It OREGON STATESMAN, Galea. Ort-ca, Saturday llorniay, OcUber 15, VS&
?M Quiet Western. Front
CHAPTER XXIX.
There are eight men in our
room. Peter, a curly black-haired
fellow, has the worst injury
a severe lung wound. Franz
Wachter, alongside him, has a
shot In the arm which didn't look
too bad at first. But the third
night he calls out to us, telling
us to ring, he thinks he has a
hemorrhage.
I ring loudly. The night sister
does not come. We have been
making rather heavy demands on
her during the night, because we
bare all been freshly bandaged,
and so have a good deal of pain.
One wants his leg placed so, an
other so, a thira wants water, a
fourth wants her to shake up his
pillow; in the end the buxom old
body grumbled bad-temperedly
and slammed the doors. Now no
doubt she thinks it Is something
of the same sort and so she is not
eomlng.
We wait. Then Franz says:
"Ring again."
I do so. Still she does not put
in an appearance. In our wing
there is only one night sister,
perhaps she has something to do
In one of the other rooms. "Frans
are yon quite sure you are bleed
ing?" I ask. "Otherwise we shall
be. getting cursed again."
"The bandage is wet. Can't
anybody make a light?"
That cannot be done, either,
rhe, switch is by the door and
tone of ns can stand up. I hold
He cries out feebly, " won't go
to the dying room !
my thumb against the bell until
It becomes numb. Perhaps the
sister has fallen asleep. They
certainly have a great deal to do
and are overworked day after
day. And added to that is the
everlasting praying.
"Should we smash a bottle?"
asks Josef Hamacher of the shoot
ing license.
"She wouldn't hear that any
more than the bell."
At last tbe door opens. The
old lady appears, mumbling.
When she perceives Franz's trou
ble she begins to bustle and says:
"Why did not someone say I was
wanted?"
"We did ring. And none of us
here can walk."
He has been bleeding badly and
she binds him up. In the morn
ing we look at his face. It has
become sharp and yellow where
as the evening before he looked
almost healthy.
Sometimes there are Red Cross
voluntary-aid sisters. They are
pleasant, but often rather unskill
ed. They frequently give us pain
when re-making bur beds, and
then are so frightened that they
hurt ns still more.
The nuns are more reliable.
They know how they must take
hold of us, but we would be more
DIGESTIVE TROUBLES
A CA USE OF INSOMNIA
Most Cases of Sleeplessness are Due to Unwise
Eating and Improper Care of Body Functions,
Says Dr. Copeland Avoid Late Suppers.
By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.
United States Senator from New York.
Former CommUtioner of HealtX, yew York City.
rYOU cant sleep there wOl be plenty to tell you "it's your eon
gcience bothering you." That may be so in some cases, but 1
doubt that this is universally so.
Insomnia is a common complaint. There may be occasions when
troublesome conscience is responsible for it. in
most cases, it may be traced to some mental, in
testinal or digestive disorder.
To my mind there is no more distressing con
dition than inability to sleep or disturbed sleep.
All the disagreeable and disappointing events of
the day or week pass and repass in rapid review
during the long night boors. The problems of
tomorrow seem to grow bigger and bigger. Any
aches or pains yon may have forgotten during
the day become unbearable. So with thought
like these for companions during the sleepless
hoars, you become entirely unfitted for the work
of the morrow.
To enjoy good health one most have plenty
of sleep and good, nourishing food served at reg
ular intervals. To this most be added exercise,
tsa Wt aam diversion and agreeable social contacts.
. hvomlnw Few people after reaching middle age can
eat late suppers without suffering some ill effects. Indigestion, heart
vurn, insomnia and constipation are all apt to result.
I really believe that most cases of insomnia are due to digestive
disturbances. If yon will sit down and take account of your own
ixperfence you will agree with me.-f '
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pleased if they were somewhat
more cheerful. A few of them
have real spirit, they are superb.
