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1 THE WQMAN AMBULANCE— nal lot, so I've never taken a course in
Home Nursing or First Aid. It
DRIVER IN FRANCE. wasn't required then. Now they have
a
. -(Ruth Wright Kauffman) to take courses both in. Firet Aid and
It's a dusty business riding at a good M. motor driving. The Find Aid is
clip in an ambulance for twenty or very important. We never have an
that/ miles on one of those long w,hite orderly with us, you '
French roads -the kind they have so- we come this way
much poetryf about. I was glad I miles. We've often
wasn't a. 'stretcher case -but let me men when they were r t y in too dan-
1 tell you how it happenedgerous a condition to beienoved, so as
I was to be driven by the only sort to raalte room for incenti4 trainloads
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of 'conveyance . in that part of the ' and it's rather awful wetted' know what
world .to a large military hospital in to do if one of them faints or has a
- northern France. The only sort of hemorrhage."
"You don't carry them at this pace,
do yoe?" I gasped. e
"We crawl," she laughed.
scarlet cross pull up on the other side "I suppose milling down that flap
of the street, For a moment I at the rear keeps out *e 'dust?"
thotight that the driver, who vealked "NO, not a bit, ThoVidoeon't seem
toward me in xnotor cap and rubber to be any way to ppid: the dust.
coat and bigh boots' must' beaa man, Sometimes the ettiteliCia eases have
a eisetity and alert , and . somewhat dust all over their eyelid's when. We get
young man. Then I sa*.tay mistakethein to the end of the jeterhey.t
"You're to come with me, I think," In the town itself -a town once ov-
she Said, holding out a strolig handerflowing with suramerlohrists from
"Wait a minute, please. 'iieldve-- kept ' all parts of teh world, and gayly pia -
the' cushions doubled over, so they turesque with its miXture of old
wouldn't get dusty, tqrt z shali have to France and new, with itlelaotels and
dust them, after all. I hope you .don't golf and tennis and white cliffs and
mindnot starting for another hour, sands where the brigthly dressed ehil-
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conveyance ° was an ambulance.
I waited at hese headquarter e until
I saw the great gray creaturewith its
I did not mind. But 1 was glad
• that she invited me to go with her
while she made them. None the less.
I took my place -gingerly 'within the
ambulance. I had never stepped lit-
sidean ambulance before, and this one
which had carried so many wounded
soldiers' four by four -the last batch
only yesterday -made me hold back
for an instant.
' My, driver delivered hes.messagee
here and collected her mail there,
slinging, without the slightest hesita-
tioneheavy bags of it that would have
been beyond my strength, Soldiers
saluted her, but she was left alone to
hoist the boxes and big sacks. She
wasted no time, her manner was busi-
nesslike, and she performed ' her er-
rands with military precision.
For the first half of the trip I stay-
ed back with an over -age Red Cross
man, who spent his tune hunting 1113 three of the cars are nearly always
missing soldiers and questioning the on the road, The duties consist in a
wounded for details of their comradesgood deal more than transporting the
There were two other' passengers- wounded. The drivers are mid& or -
two roseacheeked young women in the ders to go whenever they are sent,
V . A .D . (Volunteer Ambulance Driv- wherever they are sent, for whatevez
ers) uniform that one conies soon to they are sent, for whatever purpose
ing of .soldiers :in- theirblue invahd
uniforms on the promenade by the sea,
their figures silhouetted' 'against a
brilliant sky. Casino and hotels are
now'hospitals, but for 4 space I lost
sight of that side of 'things, and, with
the gracious permission of the co a-
mending officer, I was taken to see the
motor -drivers' headquarters and their
immaculate garage.'
• The officer under whom *e ads
xectly work showed me; with an air of
pride the fourteen ears,
"Each girl' has her Own ambulance,"
the said, as he pointed, them out one
by one; "and she takes entire care of
it herself. There are no night shifts,
so she must be ready for duty at any
tune within the twelity-feur hours at
a few minute's notice. Generallys, the
girls are working here the better part
of each morning, except that two or
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DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY.
GEORGE, HENRY THAMER
Killed in Action in France. July ist,
1917.
