Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-12-12

15an can DO most anything, from patch
IN up busted matrimonies to putin
ice in the family refrig. Carl Wall
burger was busted up when he heard
he was a-goin' to lose the little house
he an his frau had most paid for,
cause they couldn't dig up the. interest.
The Red Cross Man wrote to somebody
on one day Carl was a-smilin' all over
his Dutch pills. cause he'd got letter
Sayin' he could pay the interest when
he'd cracked Kaiser Bilrs strong box.
Carts United States If he is Dutch. He
wuzn't aroun' when they picked his
name. Motors don't 30 dead when he's
given them the once over"
There's that Red Cross on that UNI
brella."
"Bet y'ur neck. The NJ. Ps WIZ get
tin their kukus dried up, standin' out
in the sun keepin' the trucks from
a-gettin' Jammed 1T the crossin's. The
Red Cross Man got umbrellas an put
'em on those platforms, an now the
M. Ps amt afraid O loosin' their think
boxes an are all scrappin' for a shady
cr0ssin' job. He's always toin' some
thin for the boys. Last winter, wheh
we most froze stiff, be got fifteen thou
sand blankets, an sweaters, an muf-
fiers, an gloves, an sOx to keep us
warm. They say he worked four days
an nights fore he got us warm and
feelin' Timber. Last Xmas he give us
dandy boxes of stuff, candy an the
makin's, an lot of stuff. Made US
feel like ole Santa hadn't passed us
up but had come a-slidin' down our
tent pole"
Helped Him Out Then.
"Where'd you learn to know hlnnT"
slim and me got real chummy last
spring when wuz in the hospital aft
er that propeller blade mussed me up
some. He'd come aroun' to see me
most every day. Always had some
thin to say that made me feel better.
Why, the nurse'd get so she'd bring
me that damned hospital cocktail when
he wuz there, cause she knowed I'd
take it without cussin'."
"a cocktail, an you cussin'2 Quit
your klddin' !"
There You go again, showin' what
you don't know. Mike, my boy, hos
pital cocktail is just plain straight
castor oil, without any water as a
chaser. Take it from me an stay
avx-ovr 4sra,,4 &I,rx,o ,7oae. - A. hos
pltal or you'll get one o. them cock
tails. The nurse tole me they most
run out of the burned stuff one day,
an the next batch had got tied up with
red tape an couldn't get in. She said
the patients wuz ali a-gettin' sick,
cause they get well to keep from get
tin them cocktails, but the Red Cross
Man went out an bought a hOgshead
or two and the patients began to get
well again, sos they could do without
their teddy. She tOle me I mustn't hold
1t agln the Red Cross Man tho, cause
the does tole him to get it, an that
he gave right smart nicer things to the
hospital than them burned cocktaiB-
il makes me cuss TO think about 'em.
Well, ruE a-tAllin' you how me and
him got cllumnly. He saw couldn't
write, account my bum wing, an he
asked me If didn't want him to write
my letters. had him write to MOTH
er, an, after we'd got acquainted, /
asked him to write to Nellie, my best
girl back home. reckon he thought I
wuz some mush on her all right, but
he never said nothin'; just put it down
like / tole him. He looked funny
aroun' the eyes sometimes, but I
reckon he wuz happy cause we wuz
writin' TO my Nellie. When the docs
lets me 60, wun't good for nothin'
an wanted TO go home till got strong,
but didn't have the coin for the fare
all the way up to Indiana. But darn
my cats, that Red Cross Man got me a
leave an then loaned me the cash to
go.