The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-26
A RED CROSS NURSE
IN PARIS
Interesting Letter Received by a
McIndoes Lady

Interesting; Letter Received by
McIndoes Lady
The following letter from a Red
Gross nurse in France was recently
received by Mrs. f. P. Wells of Nc
Indoes, from her classmate, Miss
Mary Isabel Bryce.
Paris, France.
4th of July.
have been detained for
three days in a ward with nurses.
with positive throats This new
bacteria bug is the ruination. dip"
was developed in a bunch of new or
derlies and four of them, three nurses
and one aide, are down with it. /
was perfectly well but they accused
me of a 3x throat and gave me anti
toxin and let it go at that. | had no
reaction at all from the Schick test
(Which should prove me immune) but
my throat was full of bugs. The
boys are wonderfully interesting but
this is a fearful muddle with quar-
antine business and is specially hard
on the well boys. The boys from
some observation tents have been
liberated and others have been kept
in from forgetfulness or negligence.
y Apparently this tent hospi
tai is here to stay for time at
least, as they have taken an apart
ment with three floors for nurses and
NIL fo Crot in Uo1XT cnnr
A unit from Grand Rapids, Mich,
is here to Go the nursing, Unit 90"
consisting of 21 nurses, about six
doctors and so orderlies. The re-
mainder of the nurses are supplied
by the Red Cross from various
sources and there are quite few
aides. | will write to K if / ever
get sure Of staying in Paris any
length of time.
You will see an account of the cele-
bration in Paris July 4th, but people
with 2x throats are naturally barred.
| am picking up lot of information
as to results from antitoxin and cross
infection. We had dear little aide
from Minneapolis who complained of
sore throat for several days, result,
negative. Suddenly temperature and
a membrane developed, antitoxin was
given and after the second dose she
had hard chill, temperature 10712
and in the morning unmistakable
rash of scarlet fever. I am feeling
pretty well for an old lady but rather
dread night d1tV again
#* $ Our chaplain is an Episco-
palian but he is not the type of man
who ought to be chaplain at all,
not good mixer and has very self
conscious manner. We should give
our best to these soldiers, send if pos
sible the men who have the art of
approaching others easily and tact
fully. The art of social intereourse
IS an art by itself, It sometimes ap-
pears in the village cut-up and occa-
sionally is acquired late in life by
people who study to please-but |
honestly think an army chaplain can
not get along without securing it by
natural OF acquired methods. Is Is =
We had Mrs. Hawes from Dart
mouth College helping US for a while,
an archaeological expert and investi-
pAtor of Greek antiquities. She
helped me in some of my hardest
hours and left on June 3rd for Amer
ica and her children. If you ever
meet her, be sure to acknowledge me
as an acquaintance.
| have heard no stories of German
atrocities at first hand but l have
heard two pretty stories of kindness
on the part of the German Red Gross
to prisoners taken in battle whom
they had afterwards to abandon.
They dressed the wounds and left
them with water, for their comrades
to find later. In the case of one
helpless soldier they fixed rag in
his canteen and put the end in his
mouth and put little flag owes him
before they evacuated the wood neal
which he was injured. Marines told
me this who found him.
| am locking forward to a rest in
d quiet place after all this fussing Sc
if you can find me room in a peace
full New England village l will have
lovely time writing up my family
history and reading all about the
| things 7 have been thrOuph