Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-08-29
MISS PECK WRITES
ANOTHER FINE
LETTER
Telling of Hospital Work
She Is Doing In Stricken
France
paris France. july 2, 1918.

Dearest Family:
Here | am once again writing TO
YOU and this time from the war zone'
for Paris has just been declared IN
the war zone. What difference that
is going to make I don't know.
At the moment | am sitting in a
lovely. old French garden, closed IN
bv uncovered walls, and have just
finished eating a perfectly tremen-
dous dinner; being Woodworking
woman have an appetite to corre-
spond: but l am going to try to keep
awake long enough to write you a
few lines. First, here is my grew
ance: have been in France for
more than five weeks and nearly
seven, since | sailed, and no word
from you people excepting Flor
ence's little note, and fathers let
ter of introduction to Major Prem
tice and Miss Holmes-many thanks
for the letters. ! hear that Major
Prentice is out of Paris and Miss
Holmes is probably somewhere near
er the Port. hope sometime to meet
both, but this corner of the world is
such busy, intense one that no one
has the leisure to. cultivate new ac-
quaintances.
] am still at the hospital and prob
ably shall be for a week or ten days
longer. There one meets many in
teresting women, or at least you have
the opportunity for few words at
luncheon, although | could not tell
YOU the names of more than three.
We have snapped tales generally. A
number of them have been over here
since the outbreak of the war doing
various war work. A number of the
girls out here now were doing can
teen work at the front at the begin
ming Of this last drive; they left
their stations at the very last mo-
ment, a number of them losing all
their belongings. A very sweet girl
from Boston, with whom | sit next
to nearly every day at luncheon, has
had bit of her dairy published in
the Red Gross Journal, which / am
sending you as / know you will en-
Joy reading it. Mrs. William. K.
Vanderbilt is one of the directors of
this hospital and she is here every
morning and goes about sometimes
helping with the dressings, which she
loves to do. She is always most gra-
cious to every one, and is surely a
most attractive looking woman for
her years.
/ have a ward with twelve men to
look after now; of course, head
nurse over several wards to super
wise and to help with difficult dress
ings; but | do nearly everything, al
though most Of the men are improv-
ing 1t is one jump from morning
until night as many of them are so
helpless and have to be handled so
carefully; two of them have lost an
arm and one leg; nearly all of them
have injuries that are more or less
permanent; is is quite heartbreaking
and you will all realize the effects
of this war more and more as these
men begin to come home. The ma
jority of this army is the great un-
washed of America, and many of
them will never be able to take up
their old trades again and must be
cared for. It will be the big problem
of the future.
Friday.
Hurrah Some letters arrived to-
day; my first, two from father, and
two from Florence; they surely did
look good to me; / was getting so
hungry for some home news that
could hardly stand it. You certainly
do appreciate your family when you
are thousands of miles away from
them, and have longed to be with
yOu OH MANY anu many q LiutG. IL IL
not particularly agreeable living here
these days, but nevertheless | am
glad that came for there is such a
need of workers on every hand and
one can't stand aside these days and
let the other fellow do it, but do
write to me often, all of you; l long
for letters, you can't know what they
mean. If week goes by without
letter from me don't worry, for il
, means that 8 sudden rush has come
and life is a matter of work, eat ano
sleep only.
By this time know Florence and
Buddy have left you and are ir
Washington with Melchoir; how
should like to see that small boy and
give him one big hug and kiss. I
have his picture sitting on my table