "But," 9 declared the high government official, 9 "h© no longer has any authority over 9 t^em." "Don't be too sure of that," 9 ^id a famous lawyer. "Technically I gfl b.Ufpve it is a fact that even when the H < jtfTiadian troops are in France they are ■ still under Canadian law.” ■ "Well," answered the government of B ficial, with a laugh, "all I can say is 9 that, with Kitchener in charge of the 9 war office, precious little Canadian law 9 they’ll see in Flanders.” Suzanne Sheldon the Actress Also Active In Red Cross Work TEACHING CHILDREN WAYS OF NEW LIFE Has Had Harrowing Experiences In Nursing Men Whose Nerves Have Been Shattered By Shrapnel By HAYDEN CHURCH London, August 19.—(Special Corre spondence.)—On St. Mary's Green, Pad dington, a well intentioned but somewhat “tired” looking oasis in the middle of one of London’s poorest and grimiest dis tricts. just behind the statue of Mrs. Siddons, the actress which stands there, you may behold every Saturday afternoon and on most others of the week, a quite novel and uncommonly pleasant sight. On one of the hard, comfortless wooden benches, a handsome and well dressed woman Is reading aloud to a group of children numbering some 20 or more, whose bedraggled, poverty-stricken ap - " ■■■ You Can Have One of the Leading Parts In a Motion Picture Play THIS Is the GOLDEN Chance YOU Have Been LOOKING For Head The Age-Herald every dn>\ (hen you will know all about how to earn a FREE trip to CHICAGO and the ESSANAY studio. Five young ladies from Alabama will go and siiould not you try to be one? | Fill In the nomination blank, BRING it with your photograph (DO NOT FORGET THE PHOTOGRAPH) to this office as soon as you possibly car.. If you cannot come sent! BOTH to this office. Do it now—hesitation means lost votes. Votes count. It’s easy—get busy—earn two weeks J FREE trip to-Chicago and the Essanay studio; who can tell what this may mean to the successful candidates. Perhaps another Mary Pickford may be hidden in one of these candidates. Now is your chance; do not M Pass it by. 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There were two articles in Saturday's Age-Hera’d on matters relating to tht public schools which I read with very great interest, but far different degrees of approval. I refer to those by Mrs. J. R. Ried and the editor of your social service department. Mrs. Reid eloquently pleads for a full school term with unimpaired efficiency. She argues and truly that the feo chaigea in the primary grades will fall heavily on those who can least afford to pay It. No doubt whatever but that the city tom jnissioners and board of education would like to extend the school term rather than shorten it. No doubt but that they would much prefer to be In position to not on’y maintain, but extend the benefits of free education. Rut they are facing facts, not theories. They have only a certain amount of revenue to maintain the schools and must make the most of what they have. Many suggestions will no doubt be made to them and much advice will be given, but the only real efficient help more funds—none of us can supply, ow ing to some defect in our legislative ma chinery or faslt on the part of piesent or past legislators. Certainly there omrht to be some legal means by which the peo ple of Birmingham could spend their own money to educate their own children. In the meantime, in my opinion, at ’east, it is an unwise policy to curtail in any way the work of the grammar schools. There is not enough money to maintain free high schools and grammar schools. Then charge in the high school sufficient fees to meet the deficiency; but keep our primary public schools free. The ma jority of the children attending high school are the children of parents who can best afford to pay tuition. The chil dren attending the primary schools are those of parents who can least nfford to pay even nominal fees. The first duty of the city Is to give to all of its children a, chance to obtain a training in the fundamentals of education. Then, if it can. it should provide facilities tor higher education for those who can af ford to take advantage of them. My ad vice, therefore, in the interests of the greater good of the greater number would be, “Do not touch your primary schools except to improve them, and in high school education cut your suit according to your cloth.” The article by the editor of your social service department is one to which I must take exception. I do not wish to dis cuss such a question through the public press, but simply wish to state that