The sun., 1918-12-28
MRS. DANIELS CALLS
WOUNDED HER BOYS
Naval Secretary's Wife Takes
Flowers and Cheer to
Brooklyn Hospital.
HIGH PRAISE FROM MEN
Sailors and Marines, All
Heroes, Gladdened by In
expected Visit.

There is a young marine In the Naval
Hospital in Brooklyn who fought at
Chateau -Thierry and was 30 badly done
up that he is Just now able to STAND NJ
attention and blush delightediy when
woman speaks to him. The particular
woman yesterday happened to be Mrs'
Josephus Daniels, wife OF the Secretary
OF the Navy, who looks on marines and
sailors as her own particular brood and
wants to mother them accordingly.
And this young marine Is worth moth
erlng There was about six feet OF him.
all whipcord and muscle when he tackled
a machine gun. But one gathered that
facing that gun was not bit harder
than trying to swallow his happines"
and embarrassment IN facing his boss's
wife. She shook hands with him and
told him she was proud OF him. and then
left him with a whopping red rose that
matched the color Of his cheeks.
She's a eorker, that's what she is,
he whispered to his mate, similarly dec-
GRATED with a flower. MY, amt che .
nice woman!
Leaves Flowers and n Message.
80, IL Mrs Daniels Is curious about Il.
that Is what the men thought OF her
after she had passed through ward after
ward, leaving kindly words and flowers
and a New Year wish for each moth
er's son OF them. She had been whisked
over from Manhattan to bring greetings
from Mr. Daniels, and she allowed that
Il was about the pleasantest duty she
had ever performed. And there were
times when her eyes were bit wet
when she looked at some pallid young
ster on a cot as IL she would like to
gather him up in her arms and tell him
how proud his country is OF him.
She tried to tell them all In a little
speech The reporter didn't hear II. but
ne asked a sailor what It was like.
"Oh, great" he said. Isn't she nice?
She said Mr.. Daniels couldn't get over
and that he asked her to come and
bring his love and good wishes TO them.
and to tell them that he and abe both
loved them as much as they did their
own children. II was fine. Did they
like It? oh. say, man.
Mother and sisters with Her.
There may be hospitals that are cheer
less places, but the Naval Hospital Is
not one of them. Christmas trees still
Mrs. Daniels arrived, and there were
more smiling than unhappy faces, even
among men who could not lift them
selves UP on their beds. Mrs. Adelaide
Worth Bagley, whose name has been
borne by men that have lived up worth
lily TO naval traditions, Mrs. Daniels's
mother. a pleasant faced old lady who
walked with little black cane, beamed
about her as II she never wanted to go.
And SO did Miss Bagley and Miss Ethel
Bagley. her daughters.
Mrs. Danielss escorts through the hos
pital were Capt. George A. Lung and his
aid, Lieut. $. 3. Burke. With them
were Commander II. c. Shffert. Lieut.
", P. Frost. Junior aid to Rear Admiral
Nathaniel r. Usher, and many OF the
senior medical officers OF the hospital
There are nearly 5000 men there. as the
place has grown tremendously since the
war started.
Mrs. Daniels went first. her arms
filed with flowers. In two OF the beds
near one end of a room were two men
whose pale faces and tired eyes showed
the seriousness OF their wounds. They
were c. Thompson, whose hip was shat
tered, and Herbert w. Queripel of New
Bedford, who has a smashed leg. Mrs
Daniels sat and talked with them for
9everal minutes, and when she got up
she patted their hands and said some
thing so low that no one could catch II.
In the next bed was a man who stood
stifly at attention on clutches. Charles
Combs of Mansfield, Ga. whose left hip
was broken in the fight at Chateau
Thierry.