Pte. Thamer was a son of Mr. William
Thamer'of Walton, and enlieted with
the 161st Hurons. He was selected
in the first draft from that Battlaion,
joining the 58th Battalion, and went
to Fra,nce early in the year.
used, and one can well imagine the
struggle that. Must have ensued with
the military authorities before they
could be persuaded that women were
as capable as men for driving. ambul-
ances. For some months this unit of
fourteen did its ova cooking and
housekeping in odd leisure moments;
but the odd moments were few and
far between. The girls had no ener-
gy left to edok and keep house soefine
ally the unit was increaded to consist
of eighteen ramnbers, including two
cooks, a housemaid, and a parlor maid
.-all voluntary. The unit is on laalf
Government rations and receives en-
ough money to pay for laundry. Tic-
kets to England for the semi-annual
fortnightly leave are provided, but in
the end the girls are out of pocket,
because they buy some of their food.
A great deal of the food they receive
is tinned, as if they were soldiers; and
tinned butter,' can well believe is more
than one can pleasantly endure.
My return journey -in the ambu-
lance with the monkey -showed an in -
1 mentioned this to the coennan.dant.
"Well, I don't know," she said, mil-
ing deprecatingly. "When- we had
that huge lot of fifteen hoandred in-
stead of our nine hundred and fifty ca-
pacity, we were pretty sleepy.. 1
don't know about most of the girls,
though they couldn't have had it any
'easier than I did; I know I got
Only three and a half hours' steep in
forty-eight h.ours, and as for food,
seized.what I could whet I saw it. We
didritt need much rocking after that
stretch of work was over.'
And the colonel in command, whb
won his Victoria Cross under heafy
fire in the South. African War long
before the tradition of keeping women
out of affairs military had ever been
broken, confessed to xne;
'f.1 should feel a. lot safer with thos
young women than with meet men."
FROM SALONIKA TO LONDON
The following interesting letter is
from a former Seaforth girl, Miss
Minnie Best, who has been a nursing
sister at Salonika, Greece, for the past
yealrs or more, to her aunt, Mrs.
J. D. Iiinchley, describing her trip
from Salonika. to London, England,
where she is now on duty: three daughters, have arrived from
Basin,gstoke, Sept 9, 1917 Minneapolis to take up el* home on
Dear Aunt Jean, -Do you notice 1 iheolatohwnsorah'eatipe, eadwhtiletthmeoi..leeasBlakehenreof_
that am able at last to put ray abode Grey
at the top of the letter? I wasn't
able to do that irwGreece. We were
not allowed to put our addrees any
place on the letter conspicuoasty.
Now we are free to do at we please in
all things.
In England, yest. Did mother tell
you I sent her a cablegram of our
safe arrival. Ithought it would save
you needness anxiety. The journey
was a dangerous one, but we travelled
only by night when on the water, In
all we took seventeen. days to come
from Salonika to London. We left
Salonkia (and this is the last -time I
hope I shall have to mention the name
of Salonika) on the sixteenth of Au-
gust by the transport Aragon -only
the sisters of all the Canadian hospi-
tals and two medical officers froxn
each. We brought with us our quar-
termaster and payxnaster, Captain
Trump and our Registrar,Major liteeff
Colonel MeVicar. Our first night -
convoyed by two torpedo boat des-
troyers took us as far as the Island of
stance of skill. We had barely entered
short -Ume there resting up before
we start travelling again, because we
are tired right out, and for one can
not go on duty again until I have had
a good rest.
Basingstoke is a lovely place a little
English town from which we are a-
bout half an hour's walk. We walk-
ed in the other day, through little
English lanes and hay fields and it
was delightful. I am learning to ride
a bicycle as that is the only means of
locomotion in England.
At present we are most unsettled -
cannot stay at anything for any length
of time. I have only written one
leter since I left Salonika. I sent
you a card from Paris. Did you get
it?
Lovingly,
AffINNIFe
Basingstoke, Hants, En'g.
• HURON NOTES.
