Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — Mother’s Gratitude. [ARTICLE]

Mother’s Gratitude.

' Somewhere in America there is a nurse from overseas who wears a short strand of small, round pink beads. She calls it her “Croix de Guerre.” Just before Chateau-Thier-ry, when the refugees were pouring out of eastern France, a young girl with big, dark eyes came with a sick baby to one of the hospitals behind the lines. During the first few weeks at the hospital the baby whimpered and wailed constantly, but with the nurse’s unremitting care it gradually grew well and strong. The day the little mother was leaving she sought out the nurse whose untiring patience and kindness had meant the return of her baby’s health. “This, ma’m’selle,” she said, holding a string of pink beads in her outstretched hand, "I want you to have it; it is the only thing I have left besides ifiy-baby, and you have saved him for me." < ' “Just a tiny happening in the big story -of*-the world the Modern Hospital in relating the Incident. “but one which wll| long live In the memory of the nurse whom it so closely touched." *