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THE SPLENDID NURSES.
FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
Over no, branch of the Army's work in
Chut here in France this aspect of the alleviation of war's cruellest suffering is are arresting There are districts which hold whole townships of general and stationary hospitals With the exception of six hospitals supported by voluntary of tending the wounded is now in the organisation, the whole of the vast work handa of the Royal Army Medical Corps, of which the Nursing Service is an for integral part. What the Empire owes to the two ladies who are the respective lends at home and in France will per haps be made clear one day. Each of them acquired her own professional
feld ambulances convega railways, stores for appliances, food and dressing, and the accommodation of the whole staff who carry every thing out must surely be accounted one of the triumphs that have been accomplished. A
tramed of general application, since what he fell into Italian hands,NORMAN this day the story is recalled there how to the face and jaw by means of bone
Qatare vanishes behind a mask, Pose; neglected by Italian officers, whomies Bot forth, thus inaugurating a ment in a way that would have seemed
restorations effected in the worst injuries Elsewhere were shown the astonishing
withal, the scientific side of the work of cartilage, and skin grafting And healing, the researches into gas gangrene, valuable dissoveries that oven already have been made in regard to troch fover, will facilitate future treat- impossible in conjunction with the stress and strain of war work Enteric, tant scourge of previous campaigns, has been completely mastered, and the death rate from it reduces practically nič. In his connection, the interesting point was mentioned that the whole system of die- fury has been completely revised, and patients are now given the most sustain- ing and nourishing foods in place of tho milk and barley-water formerly favour od. Au, electric department possessed the d'Arsovaldisthermal apparatus, by which the heat is carried direct to the affected part, ocular demonstration of which can be afforded by placing spotato under its rays which is found to be warm in the middle and cool at the edges. Very striking use, too, has been made of all the bathing huts of a charming place, which have been taken over by the RA M.C., and are useful for the treatment of open-
it cusce 010 A
THE ART OF LIFE.
Is there an art of life, if so, what is it Omar Khayyam, stringing bis
[FROM a WARD PRICE.} quatrains" fügether amid the rozes of }
Haishapur, thought he had discovered it
The fortune of war has brought about
ATA STATIONALLY. HOBELTAL when he sung of A Book of Verses dramatic capture in the Val di Ledro,
It would take days to go adequately underneath the Bough" St. Simon Bear Lake Gardu. It is that of the Franen has the veil of reticence been quite through the great, stationary hospitals Stylites, gazing from his pillar over the Hungarian who denounced Cesure Bat so completely drawn at that of the thereford to be taken as representative of one base along Certain warda had panorama of cheert, would have claimed by the Italian Irredentist Deputy for system, the pesionner, and the achieve of many more, and opportunity was
Trent, in the austrian Parliament, when ments of those
afforded of seeing how some phases of that his principles of conduct, were the
be was captured by enemies fighting Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing are kept under obarvation,
who form Queen gunshot wounds of the head and theat Founder
The point of view of the soldiers in the Italian army Battisti's Service and its ever-growing reserve of superb physique, belonged to the One of Eighteenth Century was held when execution made an impression throughout
these patients, a Grenadier Guardsman wild in woods the noble vaga ran
Italy only comparable to that caused in
original Expeditionary Earne that slip and that the advent of civilization England by the shooting of Miss Cavall,
ped away on the morning of August 12th imposed wrong standards on maasind. Streets have been named after him in
twice before, but, as he said regretfully, 1914 He had been slightly wounded To the average individual of to-day very town, and a wonderful photograph
his fighting days are over, for even the unsophisticated, unimaginative, larking showing the Italian patriot marching to
restore much use to him of a solely that finest surgery will have a heavy task to the powers of self-analysis or self-exprce the scaffold with head high was found
tered arm and thigh. What can be done sion, existence is nothing but a struggle later on na Austrian ofter killed in
clair frame, named after its inventor, ia for such cases is achieved, and the Sin- for the means to make it tolerable. Dis battle, and has been republished all over
accomplishing things akin to miraclen course to such an ono of "the art of life," the world. The Hungarian soldier who
in regard to shattered legs. The limb is kept raised considerably above the body and he will stare uncomprehendingly identified Battisti among the prisoner
until the fractures have united, which Art to him is summed up in the National was half an Italian, and wears a gold
under these conditions, is often done in Gallery and the Promenade Concerts, In medal given him by the Emperor for this
seven or eight weeks any other context it is meaningless service. He was seriously wounded when knowledge at the Londen Hospital. To
