The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-26
DEALS WITH 400
OR MORE DAILY
Mrs. Clara HI. Gilman Tells
of Work in Hospital
Hut Service
GRATITUDE SHOWN
BY WOUNDED MEN
Soldiers Proud of American Women and
Try Hard to Show Appreciation
Many Books Could Be Written from
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The following extracts are taken
from n letter written by Mrs. Clara
Hovcv Gilman, who is III France IN
Red Cross hospital Init work, to her
mother, Mrs. Henry w. Hovey of this
town:
Sept. 10.
| guess nv week is about up and
haven 7 sent YOU n line. 1t is very
busy world, / assure you. NO sueh
thing as limited number of hours
per-wcck- work affects ms. Our average
is from s a m. 10 quarter of p. m
and sometimes we are needed IN the
evening We have an hour for lunch
con. The work, as yet, is not inter
csting except in n few brief spots, but
/ have hopes. The woman who has
charge Of all the decorating and fur
nishing of hospital huts comes Monday
and ! know she will make things fly.
for | We met her and she s that kind.
When our big Elysee Palace is fixed
up | am hoping and praying that the
tobacco shop will be taken entirely out
of our hands. | do not care for selling
the stuff and ! hate making French
change but ii viii come out all right,
and some one must do the work. 1t rs
really the G. NJ job, but he says he
can I handle il, and if we don't the
men won't get their beloved smokes.
After the selling is over ] go into the
reading room and have an interesting
time
. rft1
can imagine, Really l can't begin to
! tell YOU how fine the men are. OF
course there are so very many classes
unknown 10 the enlisted personnel be-
/ fore this war-a tremendous percent
/ age of college men.
! suppose deal with 400 or 500 each
/ dav, and ! havn heard any swearing
nor seen a drunken man yet They are
| proud Of the American women who
| have come over and | think they must
try very hard to show their appreeia
tion in the way Of being courteous
Every type goes by that canteen coun
ter i'm the dav,--a fascinating study il
one could give the time TO it.
When have the leisure between
$50 and Go ] get conversation of al
sorts do wish ] were a short story
writer. We already heard enough t.
furnish material for many, and som'
are as thrilling as the Hcnty books.
One funny little man from south
ern state hung around the other da,
till ! was sure he wanted something
though evidently not tobacco. l asllet
what / could do and he asked if +,
write few postcards for him. He ha
one eve badly hurt and an arm still
stiff from a fracture. OF course
wrote the cards, supplying most of tn
data rs lie was excessively shy. II
vcnturcd at last to ask il Ia writ
letters to his wife and mother, for hin
Some of the men had written cards bu
he didn Z Just like to have them d
more and letters hadn't been sent fC
many weeks
1t was n new experience. Imagin
writing 10 a man S wife and making
letter she would enjoy! | trust W
succeeded For material he gave n
part Of day at the front quite wort
recording.
In the advance he was separate
from his company He hid in a she
hole and after a bit saw n Germa
crawl out Of one someway on. He sh,
him and then went over to investiga
finding a machine gun and rifle. III
latter he appropriated, also the hol
thinking il better than the one he LEI
After q bit he heard an airplane coi
ing; it was flying low SO he took
shot at that. He said he was mu,
surprised when. after a few seconds
began to tumble about and landed II
far away. Up he jumps and goes ov
to have look. II was a lucky sh
for the German aviator was dead.
said OF course, it was pure chance
While he was viewing this trop
Of his Springfield he heard shouts n
looking saw six German soldiers 60