Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-16

puts strength into thelh'
Obtain 50-cent box Of Anuric double
strength) today from your druggist in
town. From personal observation in
large hospital practice, Anuric will give
you speedy relief-Adv.
food to the man on march. In the
hospital where Miss Hamblin worked
was che lad barely 49, who was, Of
course under age and he, in recent
long drive got in full his desire for
war. He was most anxious to get out.
This is easily done. If lad gets into
the army by giving the wrong age and
he is under age his parents can secure
his release. Or a recent drive the in
formation was given out that all SOL
diers who took prisoners would have to
share their rations with the prisoners.
1t was easily seen at the completion of
the drive that there were far less priS-
oners than on previous drives. Not far
from the base hospital was a German
prisoner camp. The Germans are put
to work if their condition will permit
and received wages of perhaps "tup-
pence" day At night the quarters
Of the prisoners are enclosed in high
barbed wire fences. DURING the adj
vance of the troops as the Germans
were taken prisoners a lot was fenced
off Of the harbed wire and poles and in
these enclosures were placed the pris-
oners until removal to other places.
During her stay in France. Miss
Hamblin did not see any tanks tthe
had heard them described many times
by the patients, so that she learned
lot abou, them. Her description OF the
tank and how It came to be called
tank was most Interesting Every sep
crate part Of the tank was made in as
many separate factories all over Eng
land. IT was given !out that the part
that was being made was for tank"
and 70 one who made any part Of It re-a
allied what il would finally result in
Then all the warts We're assembled and
formed the "tank.'
The Gramaphone.
The gramapl:Cne, which is known IN
the States as the graphophone. is one
of the bright things in the life Of the
invalid Tommie. Where Miss Hamblin
was, there were number of them, al
though not one, as yet, for each ward.
The granaphones are secured in vari-
Gus ways. Maybe theS'are supplied BY
the department, maybe the Tommies
can purchase one, and maybe the doc
tors ana nurses raise a fund for one
The gramaphones which are used are
the cheaper ones but to the sick Tom
mics the music is just as sweet. A
Tommie will go to a nurse in charge Of
a ward and say, Please NAV | Dor
row your gramaphone for Ward -
until four O'Clock ." He is given the
gramaphone which he triumphantly
bears off to his waiting comrades and
they keep it going until way past the
time to return it. so that many times
the nurse must make a special trip to
the other ward to get the gramaphone
for her patients. Among the favorites
IN records are Harry LADDERS selec-
tons and musical interpretations of
Kipling's pieces. They're hanging
Danny Deever in the Morning." and
"Mandaiay." A soldier with a grama-
phone and IL or more records will
amuse himself for hours, playing the
records over and over again. One pa
tent played many times on his gram
arhone selection. intended to be
comic. through which runs the strain,
And | m-u-r-d-e-r-e-d her this morn
ing" which applies to the singer who
murdered the comic-song motner-in-
law. over and over again he plays
that piece. seeing in it a great deal Of
humor. The boys are right up to the
minute when it comes to timely songs
"Tipperary" is passe with them as 1t is
with others who keep up to the minute
in popular songs. Other forms Of
amusements which the boys have are
card playing and other games, puzzles,
drafts and other kinds Of music The
English Tommes are patient and do
not complain and are easy charges for
the nurses.
Water is hard thing to get on
the other side Of the water as
Miss Hamblin found during her
first trip to France, the English people
drink. as Johnson has described,
oceans of tea. and others have wine
with their meals. The wine drinking.
in fact the drinking Of any intoxicant
has decreased largely since the war be-
gan. The water as general rule is
very poor and one should not drink it
unless he knows that it has been boiled
to kill the germs. Miss Hambln re-
lates an incident that at one time she
was given a beverage which they said
was cider. It was cider that had never
seen an apple for she asked what it
was made from and was told maple
leaves. One might ask for water that
had been boiled but they could not tell
whether it had been boiled or not.
Once in an English eating place Miss
Hamblin asked for boiled water. and
the waitress looked at her in astonish-
ment and finally managed to say. Hot
water?" When she asked for water
that had been boiled, many times thew
would bring on boiling hot water. And
she said that there was nothing she
wanted more than a drink of ice water.
She got her first drink Of ice water af-
ter many months when she went
aboard the steamer on her return
home.
1t was during her stay in London
that Miss Hamblin was better ah,. !.