There is no one who would not
do anything for Sister Libertine,
this marvelous sister who spreads
good'- cheer through the whole
wing even when she only can he
teen in 'the distance And there
are others , like her. W would
go through fire for her. A man
cannot readily complain, here ha
Is treated by the puns exactly like
a civilian. On die other hand,
Just to think of a garrison hos
pital gives a man the creeps.
Frans Wachter does not regain
his strength. One day he Is tak
en away and does not come back.
Josef Hamacher knows all about
it.. "We shan't see him again.
They have put him In the dead
room.
"What do yon mean, dead
room? asks Kropp.
"Well, dying room."
"What la It, then?."
"A little room at the corner of
the building. Whoever Is about
to kick the bucket is put there.
There are two beds in it. It is
generally called the dying room."
"But what do they do that
for?"
"They don't have so much work
to do afterwards. It is more con
venient, too. because it lies right
beside the lift to the mortuary.
Perhaps also, they do it for the
sake of the others, so that no one
on the ward dies in sympathy.
And they can" look after him bet
ter, too, if he is by himself.' ,
"But what about hlm?M
Josef shrugged his shoulders.
TJusally he doesn't take much no
tice any more."
"Does anybody know about It
then?"
"Anyone who has been here
long enough knows, of course."
On the afternoon Frans Wach
ter's bed has a fresh occupant. A
couple of days later they take the
new man away, too. Josef makes
a significant gesture. We see
many come and go.
Often relatives set by the beds
and weep or talk softly and awk
wardly. . One old woman will not
go away, but she cannot stay there
the whole night through. Another,
morning she comes very early, but.
not early enough; for as she goes
up to the bed, someone else is in
it already. She has to go In the
mortuary. The apples she has
brought with her she gives to us.
And then little Peter begins to
get worse. His temperature chart
looks bad, and one day the flat
trolley stands beside- his bed.
"Where to?" he aali.
. "To the bandaging ward.
He Is lifted out. But the sister
makes the mistake of, removing
his tunic from the hook and put
ting It on the trolley too, to that
she should not have to make two
Journeys. Peter . understands Im
mediately and tries to roll off the
trolley. "I'm stopping here!"
They push him back. He cries
out feebly with his shattered
long. "I won't go to the dying
room."
."But we are going to the ban
daging ward.
"Then what do yoa want my tu
nic for?" He can speak no more.
Hoarse, agitated, he whispers:
"Stopping here!"
They do not answer but wheel
him out. At the door he tries to
raise himself up. His black curly
head sways, his eyes are full of
tears. "I will come back again! I
will come back again!" he cries.
The door shuts. We are all ex
cited; but we say nothing. At last
Josef says: "Many a man has
said that. Once a man is in there,
he never comes through."
I am operated on and vomit for
two days. My bones will not grow
together, so the surgeon's secre
tary says. Another fellow's have
grown crooked; his are broken
again. It is disgusting.
Among our new arrivals there
are two young soldiers with flat
feet. The chief surgeon discovers
them on his rounds, and is over-
Joyed. "We'll soon put that right"
he tells them, "we will Just do a
small operation, and then you will
have perfectly sound feet. Enter
them down, sister.
As soon as he is gone, Josef, j
who knows everything, warns 1
them: "Don't you let him operate
on you! That is a special scientif
ic stunt of the old boy's. He goes j
absolutely craiy whenever he can
get hold of anyone to do it on. He
operates on you for flat feet, and
there's no mistake, you don't have
them any more; you have club feet j
instead, and have to walk all the
rest of your life 'on sticks."
"What should a man do, then?"
asks one of them.
"Say no. You are here to be
cured of your wound, not your flat '
feet. Did you have any trouble
with them in the field? No, well,
there you are! At present you can
I GrapesPerfect Between-Lleals
Food How to Select Them!
RAPES are ml
tt to most of us the whit
The Uome-Kilchen
By ALICE LYNN BARRY
YUfetJestauaatttr
the bluish purpk. As a mat
ter of fact, there are over 104 vari
eties frown In tbe United - State,
and In Europe, where grapes mean
jwlne and not fruit, there are even
more.
