The sun., 1919-01-19

begin to hop bit on his one leg, al
by himself
Am l good, oh. boy" while the others
laugh and tell him to shake a leg there
and not to step on his partner. Gloom,
why you couldn't find one there with a
microscope. On Saturdays and Sum
days they have regular dances with reg
ular girls, and some of the men with
two legs. bit crippled by trying to
stop the spray of a machine gun, toss
their canes away and dance with an
ease and conservation OF energy that Is
amazing. And not a girl forgets TO smile
happily when some blushng lame duck
steps on her foot.
They are splendid boys" said Mrs.
Sheppard X De Forrest. who Is there
every day motherlng the lot OF them.
I'VE like them 50 much and We hate to
see them go away whom they start for
home"
she's the Second INCEST Woman.
And perhaps 1t would rot be strange
" some Of them hated to so away aud
leave Mrs. De Forrest. one would think
II possible.
Sometimes think she's the second
incest woman I've ever seen. and you
can guess who the first Is" one young
husky said when the club was being dis
cussed He didn't say much more but
he looked a whole lot.
There are many women who 80 there.
and several were there yesterday cutting
big slices of a cake that fingers In the
memory. and filling with coffee and
chocolate cups that reminded one OF the
big old fashioned kind that was always
reserved for the head OF the house.
There was Mrs. Riker, Mrs. Wesley
Watson. Miss Caro- De Forrest. the
Misses Helen and Kate Griffin, Mrs. ii.
X. Knapp. and others who go as often
as they can because they have learned
to know and like these wounded men.
The sound OF a p!anola doing a BIZ
OF ragtime came from upstairs and Mrs.
DE- Forrest smiled-anl incidentally Mre.
De Forests smile may have lot to
90 with tfat absence Of gloom.
DO you know. that man has only
one leg. ana how do YOU suppose he
works that machine she said. lie
uses his crutch. He sits w there and
pumps with one leg and the crutch
and uses the other hand TO regulate
with. ana gets-along beautifully.
'Trese men ave surprised me go, IN
wouli naturally like ragtime best. hui
again and again they ask for music
that you would not think they would
care for at all. They have good minds
there IL gentlenes and i.hn ,'1t
about them which Ia not all common
think II must come from their ex.
periences abroad There is nothing mar.
row about any Of them.
Sufferings Bring Ont Best Qualities
81 remember one big fellow who cam.
here quite a little. He was six feet tai
and hands M, a sp!end ing man
| and he surprised me so one day b,
| som ching he slid He was talkins
about his impressions and the things hi
had got out of his army life. and hi
said that the thing above all other,
which he had brought out of the wal
was his love for men. real men. borr
Of comradash!p in Danger. He said ht
Rad fou7d that so ma different kinds
OF men held much in them that wa.
| MOLE and uns fish think that ha,
imp essed me more than anything ha, I
heard in the club.
Perhaps we get the best of oul
wounded men mere. but don't thinl
20. ! thi X II T. a fair average Ant
their sufferings have brought out al
that Is bes; in them"
That was the thought Of Geese" Aims
wor h, too Cecil is his real name ant
he is sergeant who rasre1 nearly two
years In an aero squadron before HI
got put out OF action.
THE only man YOU hear yelp Is tn,
man who hasn't got much the matte,
with him." sad c csc renect,vely. puE
cling over this mystery of the cheer
fulness OF the crippled They expected
TO set something and they are not waist
| ing time kicking about It. They Jus
look at IT as natural and forge. IT, Tn,
worse wounded 4 man is the happier h
Will be. II seems to intensity what Il
eft OF him.
There was man ! remember. a lit
tie fellow. in the Paris Main Hospital
| he had lost both arms and legs an,
| never wanted to leave the hospital H.
was having the best time he ever hat
In his life They used 10 give him tel
| francs to see him get across the floor
l don't know how he did IT, but h,
went like streak. And he had tn
prettiest nurse in Paris. He used I,
tell her not to tease him because h,
was helpless. and then she would laugl
and hug him to death
| GU ought to see the men down II
| me Grand Central Palace lug one an
'''N' Oo' Va o'u III tne morning ant
raise the dickens generally. One fellow
was asleep there the other morning viii
an arm sticking out Of bed and some bod,
| put shoe in his hand. and then an an
pie. and something else, and then a nurs
hung a suitcase on him. What's tn
use OF being gloomy"
The man who waded into the secont
piece of cake while talking had a lin,
from bit of high explosive that lande,
| rear him when ne was passing Mont Sc
| in the St Mihiel drive, which he re
ferred to as foot race. He shed a lit
tie light
Me. why I'm one of the lucky ones
That shell landed within three feet of M
and | hadn't ought to be here at all
But l guess III see Iowa again. af,e
all wound isn't anything I'm LUCK,
TO be alive"
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