Excerpt from Exhibition of Contemporary French Art for the Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier Artists Through the Ministry of Fine Arts and La Fraternit Des Artistes, Paris: Under the Auspices of the American Artists' Committee of One Hundred; La Soci t Des Architectes Diplomes Par Le Gouvernement; Fran ais, Groupe Am ricain; The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects; The Museum of French Art; L'alliance Fran aise; January, 1916

In France, that fairest of all hyacinth gardens, the artists are in the trenches and Rodolphe and Schaunard are just Poilus like the rest. The hyacinth crop can wait; just now the crop of dragon teeth must be sown and harvested.

And meanwhile what of the Mimis and Musettes who have been left behind? What of the mamans and the b b s? What of the vieux? All this little world was dependent on the rapins for bread as well as for good cheer, but now that the b ret has been replaced by the k pi, there is little of good cheer and less of bread.

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