The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-08
Miss Lillian Greenberg and
Miss Florence Anderson
Speak Before the
Kard0o Club.
DINNER IN THEIR HONOR
Banquet At the Congregational church
Pays Homage TO Returned Nurses
Delegates Report On the ..Carry
On Conference.
life is service and service is hap


piness.
This was the conclusion Peggy reach
ed after her " big chance came in
The Crowded Hour and it was es-
Isentially the message brought to the
members of the Kandoo club on Tues
day evening by Miss Lillian Green
berg and Miss Florence Anderson, both
of whom were formerly nurses at the
Kenosha hospital and more recently
angels Of mercy'' following the trail
'of the painted posts in France.
The Kenosha heroines told their
stories as the after-dinner feature of
"a luncheon given in their honor at the
Congregational Church.
Inasmuch as they had done their bit
with the American Red Cross Associa-
tion, the tables for the dinner were
brilliantly decorated with Red Crosses,
red roses, and smilax. Other appoint
ments were in the same shades and
gave the whole affair a flaming patri-
otto coloring wholly appropriate to a
function in honor of nurses just re-
turned from service overseas.
In recounting her experiences in
France Miss Greenberg said:
II did most of my work at hospi-
tai in Lounge near the source of the
River Marine. Tt was only rough bar
racks but we made the best of what we
had and improvised equipment. The
first eases I had were soldiers suffering
with the flu At first we didn't re-
alize how fatal the s flu could be, but
when the men began to die we knew
we were up against it and worked like
fiends to check the epidemic. We did,
and after that the gassed patients
came.
I can hardly talk about them at all.
They suffered SO much All that I
could say multiplied by ten could
never make you know the horrors of
gas or the courage with which the sol
diers faced them.
Right here, ~ she added, ~ want
to thank the Kandoo Club for writing
to the boys. You'll never understand
how much letters mean to men in hos
pitfalls. They live on them and they
almost die when they don t get them.
I've heard that the Kandoo Club
made it their work to correspond with
the boys and / want to say that it was
real war-work, appreciated by men,
nurses and officers.
Miss Anderson Is story differed from
Miss Greenberg's in subject-matter but
not in spirit.
81 was nearer Paris, she said,
but / had chance to see what war
had meant in the desolated districts.
While on leave went up to Rheims.
You, who have never seen a magnifi-
cent thing in ruins, have no conception
Of W hat it was like, 1t was awful but
inspiring, too. It gave you anew re-
spect for people who had seen and suf-
ferred all Of that and still had the
courage to see it through until they
had won a peace with victory"
In keeping with the general atmos
phere of the gathering, representatives
Of the Kandoo club at the recent ssCar-
ry on Conference in Milwaukee re.
ported on the convention and urged the
Club to book Miss Ella Hoxie, re-
turned missionary from India, for a
lecture in Kenosha. !.
Both Miss Anderson and Miss Green
berg were formerly members Of the
Kandoo Club. The latter is now the
guest Of Miss Marian Gamble at her
home, 664 Prairie avenue.