Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-11-12
ANGEL Of WOUNDED
Sister of Car Ministers to the
Soldiers UntiringIy.
Russian Field Officer Paints Touching
Word Picture Of the Grand Ouch.
ess Olga Alexandrovna in the
Rovno Hospital.

Petrograd.-An elderly field officer
relates the following story:
"On arriving from the battlefield,
where | was wounded by three bull
let's from a machine gun | was
brought to the hospital of Rovno,
whore the cars sister, the Grand
Duchess Olga AleXandrovna, is work
ing
Il saw her imperial highness on
the first evening when we arrived.
The grand duchess, in the white dress
and cap of a hospital nurse, with the
badge of the Red Cross on her breast,
and a towel thrown over her shout,
der, was standing near an officer with
a bad wound in his side, which doc
tor was just dressing. When they
had done with the officer ! bowed to
the august Sister of Mercy; she gra-
ciously rendered me her hand, which
| kissed.
She made me sit down on stool,
asked me about my wound, and, call.
ing up another Sister Of Mercy, left
were dressed, and was put to bed,
At seven O'Clock in the morning her
highness came up to me, sat down
near my bed, and began to ask me
about how was wounded
Il answered all her questions.
was unable to take my eyes off the
kind face of the grand duchess.
Near me lay a captain who had
been seriously wounded. He turned
his head toward u.s. the grand du>I.
in low tone whether he wanted any
thing; then, slowly and tenderly strok.
ing his face, she said:
You are better today; let me take
your temperature
AT that moment a tall admiral
entered the ward. He was visiting the
wounded and approached US:
Lola (diminutive pet name for
olga he said to the grand duchess.
you will be quite III; go lie down
Il afterward learned that he was
the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailo-
witch.
Well. how are you getting on,
captain he asked my neighbor.
Pretty Well answered the other.
i am worried about one thing, but as
to my wound that Is nothing; it is
doing WE'LL
What is worrying YOU? asked the
grand duke.
- had to leave home and l did
not know whether my little son has
been received into the cadet corps.
Did he get in?
He surely got in said his high.
ness You will hear of this today.
How So?
do not be uneasy about it, What
is your name: What is the name Of
your SON.?
The captains eyes filled With
tears, which rolled down his cheeks.
The grand duchess got handkerchief
wiped his tears away, and saying
something in French to the grand
duke, took out the thermometer
There; you're all right today, said
she.
The grand duke went out. The
grand duchess called another sister,
told her to bring tea, and went on to
the other beds. All day long | saw
her highness moving among the
wounded. She either was giving Or
ders, binding up wounds or comforting
and soothing the sufferers, then again
going off to the operating room.
Il saw her with medicine and b.. a
in her hands during the operations;
| saw her day and night, early in the
morning and at dinner time and eve.
ming tea Constantly and everywhere
saw her gentle, soothing, slim little
figure, appearing in all places where
help and relief were most needed.
Her presence alone, with her
motherly ways, seemed to bring re-
lief to the wounded and make them
brave and patient in bearing their
sufferings and pain. This Sister OF
Mercy was the object OF our venera'
ton and unceasing devotion"