The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-27


FOR. hut in "A much shorter space OF
time and there is seldom woman TO
he found who is not engaged In some
nbases OF war work. Women are
buster than they ever We're In their
lives before, and II is no butterfly ex-
istence for either matrons or maids.
MANY Young men have gone TO war ana
the army OF wives. sisters and sweet
hearts left at home are giving up their
time and efforts TO the cause OF tue
nation. Women. individually, as wen
as In organizations are expressing their
patriotism in most practical ways.
Tho first unit of woman doctors to be
organized in this country for service In
France has been formed by the Wom-
ems Hospital. in New York City, COM
pletely equipped, and will be attached
10 a base hospital in France TO serve
with Pershing's army
The members of the unit are DR..
Dorothy Child and DIR. Florence Child
both Quakers. who were graduated IN
medicine from Johns Hopkins after at
tending Bryan Mawr; DIR. Ethel Lyon
Hurd of Galveston. Texas; DIR. Marion
l.. Stevens. a dentist; DR.. Nevins and
DIR. Woodroffe of san francisco' Ut; VI.
Esther Blair, DIR. de Lam Kinney OF
Parker of Cornell.
The Indian woman has appeared in
new role since the national emergency
food garden commission started lts
food conservation campaign among the
red people and report received at mead
ouarters said that Mrs. Harriet Bone
Necklace. at the Pine Ridge agency, >.
d.. had been awarded one OF the COM
missions cash prizes and certificate
of merit for her exhibition of canned
and preserved foods
Mrs. II. Bone Necklace grew her
products as well as preserved them,
and her exhibit consisted of one quart
each of wild plums. green corn, string
beans, rhubarb, garden peas two
quarts of beets and a glass each of
plum butter, strawberry preserves and
buffalo berry jelly.
OF the 10000 registered and enrolled
Red Cross nurses, 1000 have already
been sent across to Europe and $4,000
others are awaiting orders to go.
Fearing that there will be a shortage
in the nursing service at home II these
thousands are taken in one grand exo-
dus without proper provision for re-
placing them, the Red Cross is soon
ands of retired nurses, many of them
married, asking that they return to
their profession, for service in this
country. The student nurses will not
be accepted for war work abroad.
They will be expected to work out their
apprenticeship in this country.
A luncheon was given by the New
York Wellesley College Club for the
purpose of obtaining volunteers for the
Wellesley College Reconstruction Unit,
which will consist of nineteen women,
who will serve in France until the end
of the war.
The members of this unit will devote
themselves to the thousands of amaze
mic tubercular, underfeG children,
whom their timely aid and attention
may save from starvation or invalid
ism. All applicants must speak. read,
and write French and be proficient in
motor driving, and each must provide
$3.50 for her travelling expenses at sea,
her incidental expenses on land and her
personal outfit There were more than
one hundred volunteers, but only nine
teen will be accepted.
English women, have originated
quite a new idea recently. They give
birthday parties for themselves, and
their guests are wounded soldiers who
are selected from various hospitals in
which the giver of the party happens
TO be interested. These birthday par
ties were begun months ago by Mrs.
Ogelthorpe Wilson, who has beautiful
country place near London, When her
birthday arrived she invited 300 wound
ed soldiers as her guests. entertained
them royalty, give them each a little
remembrance Of the day and arranged
for their comfortable transport to and
from her house in motors and motor
omnibuses, which she hired for the oc'
casion The whole idea was so prac-
tical and so delightfully."- sympathetic
that people have taken it up enthusi
astically, and now many wealthy wom
en- are celebrating their own, or mem
bers of their families birthdays, by en-
tertaning the brave lads.
A special unit under the auspices OF
the American Fund for French Wound
ed has sailed for France to work under
the Civilian Committee and take care
of destitute French babies. The chair
man of this unit is Mrs. r. w. DICK
son of Milwaukee The vice chairman
is Miss Frances Hoppin, cousin o.
Miss Anna Morgan, who has been som'
time in France in consultation with Ut
Alexander Lambert of the Red Cross
arranging for the work. This unit VII
go first to a munition town and lool
after children whose mothers work IL
munition factories, where it will leari
the work that is to be done and late
will work with children in the devastat
ed towns back of the war front. Th
seven young women of the unit ar
the Misses Louise Heller, Mary With
ers. Mary Humphrey. Lorraine Good
rich, Edith Dodge, Isabel Cumming
and Susanne Wills. Miss Sue X. Wat
son and Miss Margot Moore went ol
the same boat to work with the Civilian
Committee in France. These younI
women hearing there was lack o
transportation in France have purchas
ed motor truck which they are takinl
with them and which they will driv
themselves.
Those who are observing wheatles
days will find the following receip
helpful in making up their menus
These potato biscuit have some whit
flour in their makeup, but they save
good deal of it and so come under tn
name "wheatless" II a portion o
flour is saved constantly and in ever,
household the desired Hoover plans vii
be successful. But IL these biscuits di'