The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-10-10

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things easy for us. They did not rip
the dressings OF your wounds like
some Of the butchers do in some Of our
iIspensaries that ] know OF, but took
them OF carefully. Everything was
very clean and sanitary, and some Of
the hospitals had sun parlors, which
we're well used, you can be sure.
Some OF the men made toys and
fancy articles. such as button hooks
md paper knives. They made the
handles from empty shell cases, OF
shrapnel, or pieces Of Zeppellns, or
anything else picked up along the
front.
When they are getting well. the men
earn harness making, mechanical
irawing, telegraphy, gardening, poul-
Try raising, typewriting, bookkeeping
md the men teach the nurses how to
make canes out OF shell cases, and
'lngs OF aluminium, and slippers and
gloves out of blankets.
The nurses certainly work hard.
rhey always have more 70 do than
hey ought 10, but they never complain,
md are always cheerful and ready to
llay games when they have the time,
)r read TO some poilu. And their work
$ pretty dirty too: would not like
o have TO do IL. They say there were
OTIS OF French society ladies working
rs nurses, but you never heard much
ibout society. or any talk about Lord
Helpus, or Count Whosis, or pink teas
)r anything like that from these
nurses.
A few shells landed near our hos
)ital, while / was there, but no patient
vas hit. They knocked shrine of Our
LADY to splinters, though. and bowled
over big crucifix. The kitchen was
lear by, and It was just the chefs luck
hat he had walked over to our ward
o see a pal of his, when a shell landed
plumb In the center of the kitchen,
and all you could see all over the bar
.acks was stew.
That was a regular eatless day for
Is, until they rugged up bogies and got
tome more dixies, and mixed up some
,ornmeal for us. The chef made up
'or 1t the next day, though. The chef
was a great little guy. He was a
'blesse" himself, and / guess his stom-
ich sympathized with ours.
There was a Frenchman in the bed
lext to me who had the whole side Of
MS face torn off. He told me he had
)een next TO a bomber, who had just
IL a fuse and did not think 1t was
burning fast enough, so he blew on II.
Il burned fast enough after that, and
here he was.
There was a Belgian in one Of the
)ther wards, whom get. TO know pretty
we'll, and he would often come over
and visit me. He asked many Ques-
ions about Dixmude, for he had had
relatives there. though he had lost
rack of them. He often tried to de-
scribe the house they had lived In, so
hat / might tell him whether II was
still standing or not, but i could not
remember the place he spoke of. Dur
Ing our talks, he told me about many
atrocities. Some Of the things he told
me / had heard before. and some OF
them ] heard of afterward. Here are
some things that he either saw or
heard of from victims:
He said that when the Germans en-
tered the town OF st. Quentin, they
started firing into the windows as they
passed along. First, after they had &C.
cupied the town. they bayoneted every
workingman they could find. Then
they took about half of the children
that they could find. and killed them
with their musket butts. After this,
they marched the remainder Of the chill
dren and the women to the square,
where they had lined up row of male
citizens against a wall. The women
and children were told that II they
moved, they would all be shot. An
other file of men was brought up. and
made TO kneel In front Of the other
men against the wall.
The women and children began to
beg for the lives OF the men, and many