The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14

Suffragist Unit So Competent That Request
Comes for Another to Run
Gas Case Hospital


slept calmly and peacefully as infants
Graded on their mothers breasts"
The establishment of this gas hospital
marks the beginning of period Of pay
ing much more attention to gas cases and
their treatment.
The French will supply the hospital It
is to be ready for the suffrage unit when
ever the latter arrives, and Mrs. Brown
hopes to start f-r Europe~with the fifty
by the end of August The French Wal
Department will supply some of the
equipment, and will maintain the patients,
but food and salaries for the fifty of the
personnel will come out Of the money the
American suffragists are raising for this
war work.
Often Pay From Own Pockets.
And it's safe wager that some of the
things that 60 down the poor parched
threats of the gassed men in that hospital
when it gets going some of the nice,
cooling dainties-will come out of the
pockets of the suffragist nurses. That
will be the case if they do as their sisters
already there are doing.
"Do you know what l found those girls
of ours doing when reached the evacua-
ton hospital near Compiegnep Mrs.
Brown demanded of me. 81 found them
doing all sorts of jobs for one another,
backing one another's shoes, manicuring
nails, washing hair, to earn little money
with which to buy nourishing goodies .or
their patients, their poor, brave blesses.
"The French soldier gets, well or sick,
his regular ration from the Government
1t consists mostly of war bread, meat and
red wine. 1t is what he wants; he would
feel much injured if he didn't have his
wine; but man just out of an operation,
recovering from grievous wounds, fever
ish, sick, does need something else.
Chocolate seems to 60 TO the spot bet
ter than anything else over there. heard
a nice story of Y. NJ. C. A. man who
dropped in on an evacuation hospital
equipped with a little spirit stove and
some chocolate 1t was in the height of
a battle-wounded lying along the corri-
doris, some who had not had food or drink
for many hours; surgeons operating at
top speed.
"The man from the Y. NJ. c. A. lighted
his stove and brewed a huge kettle of
steaming chocolate, gave cups to all the
wounded, and then penetrated to the
operating rooms with a kettleful. One of
surgeons, stretching out his arms for a
cup of the chocolate, exclaimed as he
gulped it down:
Long to Help the Wounded.
"'Now, who the devil thought of doing
thisi It's the most sensible thing I've
seen done YETI
"Oh, those woundedw Mrs. Brown
went on. "The things 1 saw make me
understand why the doctors and nurses
want to be near the front. You long to
be where you can help those men.
II don't know which is the worst, the
suffering of the wounded or the suffer
ing and terror of the refugees. 1 went
uOhH " dllo Will q VI AClu-
gees when left DR.. Finley and the rest
of our unit in the evacuation hospital.
You know, part of that first group the
suffragists sent over is in charge of a sta
ton for 5000 refugees in the south Of
France, at Laboubeyre.
"The civilian work is what the French
told US they wanted of US, and that was
all that was discussed in the interviews
between DR.. Finley and the French High
Commissioner Andre Tardieu, when the
latter accepted on behalf of his Govern
ment the unit of women which the United
States, because Of certain army regula-
tons taking no account of women sur
geons. had been forced to decline.
"Well, as say, the French told us they
would be very glad TO have the Women's
Overseas Hospitals come and doctor the
villagers, the women and children bereft
BY the war of medical attendance, and the
refugees. They stipulated that if needed
our women were TO do military duty, but
the Americans had no real hope that thev