Intimate Letters From France During Americas First Year of War
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Mothers are only sent when they are ill or have infants in their arms, and what to me is the most tragic sight of all is to see a woman step off that train clasping in her arms a Boche baby, which of course they all are. If the woman is married she leaves this poor little babe at Evian as she cannot face the husband with it in her arms, but the unmarried girls usually keep theirs. Five of these poor little abandoned creatures were brought to our little orphan 70 INTIMATE LETTERS FROM FRANCE ref...uge the night I was there. It was an inexpressably sad sight to see them waiting in the hall to be admitted. But to write of something more cheerful, it is really a joy to see all these people march down the long avenue overlook- ing the Lake Geneva, their faces radiant, shouting now and then "Vive la France!" They are always delighted at the sight of Americans. One dear old woman with such a lovely face kept clasping my hand as I walked beside her to carry her heavy bundle (they all come through laden), saying, "Ameri- cans, our compatriots.
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