Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-08-26
LETTERS FROM
MEN IN FRANCE
INTERESTING
MESSAGES ARE CHEERFUL AND FULL
OF H0PE-WOUNDED OFFICER
PRAISES TREATMENT GIVEN
IN FRENCH HOSPITALS
OTHER MESSAGES SENT

Many messages have been received from
Valley men who are fighting for America
in France Without exception the mes
sa.es are cheerful and all of them express
eagerness for an opportunity to meet the
huns.
j. j. Cooke has received an interesting
letter from his nephew. Lieutenant l. IL.
.T'6dge. who Aas -sfJt tiUwr~fn hrs -slriUnr
recently.
The letter follows:
Il have ceased to count days, 50 put
no faith IN the date. | Just know ] have
been south two or three days and that ID
far they all look alike. am in a sort a
hospital-convent- have pretty little
room on the ground floor looking ont on
4 little garden in the rear. My room -
painted white and the walls are tinted a
soft blue or gren and il y wonderfully
clean, light, AIRY and comfortable. All at
tendanis are Holy Sisters, who take a
great deal of interest IN me because ] am
the first American they have ever seen.
They are very much worried because ! eat
50 little, but that i easily explained be
cause | get 80 little experience and spend
% much time in bed or sitting around the
room reading or IN the garden. There p
one Sister who talks English, an fact she
II or was English, but has 80 long been
French that she does not use English with
great facility. She says she translated
everything back 10 English, always think
ing in French, strange isn't iti She A.
awfulIy sweet and | enjoy talking 10 her
every day.
And in the hospital at Sezanne. found
the nurses just as thoughtful and KIND a.
could be. They were all Sisters of some
order. good, sweet women. The Sister in
charge OF my room at Sezanne, Sister
Monroe, talked just little English and
she was just as nice as could be- There
has been no sad face religious recluses
among any of the Sisters that | have
seen, but they are cheerful and talkative,
Interested in pidzing up any little bit
about the United States, and always, 1
think looking for something a bit strange.
my first real recollection on the day
Of my fall was being on stretcner in d
hospital and being examined for injuries,
none of which by the way, were found,
and then | was carried 10 a ward room
where | had a bed with about eleven 9th
ers | spent just week in this room,
sleeping almost none and having few com
Portable hours, for my shoulder made any
position bad one. Sister Monroe was
always there ready to help by change of
pillows and without her the time would
have been worse than unlntercstlng. And
was one of the least badly off in the
room-no one slept ! believe except under
the influence of stimulants. There were all
kinds Of wounds, and much of the dressing
of them was done in the ward ROOM The
surgical assistants were interesting-they
were three very pretty young girls, one a
Russian, who talked little English, and
goodness competent, they were. None Of
them seemed over twenty and yet they
would come in without doctor, remove a
leg-cast, put on fresh dressings-in the
most hygienc sort of way, with rubber
gloves. sterilized pinchers, etc, and put
the whole limb back in its cast-they sure
" were interesting
After few days it was clear that there
was nothing there for me and on the