The Living Present

e well built, rain-proof and draught-proof, but with many windows which are open when possible, and furnished with comfortable beds. In each dép?t there is a hospital bar

s and nurses sleep; a chemist shop; a well-fitted bathroom; storerooms for supplies; and consulting offices. There is also, almost invariably, a cantine set up by young women-English, A

Charity. There was a set of well-filled bookshelves and a stage in the great refectory, where the men could sit on rainy days, read, write letters,

to the eye, and certainly a haven of refuge for soldiers whose bodies and minds needed only repose, care, and ki

g the family stocking; and they are doctored intelligently, their teeth filled, their tonsils and adenoids taken out, their chronic i

the wretches herded like animals outside of Paris, where every man thought he was drafted for death and did not care w

ask alone. The moratorium had stopped the payment of rents, factories were closed, tenants mobilized. Besides, she had already

mmittee of three hundred, and she obtained subscriptions in money from one thousand five hundred fi

d francs, Madame Viviani contributed four thousand francs; the Comédie Fran?aise one thousand, and Raphael Weill of San Francisco seven thousand seven hundred and fi

almost immediate capital of several hundred thousand francs. When public interest was fairly roused, les pauvres éclopés became one of the abiding concer

ux Cantonments de Repos," was formally inaugurated on November 14, 1914, with Madame Jules Ferry as President

were seven hundred in one of the dép?ts she showed me), support the dietary kitchen and the hospital baraques, and supply the bathrooms, libra