The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-06-20
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FOR 4 HIS COUNTRY

DOQy can ever Say CnaC 1 ain uOC luuk-
ing sacrifices and suffering for my ma
tive land"
"What is it now?" Wilkinson asked.
subscriptions to the Red Cross and
various relief funds?"
'tOf course, we have all that" the
out-of-town customer sighed. "We are
glad to do our bit with the rest, but
that isn't it. It is in the confines of
my own home that am suffering. l
first noticed it one evening when
asked Edna, my youngest daughter, to
pass me the catsup. INSTEAD of hand
ing me the bottle in it's silver standard
as usual, she took the bottle out
looked at the label, turned it around
and gazed at it again. Then, just as
I was reaching for it, she read the in
spring words aloud. wondered
whether she were thinking Of writing
a novel on the adventurous career of
bottle of catsup, but she kindly en-.
lightened me- by saying that In the
Red Cross nursing course, which she
is taking, they teach her never to give
person anything out Of a bottle with
out reading the label three times"
Excellent rule of conduct" com.
mented Wilkinson.
1--WE had important guests one eve.
ming at dinner" the other went on,
"and I was quite scandalized to see
how Martha, my seco9d daughter, was
acting. She had twisted her napkin
up into q roll and was muttering:
Eighteen by thirtysix makes one
yard roll, wrapper thirteen by thirteen
I shook my head at her, and then the
wife of the man whom was anxious
to impress began to ask Martha
thousand questions about dimensions
and the size Of the wrappers. Her in
terest relieved my anxiety. They are
both taking up the surgical dressing
course, and are having nervous pros
tration for fear they won't pass the e1-
animation"
II can imagine it," laughed Wilkin-
son.
Gall my incest and softest handker~
chiefs have been sacrificed to the ex-
periments they make at home" the
out-of-town man continued. "And yet
they are not satisfied. Martha asked
me yesterday whether couldn't buy
handkerchiefs that We're narrower
than they were long, as they would be
SO easy to experiment with. My
young son borrowed five of them one
afternoon, and when I got them back
they were ruined. He has first-aid
work in connection with his Boy
Scouts, and his mother had bribed him
to teach her little before she under
went her examination in first-aid UNI
der the Red Cross"
s'You must be a long-suffering NOR
tall
"Oh, don't know! I can't have
real comfortable game of solitaire now
because my wife wants to bandage my
arm or my wrist, or play have broken
my coilarbone and put on the proper
bandages and splints. did bolt, how
ever when they asked me to pretend
that I was drowned and let them give
me artificial respiration, and all the
rest of it."
"You are unaccOmmOdating
laughed Wilkinson. "Why can't you be
so kind as to break bone or two in
reality and let them have real prac-
tlce?"
"Edna almost asked me to. She
did say she was so sorry had not
postponed the breaking of my arm
from the time she was child to the
present hour. I had to wear throat
bandage for two hours the other eve
ming because they said was hoarse,
and they wanted to cure my sore
throat, which didn't have.
''This very morning." the man from
out of town went on, II was wakened
bright and early by my daughter Nan,
who apologized, saying she was try
ing to make the bed with fresh sheets
without waking me up. 1t seems that
that was the day for her examination
in home nursing, and she was afraid
she had forgotten the lesson on how
to make up a bed with clean sheets
and not disturb the patient. / let her
see she had disturbed me, SO she went
off quite alarmed, for fear she should
not pass"
"You are quite heartless."
Maybe so. When we go to lunch
Iwant lobster Newburg, or something
equally fierce," sighed the out-of-town
customer.
''That is because Nan is taking die
tetics and we have nothing indigesti-
BILE at our meals, merely the most SEN
sible eatables, with just the proper
proportion Of unpronounceable proper
ties, proteins and engines and carbo-
hyrates, you know. l am hungry for
the most unwholesome things can
have"
"We'u go now" Wilkinson said cor
daily. II certainly do sympathize
with you"
"And nv tho wav" tho Out.Of-tOUn