Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-29
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favorite farm paper. 1t is quoted by 4. NJ.
Won Keller, In THE Farmer and the Motor
Car co.
My wife and daughter had been ailing Tor
years. We had tried all sorts Of medicines.
cures and doctors. They cost nwfully. but
ala no good. The whole family became dis
couraged. II took the spunk all out Of me to
see the womenfolks dragging through each
day In such a forlorn way. None Of US was
happy; life was hard, work piled up. We
were going backward in more ways than one,
although we stuck close TO our work on the
farm and in the home. and never went any
where, Finally, ] got desperate and bought
an automobile. Never said a word about it
until ! drove into the yard with the new
car.
My! how my wife did scold me for my ex-
travagance. She'd never ride I'm It; we
couldn't afford IL, etc. ! made no back
talk, but after "A few days use Of that ma
chime around the farm, carrying milk 20 the
depot, doing twice the business in half the
time, my daughter felt we'll enough to take
until she got a little used to It. then I
showed her how that car could 60. When
we got home she rushed into the house full
OF excitement and enthusiasm; Rugged and
kissed her mother and cried:
"Oh, it's glorious; you simply must 20 out
In our carl" and with the accent on the
our" After a few rides my wife liked It
as well as my daughter, and since then the
whole family has driven out almost every
day or evening, II only for a short run, Get
ting outdoors. breathing fresh air, seeing
new scenes and faces. creating new interests.
along with sharp appetites, has cured both
wife and daughter and made a new man OF
me. We all feel life is worth living, after
all. We are making money and prospecting.
Not a dollar has gone for medicines or doc
tors since I bought my automobile three
years ago.
Motor Cars in the War
The very latest application of the auto
mobile has. Of course, been it's manifold serv-
ice in the war.
An article by May Sinclair, the famous
novelist, with an English Ambulance
Corps in Belgium" (5), gives n realistic
sense of these motor ambulances and their
tragic work:
badly in need of more motor ambulances,
but we were told that so many cars were
being sent into France that none could be
spared for Belgium at present, We had
given up hope, when suddenly one afternoon
two brand-new motor ambulances rolled up
to the hospital front, with two brand-new
chauffeurs in brand-new suits of khaki.
They had just come up from Ostend, and
hadn't been there 10 minutes when orders
came through for an ambulance to be sent
at once TO Melle.
The village of Nellie that had been raked
by rifle fire not long before was quiet and
almost deserted. Up a side street, propped
against the wall of a stable, four wounded
Belgians waited for the ambulance. A fifth,
shot through the back Of his head, lay In
front of them on n dripping stretcher. The
cure Of the village was there. He wore the
Red Cross brassard on the sleeve OF his cas-
sock. and carried the host in a little bag Of
purple silk.
The man on the dripping stretcher was
lifted In first, very slowly and gently. The
cure climbed in after him, carrying the
hose. He kneeled there while the blood
from the wounded head oozed through the
bandages and through the canvas of the
stretcher, to the floor and TO the skirts OF his
cassock, In the supreme act there was no
unseemly haste. He remained three
moments, three mortal moments, charged
with Immortality. One Of us received his
missal and his bag OF purple silk as ne
gathered his cassock about him and de-
seconded.
you have done everything, monsieur7'
yes. madame" His lips quivered as he
took again his missal and his purple bag
The death Of every Belgian soldier ~ a
sword in the heart of these Belgian soldiers
of the cross. The new car thus baptized ana