The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-20

simpson; Der shlrts.
Wernesday-Su Mrs. F. L. |
Wolverton, bed shirts.
Thursday Supervisor Mrs. W. a.
Baker; pajamas.
Friday Supervisor, Mrs. Coats; pa
jamas.
Saturday Supervisor Mrs. Amy Stic
ham; pajamas.
Calendar for Gauze Room.
Monday-Chairman Mrs. w. +. Dai-
Der.
Tuesday Chairman, Mrs. Charles Won
Weise.
wednezday-Chalrman. Mrs. Arthur
Straehley.
Thursday-Chairmau. Mrs. Charts
Rogers.
Triday-Chairman Mrs, J. r. vii
hanson
saturday-Charman Miss Gladys
Walling.
Red Cross nurses are usually depicted
with Madonnalike counteuances wear
ing becoming costumes Of Immaculate
white and spending mast of their time
soothing the fevered brow Of a suffer
ing youth with a Wallace Reid ply
sique. Mrs. Arthur Kyle, in letter from
her mother in Galesburg, H.. has re
ceiVod news from the front written 10y
Miss Mabel Fuller, who is nursing in
base hospital, somewhere in France,
and she removes such delusions with
graphic descriptions Of her own s"lf
and brings the knowledge TO US who
stay at home that We must prosecute
the work assigned US with Vigor and
untiring labor if we are TO claim kim
dred with those women who toll across
the sea.
Miss Fuller wrote: IF you could see
this Red Cross nurse. am going to
tell you what have on-a woolen union
suit, wooden corset cover, white stock
ings under a pair Of black wooden ones,
heavy brown shoes, a pair of woolca
Enickerboclers (the Red Cross sent Us
wooen petticoaU, my gray uniform
two sweaters, Taincoat and ralnhat ana
when / go out / put on pair OF Wooteh
mittens. If that wouldn't take the ro-
nance out Of Red Cross nursing, l don't
know what would You would think
with all that | could hardly move. Wen,
| have lost ten pounds since | came.
Miss Fuller also tells of the spirit or
tba wounded men in spite OF their in
tense suffering Had to stop writing
to wait on several fellows and give medi-
cine. These poor boys just make your
heart ache and you can't DO what you
wish to make them comfortable. we
have only the absolute necessities 10
work with. one poor fellow, Il years
old. has a big piece Of shrapnel in his
lungs; absolutely hopeless, and nos
much can be done for him. 1t IS nor
rible to watch them suffer so and never
complain. About a dozen have peeh
'gassed' and they always come GOWN
with more or less burns; their eyes
noses, mouths, throats and lungs IN an
awful condition Another dozen OF them
have been shot in the face and are ter
ribly disfgured. One is 50 badly burned
no does not appear human. Some have
broken legs and arms while others are
shot through and through. IL we had
any one OF these boys in our own homes
we would have about three nurses on
the Casa day and u night nurse, anu
one who never left the room. Yet these
men do so little fussing and try so hard
IN sleep We nurses were remarking
the other day that if we stayed over
here much longer we wouldn't be much
good at home, for we wouldn't consider
= patient very i'll unless he had a hole
in his lungs or both legs of some OF
these boys have thirty-tive wounds on
their bodies. one told me Of man who
had eighty-five wounds from shrapne'.
still. Ia rather have eighty-tive small
wounds than one large one ike some
I've seen, and I've not been where the
sickest patients are. I'm in tents, ana
the sickest are in wooden huts, which
are q little more comfortable
Q.ater, only have ninety-hve pa
uents tonight. II is raining hard and \
have to make my regular rounds every
half hour over 70 the other tents, al
though the orderly is a good one ana
keeps one place while l stay IN the
other. We were talking to 4 group TO-
night who can hobble up to the stove
and sit around It, and the spirit IS won
derful all joking One each from Aus
tralia Scotland England, Jamaica can
ada and the United States. They say
We are all here for the same reason
travelling for our health Just heard
we are to have a convoy and evacua'
ton tonight 4 convoy means bringing
in more patients from the line, 50
have my Eve vacant beds ready lot
stretcher cases. An evacuation means
sending the boys on who are ready 10
travel They are mostly sent to Eng
land. or 'Blighty,' as most EngNsnIneh
say these days. When the cases come
in they are undressed and bathed Ev-
er-ything they have on goes out OF the
wards to the fumigaung room because
No the line the bugs seem to hourLsh
When they leave, We have 10 dress the
wounds and then put on unoef"eai'
uajauras, sweater, socks, coat and cap
1t is work getting them ready; twenty
eight are signed up to 80, but, Oh couse'
they won't all be taken"
This is the experience Of one nurse in
one Of the hospitals, and there are many
more like hers, and even worse After
reading of such brave, intrepid men anu
women who are suffering and sacrificing
themselves day after day, We must re-
solve, even the least Of Us, unskilled IN
so many things, to do something every
day toward helping bear the burden.
Mrs Harry c. Pate who has an apart
,nent in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. i. L.
Wolverton, 125 street northwest Of
fers to care for and amuse seven OF
eight children every Thursday and Fri-
day afternoon to release more mothers
for work in the sewing room. Any