Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . pose disappeared. The very day after thearrival of our surgeons and nurses the hospital wasfilled with wounded directly from the battlefield. The Christmas tree on its native soil could not failto find its place in a German hospital. We were toobusy to be homesick, said Sister Frances, in a hastilywritten letter. Our celebration was a very pretty great tree was dressed and presents and good things inabundance for every patient provided. Christmas Eveall the men were carried into one big room where astirring address was made, half sermon, half
Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . pose disappeared. The very day after thearrival of our surgeons and nurses the hospital wasfilled with wounded directly from the battlefield. The Christmas tree on its native soil could not failto find its place in a German hospital. We were toobusy to be homesick, said Sister Frances, in a hastilywritten letter. Our celebration was a very pretty great tree was dressed and presents and good things inabundance for every patient provided. Christmas Eveall the men were carried into one big room where astirring address was made, half sermon, half exhortation,followed by the singing of German Christmas songs inwhich we all took part. Each ward had its own tree, andI had difficulty in keeping some of my nurses fromspending all their money to make their decorations theprettiest, And so the Christmas spirit was to be found every-where, in spite of war and sorrow and human suffering,and the hearts that ached for those who never againwould gather around the Christmas tree in the years yet. ON THE POLISH BORDER 289 to come. To tlie smoky city of Gleichwitz went our otherunit. The German Red Cross had assigned Count Tal-leyrand to look out for the American surgeons and nurses,and a most devoted counselor, friend and guardian heproved. A theatre here became our units hospital, averitable theatre of war, filled with its wounded morning after our arrival we were given chargeof this unique hospital, Ober-Sehwester Anna tells herstory. *Our first work was to organize the operatingroom, which is in the lobby where are the essentials, lightand heat. An operating table, gas burners, a rough boardpartition and two shelves completed our requisitions. Irumaged through the loges, on and under the stage anddressing rooms, from attic to cellar and found theatricalproperties adapted to our purpose. In the banqueting hallare fourteen beds, and sixty-one in the theatre the stage on one side hangs our beautiful flag,
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