Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — SHE KEEPS ’EM HAPPY [ARTICLE]

SHE KEEPS ’EM HAPPY

Red Cross Worker Tells Fortunes for Boys. Relieve* the Monotony for Wounded Yankee Soldier* lh the Hospital*. By GERTRUDE ORR. “Ton will receive a letter in a few days which will bring you good news , . . Um! Yes, and you are going to receive a present, from a ladytdonde, whom you are going to meet “Trust Hefty, there, to meet the blondes," drawled a lanky Southerner, • and the group of interested soldiers clustered about the fortune teller shouted in chorus, “Oh, oui! He’s . there with the blondes F 4 Hefty looked embarrassed, but “Tell me some morel" heurged, and the fortune teller, conning the cards.

read for the wounded soldier a coming day of good luck when muddy trenches, shivering nights under bombardment and aching shrapnel wounds would be forgotten except as a hale of hard work/wen done to crown the days of peace with content. The gipsy, in her scarlet kerchief, has always plied her trade profitably. An American Red Cross worker, in a Parts hospital, has discovered that the scarlet kerchief is not a necessary te for drawing a clientele. She began telling fortunes one afternoon just to while away an hour for a boy ‘ who had begun to lose interest tn get-' ting well. He Was restless and weary. For four months he had been lying in the same bed; other patients had come and gone. “You’re going to have an interesting adventure tomorrow, predicted tne Red Cross lady, and the following day I a pal with whom Hefty had trained in the States and whom he hadn’t seen for six months, was carried into

ward and placed in the bed beside him “She’s a wlz,” announced Hefty t< the ward, and- the Red Cross ladj found herself Swamped with demands for seances. She sees only happiness and good fortune ahead and the convalescents, with a newlnterest in life, find the days go less slowly when something good awaits them just around the corner. They know it’s good lock because' “The Red Cross lady says so—she saw It In the cards.”