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iZbzj History and
Doctrine Alike Are
Shown in Today's
Frigh tful Records of
the Modern Hun's
Barbarity to the Sex
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Luminals'- Famous Picture of the Death of Queen Brunhilda, Who Was Tied to the Heels of a Wild
Horse by Men Described as the Ancestors of the Modern Prussian Barbarians.
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T-lTIRT trtth record of tb brtr I crinn auch crtnioo woro no matter forfait and moat loaultlaz inditfntUaa upoa
M . r OTt, wocttimw!, a oaojr crueinca on a oara I IB a
1 1 . " . " door baloa; an Immaaao amuaomaot.
arooaad aaaw tha ao-r of taa etl-
Laad world. It may hao bacn aa a
lcatad fact of klatory tbat woraaa pay
a frfrhrf al prlca la war. bot tha world
had coma complacantiy to ballcva that
tao worn martyrdom baloasod to tha
ipat to daya of cin war.
rBaala'a war m rovaajad tha awr-
Ivlvai of tha laatlncta bllard to ha to
lan oradleatad by tlma.
tho flrat atoriaa of atroritlaa
Itn Baliclum ramo to tbo cumcIouibmi
!of mankind tkaro wM InrradaHty. It
waa aov-haabla that la tho 10th cen
tury dailborata aad atla crualty
Ianouid run amuck la a hclpleaa land.
Hut taattraoay has so sftaa bn
kroaa-ht from tha vary men la Mck
hay waro oaaetad Chat Incredulity
was forcad to iw. Ballaf at taat
bocams InaTltabla.
Moraorer. tho Frnaslaa himself flt
loo rhaaria. lo a tipa of taaa caeah.s
rtrls bacamo a commoaplaoo lnoldant.
Tbo shuddara of a world outsldo
aroasad laarhtsr aad rldlcula. Erarr-
tbina; not Prussian was csilsd Insf
ficlaocy aad saoUmactaiity.
Tha aavaa-ory of tho Prussian, onoo
that asnravary la chailonvod, oartainly
baa htstorto prooodraC Tbo hlatory of
Ooth and Uu aad of aary broad mla
Vlrd la tbo blood of tho oiodorn alava
drlTara of Lhasa anfortuBata pooplo lav
belad ndr tbo titla of 'Veatral now.
rs" bava a black racord. a rocord
ahaatly not only for thlns doaa. but
for thlon praacbad. With tha aaclent
PruasJaa crualty waa a craaA aspo
cially crualty toward woman.
Not a van tha racaa rocornfsod as tha
most barbarous la tho world aavo
squaled Prussia In a coatatnptuoua at
tuuda toward woman. Tha Prussian a
bast thaory of driuiatloa loft women
but a aarvlle position, aad. onoo clTea
00 asloa os axcuaa. he waa fton Iha
LamlDals picture of tha fata of
Quean Brunhilda he calls It "The
Death of Brun Uaut" vividly sym bo
ll xs tha cruelty of which the modern
world la aeclns; but a sllg-btly differ
ent varsiea. Poor Brunhilda waa
dracred at the beela of a wild stal
lion until death mercifully ended her
torture.
That master of Runs. Attlla. makes
all other ho ma a beasts of history look
tame. Ills treatment of women la pic
tured as transcendins; la Ineenloua hor
ror anything recorded elsewhere.
Tho Modem Baa.
Bat asrer asalnat the modern Pros
lan la not based on history. In tl)
oonfuslon of races It la easy for the
Pruaalaa to detach himself from the
Hua or even from the Goths. Men are
to bo Judged by what they are rather
than by theorise of descent. And It Is
by his own record that the Prussian Is
DiUeieH italgxa mankind, Zsuay'a
rrowlns; list or disasters to woman
hood la enough to convict.
Miss Burleigh, a war correspondent.
aa was her famous father before her,
says, "When you hear of a hatch of If
or 20 Belgian civilians being shot down.
It Is because their women are wanted.
In describing an eye-witness story she
adds: He went to Investigate screams
and through a window saw a woman
stripped and bound, with II German
officers standing; about her."
Thousands of such narratives may
only represent one aide of a story. It
may be claimed that the most clrcnnv
stantlal accounts are biased, that they
may be Invented or distorted. But the
number la very great and the testimony
is very explicit. Also the strong sup
porting factor la the Prussian declara
tion of principles, the Prussian con
tempt for what the rest of the world
calls decency, the Prussian ridicule of
pledgee, and, above ail. positively
known and frequently exemplified
Prussian attitude toward women. Only
a recognition of this attitude Is needed
to-explain the treatment of women by
Prussians In the captured cities and
villages of Belgium and Franca.
Carnival of Crimes.
War loosens the bonds' that hold men.
no matter of what race, but there la a
Una beyond which ordinary human
creatures do not go. These are purely
Individual restraints that are supposed
to prevent the extremes of atrocity.
