The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-17

Three miles below Kut is the only
relic in the neighborhood, an obelisr
put up by the Turks in commemoration
Of the fan Of Kut 1t is a kind Of Cleo
patras Needle on a square plinth, all
of kiln-dried brick plastcred over. An
old converted British "cowgun" stan0s
as a trophy on each side. One Of the
guns has tumbed forward and the
plaster and brick are already crumbllng
The monument was never unveiled anc
is still half-covcred with canvas sheet
ing. most of which, however, has been
carried away by the wind.
don't come in for meals unless they
have at least an hour and usually they
have a wait of three hours. But that
makes no difference. They act as if
thev had one minute in which to get
and eat their food. But all are good
natured, and if the 'eguar food gives
out, they will cheerfully accept any
substitute
AT 1855 comes the big platform SER
vice which lasts about an hour. 1t was
the one thing ! dreaded before coming,
but far from mindiug it now, | enjoy
it. II certainly is amusing, and though
on a cold or windy night it is rather
trying you feel that you are so much
more use, just because it is SO cold
and disagreeable.
Well this crowd keeps on till after
two. when we have our second platform
service, but if the first train in this
case is late the canteen is fun until
4:3O az the men won't trust themselves
to sleep in the dormitory when they
have only an hour or two to wait.
Then we get the dishes washed, the
table wiped off and the marmites scour-
ed, and at three or four our French
volunteers leave us The cook stays
until six, when the day cook comes on
for duty At that time the day scrub.
woman comes and also one or two
French volunteers, who stay unit,
eight and help with the breakfast rush
and cleaning up. We have to have the
soup and the ragout started and fresh
coffee and cocoa ready to serve at six
thirty or seven but the scrubbing of
floors comes in the day shift-the one
that works from seven to three. And
for US, at seven the night is over
Feed 5000 Daily.
1T has been very hard up to now;
but we are all very fit and well Four.
teen or sixteen hours at shift have
not been at all unusual and twelve
hours are habltual to me, but it has
been so very well worth while Can
you imagine feeding an average Of
5000 men a day, a shifting population
infantry, cavalry, artillery, marines,
chasseurs Alpins, engineers, Turcos
Egyptians, Senegalese, and today about
500 Annamites?"
Mrs Tiffany, writing one letter is
interrupted by the arrival Of a train
load Of wounded. At the conclusion Of
her duties she resumed her letter:
-Four hours l have just come back
from the canteen. Such an afternoon.
A great train of seriously wounded
which is firing, as one has to climb in
all the carriages. The men adore co.
Goa. We get into the sanitary trains
and begin with the men who are well
enough to sit up and handle tin cups
and afterwards those who are too i'll
to lift their heads or use their hands
Those, OF course, we have to lift and
feed ourselves, as there are usually
between two and three hundred men in
train you can see one has to work
quickly to get through.
This work is hard and takes a real
vision and inspiration to keep on day
after day.
81 have personally dressed and ban
daged the frozen feet of twenty-three
Senegalese in the last ten days; great
huge blacks they were, whose feet were
swollen three times the usual size. The
station doctor brought us certain simple
remedies for common hurts. and four
of US took bandaging lessons at Neuilly
There is a lot of dressing. Sixty have
been done this week. The other day
we had a sanitary train with two wag
ons full OF nothing but chest wounds
twentyfour men whose coughing dis
turbed others, so they were put to-
gether.
"The dressings find the hardest part.
can stand the wounds and the blood.
but the face wounds are so much the
worst for me.
"As long as I live shall be grateful
that l have had the chance to do this
work 1t is far bigger and more inn
portant than ! had any idea Of