Bobbins of Belgium: A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villagesKellogg, Charlotte
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Bobbins of Belgium: A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages
Kellogg, Charlotte
Brussels lace committee; Lace and lace making -- Belgium
An absorbingly interesting narrative of personal experience by the only
woman member of the Relief Commission, who tells in moving language the
story of the unbreakable spirit sustaining the Belgians and the noble
service the Belgian women have rendered and inspired in a land made
desolate by war.
Introduction by HERBERT C. HOOVER,
_Chairman, Commission for Relief in Belgium_
To quote from Mr. Hoover’s own foreword: “The soul of Belgium received
a grievous wound, but the women of Belgium are staunching the flow,
sustaining and leading this stricken nation to greater strength and
greater life. We of the Relief have been proud of the privilege to
place the tools in the hands of these women and have watched their
skilful use and their improvement in method with hourly admiration....
Mrs. Kellogg has done more than record in simple terms passing
impressions of the varied facts of the work of these women, for she
spent months in loving sympathy with them. We offer her little book
as our, and Mrs. Kellogg’s tribute in admiration of them and the
inspiration which they have contributed to this whole organization.”
_12mo, cloth, $1.00; by mail, $1.12._
_What Leading Periodicals Say of_
WOMEN _of_ BELGIUM
By CHARLOTTE KELLOGG
“So impressed was Mrs. Kellogg by the greatness and value of what the
Belgian women are doing to help save the Belgian people that she has
written this book, in which each chapter describes some phase or tells
some incident of what she saw. The simplicity with which she writes
makes the wonderful story of the devotion, the unstinted service,
the utter self-abnegation with which many thousands of Belgian women
are giving themselves completely to this work stand out all the more
grandly.”—_Times_, New York.
“Among the thousands of books that have been written on the
war, in this country and abroad, the pen of a woman has given
us the truest portrayal of the real heart of a heart-broken
people.”—_Constitution_, Atlanta, Ga.
“The pages brim with information and with profoundest pathos.
As you read some of them you will feel a lump in your
throat.”—_Knickerbocker Press_, Albany, N. Y.
“It is a book of tears, heart-throbs, and of devotion.... We do not
think that anyone who reads it will regret sending a son to redress
the wrongs of humanity.”—_Inquirer_, Philadelphia, Pa.
“The farther you read the more you will wish to read, so great is the
charm, so intense the interest.”—_Eastern Argus_, Portland, Me.
“It is full of the kind of stuff that makes us proud of the part
played by Americans in the work of saving Belgium from famine during
the long, sad months that Germany had its iron heel on this stricken
land.”—_Evening Star_, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
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