The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-11

| IOOu Is 8tINtu. vi 'OhiSt ~ 49, -
WAYS in a tearing hurry and push and
shove each other as if they We're going
| TO get left if they didn't. But there Is
! no reason for it, because they don't come
. in for meals unless they have at least an
| hour and usually they have wait OF
| three hours. But that makes no diiier-
ence. They act as il they had one MN
ute in which to get and eat their food
But all are good natured. and If the reg
ular food gives out, they cheerfully ac-
cept any substitute.
"At 1l:55 comes the big platform
service which lasts about an hour. 1t
was tine one thing ! dreaded before com.
ing, but far from minding it now, EN-.
JOY it. II certainly is amusing and
though on 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 full until 4:30 as
the men won't trust themselves to sleep
in the dormitory when they have only
an hour or two 10 wait
"Then we get the dishes washed, the
table wiped off and the marmites secured
and at three or four our French yolun-
teers leave us. The cook stays until
six when the day cook comes on duty.
AT that time the day scrubwoman comes
and also one or two French volunteers,
who stay until eight and help with the
breakfast rush and cleaning up. We
have TO have the soup and the rsgout
started and fresh coffee and cocoa ready
TO serve at $3.50 or o'clock, but the
scrlibbing of floors comes III the day
shift-the one that works from seven TO
three And for us, at seven the night
is over"
at 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 habitual TO me, but it has been
so very well worth while. Can you mag
inc feeding an average of 5000 men
day, shifting population. infantry, cav
airy, artillery, marine, chasseurs Alpins,
engineers, Turcos, Egyptians, Senegalese,
and to-day about 500 Annamites y
Mrs. Tiffany writing one letter. is in
terrupted by the arrival of trainload
of wounded At the conclusion of her
duties she resumed her letter:
-Four hours | 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
those who are too i'll to lit
their heads or use their hands. Those, OF !
course. we have to lift and feed our
selves: as there are usually between two
and three hundred men in n train, you
can see one has to work quickly to get
through.
sThis work is hard and takes a real
vision and inspiration to keep on day |
after day.
Il have personally dressed and band |
aged the frozen feet of % 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 RENE !
dies for common hurts, and four OF us |
took bandaging lessons at Neuilly. There |
is lot of dressing. Sixty have been |
done this week. The other day we had |
a sanitary train with two wagons full |
of nothing but chest wounds-twenty- +.
four men whose coughing disturbed 9TH |
ers. so they were put together.
"The dressingsI find the hardest part I
can stand the wounds and the blood |
but the face wounds are so much the
worst for me.
"As long as live I shall be grateful
that / have had the chance to do this |
work. Ii is far bigger and more impor-
tant than | had any idea of