Show GET LEATHER FROM SHARKS series of tests by government shows that product Is durable and satisfactory it new london conn A contract tor for 1000 shark hooks to be completed in ten days and in twenty days after the first consignment has been awarded by the government to J W fordham a blacksmith of thi this vicinity 1 there are to be three varlet varieties les of hook eleven ten find and nine inches in length A chain and swivel are to be attached to each hook it Is reported front from a washington correspondent that the government Is about to prospect in a new leather field that of shark skins in a series of tests a durable and satisfactory leather leat lier has been evolved from I 1 he skins shins of these fish it Is believed there Is no reason why an industry may not be profitably started WOUNDED ARE GIVEN BEST OF CARE ARE C officer many times injured loud in praise of hospital service TELLS OF HIS experiences many american girls among nurses on the western front man with artificial hand pulls grew some joke on visitors washington the hospital service on the betl western r front Is excellent said lieutenant of tile the royal flying corps 1 I ought to know ive had enough experience with it everything is done to make the less seriously wounded man comfortable and no effort Is spared to save the more critically critIc Aly lly wounded mans life 1 I 1 used to get into the hospital hob pital at boulogne so often that the nurses rot got to know me very well they alre ure splendid women thesis nurses and there are more american girls among them than you might suppose they got to saying h hes es back again after I 1 had cen there four or five times I 1 seldom heard them because I 1 usually was ivas unconscious but they always gave me my favorite bed and the attendants ten tend ants dauts I 1 liked best one thursday morning after I 1 had been unconscious tor for more than a jcck I 1 woke up in england instead of at boulogne I 1 knew then that I 1 must have been seriously sly injured the men most seriously injured those not expected to live usually are sent bent to ramsgate prom from london I 1 went to Ran ramsgate isgate they have a wonderful hospital hospi lul there take the sea air down along the waterfront water front there is a n grent promenade it 13 perhaps 75 feet wide when hopeless cases have been cured they ore are given wheel chairs which they propel with thor their hands and sent down to the promenade fol foi the sea air I 1 saw many funny things on that promenade the sport was for about fifty of these men some without legs some arms to join their chairs together aud and after getting up speed play at crock crack the whip nhip then there would be jousting matches the men charging at each other with their chairs the winner was the one who succeeded in throwing the other m man an out of his chair frequently the r results 0 doctors had secured after months of painful work were undone ta la th this Is way it used to be funny and sometimes pathetic to see the men t trying out their artificial limbs there were two long iron rails supported by posts be b tween which the lie men with artificial legs would practice they would grip the rails with their hands and walk front from one end of the path to the other the stunt wits was to turn around with liandi oft off the rails many a time I 1 have seen a man go sprawling when one of his l as gs went out from under him rati Grew tome some joke there was one chap at ramsgate who used to have a great deal of fun out of an all artificial hand it got to a point where his companion invalids would make him pledge that ho he pull his hand joko joke when th thy they y introduced him to their women fi lends youre right hed said that joke Is pretty crude I 1 wont pull it again but when the time for the introduction came the impulse was irresistible the file chap would put out his false hand band for the girl to shake and then would pu pull 11 lit his arm away leaving the hand in it her 1 I grip rip more than once ive seen that tant hand drop on the hard floor ot of the promenade while the girl e in horror borror |