The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-24
FORMER HOSPITAL
SUPERINTENDENT IS
NOW IN FRANCE
MISS JEAN CLARK, RED CROSS
NURSE OF THIS CITY, WITH
UNIT "Q", WRITES HOME.

MISS Jean M. Clark, uaugnter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Clark of West
May street, who went over seas for
Red Cross nurse work and who was
formerly superintendent of the Beld-
ing hospital, has written the following
letter to her parents.N Since writing
this letter which was written in Eng
land the hospital unit to which Miss
Clark is attached, has reached France.
Dear Folks at Home:
/ have Just finished afternoon tea
rather English I'm getting-there is
nothing else to do we are still not
working.
Ruth and / are trying to see the
sights about here Of which there are
few of Importance although every
thing is different than our way of do
ing.
We visited Chester the other day.
This contains an old Roman village
surrounded by high stone wall with
watch towers every little way along.
One bears an inscription, tells that a
King Charles stood there at date
which | have cf course forgotten and
watched his army defeated over on
the Moor-another the Cromwell held
some nobilities' daughters there as
hostages.
There is a magnificent old cathedral
inside the wall built somewhere about
100 but | couldn't ever describe it
only / feel mighty small not knowing
more bible history. | should have
understood things inside much better.
In one of the old buildings now used
as a shop there is the remains of an
old Roman bath, a Turkish bath was
heated by a fire being built in the
basement and the heat passing up
through hollow stone columns to the
room above. Then in the same base
ment is large stone bath with steps
leading down. This has a spring in
the bottom and there has been water
in the pool ever since the Roman days.
The famous old River Dee runs
along outside the wall and saw the
old mill it tells of in the "Miller of
the Dee"
The queer little old shop, an linus
are still there with names as "The
Ring-o-B Bell" "The Black Cat" "The
Sign cf the Kettle" and so on.
We are not going on duty at the
camp hospital told ycu Of, there was
a mistake in the orders and our unit
is to 90 to France.
/ think this U-boat raid on the New
York coast will waken things up bit
mere over there. I'm so glad I'm
over safely and am a still more ard
ent admirer of the little destroyers.
We have met so many navy officers in
charge of destroyers and they seem
such lonesome boys over here that
Miss Ward and have been trying to
be as nice to them as ! would want
nurses to be to Ray if he were ever
here.
She and l. had dinner with one last
night and they were so nice to us
and it was really some dinner for us
after so much English fare. Real
| American cooked beefsteak mighty
good, French fried potatoes, creamed
cauliflower and all the strawberry ice
cream we could eat, also the same of
cake We get no cake or ice cream
over here and no fried food at all so
it was wonderful dinner topped off
with the first real coffee I've had
since leaving New York.
Then we visited another destroyer
which had been bit disabled and on
board had some more ice cream and
some even better coffee. Don't think
we are not getting enough food for
we are but it is so different and we
are not just accustomed to it yet.
/ expect it will be an age before /
get any mail. I'm mighty anxious to
hear from home; you see it is a month
now since I've heard. The boys here
laugh at me though when speak of it..
They got their Christmas mail at
Easter.
Hope everything is fine at home and
/ suppose Louise will be there when
you receive this.
Keep on writing often. they will be
just as coed when they get here.
Lots of love from
Jean.