MORE ARRIVE
ACTING CHIEF NURSE
Among the new arrivals this week
are Miss x'lorence R. Mendenhall from
Indianapolis, Ind.; Miss Catherine Mc-
Gurty from Jersey City; Miss Agatha
Lyons from Sharon, Pa.; Miss LaHoka
Pratt from Youngstown, Ohio, and
Miss Lorina D. Irish, from Ridlonvilie,
Me.
Miss Cook and Miss Rowell left
Thursday for a ten-day leave of ab
sence.
KEEPS THE PEACE.
A lengthy editorial, dropped into
one of the “For The Caduceus’’ boxes,
pays a warm tribute to the effective
ness of the fly swatting effort of
Miss Schermerhorn, nurse in C 8.
“Most of us are pick and shovel
men who are tired of the job' and
have come to the hospital to rest up,"
an extract from the communication
reads. “We would get little rest if
Miss Schermerhorn did not keep the
flies away so well. She has killed at
least 999 already this week. I am
writing this for all the boys in this
ward.
“P. S.—I forgot to put down that
the nurse wields a fly swatter in each
hand sometimes.”
HOME FIRES.
When the long- war’s over.
The last shot’s fired.
The world 'will rest then.
Pitiful and tired.
There will he silence on the land
And safety on the sea.
Men will he coming into their own,
—And you to me.
CORPORAL MARCEL A. FRENCH
The following glowing tribute to the
self sacrificing womanhood of Ameri
ca was written hy one of the hospl-
tel patients and dropped in a “E"or the
Caduceus” hox. True as is the senti
ment of the eulogy and worthy as is
the womanhood of our land of every
word of praise that we can offer—yet
we wonder if there might not have
been the touch of a gentle hand of one
of the hospital nurses upon this pa
tient’s brow on some day not far gone
and the gleam of mild eyes.
TO THE WOMEN.
At some future date when great
monuments are being builded in com
memoration of the attainments of Per-
shing, and the other leaders of Ameri-
oa.nism in the Great War some one
will suggest that a great monument
be erected as a tribute to the loyalty,
devotion, and sacrifice of the mothers,
wives, and sweethearts of the sol
diers of America. But let us here say
that were there to be builded a .great
monument, with the whole aboad earth
as it’s pedestal and it’s towering shaft
of glittering .gold reaching high into
the constellations ,and the stars of
heaven clustering round it’s jeweled
capstone and flashing back to earth
their aura of scintillant glory as a tri
bute to the American womanhood, yet
would the story not be half told.
DAMAGES DESIGNS
MISS MARY LaSELL
EVEN^FORD SUFFERED.
A letter from Mound Valley, Kansas,
tells of the colored method of treat
ing slackers in that jyestern region, i
a young man is in business and ap-
))ears to have allowed the money taint
to blight his patriotism the good cit
izens of the locality choose some dark
night on which to paint his store front
yellow. One young man had a Ford
machine which he allowed to stand out
one nl.ght and next morning found it
garbed in gay yellow array.
Miss Mary LaSell is assistant to
Chief Nurse Miss Agnew at the Camp
Greene Base Hospital. During the
time that Miss Agnew is on her vaca
tion Miss. LaSell is acting Chief Nurse
and has been a busy woman with her
double duty.
Another important function per
formed by Miss LaSeli is that of be
ing accountable for the page
Nurse’s news in The Caduceus.
of
The Misses Huston, Smith, Laai-
don, Daymont have returned after a
deii.ghtful ten-day visit to their homes.
The dashing showers of Saturday
morning wrought destruction to sev
eral of the beautiful bits of land
scaping which have been builded in
front of the base hospital wards.
Where the colored stones and flower
bed settings were stationed on the
hill slopes the series of rain attacks
left the once artistic designs a jum
bled mass of stone heaps and red
clay.
A part of the ornaments have been
reinstated during the week but some
of the pretty plats are hopelessly
buried and their original designers
have left the hospital long since.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Fiske left this
week to join her unit in New York.