The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-02-15
Miss McKeiyer Writes
IShe Tells Some of the Routine
Work Of the Red Cross in
France.
January Is. 1919.

January Is, 1919.
Dear Folks:
l lie awake at night thinking OF
the many letters | should write but it
is pas possible" Carmel may speak
Partisan French and Margaret peas
ant French but speak French Of the
\. Z. f, which is an arSot in class;
by itself.l
Ny .mail has been arriving spas
:no0icaliy-two packages OF Items.
two copies of the Herald. and let
ters from papa and the two girls
Two letters referred TO Frank f2gan s
t.eat!, but I have never received Il iel-
ter telling me Of It. Today three ct
ters written about December l3th
reached .nc. Several days ago papa $
letter of Decembcl. 9lst arrived ana
one from Mrs. D. c.. Shaw came on
that mail. Christmas cards az" stui
arriving. ! hope 10 acknowledg" all
OF them il T ever get the time.
"Cnite Eleven" has been relieved bE
Twenty Eight" SO my new address
is Evacuation Hospital no. 28, Il. I.
O. 7G77. "Eleve,." and ] got Or fa-
mously :nd I hate TO see them so. II
eyer go to- Chicago. T ought TO have
q grand time. There arc some very
fine men in the rev unit. They cont
from different sections o. the country
and are. an army organization. 't-leV-
en-. WAS organized and oUttittcl by the
i.i,;ra~,, Rcd Cross and are Ike cne
big family.
! Az, proud of being q Red Cross
worker. for the American Red Cross
saa a tremendous undertaking 2nd
eve~v doughboy Will teIl you that sise
Red Crcss made good. The Red cross
york !n France is such a big tang
that II IS hard to describe. it. bat
shall attempt TO tell Of The work done
bere. There are two officers, q cal~
tain and a lieutenant, and ten women
workers. There is a special Wcri<ef
attached to each hospital and the
ether six women are ct the hut. one
is director. another q librarian. anot1i-
er. a 6ie1itian. the fourth, secretary
20 the captain. and the other 1Wo
have charge of supplies and enter
tain,nent We all work together bu1
each has her own part t-.olar Job. The
hut IS in the center Of the grounds
1t the point where the four. hospitals
;oin. The :.ain portion Of the huid-
ng is an auditorium that seats ABOUT
.ight hundred people. The boys hne
40 outside for each show There are
our s. ows daily, two in the afternoon
md two in the evening. Movies are
shown. about three days q week; an
outside show. one evening: local tai
mt. one evening: dancing for every
oody, Monday evening; and a musicai
program or sunday. On Monday at
.ernoon hot chocolate and COOKIES
re served. Thursday is tobacco day
and each walking patient receives a
weeks supply of cigarettes or Jobac-
co. There is writing room sup
piled with stationery and the iates1
,aaga zines. The Kitchen is naturally
The most interesting place III the
hut. Here special food is prepared
FOR light diet patients. Ice cream is
made every day for bed patients. The
hospital provides the regular diets
DUC the lieu VI OSs la 'i'7it~''
extras which mean so much TO the
rery sick boys. The movies are over
with BY nine, as the patients are sup
nosed to be in bed then. After the
show the ambulance boys and other
bows of the personnel gather around
The stove. and Guy plays the ukcleie
ind everybody sings. ! would like TO,
nave {. picture Of the kitchen crowd
Is it would be well worth :. keeping;
some boys sitting on the ice-box, otn-
ers on the shelves. and even the coaI|
scuttie and the sink are put into use.l
IS easy chairs. 4
What the hut does for the conval-
,sccnts. the searcher does for the bed
patients. When supplies come in, j
get proportion Of them for the bed
patients. A few Of the supplies that
pass through my office are sweaters.
socks. bathrobes. - slippers. cards.
ouzzIes, gan1"s. chewing and smoking
o;,acco. cigarettes, pipes. candy. Jam,
cookies chewing sum. razors. blades.
tooth hrushos. tooth paste. combs,
soap and similar articles. Theac are
bought with the money donated To the
Rcd Cross and cog, the boys nothing.
Patients arc separated from their
and Go no; draw pay. i2!.-
cry afternoon the &ew York Herald
and London Daily are distributed in
;hc wards About twice Week w''
get shipments Of magazines. They arc
usuall; abou. u month old ETer>'
DAY srppiy three wards with new
books. These books come from tiif,
centr:tl library al the hut. You an
set :. line or a patient by the books
he reads. AZ two O'Clock every day ice
crc;in is served throughout the warts:
at four Inc iieht-diet cases are served
broth or c;;stard.
There are many things that ii:r
Ecd cross docs Tor In" boys bat II
would t:tlle i1~ more time than haze
10 write, YOU about il.
This .etter reads like 4 lecture. i'n'
thought YOU would y" Interested III
this particular Subject.
;.n eating everything ohiain2!'it
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