The Washington times., 1915-06-16
Miss Mona McAdoo and Miss.
Katherine Britton Happy
Over Adventures Abroad.
SAW RAID BY zEPPELINS.
Each Young Woman Indignantly
Denies They Returned Home
Because They Were Cutters.

It's a long. long way from the grim
American Ambulance Hospital, at Neu-
my, in France, with its background Of
battlefields from which pour constant
stream Of war-shattered humanity, to
the dainty boudoirs of the McAdoo and
Britton mansions. 1909 Massa chusetts
avenue. and 1871 @ street northwest, re-
spectively. ..g ..
And, having accomplished their return
from beleaguered Paris, where for the
past few months they have tended the
wounded Miss Mona McAdoo and Miss
Katherine Britton were inclined today
to make the best Of the home comforts
from which their recent adventures in
the role Of war nurses had separated
them. .'..
Yet when Miss Britton, had extracted
the last degree of comfort from late
boudoir breakfast. and agreed to a tele-
phone Interview, she gave quite a vivid
idea Of her impression Of what the big
war, stripped Of it's romance really is,
and she gave 1t in a single sentence
mo; don't believe I want to 60 back"
Saw Zeppelin Raids. ..
But that was before she told OF her
visits to the great battlefield Of the
Marne, and of the Zeppelin raids. and
the constant thunder Of the guns which
day and night, far beyond the city,
played a never-ceasing understrain to
the daily life of the Neuilly nurses.
From s in the morning until 8 in the
evening, we worked in the hospital
wards" she said. THE wounded thers
were mostly French. but now and then
an ambulance would bring Englishmen.
From 6 o'clock at night until the next
morning-for we had to rise early 10 get
to the hospital-our lives were our own.
''At first. there was nothing more ex-
citing in our existenSes than the con
an air raid over Paris. but when for
many weeks these attempts were unsuc.
cessful the city and Its environs came
to believe that such an attack coult
And then one day late in March-i
Is hard to remember exact dates at such
time-the firing Of guns much snlalle
and much nearer than the constau
rumble Of the distant fighting. wal
heard. The alarm spread that an at
tack was being made upon Paris.
Guns Alarmed Cities.
Then from behind a cloud bank slip
ped two big Zeppelins. They looked like
big gold cigars. Far behind them came
swarm of French aeroplanes. and I,
was wa the sound OF their guns which
Straight on came the Zeppelns. Owe,
the hospital they passed and steereC
strai for the ammunition factory al
Neuilly, and 1t soon became apparen
that me stores OF explosives were the
"As they passed over the group O
buildings, one of the Zeppelins loosed
bomb. Straight to its mark 1t fell, ex
side Of one Of the factory buildings
Miss Britton and Miss McAdoo, VIII,
sailed for France on the Lusitania, ar
rived in New York last night. TIL
daughter Of the Secretary Of the Treas
Both of the young women came imme
diately to Washington.
Each OF the young women indignantly
deny that they returned home, as som
Of the announcements of their retur
put 1t, because they were discourage
with the work they were required t
do"
Denies Being "Quitters."
II want it distinctly understood
McAdoo. I'VE left because our tim
as nurses had expired. and becaus
my father demanded I should return
AS soon as I am rested I want to re
turn. for the work was most interest
ing and nurses are needed"
Secretary McAdoo, who went dow
to Quarantine on the revenue cutie
Calumet to meet his daughter. told re
porters Miss McAdoo weighed less tina
100 pounds now, and that her healt
had been undermined by her arduou
work in the Paris hospital
It am mighty glad to have m
daughter back" said Mr.. McAdoo, "a
she has been a constant worry to m
all the time she has been in Paris.
am also glad she has an opportunit
to deny for herself the silly story abou
floor scrubbing.
Personally. I do not think she wi
return. She has had the experienc
and ! shall have something to say /
About two weeks before they lei
France, Miss McAdoo and Miss Brit
ton went to Tracy La Mont, where the
stood on the top of a knoll and. throug
field glasses, watched the fighting /
the trenches, a comparatively short dis
tance from where they stood.
Nursing appeared to have agreed wit
Miss Britton, for she said she ha
gained nine pounds during her stay
France. She declared the work wa