the course suggested for our high school pu pils would be contrary to our belief and practice. Our church teaches that those subjects must be spoken of with reserve and prudence; and that the class room, especially where boys and girls are to gether, should be the last place in which I thejr would be mentioned. The parents and religious teachers are the proper per sons to impart all necessary knowledge and even the religious teacher steps in only to take the place of the parent who neglects his or her duty. There are many people whose religious convictions tell them that we should still stand "On ridic ulous ceremony with subject of sex rela tion." and to whom the old fashioned modesty is still very dear. That there has been much unfavorable comment made on the manner in which | the high school pupils conduct themselves may be true. If “many public places have become rendezvous for them after school I hours,” the parents are to blame for not I insisting on their return home immedl-; ately after school. These evils, however, ; or greater ones, which may possibly fol-1 low as consequences, are not overcome by : a teacher who will have the special duty of having “sympathetic understanding their little love affairs,” blit by a thor I ough training in the principles of moral ! conduct founded on their religious belief. , whatever that may be, and imparted by j those having authority to do so—namely, their parents and religious teachers. PATRICK TURNER. 1 Birmingham, August 28, 1915. pearanc© is in striking contrast to her own “well groomed” look and unmistak able air of distinction. These children, boys and girls in about equal numbers, and aged somewhere be tween 8 and 16, are representative little denizens of the surrounding slums, than which there are few worse in London. Did you harken you would discover that what they are listening to so greedily is one of Kipling's stories or poems, or mayhap a chapter from Kenneth Gra ham’s “Golden Age,” or from that im mortal classic, “Peter Pan.’ Occasional ly, however, the woman, who, you notice, <s wearing the red cross, ceases to read and, instead, talks earnestly to these slum “kids’’ about their own lives and how they can be made sweeter—talks in which she tries her hardest to instill into them what she calls a sense of “re sponsibility”—or perhaps dwells on some phase of the great war or some other everyday topic which is likely to inter est them. The woman Is Suzanne Sheldon, the American actress. Born in Rutland, Vt., she has achieved too large a measure of fame on both sides of the Atlantic, es pecially in London, to make it necessary to introduce her to readers of her own nationality. She was educated partly in Germany and partly in France, and speaks the language of a couple of other countries, but she remains a loyal daugh ter of the Stars and Stripes. She began her stage caieer in London as a “super" under Sir Henry Irving, whose warm friendship she gained, and she is best known, perhaps, by reason of her per formance, first in America and then in England, of the part of “Huguette” in Justin Huntly McCarthy's famous play, “If T Were King," the title of which, by the bye, she herself suggested. Since then she literally has “played many parts." notably with I^aurence Irving in "Bonnie Dundee" and with Oscar Asche In “Kismet." and, in the United States with both Ellen Terry and Lady Forbes Rcbertson. Her last appearance on our own side of the water was in “The Twelve Pound Look,” one of the cleverest of all Sir James Barrie’s playlets. The delightful way in which Suzanne Sheldon is befriending and trying to mak.e better little citizens of her small slum proteges, many of whom are the children of soldiers, is only one of the several forms of “war work" rn which this American woman is engaged. One of the others is nursing, and an especially trying form of nursing, at the London hospital, which is now filled to over flowing with wounded soldiers, and also at two maternity hospitals. She pays regular visits, too, to St. Dunstan's house, the wonderful Institution for the Brit ish fighting men who have been blinded for life on the battlefield. It was found ed by C. Arthur Pearson, who formerly was one of the Uvest wires in the whole London pubMshing world, but who Is now blind hlmselt. The mission in which it is housed war given to Pearson by Otto Kahn, the American millionaire. Her Other Activities You would think that the activities al ready mentioned (and her little friend* of the slums alone are no small handful) would take up all of