The Children of France and the War

THE attitude of the children of France with regard to the war can only exist in a country that is invaded and partly held by the enemy. This fact brings the war before the minds even of children with a vividness that can not be the same in other countries. Children are creatures of impulse, their impressions are necessarily fleeting, the awful mysteries of life and death, that press so closely round us at the present crisis can not be fathomed by their unformed minds, but the fact that, within some hundred miles, their fathers, brothers and friends are engaged in a deadly struggle is grasped by most of them keenly enough to influence their lives.