The Washington times., 1917-12-30
WOMAN WANTS Job
PREPARING TROOPS
FOR BURIAL
Camp Meade, Dec. 80.

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"I am a hard-hearted woman"
The speaker. was Mrs. c. T. Ouza,
of Spruce street, Philadelphia. who
was at the base hospital Nobody
disputed her assertion, and nobody at
the hospital took her word for being
hard-hearted. The nurses there knew
how tireless she has been In bringing
good things to the sick and how
she has provided rubber blankets and
other such needed articles. Mrs. QUA
has & stern way OF speaking.
To see Eer tugging up the steep
hills with a huge basket filled with
turkey and pies one could Judge at
once that she has strengthsaRnd to
hear her call herself hard-hsa&ed one
might picture her as someth OF an
Amazon. She wears the vefy best Of
clothes and headgear. Such things
help to make a strong feminine per
sonality seem that much stronger.
hrs. Ouza gives q command like one
used at all times to be obeyed.
There with . Punch.
There Is might In her voice as well
as in her mein. She seems to be right
there with the punch The jitneys at
Meade are very uppish about going to
the base hospital. The hospital Is so
far off, and IL is more profitable to
80 to less remote places. But when
Mrs. Ouza flashes two eyes on q
chauffeur and insists upon going
there with her burdens excuses will
not go. II Mrs. Ouza ever becomes
president OF the W., B. and A--but
her ambition is not in that direction.
This story deals with Mrs; ouza's am
bition.
II ID not 20 easy to come to the
point. One must violate all the rules
OF the L C. s. course in journalism
and beat around the bush q bit. A
whole lot OF literary eamouflage is
needed to get away with a story like
this one. Other newspapermen said
II could not be written. They agreed
to pass 1t UP. EVERYBODY knows what
they call those people who venture in
where angels fear TO tread. Well,
that is just how 1t feels to write this
story.
Tam a hard hearted woman, just
say that. IL you like" Mrs. Ouze in
sisted, when the writer explained his
reluctance to tell the world about her
ambition.
go on, write itH'
Ne Time to Hesitate.
When Mrs. ouza says go on the
time for hesitation seems TO be past.
my mission is to go in after the
battles and prepare the bodies for
burial" she said. at is grim, ugly
work, but 1 can do II. I have been
on the scene of railroad wrecks and
have there accomplished wonders.
There can be nothing in war anything
more terrible than the scenes I have
witnessed. / am offering my services
to the Government to 60 to France
and l can show my ability. II ! was
a nurse I would go TO France to
minister to the sick and wounded.
But 1 cannot do that. 1 can only do
what nurses cannot do. / repeat, !
am a hard hearted woman, but want
to do my Bit"
Whether Mrs. QUA will have a IA
vorable reply to her offer is a matter
OF some doubt, but in the meanwhile
she is doing everything possible for
the soldiers here. She gets the big
gest turkeys she can hnd and has
them cooked in just the right way.
Into every corner OF her big basket
she has packed good things II the
jitney men get away from her she
insists on carrying her burden to its
destination. She is not letting her
ultimate ambition interfere with her
Immediate opportunity for service.
Scores of soldiers know her now.
Few have heard of her ambition. She
always tells the story in the same
way by insisting that her heart is
like a bit OF stone.