The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-08-02
FOR HIS COUNTRY

"Well, l am too far along in years
to go to the 'front.'" the out-of-town
customer told Wilkinson. "But no.
body can ever say that I am not max
ing sacrifices and suffering for my ma
tive land"
what is it now?" Wilkinson asked.
subscriptions to the Red Cross and
| various relief funds? 2"
"Of course, we have all that" the
Out-Of-toWn customer sighed. 1--WE are
glad to do u bit with the rest, but
that isn't it. It is in the confines Of
my own home that I am suffering. I
first noticed it one evening when I
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 It again. Then, just as
I was reaching for 1t, she read the in
spring words aloud. I wondered
whether she were thinking Of writing
a moved on the adventurous career Of
a bottle Of catsup, but she kindly en-
lfghtensd me by saying that in the
Red Cross nursing course, which she
Is taking they tqach her never to give
a person anythtng out Of a bottle With
out reading the label three times"
A"Excedlent rule o6 conduct" com
mented Wilkinson.
I'VE had important guests. q ~
v&un 81 AfNro0 $hn rkh~~ ~no-A an
~and I 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
I shook my head at her, and then the
wife of the man whom I was anxious
to impress began TO ask Martha q
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"
II can imagine It" laughed Wilktnr
0on.
All my incest md 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 I couldn't buy
h~andkerchiefs 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 I got them back
| they were ruined. He has f1rst-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 frst-aid un-
der the Red Cross"
"You must be a longsufering NOR.
tai"
"Oh, I don't know! I can't have a
real comfortable game of solitaire now
because my wife wants to bandage my
arm OF my wrist, or play I have broken
my collarbone and put on the proper
bandages and splints. I did bolt, how
ever, when they asked me to pretend
that I was drowned and let them give
me, artificial respiration, and all the
rest Of It"
"YOu are unaccOmmOdat1ng,"
laughed Wilkinson. "Why can't you be
SO kind as to break a bone or two in
reality and let them have real prac-
tcew
EDNA almost asked me to. She
did say she was 80 sorry I had not
postponed the breaking of my arm
from the time she was q qbild to the
present hour. I had to wear a throat
bandage for two hours the other v 9
ming because they said I was hoarse,
and they wanted to cure my sore
throat, which I didn't have.
tsfhis very morning" the man from
| out OF town went on, II was Weakened
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 IN how
to make up a bed with clean sheets
and not disturb the patient. I let her
see she Md disturbed me, 50 she went
OF quite alarmed, for fear she should
not pass
/ ~You are quite heartless.-
Maybe SO. When we go to lunch
I want lobster Newburg, o. something
equally fierce" sighed the out-of-town
customer.
THAT Is because Nan is taking die
tetics and we have nothing indigesti-
BILE at our meals, merely the most SEN
sible eatables, with just the proper
proportion Of unpronounceable proper
ties, proteins and engines and carb0-
hyrates, you know I am hungry for
the most unwholesome things I can
have"
wen 60 now" Wilkinson said cor
daily. II certainly do synnpathize
with you"
"And by the way" the out-of-town
customer said as he rose, team we