Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-17

when Doctor Wise will speak for the
benefit of the women's Red Cross Christ
mas campaign, and all the members or the
Red Cross who do active work are engaged
in filling the house that night and In get
ting memberships from all directions. II
does seem marvellous that there are still
in these United states persons who have
not yet Joined the Red Cross; and yet there
are, and so many that it is almost unbeliev-
able. I've been thinking II over and won
dering why, and something l heard said
opened an avenue ot thought as to why It
was This person was under tho impression
that to join the association meant you had
to work for it, and as she is very busy
woman and quito unable to give any timo
10 making surgical dressings and bandages
and SO forth, she thought she ought not
to Join. Fortunately. the person to whom
she spoke knew all about 1t and set her
straight. and the Red Cross had gained
another member.
r WONDER if wo women think of what
L We may all bo doing by next Christmas?
You know it's "A time when one must think
about these things. / heard Captain La
GUS meetings ono is always going to these
days. Ho was telling about the women
of England. Well. of course. conditions
here arc not yet as they are in England;
and in fact, as Captain Latham said. the
United States would have had to raise an
army Of 100000 men before things here
would be on the same plane as in England
and please God they won't have to-and
then no told us about tho women in his
family.
He was SO simple about it, taking it as
a matter of course. and yet his heart must
ache pretty hard when he thinks OF them.
For they were women who had never had
10 do any kind of difficult or hard work
and who had never had to be on lime for
anything unless they specially wanted to
be Captain Latham said there were two
mon in his family. himself and his brother,
and tho brother is in tho trenches now;
and thero arc five women-his mother,
who is a matron of hospital; iis.wife and
his brothers wife. who hold positions in
banks; his sister, who Is in u nunition
factory, and his little sister of seventeen,
who is driving taXicab about London.
And that Is not ALL Ills wifo has a littlo
baby OF ten months, and she has TO tako
caro- of it as well as attend to her work in
the bank. There arc nurses TO lie had
for love or money over there.
Think of It, And better still. think of tho
strong spirit back of those frail and deli
cato women; the spirit that makes them
strong to bear and do in the place of tho
men who have had to go to tho front. And
let us prepare ourselves in spirit for what
may come, that VIC, too, will show the Same
spirit of sacrifice for the love of God and
country II we are called upon to do like
wise. With the Russian truce and the
freeing Of hundreds of thousands of Teuton
prisoners who will surely be brought in
time to tho western front it's not very
funny outlook, is it?
x/OUNCi Lieutenant Robert Walter starr,
l. Jr, who is the son of DIR. and Mrs. Il.
Walter Starr, of this city, is "over there"
working in ono of the base hospitals. He
writes that the work is simply wonderful.
but eight hours q day do not seem ade-
quate when there are SO many to be at.
tended to. And it's simply pathetic to SEQ
how grateful the men arc for the profes.
sional attention given them.
Lieutenant Starr graduated from the Dc
Lancey School in 1910 and from there went
10 the MedicoChi College of Dental Sur.
gerry. After receiving his diploma he was
instructor there and at the Philadelphia
Dental College. lie received his commits.
sion in June.
Despite the cold and rainy weather and
heavy fogs, Lieutenant Starr says in let-
ter to his parents. our men are doing
noble work and are eager for reinforce
ments from home. Too much cannot be
said Of tho wonderful work tho Y. M. C. A.
is doing for thom." And later: Tho food
10 good, chicken every third Sunday and
the promise Of turkey and trimmings for
| Thanksgiving and Christmas" So it goes
and tho letter arrives here after the
Thanksgiving which he is SO pleasantly
/ anticipating.
They say there is wonderful work being
done by the dental surgeons over there but
imagine there is less Of 1t than the other
surgical things; SO that is probably why he
speaks of eight hours. for most OF the
doctors have not mentioned any set time
for work.
IBID you know that the Bob Clays have
~ dear little daughter? She was borr
a week ago and will be named Mary Froth
ingham. after Elizabeth's mother Mrs
Clay. you remember. was Elizabeth Rob,
erts. twin sister Of Dorothy Roberts, VIII,
is now Mrs. Logan Bullitt, Jr. Bob Cla,
received his commission as captain at Nj
agara and is now stationed at Fort Sill, il
Oklahoma. SO he has not seen the little new
daughter yet. They have one other child
. little boy Of two years
NANCY WYNNE.