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THE CADUCEUS
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CONDUCTED BY MISS ELIZABETH P. UZELMEIER
IN THE SHADOW OF THE OLD PERSIMMON TREE
THEY’RE COMING HOME.
THIS WAS SOMEBODY’S CABIN HOME.
The old Carolina home, which is one ol those decaying cabins which
still crown a part of the hills of Mecklenburg county, and which cabin
Btandr at the edge of the large cotton field near the base hospital, has
been the subject of much conjecture on the part of the hospital perscnnoL
The cabin stands at the right of the winding road which leads east
from the hospital and which is much traveled by hiking par its. The tum
bling log shack has not been occupied since the present hospit.il force
reached Camp Greene. As a result there has been many suppositions about
former tenants of the well built cabin. Those who have picked wild
^wers near the old cabin door have even constructed several Pla’isa^le
ghost stories about shadowy figures which must stand in the darkened
doorway EngUinders, who, make up the majority of the hospit^ per-
nnnnpl have been told that the cabin is a typical Carolina farm cabin of
rSter of a century ago. It stands under the spreading limbs of a large
man In tho^ forl^unlT Lieutenant WalTe?'Brown, formerly con
nected with the Ear, Eye Nose and Throat department of the base hospital
and who left last week for Allentown, Pm
lie health, ethics of nursing are sub
jects taken up in the late text books.
There are five large dictionaries and
medical dictionaries in the collection.
Miss Elizabeth P. Uzelmeier, chief
instructor for the student nurses, has
called attention of the probationers to
each volume and future classes will
hold references from the new text
books.
They hurried on from Portland, Maine,
And Portland, Oregon;
From lake and gulf and hill and plain,
The blue and drab to don.
They left the mansion and the mill.
The shop, the school, the bank;
Each of a single heart and will.
Each one a fighting Yank.
Onward! Their only battle cry;
Forward to win or die!
And victory has gone their way
In every chapter of the fray,
Till love and longing now can say:
The Yanks are coming home!
From flame and gas and bitter days
And nights of storm and shell.
They’re coming back, in peaceful ways
Once more with us to dwell!
'While hats are in the air, and drums
Roll out, and trumpets blare.
Its work well done, in triumph comes
Our host from over there.
Hark! as the chorus swells the cry
Exultant from on high!
The heavens sing for you and me:
“The ocean’s sale, the land is free.
The world throughout knows lib-
erty,
'The Yanks are coming home!
—By Guy F. Lee.
Miss Norton, nurse in B-8, enter
tained as her guests over Thanksgiv
ing, Lieutenant Percival Howard and
wife of Knoxville, Tenn.
Miss Everett, probationer, of Ben-
nettsville, S. C., was home over
Thanksgiving and will have as her
guest Miss Emma Miller, student
nurse.
MORE BOOKS
Miss Gladys Pierce, student nurse,
has been called to her home in Min
neapolis by the serious Illness ol a
member of her family.
SIXTY VOLUMES ARRIVE FOR
STUDENT NURSES.
“Bacteriology” is one of the shortest
of the names which are printed in
-gold letters on the back of the sixty
text books newly added to the shelves
of the Student Nurse library at the
base hospital.
The volumes, furnished by the gov
ernment, treat on all phases of nurse
training Including extensive works on
the history of nursing. Dietetics,, pub-
ELECTRIC RANGE.
Miss Julia Kendrick of Falston, N.
C. visited at home over Thanksgiving
and was accompanied by Miss Kather
ine Maston, a sister student nurse.
The latest addition to the hospital
Red Cross building is a large electric
range, which Sergeant Kelly has been
busy installing for the past three days.
The new heater is of the latest type
and quite an improvement over the
electric flat iron which has been the
extent of the heating equipment of
Mrs. Baldwin for the 'past few weeks.
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