Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

TREATMENT OF WAR VETERAN Bed He Was Compelled to Sleep on Was Uncomfortable, but Was Well Supplied With Legs. An army officer said at a dinner: “The mutilated young heroes of the ■world war will be very finely treated for a few years; then afterward they will be treated no better, but probably worse, than anybody else. “Look at our own Civil war veterans. Nothing very wonderful about their treatment, eh? 4 “I remember a Civil war veteran with one leg who went to Ocean Grove one summer. His bedroom was clean, but the bed was most uncomfortable, and in the morning he said to his landlady: “ ‘I couldn’t sleep last night, ma’am. The room was clean, but the bed was more uncomfortable than the rocky fields I used to sleep in on my campaigns. The bed, in fact, is unsteady, ma’am. It has only three legs.’ “ ‘Only got three legs, eh?’ sneered the landlady. ‘Well, you old groucher, that’s two more’n you’ve got!’”