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Lhority, to a British military hos-
pital of the Royal Army Medical
{Corps are points that I may not|
yet explain; and, besides, they
have little to do with the story.
Let it suffice that I came down)
from the north in a Red Cross |
motor with a fever that dulled my
senses, and, without my asking,
found myself the next day lying
in a three-bed ward in one of the
best known military hospitals in
Paris. There I remained twenty-
three days, and if in describing
the hospital staff and its work, I
appear biased—well, then, I ad-
mit it And I think every soldier
feels as I feel.

The beginning is hazy in my
memory—of being half carrried
jup a flight of marble stairs, of
jpulling off the few clothes I wore
|b fore the nurse in charge could
find an orderly to undress me and
jtumbling into the hastily prepar-
jed bed After that, days and
nights punctuated by—but that is

 

 

Jan. 19.—Why
sufficiently ill,
by proper au-

Paris, Franee,

and how I became

and why I was sent,

 

ry

Pretty Illusion Vanishes.

I remember first of all the de-
parture of a pretty hallucination
about military hospitals and
| trained nurses sisters,” as
they are called. I was just sick
enough to long for this immacu-
late nurse, performing every duty
with perfection, and placing her

jcold hand on my hot forehead.
As I lucid I

learned military

more
British

became

that in

 

hospitals, the sisters’ hand touch
the men only to change a dress-
ing, or to wash them, or perhaps
to rub on some aleohol and to feel
ithe pulse. This last duty is per-
| formed in such an impersonal
| sadunes that it is just barely one
ifinger on the patient's wrist
Where are the scenes of a
nurse reading to a convalescent
l f gentle hand on a
vered brow, of the hand-to-
hand Asp f encouragement
sympathy? I can say quite
definitely that these things do not
exist except on picture post-

cards and the cinematograph.

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ARMY NURSES SKILLFUL, BUT
T00 HURRIED FOR SENTIMENT

CONVALESCENTS SING AND ENJOY THEMSELVES IN A NOISY
WARD — PHONOGRAPHS AND MUSIC PRO-
VIDED SICK SOLDIERS.

On of

horse

the way to the defence

Paris last September his
had stepped on his hand and now
the arm was affected the
crushed hand worse than useless.
Hopeless, but Proud of Wound.

He had been the hospital
about two months, and had begun
but he took
found interest in the x-ray nega-
of hand proudly
showed them to the other wound-

and

to lose hope, a pro-

tives his and

ed who called from time to time.
I didn't enjoy him,
singing
adjoining ward,

nor the con-
valescents and laughing
the the

noise Of a phonograph with its in-

in nor

sistent repetitions of “It's a Long
Way to Tipperary,”
ing of the

to say noth-
of
Con-

twice-a-day clatter
pans in the secullery nearby.
I was

sequently most

told

disagree-

able, my nurse me after-

ward.
The
ful,

sister, always so thought-

whom I had come to recog-
one who looked after

day, asked me one

nize as the

me by morn-

ing, While washing my face and
you like a
That suited
and it was not long af-
terward that three orderlies came
With sur-

prising facility they slipped their

hands: “How would
room by yourself?”
me well,

in with a stretcher.
arms under me, raised me flat on
my back and lowered me without
a jar to the stretcher on the floor.

Stretcher Riding Is Pleasant.

I had an opportunity during
two or three minutes’ journey to
stretcher riding., I was
surprised to feel the smoothness
The only slight
caused by
head being perhaps an inch tow
the after bearer and occa-
sionally it touched his thigh. But
I am longer than most soldiers.

The quiet of the new room,
baths” bed, alcoholic
rubs night and morning had their

consider

and ease of it.

discomfort was my

near

the

in and

effect, and after ten days’ stay
there came one day with after-
noon tea a piece of bread! And
there my illness began to end,
and the rest of the time I
passed talking to wounded and
making observations.

A day two later a night sis-
ter, coming im with the 10 o'clock
thermometer and medicine, was
rad

here are 250 wounded com-

« tonight!" was her subdued ex-

 

Too Busy for Sentiment.
British nursing sisters, in their
always immaculate aprons of
jwhite, their stiff, white cuffs and
collars, their dresses of dark
blue or blue and white stripes, ac-
cording to their ranks, are, firs

After that they
but if they are sentim:

jof all,
cheerful,

busy.

