A Red Triangle Girl In France by Anon

Author:Anon [Anon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782895725
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Publisher: Lucknow Books
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

XVII

SEVERAL packages have come all at once and in good condition.

There is one thing I wish you’d send: Quite a supply of American adhesive tape, surgeon’s plaster, you know. The French tape is poor. I need tape every day on all sorts of cuts and sores I try my first aid on. My greatest surgical triumph is the successful treatment of the thumb of one of the secretaries. He cut the end of it off in the bread cutter and. I fixed it with bichloride of mercury and the most scientific bandage I could make. He took it to the doctor, who sent him back to me to complete the cure— Bon!

These boys are simply delightful. One who has a talent for caricature and writes clever little rhymes, cheers us up almost every day with a funny sketch and a poem apropos of some situation that has arisen in camp. I’m saving some of them to show yon. And I am so pleased with the way they confide in us. I went walking with one the other day, a boy I’ve known very well here, and who has been among the most thoughtful, cheerful and helpful of our friends. On this walk he told me the story of his life. It wrung my heart. It was more tragic than anything I’ve ever read in my life. Such things are not fair. Oh, how I wanted to give him some of the fun and love and happy memories I’ve been simply smothered in all my life. He deserves them far more than I. Why should, his life have been so hard that it would simply have wrecked anyone with a character less strong? How I honor that man! By the way, there are girls in the United States and not a few, whom I could almost kill, I do believe. If they could know what it is like for these trusting boys to come over here and long and long for letters that don’t come, or when they do are such a disappointment, perhaps they would have a heart. I know no less than seven men here who were definitely engaged when they left home and who have heard since that their girls were either engaged to someone else or married. If I know seven such, how many are there in all? Fortunately most of them have sense enough to consider it a lucky escape; but it certainly enrages me when they tell me about it over here. I know what it means from this end, what the life here is and what these boys have to look forward to, and I cannot bear to see them treated cruelly by their most loved and trusted ones at home, for whom they are surrendering life itself.

Do you remember that I spoke of our housekeeper’s husband who is a cook at the front? He is back for a ten days ‘leave and is fearfully worn, poor man. On his way back the other night the Boche dropped a bomb on his train and killed seventeen men in the car just ahead of him.

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