The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-08
HALF HOURS WITH THE
WOUNDED.
BY Margaret Walter.


London, July 10. His name was
Ulysses and his speech was Southern
and he was lying very still and patient
in narrow bed in King Georges hos.
pital alongside some of the Tommies
with whom his unit had been brigaded
these last two months. He hadn't
been in the hospital two hours before
his soft speech and his pretty way of
saying things had attracted the ward
sister.
AS soon as I entered the ward to
ask if there were any American boys
there, sister said, There's Ulysses
over there by the window. We keep
him in the sunlight because we love his
talk and he is just Like a canary. If
you put him in the shade he gets sad
at once.
One of Foch s surprise offensives
was just on and it was no earthly good
trying to talk to Ulysses about any
thing but the battle. He came straight
from the place where the French and
Americans were taking village after
village, twenty, thirty, in their path,
fighting forward at the rate of a mile
and q half an hour.
III shohly would like to be with the
boys, sister, Cts a pretty hospital
custom to call all ninistering women,
sister.) Aand All haadly feel right
laying heah among these heah boys
when All we only been wounded once.
Most of these heah boys have been
back heah in Brightly three or foah
times, All reckon It was fact that
many of the long line Of men lying in
the cots wore two, three and even
four gilt bars on their pajama sleeves.
"Ah shohly didn't know there was
such women in the wohld as these sis
tiers here in the hospital. All haven t
got a mothah myself an reckon I
never happened to see women like
these before. Why that sistah over
than seems to care how You feel and
what your thinking about. If you feol
polly she just come ovah an pats
your sholdah or offahs you smoke.
And when her work is all done at night
she goes down to the Red Cross library
and gets us fellahs papers from our
homes so we can see what g happening
in the States even if we don't get let
/ tiers from home -
$50 they treat you well, do they7''
asked.
"It's not well, ma am. They treat
us like we had accomplished the job.
Il sholy makes yohr heart warm to
heah tn way they talk to US, TONNES
and sisters and doctahs.'
a little way down the line ] found
boy who had broken his foot in a
rut just as his company was streaming
into the trenches. He had been march
ed over, then he lay in the pelting rain
all. night, and finally when he was pick
ed up there was nowhere to put him
but on the sopping ground under a Bit
Of tarpaulin. For three days he lay
! there and finally when he got to base
| hospital there was a good deal to be
| done for him. They told me he might
not pull through. Bue he is convinced
that he will and is already sorting out
| his little treasures. His chief anxiety
is that his CATERS, for which he paid
$3.50 at home, have got lost. His lit
tie store Of American tobacco had also
disappeared in the scuffle. But his hat
with holes burnt in the brim hangs by
his locker and his shabby little flower
ed crentonne bag has somehow stuck
! by him.
So I replepished the bag from the
supply sent out with all Care Commit
tee visitors from Red Gross head
quarters and I promised to see about
some CATERS.
The moment [ got to the cot of 9
dark eyed boy from ST. Louis he put
out his hand and said, II don't need
any earthly thing. They are treating
US fine here, everybody is square t.
i us DuI L Ill crazy LUZ d Cb. LOUIS paper
| and Saturday Evening Post. I'D
give anything to see Literary Digest
| Can It you possibly get them for mes
/ I tell you if you'd bring US around
some Of those papers and magazines
we ID read 'em till there WASH It shred
left =
One of the chief things Care Com
mittee visitor does is to carry messages
from ward to ward. Boys from the
same regiment or unit may be in ad-
joining wards and never know it, and
this social aspect is one of the pleasant
est as well as most important parts OF
the work. Think what comfort it is
to boy who has been cut off from all
his friends suddenly to find that there
is somebody he knows not far away, to
look forward to an interchange of visits
as soon as he is able and afterwards
when both are able to be out, to be
planning all sorts of excursions
Most of the boys need pocket money
| because its a little CALLING to be accept