It is plain that no formula can be vide one would accept another would deny the Austrians contrived to send on a number of the South African Wat, called It is certain that during the retreat Queen Alexandra, in the Black Decem Yet if "all the world's a stage," existence ner of spies dressed in Italian uniforms. shows some of the artifice of the stage several cases have occurred during the for half a dozen volunteers to go out on play, and them are phases of it in which last few days during the fighting Cho make believe of the theatre is dia mountains
and the and in the chill grey dawn of Christmas played. Life tends to become an art when Piave of unauthorised orders to
morning, the party, including these two simplicity gues, luxury runs riot and being spread. Sometimes they have
partnership of glorious mercy out of which has grown a higher standard of WAT nursing than has ever yet been reached
For, thanks to a highly detailed avstevn, the regular service, with its gradations of principal matrons, mat tops, sisters, and staff nurses, has been able to draw to itself a reserve which included the pick of the profession as it was serving in the great civilian hos pitals, The Headquarters could call up at the shortest notice the women whose skill and suitability were already vouched for. As emergencies have arisen there has been no cause for delay over Mr. John Hodge, M.P., Pension, inquiries, for all those had been made Minister, addressing a meeting at Glas beforehand. In working result, the thou gow recently, said that he had been ende that is as specific as is permitted heart sore at the complaints received from to be of nurses now in France bring to disabled discharged soldiers unable to get their noble labours the most advanced their pensions. He took the matter up training that can be given allied with with the War Office, and he was hopeful by met has to define, but that within the next work or two it would recognised by physicians, surgeons, and be arranged that disabled men who were matrons as of no le importance than The V. has never been awarded to discharged would continue to receive professional skill. At headquarters, in a
a woman) but it was surely deserved by their pay until their pensions were ready curious old town of many historical one of the Army nurses Deliberately Another complaint had come from disories, where they are housed in a and of set purpose the onemy has bombed. abled men who were continuously being other centres, da in what was once a large one of these shameful attacks four brave big and rather ornate mansion, or at olgaring stations and hospitals and in called up for medical examination or re-examination. The Ministry had and rambling convent, where the walls sisters were killed. Three of them were issued instructions that additional pen ze hung with excerpts and quotations assisting, regardless of their own safety, sions were to be for one year, which would profitable for meditation there is an in removing their patients to what they was soothing a man, by singing to him, atmospheres of confidence and efficiency hoped would be better cover. The fourth. Horace Walpole in a type of those who had been interviewed that day by men relatives of the wounded, could it be covered and her sweet voice was having":
whose nerves had been mercilessly shat- moved among his treasures at Strawberry medical board they were baked what FROM FIRING LINH TO WARN
veyed to them Hill fingering a camen here, examining ages vers they earning Doctora hac It is a marvellous network of organisa. him. The ruthlessly hurled bomb caught.
the best and most calming effect upon manuscript there, rattled the dice at no right to ask that question (Cheertion, that deals with every stage from the her, killing her almost instantly, but her Brooks garnered the goarip of the day There was a positive Army Order signed moment that a man is struck till he is patient, for whom she gave her own life. and wrote his letters, like a character in by Lord Derby against putting such in a convalescent camp or carrier ship with as sure and fine a sense of devotion a play, accomplished, witty, a master of queries, and his (the speaker's) desire was on his way home. Only on the huge-scale to duty as any man has shown, was saved. Social Atta, having nothing in common to make an example of those doctors so chart one was privileged to see, nay you The latest duty that has been assigned s with the workaday world. By his own offending for the benefit of all the rest choice for over in the twilight, he never (Cheers) Many mistakes had been madealise that not a detail has been left to the Army nurse is that of tanding
uncovered The close set chain of regi-the members and officials of the Women' experienced the storm and sunshine that in assessing a man's pension, but his mental aid posts is there to afford the Army Auxiliary Corps. At every are the portion of ordinary men. Uu the anxioty was to see justice done, and for Art alleviation when the enemy shell woman's camp an exceptionally well Riviers in the season may be seen the that purpoat he had appointed, medical cosmopolitan disciples of the same age-old referees all over the country, to whom the or bullet has found its mark Constantly qualified V.A.D. nurse forms a part ofy bread. That individual driving in an men could appeal. He held that the working backwards from these, the field the staff, and for the colds and minor
ambulances bring the stricken men to the maladies not needing more than forty- automobile de luxe, drinking champagne,
