Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — FORD CAR BRINGS A SHOWER BATH EVERY AFTERNOON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FORD CAR BRINGS A SHOWER BATH EVERY AFTERNOON

’Babies Grow Whiter as Doctor and Nurse Sene Daily Baths Fran Door to Door. "Good morning. We have come to give the children their bath,” this, of course, said in good French. Then from off the motor car slides a portable shower bath, carried into the house by doctor and nurse. For the next half hour that little cottage boasts of a bathroom In active service, for when the water Is heated the blessing of a warm, clean shower pumped by the doctor falls on the head of Young France, while the * nurse scrubs religiously and tho darkening water bears witness of a whiter, cleaner child. And as you might wen imagine, the kiddles like It, except the last cold dash that the doctor slyly engineers by quickly transferring the Supply pipe into a bucket of cold water—for hygienic effect. And what a blessing it is to those meek, tortured people, who for months, have been without aH of Ute’s comforts and most of life’s necessities* to be ministered to in this fashion It is perhaps understandable to them that "les Americains” out of sheer pity might offer them that meager thing that civilization calls “charity." Bui to be clothed, fed, sheltered and cheered as they have been by our Red Cross to more than they can understand. For they have seen a great miracle grow out of the darkest pit of human experience. They have seen a bright light out of which has stepped the ministering angel who has taught them to smile again. They are no longer tick. They are no longer cold dot hungry, end now, wonder of wonders, this same good friend has contrived tn some magic way—within the sound of the guns—to give thorn bathe.