Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-07-10
FOR HIS COUNTRY

"well. / am too far along In year
to go to the 'front.'" the out-of-towI
customer told Wilkinson. "But no
body can ever say that am not max
Ing sacrifices and suffering for my ma
tive land"
''what is It now7" Wilkinson asked
subscriptions to the Red Cross ant
various relief funds?"
"Of course, we have all that" the
out-of-town customer sighed. I'VE are
glad to do our bit with the rest, but
that isn't It.. Il Is in the confines OF
my own home that am suffering.
first noticed 1t one evening when
asked Edna, my youngest daughter, to
| pass me the catsup. Instead of hand
ing me the bottle in its silver standard.
as usual, she took the bottle out,
looked at the label, turned it around
and gazed at 1t again. Then, just as
/ was reaching for. 1t, she read the in
| spring words aloud. wondered
whether she were thinking of writing
a novel on the adventurous career of
a bottle of catsup, but she kindly en-
lightened me by saying that In the
Red Cross nursing course, which she
is taking, they teach her never to give
a person anything out of a bottle with
out reading the label three times"
Excellent rule of conduct" COM
mented Wilkinson.
1--WE had important guests one eve
ming at dinner" the other went on,
"and l was quite scandalized 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 a one
yard roll, wrapper thirteen by thirteen
j shook my head at her, and then the
wife of the man whom was anxious
to impress began to ask Martha a
thousand questions about dimensions
and the size of the wrappers. Her in
terest 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-
animation"
81 can imagine it," laughed Wilkin-
son.
"All my incest and softest handker-
chiefs have been sacrificed to the ex-
periments they make at home" the
Out-of-town man continued. "And yet
they are not satisfied. 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 1 got them back
they were ruined. He has first-aid
work in connection with his Boy
Scouts, and his mother had bribed him
to teach her a little before she under
went her examination in first-aid I'M
der the Red Cross"
"You must be long-suffering NOR
tai"
"Oh, don't knowl 1 can't have a
real comfortable game of solitaire now
because my wife wants to bandage my
arm or my wrist, or play have broken
my coIlarbOne 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 accommodating"
laughed Wilkinson. "Why can't you be |
so kind as to break bone or two in |
reality and let them have real prac-
tice?"
EDNA almost asked me to. She |
did say she was so sorry / had not |
postponed the breaking of my arm
from the time she was child TO the
present hour. / had to wear throat |
bandage for two hours the other eve
ming because they said was hoarse,
and they wanted to cure my sore
throat, which / didn't have.
'This very morning." the man from
out of town went on, 81 was Weakened
bright and early by my daughter Nan,
who apologized, saying she was try
ing to make the bed with fresh sheets
waking me up. 1t seems that
that was the day for her examination
III hOAht hhA oAibf anu SAS was oAAOAN
she had forgotten the lesson on how
to make up bed with clean sheets
and not disturb the patient. l let her
see she had disturbed me, so she went
off quite alarmed, for fear she should
not pass"
"You are quite heartless."
"Maybe so. When we go 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 indlgesti-
BILE at our meals, merely the most sem
sible eatables. with just the proper |
Of unpronounceable proper
ties, prOteins and engines and carbo-
hyrates. you know. / am hungry for |