of the men to be useful restoration smoking a Corona Corona, and throwing citizens was of much greater value to the ty clearing stations, which are eight hours absence from duty there is notes on to the tables men that any money they could give grouped by threes or fours as better in sick bay. But the Army nurses have blood brother to the freedman them, and he hoped they would yet be tancee apart Next, the splendidly when any of them should break dow
practical working than at greater die hospitals and rest homes of their own Trimalchio whotu Petronius satirised. Able to dip into the public purse to help appointed ambulance trains await those at one of these the Queen lunched on the He and his resemble the Lotus Eater the men still further. His desire was for who can be moved and take them down occasion of her visit to France, in order stratched in slothful case on a share disabled men to train now so that when to the hospital basos whers it is always afternoon, while the nice prevailed they would be ready to
to assure herself that nothing this world fall ide of life races past
take their part again in the battle of
of the nurses and additional accommoda make for the comfort and speedy recovery tion has been arranged to take in the graver cases from this latest arm
SOLDIERS:
a striving hiter effect, undue emphasis on to abandon their positions without writ trappings and ornaments these saam to ten command, but in one case at least & be unplied in the phrase the art of retirant was made upon a false report life. Take villa at Baise in the days that the enemy had broken through on when Caligula bad baths of priceless an adjoining sector. Several of these unguents and draughts of molten pearls, spies have also been caught travelling in and Nero spent $135,000 on Egyptian Italian military motor-con which are roses for a single banquet. The troops of subjected to constant and close scrutiny daves, the dancers and mimer, the Vanten Of those who were arrested two have been
executed. lavishnces that could provide dishes anch as a huge boar stuffed with live thrustes. and distribute costly gifts by means of a figura descending through the ceiling MR HODGE AND DISABLED the debates on strange philosophica con- ducted in marble colonnades overlooking fielda of violets and summer seas there is nothing of everyday reality in such parti culars Life was equally fantastic in Reinisdance Italy. In the Florence of the Medicit, and the Rome of Leo X, men and women went down the primrose path to the sound of dutes." The die putations of the day over a dialogue of Flate or a bronze by Cellini were suo seeded by the distractions of the night A prelate of the Church gave a fent at which ragouts of parrots tongues were served on golden dishes which the guests threw from the open windows into the Fiber. Carnival followed carnival and masque masque where Baccantes josted Cardinals, and a Pope aut surrounded
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picture of efficiency was unfolded Bome Of the work at one of these a vivid The art of living does not lie in the (Cheers.)
of the trains run right down to what acceptance of any ona formula, nor is in
was of yore one of the busiest parts of to be sought in a set of rules capable of
French overseas commerce, and whare the To be mentioned also, as one of the general application Life itself is to the claims of a post in the Treasury ange of railway offices and waiting most valuable sources of rest and recres evanescent, fou elusive, to be imprisoned this is to waste the most previous of rooms can only be described as palatial tion off duty, is the valuable series of in & definition. It is a flower so fragile gifts. The happiest beings are those All these have been taken over by the clubs of which the Princess Vitoria, that to pluck it destroys the bloom, whose circumstances do not stand in the R.A.MC., and one sunny afternoon the sister of the King, is president. These perfume so subtle that it can never be path of their secret desires. A shoe trains were bringing, down the men who have been established wherever nurses are distilled. The image that best mirrors it maker with the temperament of a Stoic had won through in the fighting about quartered in at all considerable unmbers, is Shelley's
philosopher does not let cobbling inter Ypres and Passchendaele Nothing so and the general anpervision in, France ***Life, like a dome, of many coloura fare with self-expression. One can be a perfect in the way of ambulance trains has been undertaken by Lady Algernon Visionary on two pounds a week has ever been turned out as the series Gordon Lennox who is assisted from Stains the white radiance of Eter nobleman, indifferent to what other pen which run through the exigencies of the home by a committee. These clubs are nity
ple think, can write poetry to bis situation demand. Those bearing the strictly under the recognition of the Each one must seek the secret of heart's content, and publish bis effusions easier numbers were built in France, but Army Medical Service, and have nothing existence for himself, since no discoveries in crushed leather binding powdered the newer ones are of English construc to do with any Red Cross administration. of another have any value for him with coronets. Yet, if the cobbler were tion, and the only rivalry regarding them The Queen takes the warmest interest în Above all it must be experience not set on becoming a bishop, or the peer bes been as to which workshops could them, and as pleasant meeting places theorised I treated are sa the supreme paid any attention to the uncharitable turn out the more perfect carriages, with offering a change of surroundings they reality and life as a more mode of remarks of his friends and relatives, both their berths for the lying-down cases and are filling & distinct and useful place in Bction," wrote a man of genius, analys would find themselves astray
