The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-22

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 ,M since my beloved Viola Rodgers lS\ (and everybody who knows me
 knows why say My beloved Viola Rodgers" because they know that hold her in such wonderful regard; I have so much respect for her intellect, her accomplishments, her beauty and her chsrm) called me over the phone from the station in Birmingham, saying she had missed her train and had a couple of hours to spend with me. When I found her I discovered that she was returning to New York from a little visit to her mother down Louisiana way, and that she was sailing for France the following week: it developed subsequently,, by the way, that she and Mrs. Frederick II. Prince, Jr, Elizabeth Harding) went over on the same steamer-the Rocham- keau.
 Little did I dream that she would be gone a long, long year, but it is almost year now since that happy day when I Saw her fer few brief minutes.
 Tn the meantime, such wonderful mar velous things have happened to her; she has been right in the heart of things lover
 
 biz and encouraging looking bee was buzzing about in my bonnet, hummins little tune that sounded very much like would be over there before now-"the best laid plans of mice and men, you know-well, anyway, I wrote to her and the letter I append is her answer; 1t is an interesting, delightful communica- yhon and will undoubtedly be an inspir- ation to many a girl who is going to France to do war work.
 Miss Rodgers writes from the Hotel De France ct Choiseul, Paris. August ?, 1918:
 My Dear Dolly Darymple: It was good to get your letter and to hear that you may be over here before long-I hope soon-as I am planning to leave next month sometime which will make Il prac- ticaIy a year since I left New York. It has been a wonderful year, too, filled with all sorts of experiences and oppor- tunities I am now the assistant to the head nurse, Miss Emleen Childs of Cal ifornia, in French hospital for reformes and also work two hours each day in the .-pensement'' room at the St. Mande porte
 
 a bastion for Belgian permissionaires. In other words, we take care of their sick and do all the dressings and bandaging, etc, for their wounded. I started first in the canteen connected with this foyer but found that was more useful in the hospital end of affairs and now I am an actual infirmiere. Before I came to France I never knew how to bandage sore thumb and now I know how to ar range the dressings and care for legs cut off up to the thighs and arms gone from the shoulder, to say nothing of head bandages But l simply could not re- main here and see how much I was needed in this branch of work without getting into it I am a member of the French Red Cross, which you know is made up of three great branches-the Secours Blesses Militaire, the s. B. M, tn which belong: the Union des Femmes De France and the Danes De France. $ When I went into the work it was be- fore any of our boys had been wounded and the French were so in need of help after four years of war that felt l could best serve the allies working with the French I have never regretted it for one minute, for while should like to be working with our own boys now that so many of them fill the hospitals here, ] feel that none will be neglected and dc find time after I finish my work to