War's Sad Paradox.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 15, 1912:
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    "What a paradox modem warfare is! While husband and father go forth to slay and maim, wife and daughter hurry along to bind up the wounds. While the former is engaged in setting fire to the villages or dynamiting people's houses, the latter offer them a cot under canvas, and while father is busy cutting off the water supply or poisoning its wells the tender-yeared and tender-hearted daughter busies herself with the obtaining of a few drops of water for the parched lips of the dying babe. How much more consistent were we in the so-called "dark ages!"
            HAROLD BERMAN.
            Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 12, 1902.