Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-24
CHI A p T e r. Tx ".
Two Kinds of ADDreciatiOn

Looking down the long vista Of mem
Dry, to the many faces turned to me
from beds of pain, find few to which
never to have looked upon but once.
1t is a long, sallow face, surmounted
by bushy, yellow hair; it has a clear,
oval outline, and straight nose, brown
eyes and a down of young manhood
on the wasted, trembling lips; knew
it then, as the face of a fever patient,
but not one to whom l had rendered
any special service, and felt surpris-
ed when the trembling lips said, in
a pitiful, pleading way.
1--WE boys has been a talkin' about
you!"
Have you, my dear-and what have
you boys been saying about me?"
"We've jist been sayin' that good
many ladies has been kind to us, but
none Nv EN- ever loved us but you!"
well, my dear, do not know how
it is with the other ladies, but l am
sure l do love you very, very dearly!
You do not know half how much l
love you
"Oh, yes, we do! we know at you
don't take care Nv us cause it's your
july! you jist do it cause you love
to-"
THAT is it exactly-just because
I love to, and because l want you to
get we'll and go to your Mothers
eyes! but the boys says you dom
care about 'em when they get WE'LL"
"They do not need to have me care
for them when they are WELL"
"Oh, yes, they do! yes, they do!
an If that's the way you're goin' to
serve me, I'll stay sick long time.
When hospital stores came to me
so fast that there was great trouble
in getting them wisely distributed
Campbell lent me an ambulance to 60
around, see where they we're needed
and supply as many as / could had
letter from an old Pittsburg neigh
Dor, asking me to see his brother in
Douglas Hospital, and went in an am
bulance well supplied with jellies and
fruit.
Douglas Hospital was an Institution
of which the city was proud. It had
much finer buildings than any other
in the city, occupied the finest resi-
dence block in the city, and had a
wide reputation for grandeur and
beauty and superb management.
found the halls and rooms quite as
elegant as had any reason to expect
but was surprised to find that ele'
gance undisturbed by the presence OF
sick or wounded men. In one back
room wounded officer looked lone
ly. and they said there were other
rooms used for sick soldiers, but all
l saw we're parlors, reception rooms
Offices and sleeping apartments for
surgeons, and the Lady Abbess, with
her attendant Sisters of Mercy or
Charity
After we had strolled through sew.
eral sumptuous apartments, we were
taken out into the adjoining square,
where there were large barracks as
white as lime and brushes could make
them, and making a pretty picture
among the trees. Inside, the walls
we're white as on the outside, and the
pictures already up, as we'll as those
just being put up, were bright as
bright could be. Indeed, do not know
how pictures could have been greener
or bluer or yellower or redder, and
when the shoY-off man called my at
tentton to them, as calculated to make
the place cheerful; recognized their
merit, but suggested that some paper
blinds might be desirable to keep the
sun from shining into the faces of the
men who lay on the cots.
The roof or walls did not seem well
calculated to keep out wind or rain,
hut paper blinds would ward on sun
slime. From the: condition Of the