ning. I never saw hair
disarranged or dress neglected. This exterior perfection is, I may
say, a distinctive mark of our nurses.

"And then I like the care with which they decorate and beautify their
hospital. Everywhere flowers, pictures, bits of stuff to drape their
rooms. At Revigny in one of the baraques I saw flowers, simple flowers
gathered in the neighboring field, so prettily arranged, portraits of
our generals framed in green. When I complimented a nurse, she
answered: 'Ah, no; it is not well done; but I hadn't the time to do
better.'

"At Vadelaincourt, a little room was set aside for dressings, all done
in white with curtains of white and two little vases of flowers. What
a smiling welcome for the poor wounded who come there! 'The
arrangement of a room has a great deal of influence on the morale of
the wounded,' a doctor said to me. All this delights me!

"I have finished, but I shall think for a long time of this journey
which has left in my memory unforgettable sights and in my heart very
tender impressions.

"In the Somme, also, our nurses have worked with indefatigable ardor,
and they go on without relaxation. The poor refugees, which the
Germans return to us often sick and destitute of everything, are
received and comforted by our women of the Red Cross.

"The three societies of the Red Cross--our Society for the Relief of
the Military Wounded, the Union of the Women of France, and the
Association of the Ladies of France--work side by side under the
direction of the Service de Sante.

"Our Society for the Relief of the Military Wounded has actually about
seven hundred hospitals, which represent sixty thousand beds, where
many nurses are occupied from morning until night, and many of them
serve also at the military hospital at the Front, and in the Orient
(three to four thousand nurses).

"Every day new needs make us create new oeuvres, which we organize
quickly.

"The making of bandages and compresses has always been an important
work with us. Yards of underclothing and linen are continually asked
of us by our nurses for their sick. The workshops which we have opened
since the beginning of the war assist with work a great number of
women who have been left by the mobilization of their men without
resources.

"The clubs for soldiers, in Paris especially, give to the
convalescents and to the men on leave wholesome amusement and
compensate somewhat for their absent families.

"Just now we are