The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-06-14
FOR HIS COUNTRY

tive land"
"what Is II nowT Wilkinson asked,
subscriptions to the Red Cross and
various relief fundsT
"Of course, we have all that the
out-of-town customer sighed. "lYo are
glad to do our biz with the rest but
that isn't IT, II IS In the confines Of
my own homo that am suffering.
FIRST noticed il one evening when I
asked Edna, my youngest daughter to
pass me the catsup. Instead OF hand.
ing me the bottle In its silver standard,
ns usunl, she took the bottle out
looked Of the label, turned &C. around
md gazed at It again. Then, Just as
was renchlng for Il, she read the IN
splring words aloud. wondered
whether she were thinking Of writing
o novel an The adventurous career OF
Il bottle OF catsup but she kindly en-
lightcned me by, saying that in the
Red Cross nursing course which she
Is taking, they teach her never 10 give
"a person anything out Of bottle with
ont reading tho label three times"
Excellent rule .of Conduct conn
mented Wilkinson.
1--WE had important guests enc eve
nlpr at dinner tho other went on,
l''Rfid Z was quite scandallzed to see
how Martha, my second daughter was
acting She had twisted her napkin
up into a roll and was muttering
Eighteen by thirty-six makes oDe-
yard roll, wrapper thirteen by thirteen
/ shook my head at her, and then the
wife Of the man whom | WAS anxious
70 impress began TO ask Martha a
thousand questions about dimensions
and the size Of the wrappers. Her in
tercst relieved my anxiety They are
both taking up the surgical dressing
course, and are having nervous pros
tration for fear they won't pass the ex-
amlnation.r
'T can imagine It, laughed WiIkln-
son.
"All my incest and softest bandker-
chiefs have been sacrificed 10 the ex-
periments they make AZ home the
out-of-town man continued. 'And vet
they are not satished. Martha asked
me Yesterday whether couldn't buy
handkerchiefs that were narrower
than they were long, as they would be
so. easy TO experiment with My
young son. borrowed FIVE Of them one
afternoon, and when got them back
they were ruined. He has flrst-aid
work In CONNECTION with his Boy
Scouts, and his mother had bribed him
to teach her liteie before she under
went her examination in first-aid un-
der the Red Cross"
''You must be 4 longsunering NOR
tai"
"Oh, don't know! I can't have =
real comfortable game Of solitaire now
because my wife wants to bundoge my
arm or my wrist, or play have broken
my collarbone and put on the proper
bandages and .splints. did bolt, how
ever. when they asked me to pretend
that was drowned and let them give
me artificial respiration, and all the
rest Of it,"
''You are unacc0mmodating,
laughed Wilkinson. "Why can't you be
SO kind as to break bone or two IN
reality and let them have real prac-
tice?p
'Edna almost asked me 10. She
did say she was 50 sorry I had not
postponed The breaking OF my arm
from the time she WAS child TO the
present hour. ! had to wear a throat
bnndage for two hours the other eve
ming because they said ] was h0arse,
and they wanted to cure my sore
throat, which I didn't have.
"This very morning." the man from
out Of town went on, 4 was wakened
bright and early BY my daughter Nan,
who apologized, saying she was try
Ing 10 make the bed with fresh sheets
without waking me up. II seems that
that was the dny for her examination
in home nursing and she was afraid
sic had forgotten The lesson on how
20 make up a bed with clean sheets
and not disturb the patient. ! let her
see she had disturbed me, SO she went
OF quite alarmed, FOR fear she should
not pass"
'You are quite heartlees"
Maybe SO. When we 60 to lunch
want lobster Newburg or something
equally fierce sighed the out-of-town
customer.
"That Is because Nan Is taking die
tetics and we have nothing inaigcsti-
ble at our meals, merely the Most acn-
siBle eatables, with just the proper
proportion Of uupronounceable proper
ties, rrotcins and engines and caibo-
hyrates, You know. ! am hungry FOR
TIE most unwholesome things can
have"
Wen 80 now" Wilkinson said cor
daily. Il certainly do sympathlze
with you"
"And by The way" the out-of-town
customer said as he rose 'can we
take the time to stop at the Red Cross
shop a minute7 Martha asked me to
get her the directions for knitting the
Kitchener sock for the soldiers She
Is going to make me a supply first SO
that ] can tell where the sock hUgls
my foot and 50 save thc soldiers any
suffering. .f-Chicngo Daily News