 

 

 

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Nurses

For
orderlies
all day

and
duty

pectation,

who had been on

tal they do not let it be know lcame into my room with beds and
The sisters in this h ital equipment. They made prepara-
|were marvelously sk Iitiens until midnight, when the
| should say much mor » than | wounded began to arrive.
| American trained m s. They| Wounded Come In From Ypres.
jare serious, in the ad French | lwo soldiers who thirty-six
sense of “serie. if for no hours before had been in trenches
other reason tl that they are south of Ypres were brought into
not per ted to be traincd|my room on stretchers, and lift-
lnurses until they are old « igh|ed with systematic care to beds of
°4 vears—to know why they/fresh, white sheets and blankets.
& sh to be. Then the quickly moving fingers
Do Better Than Surgeons. of “the sisters cut off breeches
I have seen military dressers from the shrapnel grilled knees
surges students they are—jof one. He was a non-commis-
dress a wound, and next day ajsioned officer, who had been thir-
sister do it, and that she did it/ty hours in a hospital train, a
50 per cent better was shown byjtrain that had first been sent to
the patient's improvement. To see}/Boulogne, where the hospitals
two sisters change the sheets on|were full with 10,000 or 12,000

a bed

not be m

cecupied by a man who can-

ved an inch, at the same

time raising his spirits by their

subdued gayelty, is enough alone

to arouse one’s enthusiasm.

So with the original idea gone
in its place, which
began to like better,
days came and went, Every four
diversion—a sis-
medicine, thermometer,

with milk

and a new on

I soon my

hours my only

ter with

sometimes and soda

water.

The day they brought me there
were in the room several sol-
diers in various kinds of pyja-
mas or parts of uniforms with
bandaged arms and heads. One
of them, who shared the ward
with me-——one bed being empty
was a most mournful creature.
He had never gotten to the front,

wounded, and then to Paris.

Happy, busy sisters, who had
been on duty since 9 and 10
o'clock in the morning, worked
until! 2 and 3 a. m. From four-

teen the
fifty-eight,
this
that
opened as wards,
lying in my room, or ward, were
far from comfortable; but they
were glad of those beds, with big
box springs and thick mattresses.

Work Makes Nurses Happy.

The happiest people in the hos-
pital were the nurses.
sure to be a lot of
‘one of them
had told me before the wounded
arrived.

That is their attitude first; then

number was increased to
several floors of
hotel
were
The wounded

while
fashionable
used before

onee very

not been

“There are

interesting cases,’

 

 

it is to give the best possible
eare, When wounded become
convalescent the sisters’ interest
and attention wane The un.)
trained French assistants then |
assume some of the English sis. |
ters’ duties.

Several days later,
of bed, I
around the

Strangely

when I was)

out went frequently |
the |
the!
are |

to}
|

to
enough,
Where

seems

wards see
wounded,
inevitable question,

you wounded?” never

bore anyone.
Evidence of the skill of the sur-

geons was found everywhere.

Here was a soldier who had three
bullet holes through his chest to

 

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the back, who was kept day and
night in a sitting position. In
two years, the doctor told me, he
might be well again,

Few Amputations N y.

Amputation was rare. There
was only one man among the fif-
ty-eight who had lost a limb—his

right arm—and he did not seem
to regret it very much.

Those who were able to walk
strolled about the corridors and

the wards, joking and exchanging

reminiscences in the strange lari-
guage of the trenches. They were
dressed, for the most part, in
heavy French pyjamas or bath-
robes.

The day after the “fresh lot of
wounded”—to quote a sister—
arrived was a busy one in the
four operating threatres, and thé
hysterical shrieks and laughter

that sounded frequently down the
corridors were evidence that some
did not the
easily.
Cooking by Leading Paris Chefs.
Food! Misery was forgotten
when, the day after their arrival,
the wounded from the front saw
their luncheon plates. Quite dif-
ferent from trench fare were the
good things prepared by
the best chefs
along with i‘,
was beer

bear chloroform

one of
Paris. And
for most of them,
After lunch-
eon one of the French assistants
brought cigarettes. The
wounded had plenty to

or wine.
around
always
smoke.

When I was out of bed at last
I ate with a“

Tommy” in our room

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from a mahogany table covered
with a piece of oileloth. When
the sister brought us tea, bread
and butter and jam at 4:30
o'clock the oileloth-eovered table
was lighted by an amber-shaded

at the
paying
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Perey Noel,

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