The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-10
Wounded Yanks in British Hos
pital Have TO Be
Amused.
ARE LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN
Now Their Job Is Done They VIII
Fight to a Finish With Best
Friends Over Question Of
Who Won War.

time 10 Ieucn lolhc loI Nhllo'hhuSj oAo
the especial charge of the women who
volunteered TO work on the care com-
mttee of the Red Cross way back
yonder last summer when there was
n war on.
We thought that with the signing of
The armlstice our work soon would be
over and the Christmas plans we al.
ready had begun TO make were aban-
doned under the impression that there
wouldn't be any wounded to entertain
In England. But that was all mis-.
take; Ii seems as il our work might go
on for quite a bit yet. Anyhow, our
hospital at Tottenham is one of those
which is still full. Every afternoon
trains of ambulances pour out their
burdens in our receiving wards Just
as in war times, and boys who have
been for months in French or British
hospitals are for the first time among
their own home folks.
Wounded captives Received.
Then there are our wounded prison
ers-now beginning TO dribble back
from Germany--to be looked after and
made much Of. To listen to their
stories alone takes one persons entire
time.
There was no bother about Christ
mas dinner OF Tottenham. Uncle
SAM saw TO that ages ago. Every boy
in the hospital here had such q
Christmas dinner as he will remem'
Der for years. Sir Thomas Upton
gave party. one Of his many, and II
had special Christmas frills. The boys
who could be moved assert they had
bully time at Sir Thomas house.
He understands American boys, and
more, he gets people to help entertain
who understand them, too, like then
/ and don't contradict them when they
declare that they won the war. IT.
all matter OF that little phrase Will
them. These children of larger
growth who have been masquerade;
in khaki these last few months have
become children again; now their iol
is done and they viii fight to the fin
ish with their best friends over thu
question Of who won the war. The
lust naturally can't keep or it. Ant
some of the ones who arrived too lat
to fight at all declare that it's no
won yet, and that wars and wars an'
wars are going 70 follow.
BY night time They are all Worn on
with fighting it all over again and the,
sink back in their narrow little gra
cots and the indulgent nurses-girls o
,ur Denver unit IN their quiet era
cotton dresses and their snowy caps
pass down the long wards tucking 4
this Quiverlng battler, smoothing tn
forehead of that hoy of nineteen VIII
has lost all his faith In any govern
ment whatsoever because he lost hi
hospital allowance to guy from Gil
cinnati before he had had time to eve
pack 1t In the cherished money bel
The Red Cross gave him.
But most of the boys who are bein
left over here are seriously wounde
and IT is thought best for them not I
take n sea voyage for while longer
so we try to plan little surprises "a
them week by week to pass the tim
until their joyful summons comes.
1t isn't so easy, either. TO think Z
: something that will amuse lad VIII
must always lilo on his chest to keep
: piece of shrapnel lodged somewhere
his interior from floating into loca
ity where 1t may cause great DIET
I of damage.