Show I WOUNDED ARE GIVEN BEST eEST OF CARE Officer Many Times Injured Loud Loudin in Praise of Hospital Service TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES Many American AmerIcan Girls Girls Among Nurses on the Western Front Man Front Man With Artificial Hand Pulls Grew Grew- some Joke on Visitors Washington The The hospital service on on the western front Is excellent said Lieutenant of the tIme no floyal al Flying Fly- Fly In Ins ing corps coriS I 1 ought to know Ive I've hut had enough experience with It Everything Everything Every Every- thing Is done to make the less seriously seriously seri seri- wounded man comfortable and I no err effort rt Is spare spared to save the more critically wounded mans man's life lite I used to get into the hospital at I Boulogne so often that the tIle nurses got I to know me very well wen L Y in splendid women these nurses and there are more American girls amon among them than you might suppose They back again after got to saying lies lie's I had been there ro four r or five times I seldom heard hear them because I usually was unconscious But they always I gave me my favorite bed and the attendants attendants at at- I liked bestOne bestOne bestOne best I 1 had One Thursday morning after been unconscious for more than a n week I woke toke up in England Instead of ot at Boulogne I knew lenew then that I must have been seriously injured The Themen Themen Themen men most seriously Injured those Injured those not expected to live usually are sent tent to l From rom London I went woot to They have ha a n wonderful there Take the Sea Air Down along the water front there It Is perhaps is a n great promenade 75 foot feet wide When hopeless cases I have been cured they tIley are given wheel wheelchairs wheelchairs wheelchairs chairs which t they ey propel with their hands and sent down to the promenade promenade nade lot foi the sea air I saw many funny things on that promenade The Tho favorite sport was for about fifty of these men some without legs some without arms to Join their chairs together to to- gether and after getting up speed play at nt crack the whip Then there would be Jousting matches the men charging at each euch other with their chairs The winner was the one who succeeded In throwing the other man out of his chair Frequently the tile results re re- suits doctors had secured after months of painful work were undone In this way It used to be funny and sometimes pathetic to see the men trying out their artificial limbs There were two long Iron rails ralls supported by posts between between be bo- tween Which the men with artificial legs would woul practice They would grip the tile rails raUs with their hands and walk from one end of the path to the other The rhe stunt was to turn around with hands oft off the tile rails Man Many a n time I have seen een a 3 man g gd go sprawling when one of his l legs s wen went out from under him Rat Rath Joke I There was one chap at nt Ramsgate- Ramsgate who used to have a great grent deal of fun tun out of an un artificial hand It got to a point where his companion Invalids would make mal him pledge that he wouldn't pull his hand band Joke when they thy Introduced him to their women friends Youre right hed he'd said that Joke Is pretty crude I wont won't pull It again B But t when llen tile the time for the Introduction Introduction tion came the impulse was Irresistible The chap would put out his false hand for the girl to shake and then thea would pull his arm away leaving the hand handIn In her grip tore Store than once Ive I've seen that hand drop on the hard bard flo fio floor r of ot the promenade while the girl shrieked In horror |