Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
\. w. &. A. IN FRANCE.
by Cally Ryland. Publicity Ay.n,

| ny s'""u' iublclty Agent.
June In Base Hospital No. 10 \
sixteen year old boy with both feet
Sn"' OH, was wheeled in to hear pr.
r"sHiek the other night. and with
SHINING eyes listened. MS / ncvcr saw,
amy body listen, and when Dr. Fns
dick had finished his "Ch,,:lcnre of
the Present Crisis" (onlv v,r,,
different one from the one wo rr,I3
m his hookD, the boy looked down
ny ms stumps, and then Mt DR.. Eos
u'ck, and burst out: Gee! I'm clad
IL WAS that part Of me, and not the.
Top that got busted up!" and DR.
,,.;,S rESu'ek looked down ut the pale face
with the big eyes and said, "You
hrt, FOR the man is all thcrci"
thesc nurses have been puttinm
on dressings for boys with legs and
rms gone. and with gas burns which
threaten the cycsight. with lust that
ma "i spirit for weeks, and only
hose who live with those rirls can
nov the strain on heart and hodyl
since the last drivc the Nurses
Niub OF Base 10 has had no dances.
partics' or "nctivitics,, of any i'm
pprHan'e. The hut has just been n
pace OF refuge and II Home for i3O
hird worked and strained nurses
L,t >' nv" ' icW minutes OFT
Occasionally big spirit from the
outside has come in to take MS out ,
SIDE of our Compound wall M,
Countess Goblet D'Avolla OF HrI-
gum (who by the way ia goinr to
America IN Tho fall) had lea with
us and talked to the Club about her
experiences III Brussels under the
German occupation. bishop Brent.
Judge Evans. Miss Winnirrcd lIolI
nv. Harry i. Fosdick. each one
Ewing more than he will eyer know
Dr. Fosdicii came at the climax of
u very serious unit trouble, and ,,nv,.
the Nurses Club such nm injection in
Their moral backbone. that the rrcsh
hood Carried the trouble away!
The Hut is being used constantly
beginning na early ms i:30 II. m. en-
sunday morning for Holy Com
miunion-till l0:30 nj night when
have To tell the various couples :,
nothcrly goodnight.
Duriui; the las. mcn,h n new ruit
u 40 nurses from rh.ialclphin
rrivcd no. having seen ,hci, bn"-
-9Ec III 4% Ncc''s and no proanrc.i,
dom so The Hut kitchan wax in
''n ~ tat" of overflow, while
"lrla rrcsrcl their one unirormr
The i1rchiuc whirrcd from morninr
t'll night. rs one girl replaced
an"ther Go mnks collars and cuffs
Tor that same one uniform. The ten
N"tLlc boiled from 3:l5 Till : u. M. ,,r
one af'cr another stOlc in for "n,si
a minute away" from the wards. The
ru'ct room has been I'm unsls. aud
oar fow precious books have hecn
worn s!ci,.
And on July second the Roosevelt
unit won their second service slripc
and we are now busy planning II
KIND Of anniversary that will a,imu-
late spirit for the second milo. Ro-
nance and excitement have become
daily routine for them, aud this
second year of the war viii hc ~ test
year indeed! Send us over the spirit
ual stickatcdncss we must have.
Yours, feeling her way in what is
the ensest and the very hardest
work she ever tried,
Willie X. Young.
Miss Young, II student secretary
of the Y. w. G. A., of Richmond,
snilcd in March to take charge of II
Y. w, G.. a. "hut" for nurss mar Base
Hospital 10. Her letter gives n good
idea of some of the activities of
Y. w. G. a. shut" FOR nurses, Base