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Title: A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lee, Joseph
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London J. Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is has been a heavy week for theFatherland. On the following Sunday was held the 174 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE yearly service for the dead. There were sixor seven hundred people present, againmostly women, and again all in black. Manyof them wept sUently throughout the ser-vice, others gave way now and again toaudible outbursts of grief. I could only see jone living German soldier, but who shall saythe spirits of how many dead were there ? A Polish Baptism In our walks abroad we have frequentlypassed a humble little chapel, which has beenbuilt for the numerous Poles who work onthe farms in the neighbourhood. One Sun-day forenoon in October, when hints andhopes of peace were in the air, I accom-panied the padre and the Roman Catholicparty in camp to this chapel, and waswitness of a very interesting and picturesquebaptismal ceremony. The low-roofed room with its humblealtar at one end, its walls hung with thestations of the cross, and perforated withwindows showing the golden dying glories
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SERVICE FOK THE DEAIl A POLISH BAPTISM 177 of the trees, was crowded with these ruralfolks. The women and girls were wearingquaint and brightly-coloured skirts andhead-dresses showing pathetic effort afterfashion and fitness of attire for the occasion.A virile femininity this, obviously built forchild-bearing. In fact, most of the womenseem to be in an interesting condition, andthe officiating priest has no fewer than fiveinfants to baptize. From these bundles ofbabyhood, which look like white bolsters! tied with brightly-coloured ribands, comesI a continuous, but not too vehement, crying,which, even to my not unsympathetic ear,seems something similar to the squealing oflittle pigs. Three women stand up, supported bytheir lawful lords, ungainly, in unfamiliarSunday garments, and diminutive besidetheir wives. Ever and anon one of thewomen performs mystery and mkacle withher fingers in the mouth of her offspring tothe temporary appeasing of its rage. The remaining two women, who areseat

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