El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-12
NURSE Tells Of
AIDING WOUNDED
Food, Medical Attendance
and Cheering Words Are
Given Suffering Men.


aid and pity and cheering words are
given to the wounded thousands in
France by the Red Cross workers. How
all this is done is told in a letter re-
ceived here from Mrs. Deming- Jarves,
an American woman now living in
France, who is serving as a nurse in
the hospitals at Dinard~ Brittany.
She describes 1t thus:
"A train of wounded is disappearing
IN the distance as another arrives with
its freight of injured men. All the re-
sources of the railway station are
called into action. Soldiers quickly
sweep the dust and cinders from the
platforms: Red Cross nurses hasten
forth with cups of beef tea and cor
dials. The nuns cut slices of bread and
butter and prepare cups of steaming
coffee while the Red Cross doctors and
military surgeons hurry about prepar-
ing for the weary newcomers. Mill
tarv assistance comes, too, men with
stretchers, soldiers with first aid to
the injured, the major commanding
keeping strict order among these will
ing workers. On all sides hurry, activ-
ity, energy, devoted to ease the ago
MES of the wounded, helping them on
to the hospital The train draws up
gently, soldiers appear at the doors,
silent and patiently waiting; some with
foreheads swathed in bandages, others
with their arms in sings, again others
leaning on crutches.
Only Wait for Help.
'I could not judge of the number as
more wounded were lying on the seats.
One saw only black and white and yell
low faces peering anXlOusly forth and
one understood that these soldiers had
no words to express their sufferings,
they only wait for help
"A young doctor just commencing
his life of self sacrifice, his eyes heavy
with fever, his shoulders dropping with
fatigue, seeks the military doctor in
charge at the station and hands him a
list giving him some information, brief
and military, on the wounded hundreds
behind him. Some are so badly injured
they must have instant help. Others
may travel further, seeking from sta
ton to station the promised assistance.
Remove Desperately Wounded.
1.-THE more desperately wounded are
removed on stretchers; the nuns bring
cooling water to wash their fevered
hands and faces; the nurses bring them
food and hot coffee; kind hands replace
their sings aWryi boys ana girls
bring them newspapers, cigarets and
candies. All wish to express their ad-
miration and devotion to these humble
defenders of France.
All along the vast platforms are
rows of stretchers, each laden with its
suffering humanity. One counts the
men by the upturned boot soles. Alas!
those wounded in the legs. hang bro
kenly down. Here a wretched man
with a broken shoulder wanders to-
wards the operating room, installed IN
every railway station There. feeble
comrade leans on the shoulders Of a
nurse as he struggles towards the doc
tors awaiting him.
The more seriously wounded must
remain on the spot. The medical di-
rector inspects them, taking their num-
Der and encouraging them with a few
words.
Comfort and Kindness.
Now, my brave one, you will not
travel further; a look at your wound,
my friend, and then to a comfortable
hospital The wounded soldier touches
his cap, lifts his covering and shows
a dressing spotted with yellow and
brown, but has the strength to say to
the bearers, carefully, gently, my
friends, I suffer much and he looks
with misgiving on the ambulance, for
they are moving him again, poor fell
low, who has suffered so much.
"They lift him tenderly and he dis
appears beneath the Red Cross ambu-
lance, there to find a nurse who whis-
pers to him; Ny little soldier, another
moment of patience and you will find
myself amidst cool sheets, far from
noise and confusion; thou shalt find
rest and peace, and thou shalt be well.
Germans Not Forgotten.
"In the midst Of this .empressment,'
this joy Of helping, the German prison
ers. wounded and far from home, are
not forgotten. At the door of one Of
the wagons a little brown chap is lean
ing, silent but with shining, anxious
eyes. The Odor of good coffee and
warm bread are waited to him, but he
dares not make q sign, but how hungry
he is, and those good 'camarades' be-
hind him. who for so many days faced
death and famine in the trenches How
they hungerl He glances behind him
Here a man lies on his back, his eyes
closed. Another is gasping with his
hands clenched. Others are crouching
IN the obscurity. How hungry they
arei How the thirst burns! But one
must not ask mercy of,ones conquer
ors.
Suddenly a young doctor with a nun
at his side appears at a window. Bread
and meat are offered and it is the lit
tie brown wounded one kneeIing an the
window who brings to his fellows the
hospitality of France.
THE officers are crowded together,
heads swathed in blood stained band
ages, legs ana arms encircled in spotted
bands, but their voices are lowered as
they thank the kindly nuns and thev
squeeze themselves together to allow
a freer space to the more injured COM
panions. The papers brought to them
tell them of the battles in which thew
have fought and in the list of those
fallen on the field of honor appears
the name Of many a cherished friend :"