Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — BETTER THAN ANY MEDIUMS [ARTICLE]

BETTER THAN ANY MEDIUMS

Mince Pie That Brought Vleion of Home Caused Wounded Soldier to . Long for Life. Pie is not among the articles treated of In works on materia medica, but a recent incident shows that Jt may have therapeutic value. In a hospital lay an American sailor, for whom everything had been done by surgeons, doctors and nurses, and yet something was lacking. He was homesick; bls mind was ever away in a little Atlantic coast town.' One day, in the midst of his bodily pain and soul-suf-fering, there flashed upon him the object of his quest, and he murmured excitedly: "Oh, if I could only have a piece of mince pie.” It was not that he wanted to eat a piece of pie, for he was too ill for that. His hunger was for what the pie represented. An American nurse who heard the wish managed, with some difficulty, to find all the ingredients for a real New England pie. When she took it to him she put with it a bit of cheese, also hard to procure in these times, so that nothing would be lacking, and In the cheese she planted a miniature Stars and Stripes. The poor boy could eat neither the pie nor the cheese, but they contributed just the home touch needed to improve his condition. When the wife of the American consul general visited him later she remarked upon the improvement in his condition, and he said: “Two days ago I was in such misery that I could have welcomed death. Now I feel that America is not so far away as I thought and that I have got to hang on.”