The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-21

very well had been unable to under
 stand the proposed treatment. I ex-
 plained it to him, but he did not like
 rhe idea; he felt sure the plates would
 break loose, the screws come out and
 that in the end he would die with Yie- MI lent sepsis, brought on by the presence
 of such a foreign substitute in his w body.
 After much persuasion however, he
 consented. The thing that finally seem
 ed to clinch the matter was that with
 two legs he could still ride, TKe idea of one legged man on. horseback
 seemed to horrify him.
 He was given spinal anaesthesia and was very interested in being able to read and talk during the opera ton.
 When it was all over he thanked the
 doctor the operating nurse and myself and said as they carried him out, When ret hoinesNif anybody speaks to me about the glory of war I am \ going to be blanked> rude to them, you may be sure.s'
 Wassso tired when I got to bed
 was asleep in two minutes, although for the last hour had heard for the
 first time in my life the dull booming
 of artillery.
 The next morning while the ma troa was taking me around the wards ex- plaining my duties message came asking her to come at once to the colo ne1's office. She left me to go through the German ward and do whatever I found necessary. That ward was in 8 wing of the monastery that had been used for a dining room. Lighted on three sides, it. was admirably adapted for it's present purposes. but because the German officers objected to sharing their quarters with their men it had been divided about the middle by four huge carved oak doors, and, while they were beautiful in themselves they made the room far less airy.
 went at once to find the patient of the night before He was resting com fortab1y in fact, so much so that he insisted on keeping me to read me an extract from an article written by Maxinnilian Harden, the famous ed- itor Of the Zukunft
 His style. Is, z he said, ssso terse and epigranan1atfc that he has been called the German Tacitus,'' The article ex- plafned that there was too much chat ter about the shortage of food, potato famine but said the truth was it sim ply was a campaign intended to arouse l the hatred of England The article was headed "Eat Your Pigs or Your Pigs Will Eat Your and went on:
 t.In the brains of even the serious people in Germany there has grown a. crazy theory that the German standard of living has depreeiated Everywhere | lectures, appeals instructions, warn ings, about our food. Eat xxx bread never scern dry crusts. Cook your po- tatoes in their. skins. Collect your kitchen refuse No flour on Sunday l Female busybodies with a craze for notoriety tell us what delightful mouthful you can make from the eye and tail of herring.
 Eat your mess yourself you chat terboxI All this tyvaddle injdres Ger many We are in no danger of famine This drebrand was merely meant to 1nhame hatred against our enemy, England
 And then Harden proceeds to draw picturef of the real state of things. He says:
 Hundreds of thousands of women live more lavishly than in peace times, for then the husband drank or Palais-s de=danced. Now he is with the eo3ors and sends home the pay he cannot use. Landlords and creditors may wait for their money. Societies, clubs and 1pr1- vate people open their purses Whats for dinner2 Roast goose, apple pastry, timed asparagus, fresh fish, chocolate and cake.
 Then away goes the woman to the stores, bargain hunting, looks in at the fortune teIIer's on the way After this a visit to the kinema and sees Her. Last Dance The Guardian Spirit of the Submarines, The Latest War zvoman's day.
  Evidently it expressed his own sent-
 had attended all the men and was just leaving the ward when an orderly came to say that Colonel s. wanted me.
 There I found half dozen of the staff, including an inspector general of hospitals, who had just arrived, dis cussing the inadequacy of the first aid stations.
 The worried inspector said he found that in our service there was no fire, no brandy, no spIints, no morphine and often very little dressings; that vel depended too often on simply getting the wounded to the hospital. If the men died en route -tampfs!
 sOf course t know that in the last analysis, he said, s.the wounded are simply burdens. The fighting men are the main thing, but personally think this poor economies, apart from any reasons of sentiment. I want our sys- tenn to be more like that which the British maintain = 1 I had been sent for to know if I could at least in part furnish the ma terials for such work immediately, as there was always certain delay in getting supplies It was just a ques- tion of expediency. I would be paid , for them. lie hastened to add France was willing and able to look after her men the inspector continued; only things moved so swiftly stores were sometimes inadequate
 I hastened to assure them that I