-The fine farm of Mrs. Thomas •
Strachan, 6th concession -of Grey, has
been sold to Mrs. Alex. McDonald,
who owns another 100 acres 071 the
4th concession. The price for the
125 acres was $7,100.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Blake ant
'cently purchaeect. It is twenty-six
years since he went west. Mr. ancl
Mrs. T. Alcock moved to Brxissels.
-The trustees, of Willis thumb,
Clinton, have appointed MISS Mau&
Torrance organist, to suce'ed Prof.
Bristowe. On Prof. Bristowe's remov-
al to Kincardine the. trustees voted
him a liberal bonus in token of the
esteem he which he is held by the
congregation and the excellent service- `-
he gave as choirmaster and organist.
-On Friday last, at Goderich hos-
pital; a citizen of Clinton passed away,.ay,e
n the 'person of Florence Rosa Bren-
nan, wife a Mr. James Johnston, of
Clinton. The deceased lady had suffer-
ed a' severe illness a few months ago
and though sufficiently recovered to b;
able to go about she never fully re-
gained her health. She had gone to
the hospital for further treatment a-
bout a week previous to the end.
-Elias Brenner, a well known res-
ident of Dashwood, died at his home
there on Friday night at the age of
78 years and 4 months. The deceas-
ed had been in poor health for some
thee and about two weeks ago he suf-
fered a etto, ke a paralysis from whicle
he never recovered. He is survived
by his widow, three sons and three
daughters, three brothers and two sis-
ters who mourn his loss. He was a
member of the Lutheran church.
the city of Athens
leave to England. They were .bubb- ing mails, bringing passengersaollect- the to of our destination when one Skyros just off .
We anchored all day there. The next
recognize, returning from a fortnight's -they are sent, and that 'Wens eaerW-
ing over with the chatter , of their hol- ing stores, oncert pertied-anything utes exactly, of the tires collapsed In five min- w
iday, and were anticipatmg seeing . that meist be brought or trans- ' snight took us to the Island of Milo
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their old , friends agani. They had ferred. The girgt, never complain. with the uses' without any fus, but (of the famous Venus, the bust of
l idle crowd that collects
in a country at war as well as in a
country at peace, a fresh tire was in
place and we were again on our way.
What I think, made me see most
clearly into the lives of these girls
watt a sort of diary, kept in very brief
foam, tuto which their ettennendetat let
me take a glimpee. It gave me what
the spoken words could not of them-
selves give, and showed, through its
very lack of intent to show, the rare
courage of these young women, set a-
ino. I never experienced sucIl heat
mong conditions that not so long ago
as we felt on the ship in those Aegean
would have been considered impossible
ports and the next for Corfuten, both
for -women to bear, especially as these,
of these trips we were convoyed ht by
motor -drivers belong to a class that i
. • !Japanese torpedo boat destroyers, . in
been doing Red Cross work m France
for over .a year, and were 'practical
enceighmot to look on the dark side of
their clouds. They reminded nee more
of school -girls returning after holi-
days than anything elsegfor they must
have been very young. d • -
Thep, for I was white from, the
dust sucked up from the road, I
changed to a seat beside the driver,
where she thought it might be cleaner.
We moved at top speed and rattled
over all the back roads while we exe-
cuted our various official orders. We
passed numbers of German prisoners.
A groep of three of them smiled
• good -morning to us. I seed a Tommy
give a light to another German. My
driver told me that she had driven
many Germans to and from the hos-
pital, but it made no apparent differ-
ence to her; they- were wounded when
she had to do with them'.
She Was looking forward to the
summer andwalled my attention to the
luxuriant Lombardy poplars and the
masses- of flowers that miraculously
. grew and kept in order; roses that
hung over walls, huge clusters of pe-
onies. Not that it would have any
effect on the amount of work. The
hospital had always been full since she
arrived, although there had been de-
pressing occasions when it had sud-
denly become crowded to twice its
capacity; but slimmer Irma* easy
Weather conditions, and motordrivers
perforce consider the weather condi-
tions. - The winter had been incredt
ibly cold. For the nursing members,
who lived in practically unheated huts
it must have been almost unbearable;
but what could be &me when there
was e shortage of fuel? The drivers
had a charnhifig house set in a lovely
garden. It used to belong to a French
Deputy. In Winter, however, it was
conspicuous for single open fire-
place, around which eighteen girls
• could not comfortably toast them-
selvee .
