The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-06
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
MisS0ula WOn,Q,,
Writes Of-Ruin
and War Abroad
Miss Clara Brunette Sends
Home Description Of
Service.


by host Of friends in Missoula, who
knew personally Of her efficient serv-
ice as q trained nurse in this city.
For the last three years. Miss Rrn-
nellie has been serving as an army
nurse in Europe. A letter. received
recently by Mrs. Wilfred White, gives
q vivid picture Of the conditions in the
field. After a number of personal
messages to friends in Misscula Miss
Brunette says: Il am SO glad America
has come in-for all the people over
here had the bad idea that Americans
were afraid or that all they thought
of war was to make money out Of
Europe's misery. Money seemed u
little thing, when nearly every man
and many women were giving their
lives for what Is, after all. freedom
for America as we'll as for the rest Of
the world. Last wear, we all had
great hopes Of peace and home by
1918; but alas and alas: God only
knows when we will have peace. II
we get back within another two years
shall feel it too good to be true.
am SO glad to be back where letters
have a chance. For months and
months, we have not gotten our let
ters from anywhere: and so strict a
censorship was held that we felt 1t
was hardly worth while writing.
Has Seen Many Fields.
Il have been. since I last wrote to
you. in Egypt. Greece, Italy and
France. was over q year In the
cockpit of Europe" II you have a
chance, read the book by that name.
1t tells o. great deal Of what / have
seen and It is very interesting.
Il was In Rome two weeks ago. No
word Of mine can tell you what a
wonderful place it is. Someday. will
try. If we see each other before l lose
my memory. have been in fairly
good health. but was at times. very
tired. We had a tent hospital in the
hills. In fine weather. 1t was beauti-
full; but in the bad months OF the
winter. it was awful. The rain and
sleet would come down in steady
torrent and the wind nearly blew us
away. G'hiA was our costume for duty
rubber top boots up to our knees. a
short skirt, three suits of wooden
underwear. two pairs of stockings,
wooden Knockers. two SWEATERS over
our uniforms and British warm
which IL 'Tommics'' overcoat. with
an oil skin hat. We did our dressings
and worked over our patients in this
garb; 50. you can imagine what the
poor boys were like in those damp.
dark tents, tightly closed all day long.
with two or three smoky oil stoves
the only heat and a few stable Ian
terms the only means of light to work
or read by. Those who were we'll
enough to get up would crawl back
into bed to keep warm. As for the
badly wounded, we. kept them alive
with hot water bottles and simply
wrapped them up like mummias.
heads and all. We did have some
beautiful days between, when all the
sides of the tents were thrown open
and the weather was like a mild spell
in Montana. Everyone was glad to
be alive. Then came the awful heat
of June and July. 1t seemed as though
we would have sunstroke as we
walked from one tent to another. The
poor boys could hardly bear a sheet
over them and the hot wind was the
only saving grace. as they lay and
painted with the burning heat. We
nurses dragged around. feeling as If
we could live only from hour to hour.
never looking a day ahead, for fear
we might give In. The only thing
that saved us, was the beautiful cool
nights, from 10 o'clock until In the
morning. l was on night duty for
awhile during the heat as well as
during the cold. SO l have tasted all
the fruit, good and bad.
Want Red Cross Supplies.
Tell your local Red Cross to send
all the supplies they can, we need
them, out here in the waste parts of
the earth--yes, and send mouth or
gans and books and games. for the
Inconsistencies and monotony is awful
out in camp.
There is a tremendous work to be
done. too. among the thousands upon
thousands of little children. who have
Lost fathers and mothers in this cruel
war. We see their pitiful state as we
go from one camp to another.
II shall be so happy to have letters
from my dear friends In Missoula,
please write. I am now in London,
but may so soon to France"