Show NURSES NURSES' TENTS ARE HAVENS AFTER TRENCH HELL Many any Men Had Not Been in ina a Bed for Years Year's Time v By Special News Service LAFAYETTE Ind Oct 13 On On duty In a war hospital on the French I battle front Miss Clara Beehler Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross nurse has written to her mother Mrs L L. E. E Beehler of this city an Interesting Interesting in interesting In- In letter concerning her work worl Miss Beehler Bechler was a nurse in a Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago hospital when the call can came and she Joined one of the first contingents of nurses to go to the front after America entered the war She was aboard the tho steamer Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia Mon Mon- golia when a defective shell shen caused the death of two nurses She is now In a tent hospital not far from the firing firing firing fir fir- ing line NO BED FOR A YEAR It is a wild night tonight she writes and the tent rattles and shakes as If it would blow down But Dut my patients sleep on Of course as one of them told me tonight this is quietude quietude quietude quie quie- tude for them after tho the hell hen they ex experience experience ex- ex in the trenches In the convoy convoy con con- vo voy that came down tonight were many who had not seen a bed in a year The They are so glad to have a good bath and sleep in a bed that they generally sleep for twenty four hours before awakening They hardly want to take time for a little nourishment If any of this letter is censored dont don't worry for It wont won't be anything important We Ve Weare Weare are not allowed to tell all we know Day dut duty r at a war hospital is much better than night duty and the hours are also shorter But we must all alt take our turn at night We wade around in mud almost knee deep sometimes and carry lanterns and wear gum boots Its It's quite novel for a time but butone butone I one soon gets tired of it Mrs Whitelaw Whitelaw White White- law Reid an Am American rican woman In London London London Lon Lon- don has sent all of us sleeping bags FLOWERS BLOOM IN RED FIELDS I can still look across the road and see the flower beds and the sweet peas in bloom If I ever get back home the first thing I will get is some somo Ice cream They dont don't know how to tomake tomake tomake make it here and we cant can't make it for that matter for we can spare no sugar and we have no ice But we weare weare weare are really realty much better situated and equipped here than we expected to be The nurses here are permitted to send senda a short weekly cablegram to their folks at home and you may expect one from me each ench week ek |