Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-04

gay posters on the wall and by a few
| plue and red tables scattered among the
chairs. There are always flowers, and
the boys do like them. even though they
~ouio not have told you 30 before the
war. In ono corner is our library. n
faVor1te spot, and our bulletin board,
that We try to change every day or two.
AIDING q new cartoon or poem,
we have become so popular as n hos.
pital that we run two movie shows at
night, quite like n regular performance.
with piano music to follow up each
sentimental or tragic bit, and long and
loud applause. There Is an entertain
ment OF some sort every evening, some-
times Imported talent from the Y, M
Z. A., singers or lecturers, elaborate
shows gotten UP In nearby camps, yaude-
vile stunts by our own clientele, or
nights when we just sing everything we
can think Of
advancing to tho kitchen, we find the
kitchen police are just ready to furnish
the patients who happen to be in the
hall with hot cocoa, or, II the weather
permits, with lemonade to make them
happier until mess time.
Inc storeroom is insatiable-no
sooner Is IL filled with razor blades and
nuts, cigars and shaving soap, candy
and cigarettes. toothbrushes. magazines
and comfort kits, than the many callers
empty 1t and We have to start oil over
again. There Is no busier Job than
attempting TO keep stock on hand,
AT the home service Office one may
obtain relief from oil woes, be they
sentimental, business or epistolary. II
goes like this: I want my MALL why
DOESN'T my wife get her allowance? :?
where Is Jones Of Battery B" I left
watch NJ ~
How do take out my citizen papers?'
All very different and all very interest
ing.
Having looked into the barber shop.
we will wander up through the audi
forum, stopping to talk a bit or to over
see game Of cards or tiddedy-winks,
ana then go down the corridor into the
greenroom-to-be which ut present ia
really only carpenter shop. Marvellous
thlngs nave como out OF It to make our
nut more convenient and homelike. In
the cupboard at one side you will find
musical instruments. gramophone and
records wigs. grease paint and other
stage properties Of all sorts.
THE conveys Of wounded have n
habit of arriving at the hospital during
the hours Of the night. Then by turn
two of us arise, dress warmly and serve
coifee and cigarettes to the men who are
brought In by the hospital trains and
also to the stretcher bearers and the
members OF the unit who work 80 un-
ceasingly for the sick Rainy nights the
wounded are brought into the hut to wait
for their turn In the dressing room, and
there one has chance to talk with them
ana learn Of what is happening at the
front. After the last coffee is given
out there is delicious food down at the
cookhouse. One cannot appreciate hot
soup fully until It Is handed to one at
the dreary hour Of 4 a. m The cooks
pamper the Red Cross girls at such
| times with hot toast and butter.
Every one has been so kind and CO.
operative that we have not felt at all
strange or out of place. Although our
unit has been here only short time, we
have really become a part of the staff
OF base hospital No. 30, and We are
anxious to do all that Is possible to make
our hut work as efficient as the medical
work of the unit with which we are af-
filiated."