New Britain herald., 1915-11-10

stumps. We thought as we were soon
 to be in the building we'd better have
 the dispensary near us, so as to work
 more easily and also to see patients
 who come from afar and arrive at odd
 times. I think we'll have to find
 better place, still near our hospital | Dr. Taylor-Jones and l have slept l here in the hosptal two nights, as | we were rather crowded out of the house where we were so fortunate to 1 find refuge for the six weeks we have l been here-almost seven, and no letters from home! The house, or | the rooms, rather, are rented by the | sanitary commission sent out by the Rockefeller institute six months ago. pr. Strong, the head, invited us there on our arrival, and I don't know how we'd have got along if he hadn't There's no hotel here. Every Ameri-
 can or other foreigner, goes to
 large hospital, where all the women
 sleep in one ward, all the men in an-
 other. There is no privacy; all wash
 in the one basin that stands on a
 bench at one side of the ward. The
 "chambermaid' Serbian man-is
 apt to walk in to clean up when one is
 in the midst of ones ablutions. The
 beds have many inhabitants beside the
 legitimate human ones. The hop
 sacking-I can't think of the common name-tick is stuffed with straw; pill low-same nature.
 To finish about our former home. | pr. Strong had three rooms and a l large hall in a very fine house. We ! were the sole occupants from the time we arrived except for two days at the first, when Dr. Strong and a friend were there. don't know how I should have pulled through my severe illness if I'd been in the hos pital I've been describing, where our nurses-poor things-are still quar- tered. The food is said to be quite good, and they seem reconciled to their lot, but it is dirty place. It's dirty country, and no mistake; but the men are brave, and the women patterns of industry, and there is great need for the work we are doing, ' and hope to do more fully l am very glad to be here, but I wonder what the work will be through the winter. We'll, I'll do my best, whether it be babies or wounded soldiers.
 Dr. Taylor-J ones doesn't know how she is going home. She had planned to go to Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest | Munich and Switzerland and sail from Bordeaux. Now that's all off. Salon. ique is said to be closed, too. If she | doesn't get away, you won't get this letter!
 The weather has been superb for a week-warm, sunny days and . cold, cold nights. I wish you could see Nish on a market day-especially day! Such a squealing you never heard! and the pigs will never go the way they should-they are frightfully stubborn. There you'll see a woman going off with a pig in a , basket or, if it's smallish. carrying It by the hind legs, head down. They are much quieter carried than when run : hing about on the end of string. , Hens, geese, ducks are also carried by , the feet with the heads almost sweep ing the ground. Occasionally they re- bel and raise a great squawking. even saw one turkey thus carried. (
 This morning an Englishman took , some movie films'' of our hospital,
 While I wait for pr. Taylor-Jones I will describe the room I am in. It Is to be the nurses room; one end we hope to have partitioned off for the