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Show NDiEvPRETiY j Red Cross Hospital Uniform j Most Beconinf h His- , tory of World. In a recent news letter from the H froqt the war correspondent of the Philadelphia North American helpa to explain the song, "I'm In Love With a ; Beautiful Nurse." - "There are 02 Red Cross nurses at this place," says the dispatch. "They 1 are cheerful, obedient, brave and com- 1 petcnt And those who weren't pretty I to begin with became so the moment i they donned tho uniform that Is the f ' most becoming In all tho long history of costumes devised for the mystlflca- "; tlon and beguiling of men. ; "In the officers' ward was a colonel !. with bronchitis. 'I've seen them In tho- Philippines, nnd I've seen them In Chi- j tin,'- he told me. 'I suppose I've seeo about all the existing types, but I never nev-er yet saw one that wasn't pretty Inside In-side of 24 hours.' ; "He reminded me of an Irish Tom- i my, who, so his major told me, woke-up woke-up In a hospital in 1016 and, seeing the-nurses the-nurses In the ward, exclaimed, 'May j the howly Virgin bless us, but the angels an-gels have come down to the Sommet' 't Hundreds of Red Cross nurses, however, how-ever, are doing work abroad In which" -.their looks are less eagerly considered. Finding and caring for war- orphaned , babies, fighting tuberculosis, re-estab- '; llshlng homes In shell wrecked villages these are some of the big tasks of ' mercy which, thanks to American contributions, con-tributions, the Red Cross sets for Its nurses. |