Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-04

moving placidly about their work,
Some of the nurses are fragile, pretty
girls, and others are buxom danes
who are. standing the strain OF the
long hours as well as the men do.
Most of the DANES are on duty IN the
Kitchens. and whether they happen g
be countesses or the household help
of countesses they take an enormous
pride IN the departments over when
they preside and they beam rosilN
when one admires their stoves, their
dish pans, their bread boards ana their
kneading troughs. II is scientific
housekeeping under conditions which
they must find extremely trying, but
they go eheerfully and methodically
about IT,
And so. in the asbestos suburb of
Lowicz, the fight against dirt and
disease is successful, but down at tho
old monastery opposite the abbey
church YOU get startling hint Of the
penalties which the CRIME OF war ex-
acts. For, chalked In white on the
ancient door of the building arc the
words
CHOLERA
Eintritt Streng Nerhoten.
This is supplemented by a warning
20 take nothing from this building.
Lingering around II also Is discour-
aged and. lest any one In search OF
another department of the hospital
service should go laundering into the
cholera section, there Is a big sign
which says that "the entrance 10 the
Feldlazarette is around the corner.
As you stand beneath the windows Of
the cholera hospital you hear a
mighty sound of scrubbing and catch
pungent whiffs Of disinfeetants. No
person Is seen to leave the building,
II is shut off from the world.
At Todz thirty-six miles away, the
"hunger typhus' is raging, but as II
broke out In July II cannot be charged
to the war, though the war has IN
creased its raNages IN six months
II carried off more than 1000 chill
dren
Make Villages Clean Up.
Appalled, by the dirt and disease
confronting her in her advance to-
ward Warsaw. Germany is making
the population of scores Of Russian
villages clean up. The people hated
the process at first, "hut," said n Ger
man officer in charge of the work
they are beginning TO like il, they
truly arc anu AGt1 NANfi hV ~ NAAh
task with quite good Will" In fact
one Of the results of this war Is that
Germany has given parts of Europe
the most thorough cleaning they ever
had and perhaps, before the end
comes, will have established usages
that will last longer than the treaty
Of peace itself
But staggering tasks in merely ele-
mentary sanitation remain to be per-
formed More than the devastation
1t is the dirt In Polish Russia that
maketh the heart sick Dirt every
wherel" cried a pink and fastltious
prussan--'dirt on the walls, dirt on
the floors, dirt on the ceilings, dirt on
the stairs, dirt in the courts. and dirt
in some places where you would think
II could not stick. In a thousand
years these people have not learned
a new thing about sanitation
One day In one Of these towns gives
you ample cause to understand why
the Baedecker advises the traveller 20
take his own supply Of insect powder
along with him into Russia. So much
for the sleeping rooms. As for the
Kitchen. Il haven't eaten my peek Of
dirt since landing here 1t has not been
for lack of being hungry.
The aspect of this town is drear end
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