The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-15
Nurse Writes From France.

from Miss Bertha Hughes, who went
from Chickasha over there" as a
Red Cross nurse last summer, and
is now in Brest, France:
Dear Mrs. Albright
4 have been trying to find time
to write you ever since l arrived in
France and today l just took time
for really l should be doing a num-
ber of things
After my arrival in New York
City | had wonderful time. We
could stay any place we wanted to
Just so we let Red Cross head
quareers know where we were.
Some rich lady of New York gave
all tickets to the different play
houses and so we were out a num-
Der of nights while there.
q was sent on the train as far as
Quebec, Canada. Took the steamer
there and had lovely voyage across
except about three days, when we
had a terrible storm at sea.
wasn't very comfortable then, l as
sure you. Also few days were
quite chilly on deck when we were
near New Foundland Some Of the
ships crew and some of our girls
girls we're quite talented and we
had concerts, dances, promenades,
etc, until the time passed very
nicely. We were eighteen days
coming over too. There were just
129 in our party, eight being men,
SO you can imagine how popular
those eight men were
This is a wonderful country very
beautiful and artistic. The coun-
try looks like flower gardens in
stead of fields Paris is certainly
wonderful city, and with few
American improvements it would be
hard to beat.
We have very interesting work
here, transporting patients on small
liners from hospitals to the big ships /
lying outside the breakwaters
They are all SO happy because they
are going home. And they are all
SO sweet to us because we are
American girls, and as you know
they are very scarce over here.
Our boys will be more proud of our
girls after they return than ever
be6are. have heard manwaUf Fthem4
say they didn't know how good
many of those girls were back
lome. And the same way with the
girls about the boys. l am more
proud of America and American
men and women than / ever was be-
ore in all my life.
oh, by the way, our bunch of
hree nurses and about eight can
cen workers were in the receiving
inc of the presidential party Our
title infirmary is down on the
locks at pier and the president
anded at pier 8, not very far from
IS. We saw many of the French
md English nobility, but l will have
o admit there were very few
new anything about. There were
many with badges all over their
inform fronts A portion of pier
vas made into the loveliest recep.
ion room you might wish to see. q
hey had it all carpeted with the
nost magnificent carpets you ever
aw and the walls and ceilings were ;
overed with American flags, in fact,
With all the flags of the allies Also
big elephant, which is the emblem 4
f Brest, hung just behind the presi- {
entail chair. The gang plank was
ven carpeted. The room was full
f flowers, palms, beautiful chairs
nd tables until really you would
ink you were in lovely home. J
While the president was being l
eceiyed by the French nobility, Mrs. {
wilson chatted with us three l
urses and our head nurse present /
d her with an American flag. After +
he presidents speech Mrs Wilson t
ulled him by the sleeve and told n
i'm to shake hands with u.s. We
lso shook hands with General Per
hing. After the president stepped
# the gang plank we waited until
eneral Pershing stepped off, then
e couldn't stand it any longer and
e followed the crowd. One of the
residential party pushed the crowd
aek and let us up till we were te
anding next to the president My, Ii,
1t am proud I am an American
ri. d
we have been busy almost every h
inday since have been in France bl
ID l haven't been to church but 7"
1t | think / am doing a good work, dc
Some of our boys us
zee over here. Isn't that awful? m mns
e going back without one leg on ba