The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-08-06

To criticize your neighbor long,
Because he's busy being wrong.
-Rebecca Foresman.
Work for Young Women
There probably never was time
when thoughtful young women were
as anxious as at the present to make
their lives count for something. Now
that the surgeon general of the u. S.
army is calling for host of student
reserve nurses in the United States
to take the place of the graduate
nurses going abroad, Ocala girls
should become alive to the opportu-
nifty offered to them here at home of
taking up that most helpful of all
misunderstanding.
Across the sea. from France, with
every closing day of the heroic strug-
gle of our fighting men, there comes
a more imperative call to the women
of America to assume their full
share of responsibility in winning
this world war for the right of men,
women and nations to live their own
lives and determine their own future.
Women are peculiarly constituted for
spending themselves on great events.
They are so constituted that they can
rise at occasions. such as births,
deaths, and nursing which looms
large in the life of every normal
woman. The question before women
today is far-reaching and very real.
All of US are prone to say that we
Glove our country" but now is the
time when factions speak louder than
words"
All over our broad land today we
have mutual interest, something to
join the hearts and hands of all true
Americans. 1t has been aptly said by
a broad thinking woman: eve can
not longer live our own lives-the
man or woman who tries to do it has
become the most despised citizen of
the place. Their names are spoken
in hushed voices, because there are
reasons why women must work and
weep and pray today. They cannot
still be so encased with the veneer of
modern society as to be wishing to
remain Indifferent to emotion when
the whole world is in commissions of
a life and death struggle"
The service which is being asked
of woman today calls for the best
that American womanhood can offer
in courage, devotion and resourceful-
ness. Our home hospitals are the
nations training camps for women.
Here every girl may serve her coun-
try most acceptably. The demand for
highly trained, experienced nurses is
far in excess of the supply. Let every
woman who can possibly do so quail
fly as student nurse.
Mrs. S. H. Bitch and Mrs. A. l..
Mckay were visitors in Ocala yester-
day from Blitchton.
Mrs. Anna Tweedy has returned
from pleasant visit to her daughter
and family at DeLand.
Mrs. Fred Mullino returned yes
terday from delightful visit with
relatives in Montezuma, Ga.
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Miss Eloise Henry and her guest,
Miss Sadie Tillman were up from the
lake yesterday for a few hours visit.
Mrs. r. ID. Thompson, after pleas
ant visit to her daughter, Mrs. C. E.
POWELL in Roanoke, Va, has returned
home
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Mr.. and Mrs. 7. P. Drake and sons
left today in their car for the noun
tains of North Carolina, for the re-
mainder Of the summer.
Mrs. Laurence Kelly arrived yes
terday from Gainesville for a visit of
several days with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. R. Moorhead.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Roess and chill
dren arrived in the city yesterday and
are guests of Mrs. Roess' parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Anderson.
The Christian Science Society will
hold a testimony meeting at Yonge's
Hall tomorrow evening "wednesday
at 7:45. The public is cordially in
vited.
Mrs. W. A. Huckaby and daughter,
Willie, left yesterday for Raiford,
where they win visit relatives and
later will go to Georgia for several
weeks visit.
Mrs. j. C. Caldwell and two manly
boys, joseph and Earl, returned Mon
day from a most enjoyable visit with
/ Mrs. Caldwell's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Mcintyre in Jacksonville.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stroud, after
a few months absence from the city
during which time Mr.. Stroud has
had a position in shoe store in Fort
Myers, have decided to again make
their home in Ocala, Mr. Stroud hav.