their seats for those less seriously the general economy of the Service which, ing in his prison-cel the tragedy, of his The mischief with the majority of injured. An Army sister or two is had distinguished itself so signally own career. He had followed where he mortals is that they are ignorant of what always on these trains and takes her should have stood alone. If there be an their matures are, and what they stand part with the surgeons in directing the art of life, it consiste in natural develop in need of. A is no certain that leisure work of removal Very ingenious indeed ment along individual lines Bo one will alone fully develop his powers that is new little trolley that can be brought self that is the golden rule. Leo X be squanders his best years in making a to the railway-carriage doors and will loved the society of buffoons and fortune, only to find he has no rest in convey four stretchers with the minimum Cardinals who had sporting tastes. For the enjoyment of it. Without being of oscillation or jar. him the art of life was feasting and the aware of it, he is the soul of simplicity. On the other side of the wharf is the cha For the monk it is religious and should be in some homestead among great hospital ship painted grey from observance and a hair shirt for the the hills B cannot naderstand why the stem to stern. The doctors pass between worldling it la Mayfair and Monte Carlo times appear so unt of joint in his eyes the stretchers laid out, and now and Et. Simeon Stylites found it in zitting on that he never settles down in his pro again order that à case shall be detained the top of a pillary since he indulged a fession as others do. He is a Bohemian few days longer before going to Eng natural taste by as doing. Omar Khay to the finger tips, and by rights ought to land. You follow the steadily moving yam in a similar situation would have be in world of impecumiosity and procession up the gangway to get been miserable, since existence would gaiety, flocking with birds of Leather empas of the beautiful arrangements of have lost all its colour for him and He is an exile in a land of respectability the hospital ship, and then turn back to is a four pointed Star in bright shrivelled foto nothing. He equired "A all his days, for lack of a little imagine the range of wards into which the wait Two cross swords with a stroll inscribed Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and tion
Eng rooms have been transformed. The 196 Thon for his world to be couleur de A knowledge of the art of life is not electrical equipment here is something to and encircled by an oak wreath with
August 1914 November inbert Roussean wanted the Stone Age to be imparted by any teacher, nor marvel at and a new vibrator, which Hoyal Cypher at the base, are hack again, and was wretched because he there any treatise on the subject that can reveals the presence of a bullet or ebell therein. At the topmost point wore broad cloth in place of furs, and enlighten the ignorant. But to him who fragment, seems to mark the last word Star is a crown, at the top of which
one instead of a club. He poaccuser imagination and sincerity-the in the location of foreign bodies The ring for the riband. The viband which was born too late and paid the penalty two keys to the mystery-life becomes nursing staff bere sees more variety or red, white and blue shaded and
transfigured, a. Yomance instead of a Casas perhaps than those of a base or watered, will be worn with the red Where & person a prevented by force huudrum story, bathed in, sinabine in stationery hospital, for occasionally the physical circumstances such as place of being plunged in shadow. To victims of a submarine attack are brought or mental limitations, as, for the passer-by he may appear merely an a. The abiding wbpression of the whole alcowardice or lethargy, prosperous merchant or a down at heels place is that of a great junction between ming his natural bent, life is artist, a weatherbeaten countryman or the various stages, by which it comes of labour the lane will not be begun for incomplete. To have the soul mart voluptuary The exterior matters about that a man may be comfortably in some months. The manufactura of the rer enclosed in the body of a
The may has found the Philo his ent in ons of the general hospitals in riband is, however being expedited and bank cler the instincts of an anchorite
Stone and transmited the poor London easily within twenty four hours supply will shortly be condy thwarted by a fear of family criticism os
tence into rold. He ha of having been rock down: To accom arst issue of the riband will be made to (Confanied at foot of nest Galumn learnt the Art of Life (ES)
prish such things the whole system of troops serving Overzens...
in unhappiness
Star, which the King has approved far
It is officially announced that
Issue to all officer, warrant officers, merje commationed officers and men of the British and Indian Forces, including civilian medical practitioners, head sisters nurses and others employede military hospitals, who actually server- in France or Belgium on the etablish meant of unit at the British Expedi tionary Forces ween August and midnight November 22-23,
the right (ie, neareas the buttons of the coat) Every effort is being made to ens sure that the Star shall be produced soon as possible, but owing to the corojty