Among the French Wounded Soldiers

THE war, besides laying bare many other things, has revealed the soul of the French peasant and artisan; and France had much to learn about her children. Visits made to the humble cottages in time of sickness and occasional dealings with hired workmen were the only medium most people had in times of peace of getting acquainted with the peasant and laboring classes, and such meetings, seldom if ever, led to any knowledge of their inner selves.