Unless the testimony ao familiar to
those who have studied the calamities
of the war are unanimously untruthful
tha Pruaalaa has made a carnival of
crime against women.
That his phllosphy m&kaa this easy
Is shown by the latest reports of the
Prussian attitude toward the women
of his own land and tha lands of tha
allies he dominates. These reports
suggest, and more than suggest, a de
sire to gain "cannon fodder" for the
future by. smashing the traditions of
marriage and the home and setting up
promiscuous relationship.
Francis Gribble. the British writer.
cites a typical incident in th- strange
propaganda now Infecting Germany.
"On top of these reports we get a
pamphlet, published at Cologne by a
certain Herr Karl Hermann-Torges,
setting the stamp of philosophic ap
proval on these polygamous (or rather,
polyandrous) proceedings. The title of
this remarkable work Is "The Sec
ondary Marriage as the Only Means for
the Creation of a New and Powerful
Army an dthe Purification of Morals.'
Now Preaching Polygamy.
Tt preaches polygamy as a religion
and expounds It as a programme for
the rapid regeneration of an empire
weakened by heavy losses In the field
and Impaired vitality at home. The
scheme propounded to be worked out
by 'the women and the clergy, assisted
by the state' la, broadly speaking, as
follows:
"It Is to be up to' every German
spinster, on attaining a certain age, to
contract an alliance to be styled a
! 'secondary marriage' with some mar
ried man to whom she feels affection
ately disposed. In order that unpleas
antness may. be avoided, it will be 'up
to' every legitimate wife to give free
and amiable consent to her husband's
extra conjugal amours.
"In order that the secondary wife
may feel quite sure she Is an honest
woman, she must wear a secondary
wedding ring of elegant and readily
recognizable design. But the union
will not be permanent. It will be dis
soluble at any. time at the wish of
either party, and if neither of the
parents has any love for the children
resulting from it, the state wiU take
charge of them and bring them up to
some useful calling.
"The immediate fortune of the in
fants, therefore, will be that of found
lings; and, in the end, the boys will
become 'a caste of soldiers like the
Turkish Janissaries, and the girls a
caste of domestic servants in time of
peace, and munition workers in time
of war. All that, admittedly, in order
that Germany may recover quickly
from her losses and rear a fresh breed
of Huns to overrun Europe again is;
another 20 years' time."
A Swiss newspaper, commenting on
this situation, says:
"We assert that if the German na
tion, and all German women in par
ticular, do not repudiate with furious
Indignation this filthy propaganda on
the part of a state which is utterly
materialized and has fallen away al
together from every kind of Christian
civilization, they are assuming a dis
grace that can never be wiped out."
The origin of propositions such as
real civilization is now resenting so
bitterly rests not so much in a theory
of expediency as in downright contempt
for women, a contempt illustrated in
thousands of historic cruelties and ex
emplified day by day in the captured
areas of Belgium and France.
One appalling outcome or iTusslan-
Ism's individual crimes of this sort Is
expressed in the comment of a recently
returned, traveler. "The duty of the
allies to punish Germany for her crimes
against laws and against ordinary
human decency is the greatest obstacle
to peace, he asserted.
LORRAINE, OLDEST AND MOST ROMANTIC SPOT
IN FRANCE, IS STILL PRIDE OF FRENCH PEOPLE
Although Thousands of Americans "Hare Done" Europe in the Past, Only Hundreds Have Succeeded in Setting
Foot in' the Vosges, in the Department of the Meuse, or Meurthe Toul Is Historic Town.
OlOMB one, the other day some one the reptiles very much as that other
St. Patrick, rid Ireland
St. Clement, it should be
recalled, was not the only beatified one
that killed dragons, for the legends 01
Swho was speaking for publication, I sainted hero,
or In nlt of Ir referred tn the. of na- I
American sector in Lorraine, France,
as the east coast of the United States,
and rather hastened our appreciation
of the fact that our bounds now ex
tend beyond the Atlantic
Lorraine, one of the oldest and most
romantic regions in France, It should
be remembered, does not exist only
on the German aide of the Interna
tional boundary. There is a French
Lorraine, which is stlU the pride of
tho French, and Justly, for it is a re
gion of romance and history that sel
dom has been touched by the foot of
tourist, because probably It Is outside
the ordinary routes of the globe trot
ter's line of least resistance.
Thousands of Americans have "done
Europe" In the past, but only hun
dreds have set foot In 'the Vosges, In
the Department of tho Meuse or
Meurthe. Jt is true some of them have
made a determined effort to reach the
place where there still Is to be shown
the home of France's heroine Joan of
Arc, In Doraremy; but there Is a great
deal to be seen In this part of France
if one starts out with some little Idea
of the past and the personages con
nected with this ancient and beautiful
country.
