The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-21

cCiure NeWspaper syndicate.)
call "Americanese." means Tell a fey
darby stories"
Now who could resist a pretty womal
and an old friend who asked YOU to ID
a bleckT I doubted very much IL tn
average soldier would understand negr
dialect, but II he didn't one could switcl
on to something else.
we went to the hospital about tea
time. The ward was a perfectly rount
room, with beds arranged against tn,
walls. Many of the wounded, with
heads. arms or legs in bandages. wer,
still In bed, but there were others II
gray flannel coats and trousers able t.
SIT IN chairs They were an appreciativ,
audience, appiauoing even with one hant
4 and joining heartily In the chorus of any
song they happended to know. 1t wa.
visiting day, as well as the concert
wives or sweethearts sat by those mo-
able to be out of bed, children leaned
against their daddies and sometimes q
little hand lightly patted a bandage. The
nurses with their red crosses gave a spo
OF color here and there. and in the cen.
Ter OF the circle of beds an upright piano
mad been moved. and there the perform.
ers sang Or recited.
AS they say expressively In my beloved
country, 1 cut out the sob stuff, for God
/ shSio was cHOuRn OF IL there
men VINO would never walk again. men
with stiff feet or stiff arms, who were
as helpless as II they had none. And
one very young man with his twisted
pooy swathed in bandages looked as II
ne had seen hell. 1t was the pain in his
eyes that gave me the courage to saw,
was born in Texas. but no English
woman loves you better than 1 do, and
THIS is the reason why I am now going
a 14Nz
amuse you. Please laugh whether YOU
feel Ike 1t or not, just to keep me from
crying o''
ana then told a few stories and they
did laugh boisterously. May Fortescu-
recited Jim Bludsoe," and thew loves
that, and pretty little round-face Aus
traian prima donna sang love songs to
them. And when they asked for Way
Town Upon the Suwanee River" and /
vas .oid they We're all going to join in
the chorus. / said: May, take me bom,
If stay I'll be drenched in tears,
When Oliver Herford took me to Gee
The Birth Of Nation" In New York.
ms Pegsy asked him. did Betty cry?"
cryE he said. Il did not like to in
trude upon her grief" 1t is a great sue
cess here. by the way. Lady st. Heller
TOOK her two granddaughter to see It.
and 1 was greatly gratified when she
'oid me the three Of them had wept CO.
piously' There are all sorts of pronun.
ciations given to the Ku Klux Khan, but
every one acknowledges the picturesoue
thrilling beauty of the GREATNESS raids
Gordon Selfridse once said to me that
Noltaire had asserted that but one per-
son In ten thousand thinks. IT don't say
that, he added. About one person In
one thousand thinks" This conversation
was brought back to me by today's pa
pers. They give the case Of man
WHICH, though shorter. rivals the ceIe-
orated Tichborne affair
Mrs. Dandy. the wife Of a soldier, has
actually lived In good faith with another
man In mistake for her own husband.
who Is away In the Dardanelles. At the
trial. she was called as first witness, and
although the mother of nine children.
-FOUR Of them living. she Is described al
under thirty and good looking She was
dressed in a black costume and hat and
wore black spotted veil. She spoke in
a low voice and avoided the gaze of the
crowd in court
In August Of last year, she said, her
husband. Herbert Dandy, was called I'm
ana he went to Egypt in the autumn.
Inc last letter she received from him
was dated May 2 1t was sent from Cairo.
Later, she got two or three field post
CARDS. They were married at Latchford
in 1906 and four children were alive.
on July 10 OF this year, she saw from
her window a soldier outside with a
neighbor. Mr.. Dutton. and they came into
the shop. She did not notice that the SOL
dier was In the uniform Of a private. She
said to Mr.. Dutton, who is it?'' Dutton
replied, It's Herbert" She said,
Never and after looking at the SOL
dier for while said to him, You have
altered very much" He replied. yes,
You would be altered IL you had gone
through what have" adding that he had
lain for seventy-three hours on the battle
field without help.
She spoke to him about domestic mat-
tiers, and he said he had lost his memory.
After Mr.. Dutton went away, neirhbors
came In who had heard that her husband
had come home and they shook hands
with him.
who did you believe he was all this
time the talking was going on?' asked
the magistrate.
thought he was my husband"
some doubt?"
Yes. thought he had altered, but
l believed it was owing to the horrors
he had gone through"
Continuing. Mrs: Dandy said her
husbands sister, Mrs. Watson. was
sent for. She came and thought the
man was Sergt. Dandy. She cried Bit
terly. Neighbors were in the house
that night for three hours. Tbey he
lieved he was Sergt. Dandy.
Did he ask for the children"
Yes, he made a fuss over the chill
dren."
1t was about Wednesday, JuIy 81
that she noticed he had a priyate's uni
form, and she asked him why he had
not the stripes" He said he had
broken out of Netley Hospital and got
another mans clothes. Her husband
had scar on the neck and she asked
him where the mark was. He said he
had it filled in while in Egypt. She
then asked about tattoo mark on the
arm, and he stated that that had been
burned out in Egypt. Mrs. Watson
told her that the prisoner had not been
wounded at all. She wired to her
brother to come.
Her brother and the prisoner talked
about the Boer war. Her brother and
her husband had been in the Boer war
together. Her brother believed that
Hall was her husband.
Next day. her sister Agnes came, and
Hall said, "Oh. Agnes, 1 am pleased to
get home" Her sister accepted him as
Sergt. Dandy. Her brother and sister
on Monday, July &c, took Hall with
them to Marsden, Yorkshire. He came
back on August 9.
What did you say to him when he