• "There's one good thing about that,"
I was cheerfully told. `When you're
kept , pretty mild all the time, you
don't feel the outside cold nearly so
much:• Most of our work last winter
had a way of coming along between
two and three o'clock in the Morning.
Now that it's fine weather and make&
no difference, the trains generally ar-
rive about six. It is perverse of
them!"
There had been snow for long per-
iods from Novernber until April,
sometimes several feet deep. My
driver had once run in to a drift dur-
ing a storm and stuck there. Fortun-
ately, she was quite alone at the time.
She had walked back, got another am-
bulance, returned to find the snow so
banked up that there was no digging
her first car out and she finally had
to tow it home. She has now made it
a rule never to go out without a sho-
vel., I wondered if she had to know
much about mechanics.
"wen, you se," she explained, "I
had myown car and had been running
it for five years, so I had not trouble
in qualifying. I can do any road-
work, but I'm not a skilled mechani-
cian. I mean, if the car completely
broke down it would have to go to
the garage for repairs. Several men
are kept there to attend to the more
serious troubles."
"Do you have to take up Red Cross
work before you qualify as a driver?"
1 asked.
"Yes, now. But I was in the prigi-
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I've never heard one say she was
tired. And the ambulances are kept
in -much better condition' thee when
the men had -them -we are forced to
admit that. The girls 'take a pride
in. them, ,you ',de:tete-eh
Phinted I -loyi ftediWa- efii relied in
front of ;one ambulance. •
"Oh, that's a mascot. They all like
masdots. Curious, ;isn't , it?
be going back with that car, I ex-
pect?"
At the Deputy's house we 'carie
upon the girls eating lunch, a sturdy-
looldng assemblage, their faces ruddy
front the winds, their eyes spirited,
their whole bearing enthusiastic. As
most of them had held .their jobs for
at last a year, the newness and ad-
venture of their work had worn off.
They were not in France through any
war hysteria. One girl said to me
that after three months conies the
hardest strain; for by the tirne that
you are sick of just the same roade
and the same stones day in and day
out. Afterwards you get used to it
and forget the monotony.
"Don't a lot of you break down?" I
asked. -
• "No; surprisingly few. One girl
went home to -day because the doctor
thought she wasn't fit. The winter
was pretty hard on her. But we're all
strong to begin with, and of course we
have a severe medical examination
before we are accepted. We're sip -
posed to have nothing to do besides
driving, though in the end we do a
great many other things, because no -
bode is within reach, and things that
must be done must be done at once."
"What do you do when work's
over?"
"We ,never know when it's over!
That's the worst of it. You can't
count on the hour when anything's go-
ing to happen in a war. If the Ger-
mans wound our men or gas our men,
and there's. a train -load to come, we
• must be there. . We have a regular
rounte to and from the station, so we
never get in one another's way. For
instance, yesterday, we brought the
entire four hundred and fifty men -
and they were mostly lyinm cases -
in an hour and a half. The first train
we unloaded and deposited at the cas-
ino in twenty-eight minutes, but
were delayed by the second train;
they generally arrive in two sections."
"How long does it take to bring in
one load from the local station?"
"Six or seven eninutes. But the
return trip takes no timee-wetoot
along with empties."
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"But, I persisted, "it isn't only
driving these ambulances that keeps
you looking so well."
"Oh, nit," said another driver, the
most rosy-cheeked of all, I think.
"We're -great believers in exercise aed
open air. Whenever -we get a mom-
ent off, we go out. Tennis and walke
ing and golf and bathing when it's at
all safe. There's a swift current, and
we're not allowed to bathe without a
boat. We never go so far away that
we can't be found quickly. That's
the really hard thing, that awful feel-
ing of responsibility. But we, do
manage to take a lot of exercise.