any one woman’s time, but meanwhile Suzanne Sheldon is also playing hostess pretty constantly and proving a mighty good friend to various young Americans who have crossed the Atlantic to help Britain in the Mg job she now has on her hands. You should Just hear the letters from the mothers and the fathers of some of these boys that she read to me—not by any means in the spirit of the gratified Samaritan, but just in that of a woman who, having known sorrow herself, is plumb glad to get the chance to make somebody rise’s heart a hit less achy. And mighty sad and anxious are the hearts of some ot these American moth ers, who can’t understand why their boys, too, need to endanger their lives in the great world conflict. Probably few people—least of all in the United States— have any Idea how many young Ameri cans are now wearing khaki and what a prominent part many of them are taking in the fighting. Suzanne Sheldon knows, and she has been getting up every morning at 10 minutes to 6 of late to cook a “real American breakfast" for her soldier guests, and by pretty nearly every post she manages to tell one or another of their families whatever news there may be to relate about their “boy”—news that, more often than not, the boy himself has quite forgotten to send. The Ameri can woman'8 “foolish diplng room," as she calls It, where these breakfasts and ! other meals often prepared by the hos tess’ own nands are discussed, is quite j r wonderful one. It Is paneled in old oak. j and the table, fashioned of the same j wood, once served its turn in a monkish | refectory, and dates back to 1500. Suzanne Sheldon herself is a real “dear." Fair haired and good looking, she is an out and out good sort of an essentiailly American type. She knows “everybody” and has no end of good stories to tell of many celebrities. She has had her own war adventures, one may mention, and not unexacting ones. In order to convoy an American woman friend who speaks neither Dutch nor German, and whose husband, a war cor respondent. was in Germany, Miss Shel don traveled with the former as far as the Dutch-Ocrman frontier. There it was expected that commuhications from the husband would be found, if not himself, tut nothing of the sort happened. In or der to telephone, Suzanne Sheldon crossed the German frontier, and was promptly arrested. And remained a vir tual prisoner for a bit over a month, meanwhile being "interrogated" two or three times a day. At the outset, no doubt, she was In real danger. Work In German Hospital Later she nursed in one of the Qer man war hospitals. She did the same kind of nursing that she is now doing at the London hospital, namely, minis tering to the oases ot men whose nerves have been destroyed on the bat tlefield. either temporarily or perma nently. SoVne of these cases are terr\ ble. One of those in the German hos pital was the worst she has yet had to deal with. That was really awful,” she said. “Tlie man was a Prussian lieutenant who had lost his reason as a result of shellfire. He had been wounded slightly by shrapnel in the leg but the collapse of his nervous system was ins real trouble. For four days and four nights, or since he bad been brought to the hospital, lie bad not slept for a second. AH this time, more over, hour in and hour out. he had kept counting at the very top of his volte, ‘Ein, zwie. drie,’ and so on up to 66. It appeared that he had been wounded on the 66th shell that was fired while he was under bombardment. All day and night that terrible, ag onizing counting went on, ‘Ein, zwie, drie! “ ‘Drugs are useless in this case,’ said the physician in charge to me. We have given him as much as we dare. T wish you would see what you can do with him.’ I have some slight hypnotic power and my hands are Very strong. That is why T am good at massaging. This poor fellow’s hands were over his head most of the time, but 1 took him by both his wrists and held him down. Then, very quietly, in a lulling monotone, T began repeat ing that old nursery rhyme: 'One, two, buckle my shoe, Three, four, shut the door, Five, six, pick up the sticks. Seven, eight, lay ’em straight,’ ets. “Over and over again T repeated that jingle, and gradually he began to listen. I kept on and on, and at last after an hour or two bad gone by, be stopped counting. Finally, he fell asleep. Eventually I got him to sleep regularly. But bis mind was gone. His case was hopeless.” In this conectlon, Suzanne Sheldon declared that the worst cases of all those she sees among the British wounded are the "gassed” men. “Oh, those men!” she said, “they are in a shocking condition. Their lips are drawn back over their teeth so tightly that they can hardly eat. their eyes, with enlarged staring pupils, bulge in a horrible fashion, and the insides of their mouths are quite blue. The suf fering they undergo in trying to breathe is agonizing. Many of them are off their heads, too. Do they recover? Yes. but terribly slow and i they will always be subject to bron- ; chial troubles.” Suzanne Sheldon's "Boys and Girls’ Brigade” has been in existence a couple of months. Anyone who has ever so little a knowledge of the Don don slums and the folk who inhabit them knows, too, how sorely the chil dren of the mean streets need out side influences for good. The Amer ican woman had it brought home to her somewhat forcibly. Her own apart ment is in New CavendlBh street, quite a “smart” neighborhood, but nigh to St. Mary’s hospital in Paddington, which she often visits, there are some of the poorest districts in the metropo lis. Among the others who live there is a woman who frequently “chars” (or, j in American, “cleans up”) for Suzanne , Sheldon. One day, accompanied by this excellent woman’s little granddaughter, Miss Sheldon, who loves children, went to Paddington In quest of her “char." She found her In a “pub” almost help lessly drunk. So Mrs. Ainley kept the child with her overnight and. next morning, brought her home by way of Hermitage street, one of the vilest thoroughfares In the whole district. '“This was about 10 o’clock In the morn ing,” said she. “Sitting on the edge of the curb were 16 women, all drinking beer. Most of them had babies in their arms. As it was before 11, up to wmch time, according to the new law, no wom an may be served with drink in a Raloon, the bee*r was being brought out to them ! v masculine friends. As we passed one woman called out to *ne: 11 ’My gawd, dearie,’ she said, ‘I am having a happy life. My husband ’e in the army, so I don't have no meat to cook for ’Im, and on account of my five children I’m getting 81 and a tanner sep aration allowance, so I can ‘ave all the beer 1 want. My gal’s big enough to look after ’er two little sisters, too, so I’ve only the blby to after and I can keep ’im nice and quiet with a bit of sugar tied in the corner of me ’ankerchief an’ soaked in a bit of gin.’ ” This pleasant person, Miss Sheldon dis covered a bit later, was the mother of one of her charwoman's grandchildren's little girl playmates. The family proved ail interesting one. Not counting the husband, a decent type of man, now being trained as a soldier at Plymouth, it num bered six members. The eldest, a youth of 18, Is named Alf, and Alf is a bit of a terror. Within the last few months Alf has had exactly 16 different berths, and been fired from all 16. He resides under the paternal rooftree until such time as he Btrikes his mother, after which he betakes himself to his grandmother’s, and there dwells until, In the natural course of things, he assaults her, after w’hlch he returns to the bosom of his own family. A lovable character, Alf! The younger brother, Harry, now the “star member" of Suzanne Sheldon’s lit tle brigade, is to the low-browed Alf as sunshine to darkness. Suzanne Sheldon says that Harry is “wonderful.” He is learning all sorts of things and mean while is holding down a messenger’s job which she got him at Paddington rail way station. On the morning she met Drinking Man's “Favorite” Ruins his home, wrecks his business and sends him drifting on a pilgrimage of woe to the Insane asylum, penitentiary and Potter's Field. PROTECT YOUR FUTURE by taking the Neal Three-Day Treatment at Neal Institute, 815 South 20th street, phone Main 4510. Neal last It a tea la OO Principal Cltlea tomorrow only! / $1.00 & $1.50 / boys' blouses - 65c - the goods alone would cost much more than this Beautiful mercerised materials In the prettiest patterns Imaginable (white ones Included, too). The best that Blach's carries—bo you know they're mighty good. - ' *A!R AND SC1 I or IMlUdtNaHj^T Cb^AVE AX ISIS «l' him, his breakfast had consisted of part of a can of salmon, a piece of cocoanut cake and a glass of gln-and-water. “Gin is a pet beverage of these people.” Raid the actress. “Their favorite brand is known as ‘White Satin.' und they al ways speak of a drink of it as a ‘drip.’ And on it they become very drunk, one night, I remember, while I was playing at the Globe theatre. I saw' two women, one quite evidently the worse for drink, standing outside of a public house, near there, and called, ‘The Intrepid Fox.’ “ ‘Wot's the white satin like in there, dearie,1 Inquired the newcomer to the lady who had but recently emerged from with in. " 'Wot’s it like? echoed the second. ‘Well, look at me for tuppense.’ ” On that first moring when Miss Sheldon made the acquaintance of her future pro teges, she got the mother's permission to take little Annie hack to her own mother’s fiat in St. Mary's mansions. Half an hour later they discovered that the place was besieged. The unsavory crowd of men and women that filled it asserted that the little girl had been kidnaped. Quite re cently a child in this neighborhood had been spirited away and murdered. Suzanne Sheldon, who was wearing her Red Cross, and her sister, had a difficult half hour, but, after explanations, the crowd was lenssured. a policeman cleared the street and a somewhat unpleasant episode ended with everybody more or less happy. That was the starte of the “brigade.” Suzanne Sheldon discovered that the chil dren in the district had no playground, but their own street and the grimy Har row road. They were not allowed on St. Mary's Green because of the ‘'mischief” they did there. So she interceded with the Green's official keeper, and won the children this privilege, putting them on their honor so far as mischief was con cerned. Then the brigade was formally instituted, with the Green as Its headquar ters. It now consists of 12 boys and 14 girls who will bo vastly different young sters when the American woman finishes with them. "The women of these districts are hope less," she said. "It is through the chil dren, If at all. that their wretched homes must be brightened. I am trying to <1 ritl into them a sense of personal responsi bility (responsibility just like a soldier feels), for their surroundings, a love of cleanliness and tidiness for their own sakes. Our motto is, 'Every hoy his own policeman, every girl a little mother.' And the last Is especially necessary for, in such districts, every little girl of seven I or more has a couple of babies to look after. "This is war work of a kind, too, for think to what homes these soldiers who are being educated to discip'ine and trained to cleanliness are coming back. To wives who are slatterns and who are drinking all day long, now that their 'sep aration allowance' gives them more money than they ever had before. Can you won der that sometimes the husband of such a woman who has been wounded and in hospital, whose nerves are all unstrung, 'knocks’ his wife about when he sees the state in w'hich she has kept his home. "My great hope," she went on, "is to he able to get a room where I can teach these children, particularly Ihe girls. I am hoping to interest some of my friends and perhaps thus secure funds. These girls, forced us they are to act as nurses while only children themselves, need proper training so badly and need cook ing lessons even more. For not one in 50 of their mothers has the slightest con ception of economy in cooking. They boil their vegetables without ever thinking that the water, if regulated, could be used afterward as the basis of a soup; they never think of saving the outer leaves of cabbage. Nothing truer has even been said than that the waste In any Kngllsh household would keep a French family. "In their school these children are In difftwvntl^' taught,” Miss Sheldon went on. "They take no Interest in what they learn there, but they simply love to be read to. We meet on St. Mary’s Green every Saturday afbernoon, and as many other days as 1 can manage. I am teach ing the girls bandaging and tell the boys , to go to the barracks near by and see how stretcher bearing Is done. Resides reading stories to them, I rend from the papers about how the big guns are used and how wire entanglement?! are made. This In terests them hugely. The boys have magazines to read and, when they have finished with them, take them to differ ent hospitals. One of my hopefuls is named Qeorge Moore. He has keen black eyes, not a bit like the real George Moore’s watery bluet ones. Rut T never look at him without thinking of ’Confes sions of My Dead Youth.’ ” J III Orilerlnit: CIoocIm Tlenne .Mention TILK AGK-HRRALD ""] 1 f , ♦ ; f The Best Idea In AWomans Head I Have You This Idea? If not the sooner you get it the quicker you will congratulate ^^ ^ an economical and efficient gas range to suit your purse, installed in your kitchen for what it cost us, and too, we will give you FREE a set of the very best aluminum ware. 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