I In our own markets we are re
ceiving a greater variety than In
previous years when they were more
difficult to ahip. There is the
Thompson seedless grape a pale
green that is almost white and very
weet. Too sweet for some are the
Malagas, which are larg-er than the
eedless variety. For flaror, the
Tokays and the Concord crapes are
probably the most popular. The
light acidity and a certain faintly
pungent fragrance that character
izes these Varieties distinguish them
' as particularly desirable for Jellies,
Juice or as a delicacy for the table.
Although grapes are always sold
by the pound, the way to get a
tempting array la to buy by the
bunch. Select a bunch that Is pleas
ing and pay by weight, rather than
ask for a couple of pounds and let
th marketman collect odds and ends
of bunches that will make up the
A perfect bunch, tv.
is oeauuxui ana decora
tive, and If bought this way there
are fewer falling grapes than when
several little bunches are obtained.
Grapes should- be washed Quickly
after purchased, drained on a bit of
clean cheesecloth or a soft napkin,
and then placed In the icebox, where
they will be kept chilled, but not
moistened. Grapes have a high food
value and are one of the foods rec
ommended for eating between meals.
Indeed, a glass of pure grape Juice,
unmixed with additional sugar or
carbonated water, is a refreshing as
well as nourishing food so much so
that it should not be taken as a
drink with other food.
However, a few of the whits
grapes added to fruit cup at the be
ginning of a meal or with a salad
improve the flavor of the dish.
Largo grapes .just be used, as they
are more palatable when peeled and
the seeds removed. They must be
chilled until Just before serving.
When used for salad pile a small
mound of peeled and seeded grapes
on lettuce leaves or endive and serve
with a French dressing in which
lemon Juice has been mixed with the
oil instead of vinegar.
Grapes ran be preserved In a vari
ety of ways -so that on can enjoy
delicious flavor ah ths
round. There is. of course, the et
sence unfermented grape Juice
Where grapes are cheap and plenti
ful It pays to maks it, because good
commercial brands command a good
price. The Government Issues a very
complete and detailed account of"
how to make unfermented grape
Juice In. the home. It is. of course
necessary to have suitable equip!
ment such as a grape crusher
which will crush a bushel of grapes
In a minute if there Is a large quan
tity to be handled, or otherwise sim
pler home equipment filters, buck
ets. Jelly bags, measuring devices, a.
boiler for pasteurizing, and eo on.
Like other fruits, grapes must be
handled carefully with reference to
temperature, sterilization and quan
tities, so as to prevent spoilage.
If only a small amount of grapes
are available they can be used as
flavoring. A gallon of sliced apples
can be beautifully grape flavored
by the addition of one pint of grape
Juice. Cook the apples, then strain
and add the grape Juice: also one
cup of brown sugar and one-quarter
of a teaspoon of salt. Cook over a
slow fire for two hours, stirring fre
quently. If it is not thick enough
by that time cook a little longer.
still walk, but if once the old boy
gets you under tbe knife you'll
be crippled. What he wants is
little dogs to experiment with, so
the war is a glorious time for him
as it is for all the surgeons. Tou
take a look down below at the
staff; there are a doten fellows
hobbling around that he has op
erated on. A lot of them have been
here all the time since 'fourteen
and 'fifteen.
"Not a single one of them can
walk better than he could before,
almost all of them worse, and
most only with plaster legs. Ev
ery six months he catches them
again and breaks their bones
afresh, and every time is going to
be the -successful one. You take
my word, he won't dare do it if
you say no.
"Ach, man," says one of the two
unfortunates, "better , your feet
than your brain-box. There's no
telling what you'll get if you go
back out there again. They can do
with me Just as they please, so
long as I get back home. Better
to have a club foot than be dead."
The other, a young fellow like
ourselves, won't have it done. One
morning the old man has the two
hauled up and lectures and jaws
at them so long, that in the end
they consent. What else could they
do? They are mere privates, and
he is a big bug. They are brought
back chloroformed and plastered.
