| Show TALES OF AMERICAN 1 WOUNDED AT FRo FROl Paris Aug Z 24 Two Two soldiers la lay ay side sideby sideby sideby by side in an evacuation hospital One wa was a browned red headed doughboy with a broken arm The others other's head and ind face were cre bandaged fd so 80 that only his mouth and chin were visible The Tho doughboy raised on his pillow and surveyed his neighbor Sa Say what outfit are arc you OU out of buddy he lie asked Your mug looks kind of or familiar and Ive I've been trying to place you ou Company I r r. r Infantry said ho hoof hoof of 01 the tho bandaged head So a am m I I. I Who ho tho the deuce are arc you ou I I 1 said the tho other am the tho captain captain cap cap- tain thin There Thero vas was a bandage landage over his eye ee Anything else elso the matter with Ith you ou asked the surgeon who was WM standing beside his cot Well c l he lie drawled I r r got hit lilt up there near the tho eye ec but that aint m much U cli Yes persisted the tho surgeon but did you get hit anywhere elsor elser Then ho he admitted that come to think of oC It it H. ho he had a broken ar a broken brokenleg leg leK and a bullet In h his Is side He lie was smiling but pale when they wheeled heeled him in In-a In a black haired youth of ot 20 and O and he ho was W still smiling when the they tenderly transferred him to a cot after the tho doctors had hal counted seven machine gun un bullet wounds one ono in his ankle three In his glde Ide Ide and three In his chest When tho the Y Y M. M I. I C. C CA A. A man brought writing paper through tho ward he took a o. piece and asked a for a pencil An attendant found him dead half haIr an hour later with this beginning of ot a letter leller in his hand Dear Mother rother Wo We Pe made an attack on the Germans torla today and drove them five miles milos I am in a a. hospital tonight I was slightly wounded in the lie leg A bo boy who lay on In his back t with Ith a leg wound at least has halS the satisfaction of or knowing that ho received It In action Ho lie Just missed getting one ahead of ot lime time lime If you OU can cnn sa say Ju juet t missed of or anybody In this war who doesn't get hit lit The boche was trying to shell a batter battery bat bat- ter tery but kept dropping them short In Inthis Inthis this wa way a shell hit a Il house with AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- In It and wounded some gome of or them The rest got out and spent the night In la Inthe inthe lathe the open The Tho following night the they went out Into the open before the shelling was due to begin Next morning they went back They were pretty sure the house had hail been hit again because the they knew It had been there thoro and found a a. few I pieces of ot brick In the vicinity to prove lit it And right on m my blankets said Bald the bo boy who lay on his back was a Il big hunk of the shell that hat did It Three of ot them had been In one little room for tor three da days an American a Frenchman and an Italian Came a Red fled Cross man on on the thc act afternoon of the third da day Is there anything I can cart do for Or you he asked Yes Yos replied the American you ou might get an Interpreter Ton Tony and Gaston and I have been heen trading tobacco and showing g each other our girls girls' plc- plc The Queens Queen's Heart comes as a de de- de light Jones Joncs Co Boston wl E BOOKS BOOK'S S 'S THE THING G. That the books book's the thing thins I Is just a atrue as true as Mr jr Shakespeare's well known saying Is la attested b by reports from I BonI Liveright publishers of ot The Gilded Man by Clifford Smyth While Mr or Smyth was known to a select circle circle circle cir cir- cir cir- cle as editor of ot the New I York Times weekly Look book review re he was until two weeks week ago unknown to the wider readIng readIng reading read- read Ing public Only 2000 copies caples of oC his book were originally printed but in ten days das time not on only did letters of ot high I appreciation pour In from such critics as Gertrude Atherton Brander Matthewa Matthews Mat Mat- at- at Edwin Markham etc but so many reorders were received from stores who had had the books on their counters for tor on only I a n. few days that a second large lare printing has already been ordered Th The editor of oC the Philadelphia Pul Ledger thought so highly o oC the I book bool that ho he purchased the rights to print It In serial form torm for his own pa paper paper paper pa- pa per and a number of or others throughout the tho countr country AX AS I. EXPERIENCE It l la Is one thing for tor a a. bus busy executive to thank a poet for an autographed COP copy o or his poems but it is another thing for tor the poet to discover er that the bus busy executive had alread already ordered a coP copy of or the book from the publishers This is what happened to Glenn Glennard Ward ard Dresbach when he sent an autographed copy of ot his book to his former chief Col George W. W Goethals Another ver very bus busy man Luther Burbank the plant wizard took time recently to write that he found Mr Dresbach's poems melodious fearless ss in sion slon and true to to human life lifo and ex cx- cx J ex-J Mr II Dresbach has enjoyed a n. varied career he left the tho University University Uni Uni- of ot Wisconsin In 1910 Until In 1911 t I he lie was In tho the canal zone zon as an accountant account account- ant for tor the Panama railroad Then he lie I kept for books a copper company compan In New