Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1917 — FEA PARTY IN A HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

FEA PARTY IN A HOSPITAL

Laughter and Music Featured a Social Event Attended by American and English Officers. - ■■ iAs one of the contrasts of war I shall not soon forget the American tea party in one of the hospital tents, writes a New York correspondent. Not far away was a military cemetery which grows and grows with Its forest of crosses, and in the tents near by American surgeons and American nurses were dealing with wounded men Just down from the Tront But In the other tent to which I went as a guest there was merry music played by English bandsmen, and all the tent was filled with color from the intertwined flags of America and England among great bouquets of summer flowers of France. Above the music rose laughter and the voices of American and English officers and nurses. It was a tea party given by the nurses of the American medical unit which had been working over here for a year to the newcomers of the United States Medical corps and to British officers from the neighboring tents. There were greetings between college girls who had come together as comrades again in this great adventure on French soil. Young doctors from the Southern states held out a glad hand to friends from New York and Chicago. Here were breezy salutations between Georgians and Virginians, between men of Cincinnati and girls of Boston and Atlantic City.