It is going badly with Albert.
They have taken him and ampu
tated his leg. The whole leg has
been taken off from the thigh.
Now he hardly speaks anymore.
Once he says he will shoot himself
the first time he can get hold of
his revolver again.
A new convoy arrives. Our room
gets two blind men. une of theu
is a very youthful musician. The
sisters never have a knife with
them when they feed him; he has
already snatched one from a sis
ter. But in spite of this caution
there is an incident. In the eve
ning, while he is being fed, the
sister is called away and leaves
the place with the fork on his ta
ble. He gropes for the fork, seizes
it and drives it with, all his force
against his heart, then he snatches
up a shoe and strikes with it
against the handle as hard as he
can. We call for help and three
men are necessary to take the fork
away from him. The blunt prongs
had already penetrated deep. He
abuses us all night so that no one
can sleep. In the morning he has
lock-jaw.
Again beds become empty. Day
after day goes by with pain and
fear, groans and death-gurgles.
Even the death room is no use any
more. It is too small; fellows die
during the night in our room.
They go even faster than the bis
ters can cope with them.
But one day the door flies
open, the flat trolley rolls in, and
there on the stretcher, pale, thin,
upright apd triumphant, with his
shaggy head of .Curls sits Peter.
Sister Libertine with beaming
locks pushes him -over to his for
mer bed. He is back from the dy
ing room. We have long supposed
him dead.
He looks round: "What do joi
say now?"
And even Josep has to admit
that it is the first time he has tv r
known of such a thine.
(To be continued.)
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By RUSS WESTOVER
Ask yourself these Questions: Did
rou at your dinner at a late hour?
Was tit food ax evasively rich? Did
fou cat a second portion of that de
licious dessert? Did you drink too
strong tea or coffee just before re
tiring? Have you given your mind
a rest aad change of thought? Did
yon go to bed while .seething
from some outburst of temper?
What about ths condition of the
bowels?
These are a few of the things to
Jhink about. Some persons read
wild detective or murder stories and
wonder why they do not sleep
Insomnia is usually the result of
Improper care of the body functions.
, To be sure, there are many cases
due to more serious causes. Long
continued illnesses, mental and ner
vous breakdowns all have insomnia
as a symptom. But today I am con
cerned with tbe simple case.
Lack of exercise and the living of
-a sedentary life have the same re
sult. Mental work done late Into
the night makes It difficult to calm
" the mind and body for sleep.
A guua of warm milk or cocoa,
. beef tea or malted milk often has a
soothing effect. A tepid bath fol
lowed by a brisk rub Is also good.
Review your habits and correct
, those that need It. Not only. wis. you"
rep peiier, out you win live longer.
Answers to Health Queries f
. A FRIEND. 0How can I re
luce?
j a What causes .szcessiTs perspir
ation? . f , . r ,
JLIn order to- reduce eat -very
i-vuigiy , as sssrcnesv- sugars
fats. -...- j.r .
1 Nervousness is the cause of
excessive perspiration.
E. 8. Q. What do you advise for
perspiring hands?
A. Bathe the hands in a weak
solution of alum water.
D. L R Q. What should a boy
eighteen years old, five feet eleven
inches tall, weigh?
2 What Is good tor a sallow com
plexion?. S What Is good for sore and In
flamed eyes?
Sv A boy eighteen years old, five
feet eleven Inches tall, should weigh
163 pounds.
l s For a sallow complexion cor
rect your diet.
t For sore and inflamed eyes use
a weak solution of boric acid.
R. P. Q. What is
poor circulation?
tbe
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tbe run-down state of health.
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JETNK. . Q. How eaa I "fattea
my cheeks without harmful cream
and lotions? -
"A.Caln weight In general.
s. ,
R M. )C Q. What do you advise
for constipation? "
A. Correct your diet first 'of aJL
Drink - plenty of water between
meals. Bend self -addressed, stamped
envelope for further particulars and
repeat your question..
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