And then we aon't worrk. It's a rule
not to worry."
in the beginning the girls had come
as „a unit of fourteen motor -drivers
only. They vrere, the pioneers, for
this was the first place in France
where women ambulance drivers were
whom was found in the twelfth cen-
tury). That night we left for
Crete, staying three days there. We
landed on the first afternoon and I
drove to the town of Caneat-an An-
glicized. town, as Crete formerly be-
longed to England for years. The
next day we went to Crition to ewe the
wood carving. It took us an hour
to sail over and three hours to come
back.
The next night we left for Never-
have never dreaened of earning them
living, and were certainly unused to
hardships before they signed on for
their present work. The bald state-
ments of fact from the diary are the
more poignant because they are ex-
pressed as mere commonplaces. I
quote bits lifted here and there, with-
out dates;
whom the British sailors have the
greatest confidence.
On Sunday -morning we reached Ta-
ranto but remained on ship until Mon-
day morning. On Sunday evening,
howew, the Naval Transport Officer
took us for a trip around the harbor
of Taranto in a small tug to see a
sunken
"The rush of work for this unit be -
Italian dreadnaught, sunk in
gan on Sunday and -continued roughly
ten days. All the unit without excep-
tion worked • splendidly, and besides
being many hours on the road kept
their ears in such excellent condition
that, in Bette of hard usage, not a car
euffered from neglect. — and
joined the unit to assist with- house-
work, as all the drivers evere•wanted.
NI/Rhin the fortnight we carried 2,115
lying eases, 719 sitting eases. The
Mileage was 8,718 miles. .
there, and reached Bologna about el -
"In one day two ambulance trains
even. We, had from eleven to two at
were evacuated and three hospital
Bologna. Had lunch there, shopped.,
ships were loaded. . • .
"The latter half of the last fort-
and did the Cathedral
night has been very busy. Three trains We reached the city of Turin
have • been met, and, though the men
have not been able to be evacuated to
England, . large numbers of sitting
eases have been carried by the con-
ovy to convalescent camps. The gar-
age has been converted into a tem-
porary hospital, and the cars are at
present parked on the square. Sever-
al members of the unit have volunteer-
ed to help with the patients in the
garage'and their offer has been very
gratefully accepted by the matron, as
the increased number of beds has
been a great strain on the nursing
staff. The assistance rendered in get-
ting patients' meals, cutting up dress-
ings, making beds, etc., by the unit,
especially by those who hold the Home
Nursing certificates, has been most
appreciated.... .
"The weather has been intensely
cold, and it has been difficult to pre-
vent the cars from freezing during
the"Transport
or.t 'ha's been difficult owing
to the state of the -roads, whieh in
places have been several feet thick in
snow', On more than one occasion
drivers have had to dig their ears out
of the drifts. . . .
"Repairs have again been •heavy,
and have been done by the unit them-
selves. Most of the evacuations have
taken place in the night, and this has
frequently entailed a full day's work
in the workshop being followed by a
night on the road Netwithstandina
this. the health of the unit is excel -
What' struck me most was the fact
that menion was made of the possibil-
' iv of the cars freezing, while nothing
was said of hands and feet. That is
the essential quality of these drivers;
thev are so much xnore distressed over
their individual ambulances than over
their person discomforts,
the harbor before the war, before it
had ever made a trip.
On Monday morning we landed in
time to have lunch at Taranto and
proceeded on our journey by rail. We
ran across to Bari on the coast and
had a pick-up lunch. We managed to
get a chicken some bread and butter
and fruit, and scrambled on the train
to teat it. We slept on the train that
night, six of us in a compartment. Did
I say we slept? We spent the night
at midnight, had a bath, and went
to bed in the hotel. It WELS/ deli-
cious. We spent the day shopping and
boarded the train again at 4 p.m. I
might say that Italy is even ophre
wonderful than the tales I have heard
of it. It is a perfect flower garden,
with prage vines festooned from tree
to tree. I cannot describe it. I am
glad to have seen it. ,
From Turin we went through the
Alps -and the Italian Alps are won-
derful. Once again I cannot describe
then,. -the natural scenery, the wat-
erfalls, the villages nestling at the foot
of the hills -all are wonderful.
