Show MINISTERING ANGELS THESE I The Work of Women on the Battlefield and In Camp Hospitals Tho Red Cross Society With the first gun fired In defense of the honor of the United States thousands thou-sands ot mornen actively began their campaIgn for the relief of the men enlisted en-listed or suffering In her service Wo mens opportunities as auxiliaries in the great work of warfare aro many With every war that Is I fought her Held of labor varies The women who made lint and knit socks for the soldiers on cither side In the civil war will have anollur class of work to do In the war between Spain and the United States for In the last 30 years very material advancement has been made In military surgery One of these Is I In the use of antiseptics Lint which was largely manufactured by the women at home during the late war will now be bought because In the dressing of wounds modern mod-ern surgery demands a certain variety of antiseptic dressing First In Interest among womna or 4 t A I I I I I I f I contentions which aid by active service In the field Is I the American branch of the International ned Cross league Miss Clara Barton the Florence Night locale of America Is I at the head of the work being president of the national league She but recently returned from Cuba where as the chief representative of her society she superintended the distribution of food clothing and med cal assistance to the sick and starving reconcentrados and there under the protection of the American government she almost Immediately returned with a shipload of provisions The hospital ships too all are fitted out with lied Cross nurses and fly the Red Cross Hag Miss Darton chief aid Is the sister In i chief of the lied Cross corps ol nurses Mrs Bettlna HomerLesser Mrs Lesser or Sister Bettlna as she In I lovingly called by her coworkers is n young woman and a very lovely ono at mdlum height slender wet ot face and gentle In tone and manner she is I just the sort of woman that one can ImagIne commanding the respectful worship of a hospital full of grateful soldiers or the admiration and loyalty ot a train of subordinates It Is I not a perfect face but one that womanly sympathy unselfishness and love ot humanity have molded Into beauty Sister llettlna and America Is I Interested Inter-ested In hr It cause under Miss Barton Bar-ton she has direct charge of all the worn wo-rn ell who tar for our wounded soldieis In the fleldlB a German by birth and peaks English with a slight accent In the early part of 1888 BIter Bettlna then Alias Holkr became Intel sled In the poor of NOv York city and devoted voted 0 portion or hr time each day to caring for the sick In their tenement home That she might fit herself the better for this work she entered the Mount Sino Training School For Nurses In 1833 she graduated carryIng carry-Ing off the highest honors In her class By this time she had become much In trestd In the work ot the nd Cross hut as there wa no Institution tn Amrlea 00 In the countrl ot Europe Anne rope for the special training of nurses for the work ot the society the foundIng I Ing of such hospital this country was suggested to Miss Hotter She Interested Inter-ested a number ot prominent people In the Idea and a fund for It was promised prom-ised Mls Clara Barton was then approached ap-proached and her Interest enlisted The new Institution was to be located In I New York and to be known as the Ism pllal and Training School For Red Cross HItr its work In times ot peace In one department to be the care ot the needy alclL The Plan wa pushed to rapid success Such eminent surgeons as Dr George r Slimily and Dr Oalllard Thomas are now on the hospitals list of consulting physicians with Drs ALt A-Lt Lesser T A MoNlcholl C II mil son Steger and Zeh in special lines It was shortly after the opening of the Institution that Dr Lesser who had long admired Sister In Chief Hofker Induced In-duced hr to become not only his ao clate In Bed Cross work but his partner part-ner for life The Red Cross headquarters In WashIngton Wash-ington are constantly thronged with women eager to enlist In the work at the order No less I earnest Is I the long line ot serious faced women that Walt daily in the reception room of the New York lied Cross headquarters or sit through long hours of lectures ot thee omn few flinch when they learn the arduous duties Imposed on all followers of the Red Cross The socle ty has nothing to do with circumscribed local I or national patriotism The Span lard Is I as dear to It as the American for according to Its pledge It know neither fred nor country nor sex No alary In paid for services The workers work-ers are Imply sheltered fed and cloth edno more Ordinarily applicant for admission to the order must have i take a course of training In the Red Cross hospital Nurses from other schools of this class