Mexico 01 ex leo but after the United States entered the war he ho enlisted in the tho national national national na na- na- na arm army and is now no noa a Shortly after atter ho enlisted his no now new volume volume vol vol- ume of verse erac In the Paths of ot the Wind Ind was published by tho the Four Seas SealS I company n n v turca tures i and saying for n and nd d three days das now and to tell each we Weve k t ot other her If it yo you 1 body to 0 help Us- Us out can n ke Yes lie hf said aji I drew rc I the first time In action action t a a. tun u k ka a nose nose nose-hl nose high h explosive it 1 e t u uso so go bad though There Theres ly Bt lie and the they ma may saVe H it fl Ont die t e 7 e ewas ewa's ways was wondered If It a Mi tello l lr moko when hen he e couldn't i s See tb and Ive I've found noV out now non Just the tue You t tjust same but yo to r find out I If yOUre yOU're Pipe I la ot Oh Oil I dont don't know lenow said I 1 haven't be been th working 80 up Ut at t I 1 o'clock hard two hours' hours Rlee sleep i o three hours hours' sleep Friday Y J ay morning at nt 8 S o'clock I and had hael a long rest eight hO Three wounds wounds- In five he of oC them worth a wound Infantryman's i record J I l got cot a 1 machine gun Kun un bullet stomach he explained Hi it jr spent when shen It hit me mo S wa In ing by bv indirect fire from Wail a stuck It Just went through h the tte skIn thoro thare I squeezed It ito out just putting pUlling It H In mv my pocket anI got another In the log leg It t uin u- u ent in and anti i rI right ight ht out and didn't hit Ui the I hadn't t an any more than beij begun i tl It t when a piece of or shrapnel hit the same ame le leg V I The They certainly were ere after I 1 3 ite none of or the wounds t thing h I n Ill I'll be bo back for tor more la In S I 1 When hen e t twenty odd d m. m wearing rearing Red ned Cro Cross s pajamas an andi i Ing In the tho same kind of ot C cot tl h ha you rou going to tell a Frenchman fre Amerl American an The Frenchmen have mustache we haven't ha explained one Yank it isn isn't t always ahas as simple a ai that thit Even the nurses sometimes ret jet mixed and address a wounded d de dc bo boy In French in perfectly good goj And every time that happens happen doughboy gives hl himself away by lag inS to talk French back Whoosh said the man on onor i or some Bome sound like that waking i u of ot his other ether sleep minus a machin l bullet that ho he ha had 1 brought to th the pital with him Looking toward door he sa saw a postal service n ni guard I ISn Sn Sa Say he Inquired have hav Tl IJ In Jn a postoffice or a raU a railway train j But it was IH perfectly all an right I postal service man was one of ot a who had volunteered their it se when a certain bl big hospital b. b beg bej g be a rather bus busy spot on the A map not so man many inan days since Thc They were not the only satin nonn volunteers And air service heid hed was represented by a a led Keel and nd as man many nany detachments of ot an litter bearers as ns there were 4 m the headquarters And out of ot J where came a couple of ot t bearing litter JItter after after through a maze of or op r X-ra X ray X-ray rooms wards and corridor corridori departing along toward unobtrusively and m mysteriously i had come All of ot them them them-Po P. P S. S mi rat service clerIcs clerks and engineers d dU work too ever every day ta fagged d Ot happy In French can thing thinK from an airplane to titi an 1 I picture machine but In our ho hw It means only the i an Art r ment over the cot of oC a patient arm or le leg has to be h held ld A man la lay with his left leU leg lege e parcH and his bare l left ft foot toot it up into space A piece of ot pierced his leg 1 He kept looking at nt that barfoot barfoot bar foot Coot lovingly It was the first he lie had seen It In forty lorty days 4 Q There Is always In every hospit embarrassed patient in the center wounded Iron froc group rou of ot Idolized battlefield I How did you OU get hurt hurtT J of C a depressed individual whose was supported Just so bj- bj th Ihs ji vei r trolley s system stem A AI reply I I was the disgusted Into a train miles from rom tot The ft fri j There ml may be room for the tho enjoyableness of Wll war butt jj of IT Isn't an any doubt In the mind Xyz He approves es of ot this on one M an France as a place to hue have It let lot him tell you wh why wity We Wo trained at it other ole a am Oil I known knon as ns Sahara There was but not I 1 town ton soda fountains In to drink If It you OU started to c Cai girl with a box of ot candy vw J Jarm arm an nn M. M 1 p P. P or a policeman 0 haul hauled cd you Jou and made you ou op open n n package to prove pro that you bottlo bottle of oC beer You a YOUk tora fora walk alk around that town ton 1 out It Jus Just l if your our tongue hung out that's all II J Well Yell we came to Fran FranCS n 5 fir firt t b r 7 T o c-o ot in front of ot I a w truck and it put t me mo to sleep I 1 CI hUe quite a S athen for lor know anything I Iome then I got to dreaming Isome I t ft was pouring wine Ino some ome one woke f m my lips III's and I woJ up P 5 She the find It was tru true HU pretty a the wine was as tG If fint Red fled Cross nurse ns as I ever to a had taken me mc S J They rhey out and IM tUt thIt i when I r went pital tOt tried where I woke up They JO me that I had bad been muttering VC 11 water when that nurse K h k WI fla wine tine But Dut I know I ne er |
