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SHE KNOWS One of the nurses gave in a copy of the following poem with the sentence attached “I know this is true.” IF. (Apologies to Kipling. If you can keep your stitches when those round you Are dropping theirs in feverish ag ony While chatting with such vim as to dumbfound you. And make you lose your count of one, two, three; If you can purl and not be tired by purling; But every minute make your fin gers go; If, even though your hand head and brain are whirling. You skillfully complete the even row; If you can brave a sea of curious faces, ■And knit on in the crowded trolley car. While people rudely edge out of their places, To ask if you are knitting for the war; / If you can walk, or talk, or read a novel. While thinking, “Two I knit and two I purl.” lou are a queen of palace and of hov el. And—which is more—you’ll make a sock, dear girl! —Elsie M. Risdom in Boston Globe. THE CADUCEUS. USE SIMPLE WORDS. 19 MYSTERIOUS LETTERS. In an effort to assist the editor r The Caduceus, Sergeant George E. Wooiard has prepared the folowing plain advice to would-be correspond ents in an effort to promote the use of simple words in all writing— “In promulgating your philosophi cal cogitations or articulating your su perficial sentimentalities on your phy- sioldgical observations, beware above all things of platitudinous ponderosity. “Let your natural eloquence of mon- ogrph possess a clarified consclse- ness, compact comprehensibieness, coalescent consistency and a concat enated cogency. “Eschew all conglomerations of flat ulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. “Let your extemporaneous desean- tings and unpremeditated explanations have Intelligibility and vivacious viv acity without rhodomantade or thras onical bombast. “Sedulously avoid all polyysyllabic verbisity and vaniloquent vacuity. “Shun double entender, purlent jo cosity and pestiferous profanity, ob scurant or apparent. “Avoid all superflous verbosity with which you are not thoroughly familiar, rhetorically speaking, and above all it conscientiously behooves me to warn you against theu se of BIG WORDS. RETURN FROM FURLOUGHS. Sometimes a Little O W O L May get you a SMC or G C M or steady K P or else the K O will land you in the C A N. Dear old A R 106 what leaves It gives us but never w'ith form 52 on N L D or G O 31. It’s the N C O in C H G Q T R S That is SOL With his engagements on Sunday NIGHT 2 E. Pi'ivate Mills of B. 5 was nomina- Wd to have a screen door on Tent No. before 10 p. m. July 4, 1918. Sergeant Rand, Sergeant Pidge, and Corporal Sullivan have returned to the hospital from furloughs and are ready to resume their duties. Pvt. Claude Sullivan is also an all so and athlete and would make a val uable man for any team. Mr. Edison’s New Army and Navy Model of THE NEW EDISON The Ptionograph with a Soul Made for the Soldiers- Sold only to the Soldiers— At actual manufacturing cost THE ONLY PRACTICAL PHONOGRAPH FOR THE FIELD. COME IN AND SEE IT. (A 0 I (cO t t I THOMAS A. EDISON J. E. CRAYTON & CO. A PRODUCT OF THE EDISON LABORATORIES 217 South Tryon Street CHARLOTTE, N. C. 110 Fayetteville Street RALEIGH, N. C.
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