Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-04
FOR HIS COUNTRY

customer told Wilkinson. "But no- body can ever say that l am not mak- ing sacrifices and suffering for my na- tive land" a
 "What is it now?" Wilkinson asked. Subscriptions to the Red Cross and various relief funds? Z? =.
 s'Of course, we have all that" the out-of-town customer sighed. we are glad to do our bit with the rest, but that isn't it. It is in the confines Of my own home that am suffering. l first noticed it one evening when 1 asked Edna, my youngest daughter, to pass me the catsup. Instead Of hand- ing me the bottle in it's silver standard, as usual, she took the bottle out, looked at the label, turned it around and gazed at 1t again. Then, just as I was reaching for it, she read the ln- spring words aloud. l wondered whether she were thinking of writing a novel on the adventurous career or a bottle of catsup, but she kindly en- frightened me by saying that in the Red Cross nursing course, which she Is taking, they teach her never to give person anything out of bottle with out reading the label three times.'
 Excellent rule of conduct" com- mented Wilkinson.
 "We had important guests one eve- ming at dinner" the other went on, ''and I was quite scandalized to see how Martha, my second daughter, was acting. She had twisted her napkin up into roll and was muttering: Eighteen by thirty-six makes a one- yard roll, wrapper thirteen by thirteen ] shook my head at her, and then the wife of the man whom I was anxious to impress began to ask Martha 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"
 q 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 l 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 l got them back they were ruined. He has hrst-a1d work in connection with his Boy Scouts. and his mother had bribed him to teach her little before she under went her examination in first-aid un- der the Red Cross
 "You must be long-suffering mor- tal.''
 "Oh, don't know! I can't have real comfortable game of solitaire now because my wife wants to bandage my arm or my wrist. or play have broken my collarbone and put on the proper bandages and splints. I did bolt, how ever, when they asked me to pretend that Twas drowned and let them give me, artificial respiration, and all the rest of it.''
 "You are accommodating" laughed Wilkinspn. s'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 sc sorry had not postponed3. the breaking of my arm from the time she was child to the present hour. I had to wear a throat bandage for two hours the other eve hing because they said I was hoarse. and they wanted to cure my sore throat, which I didn't have.
 "This very morning." the man from out of town went on, "I was wakened bright and early by my daughter Nan, who apologized, saying she was try ing to make the bed with fresh sheets without waking me up. It seems that that was the day for her examination in home nursing, and she was afraid she had forgotten the lesson on how to make up bed with clean sheets and not disturb the patient. let her see she had disturbed me, so she went off quite alarmed, for fear she should not pass."
 "You are quite heartless." F,s
 Maybe so. When we go to lunch I want lobster Newburg, or something equally f1erce," sighed the out-of-town customer. .'' , < !4tiab
 "That is because Nan is taking. die tetics and, we have nothing -inligestil ble at our meals, merely the. most ,seh- sible eatables, with. just the proper proportion of unpronounceable prGper- ties, proteins and enzymes and carbo- hyrates, you know. I an hungry for the most unwholesome things I can have."
 "Well go now," Wilkinson said cor dially. "I certainly do sympathize 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 minute? Martha asked me to get her the directions for knitting the