are admitted after taking a special course of six months Iri the Red Cross establishment Every physician not a member of the order must present certain cer-tain designated credentials To mt I the present crisis the regularly author I I I 11 11i ll I 1 11 1 I 11 I I 0 A ice 11i 11 i I 4 It 4 d I I A t I 0 A 2 11 7A W i 1 ly 14 14 ryL N 0 it ra F 0 M It I 1 1 1 4 J Id Red Cross sisterhood Is I too small and a special clause has been added to the rules under which It may receive for hospital and field service any woman wo-man able to comply with the requirements require-ments In all provisions but that of special spe-cial training Not all the work of the society bOw ver Is the caring for the sick Women are needed to cook to wash to sew to scrub and to perform numberless services besides binding up wounds and administering medicine Cat the field C-at battle the Injured need water there are letters to be written home and there are hundreds of other directions In which healthy cheery women unafillct ed with nerves can make themselves useful In the Red Cross service When called to the front the Red Cross nurse may carry a single trunkful ot Impedimenta with her The uniform is I of blue gingham with a white cap and whit apron Aa the climate 01 Cuba Is I warm It lssuggested that summer sum-mer clothing be taken and such as will not make the wearerlook untidy In case the laundress proves a poor one Women unable to help the Red Cross work in any other way may send contributions con-tributions ot money or such donation ot food and clothing as after writing to I Bliss Barton they shall and to be mot needed Among the women of America whose mmes are connected with philanthropic work there Is I no one more generally a subject ot Interest and admiration than the lovely creature who stands at the had of the Volunteers of America Mrs Maud I Ualllngton Booth Mrs Booth lifts Istated tated that the women who work with her are as ready to toll In hospitals and on > battlefields for the lives of her adopted adopt-ed countrymen as In prisons noisome alums and dens ot sin where they have labored to redeem souls from sin The mother superior ot the sisters or charity of the Roman Catholic church Is I also authority for the statement that her sisterhood may be depended upon an volunteers for hospital nurses or for any service which It will be In their power to perform to alleviate the horrors hor-rors of warfare The sisters of charity are universally notable for their good works In time of peace Whenever and wherever war has broken out however their heroism and self abnegation In ministering to the sick and affording to the last hours of many a storm toed soul the peace and consolations of religion re-ligion have earned for them the gratl tudeof the world for no matter how dreadful death may Deem under ordinary ordina-ry circumstances the horrors tire a hundredfold hun-dredfold multiplied on the field of battle bat-tle where the actual suffering of the dying man Is I intensified by sound ot agony from other unfortunates Sternly practical the womens aux I Illarles of the different regiments of the i national guard have set to work to I make all sorts of needful things for the I soldiers such no housewives to contain con-tain pins needles etc and little bata ot muslin In which to carry pepper alt and flour Sewing circles to pre par underclothing have been set to work and the New York womens auxiliary aux-iliary to the guard has even pledged Itself to take care of the families of poor soldiers during their absence Tiny emergency medicine kits containing n few alniphiremedles and bandages ate another suggestion for the comfort of the soldier Indeed the women of the guard have gone to work In such a patriotic and businesslike way that tin American who upholds the honor of his country in the field promises I to bo the best cared for fighter In the world Under Mrs Jeannette Hardln Wal worth one of the officers of the Daugh ter ot the American Revolution a number at prominent women have or Hanlrcd themselves Into a sanitary commit com-mit tee the object of which Is I to do about the work accomplished by the sanitary commission In the civil war One ot the mot encouraging features it the present trouble with Spain has been the loyalty with which all classes of women have hastened to offer their services In one way or another In aid of the government Miss Long daughter daugh-ter ot the secretary ot the navy Is I one ot the mot eager volunteers Th distinctions of class are forgotten In the enthusiasm of patriotism Tile fashionable oman aqd the workIng mans wife the Vassar graduate and the mot humble scrubwoman Ignore I C r 1 12 f I tr QA I I A a the artificial distinctions of wealth and birth and Intellect and stand hand to hand and heart to heart united for God and right and our native land LUCY DC TREVILLE |