Lorraine at one time far back In
the hlstorio past was a rather exten
sive country by Itself. It extended
from Italy to the North Bes, and It
was peopled by those peoples that
Caesar referred to as Gauls. There
were numerous little duchies and
principalities, whose petty chiefs were
more or less constantly engaged In
quarreling. The Rhine In those days
formed the eastern bounds of the
country and the people were not Teu
tonic, neither were they Roman, al
though at one time claimed for the
Holy Roman Empire, which it has
been pointed out bad the distinction of
being neither holy or Korean.
In Lorraine, until part of the an
cient province came under German
hands after tho Franco-Prussian war.
German was a language that was
never heard spoken and not at all un
derstood, which seems to put aside the
claim of the Germans that the people
really were German and that Ger
many was only taking back her own.
The history of the province aoes not
bolster up any claims of that charac
ter. There Is no need to rehearse that
history, which Is long and much in
volved for such a little land, but the
Lorrainers know It by heart. They
are proud of it, aa they are of their
great men and women of the past.
Lorraine, including that part or it.
ow In German hands. Includes four
large cities, each of them cathedral
towns Metr, now German; Tout,
Nancy and Verdun. Toul Is one of
the most ancient cities in France. At
Plomblereo one Is taken to the Roman
aths. and In Meta one may see the
Identical arena, from which legend
states the blessed St. Clement lassoed
the' dragons and threw them in the
river Moselle, thus ridding Franco of
tha saints give us at least a dozen
examples, including St. Geonge. of.Kng
land.
At the end of one of the widest
avenues in the city of Mets stands the
fine bronze statue of the dashing and
unfortunate Marshal Ney". the best
loved of all the marshals of Napoleon,
who was executed for standing by his
chief when he returned from Elba on
that fateful Hundred Days. Ney was
the son of a poor cooper, and It is
near the dace where the statue stands,
when the republic called in 17s. tnat
he rushed to the colors and enlisted
In tha hussars.
But all the stories of Lorraine ane
not about literary celebrities. 'mere
have bean others of more historic im
portance. It was over part or Lor
raine that King Jttene ruiea. ana
this land also were the kings er aunes,
I.nfhair. who have lent theis names, if
not their reputations, to gay and debo
nair cavaliers of succeeding ages. In
this land of story also the Dukes or
Guise ruled and fought and put their
hands in various diplomatic or political
murders, and from this region came
the maid that placed the first great
French King on his throne and sought
to unite all France.
At Nancy, the handsome frontlen cap-
Ital of the province, there are a fine
cathedral, ancient remains and a most
elaborate triumphal arch. TheV will
also show you the house where Callot.
tha erreat French artist, resiaea, ac
cording to tradition. At Nancy also
can be seen the old ducal palace, the
squares, the parks and the statues. In
cludlns- one of Thiers, the French Pnes
ident whose valiant efforts saved
Meiirtha ind Moselle to France. But at
Toul stands the more ancient cathedral.
for a, earlv as the fourth century ine
Toulouse had begun to erect a church,
which was the predecessor of tho pres
ent cathedral.
Toul Is the oldest town in this sec
tion of France. Like Nancy and other
of these ancient cities, its story in
eludes tales of sieges, for one duke or
klne after another took these towns
in Lorraine In tne ouien times wnen
ever these noble and princely monarchs
thought themselves strong enough to
make the attempt.
Bar-le-Duo Is another old town, but
this one Is in the department of the
Meuse, which has had an eventful his
tory and has entertained kings and
dukes voluntarily and involuntarily as
the circumstances ordered it. It is in
teresting, however, to note that in Bar,
in 1559, Francis II and Mary iatuart
were entertained at a gorgeous fete
at which the features were a granc
ballet and the recital of the Inevitable
verses, this time' composed by the
famed Ponsard. It should be under
stood that the ballets of this period
bora no resemblance to the dances we
call by that name today. , They, for
the great part, were executed by extravagantly-bedecked
i cavaliers on
horses, also glowing in highly colored
cloths and ribbons.
The past of Lorraine is as colorful as
anything in any. part ot France, and ,
a mere catalogue of the great person
ages who are claimed for this section
of the country would fill considerable
space.
HOME DAMAGED BY FLAMES
Mrs. Ogden Mills Routed From Her
Bed by Fire.
WASHINGTON, March 1. Mrs.Ogdett
Mills, society leader of Washington and
New York, was routed from her bed
by a fire originating from a defective
fireplace in her residence here, 1841
Sixteenth street Northwest.
A log fire has been kept burning in
Mrs. Mills' bedroom for several daya
and extra wood was thrown on when
she went upstairs to retire. The blaze
soon was roaring up the chimney. The
Intense heat caught fire to the wood
work under the tile In front of tha
fireplace and shortly after Mrs. Mills
retired the room was filled with smoke.
An alarm, was sent In and engine
company No. 9 responded The blaze
had burned through the floor and dam.
aged the celling of the drawing-room
when the firemen arrived. The blaze
was extinguished with an estimated
loss of $200.
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