We spent that night also in the
train and reached Paris at noon. We
spent two days and two nights in
Paris, shopping and sight -seeing -
shopping the first afternoon and sight-
seeing the next day. Everything is too
expensive to buy. The girls bought
some blouses. Then we went out to
Versailles, but the palace was closed;
but we visited the Grand and Petit
Triason. In the afternoon we visited
Notre Dame Cathedral and the Church
of the Sacred Heart, the Tuileries Gar-
dens, along the haraps Elysses to•
the Bois du Boulogne, the Louvre, and
the Tomb of Napoleon. I like Paris for
sight-seeing and London for shopping.
We left Saturday morning for Le
Havre, spent the rest of the day there
and left for Southampton that night.
We had a choppy crossing. I was un-
comfortable but not sick. We reached
Southampton at night and London at
noon. We slept the first two days
and 'shopped until Thursday afternoon,
when we left for Basingstoke, and
here we are till our trunks edene,when
we will go on leave some plate. We
had planned on Scotland, but all feel
too tired to go_ yet, so it may be that
, we will go to Cornwall first and spend
-Mrs. W. W. Harris has disposet1
of the well known Shamrock Butter
-
Factory, at Brussels, to `C. Klockmant.
of Stratford, who took possession ore ,
October 1st, The purehaser is an ex-
pert hand at the business aid wilE
no doubt sustain the good name of thet
factory. Mr. Harris has not solct
her comfortable home and will con-
tinue to reside he Brussels. Mr.
Klockman will remove his family to
Brussels in the near fame.
-The first Flower Show in connec-
tion with Brussels Horticultural So-
ciety was held on Saturday afternoon%
and evening of last week in the aud-
ience room of the Public Library.
Thanks to the willingness of the mem
berg and others, a large and beauti-
ful range was put on display.Waltom
members sent fine contributions, and
Mr. W. Hartry, of Seaforth, who was
present at the organization, showecd3.
his interest by motoring over with a.
fine lot of his justly celebrated Gladi-
oli and other choice flowers. No
prizes were offered and most of the
flowers were sold, close on 425 being
realized for the Reel Cross in this
way.
-The north side of the Maitlantl
river, Brussels, possesses no less than
seventeen people or more, who have
passed their 80th birthday and are all
able to be about, a number of theme
being so active that persons ten yeare
their junior have to brisk up to keep
step with them. In the list are; Mrs.
5. Crawford, Charles Howlett, Mrs.
William Newson, Hugh Lamont, Alex
Ellis, David Heist, George Crooks,
Mrs. George Crooks, Mrs. William
Ross, Mrs. James Menzies, MTS,.. Ran
kin, Mrs. Walter Smith, ex -leve j.
Leckie, Mrs, (Rev.) Paul, Alex. Rosse,
Mrs. H. Wilbee, William TurnbUll,
Mrs. II. Wilbee and Mr. Ellis are
past 90 years and Mrs. Menzies is not.
far from it.
-By a new arrangement with
Thuel Bros,, the Brussels Council bee
secured the restoration of eled la
lighting. The following is the plait on.
alettlaa test will be made for the next
few months; The town will rent the
plant at $45 per month and silently the
necessary coal, the proprietors furn-
ising all other necessaries; Robert
Thuell will receive $'75 per month for
his serettes as manager of the sys-
tem; the'°limit will pay $80 a montle
for street ighting and the other usere
will get tbejr light at cost,. not to ex-
ceed 15 centper killowatt, the rate
having been 12k cents; the council mak-
ing good if coat exceeds the new rate:
Nearly all the ti,trons signed the new
agreement as tide was the only way
in which a continuance of the sygera
could be obtained. Care will be taken.
'n reading the metres and collectious
• made promptly by the town. Already
the proprietors are busy getting the
plant into shape for an early start.
This will be good new to Brussels an&
of no small importance as the long
dark nights hasten along. Thuell
Bros. will no doubt do their best to fill
the contract in firsteclass manner, and
as they were formely in cbarge, they
should make it go watout costing the
town a very large increase. With *0
rise in price of coal, oils, repairs
wages, etc the old 'rate was, of
course, out of the question, —1 . oi
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