New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1920, Page 10

) ! whe hunger and hardship had done , sleeping on old wooden beds “In spite of the very difficult cir- . culosis making great headway among vears and having only hard wooden! gers surrcunding it, you have not hes - the children, and one of the g benches and a few tables for furniture.| tated to help the poor suffering peo- If you have bad taste in mouth, ° | tasks of| the clinic was to begin the Two out uf the cleven nurses who| ple and » an example in fultill- foul breath, furred tongue, dull ! iR aE sl the Wihite Blagds volunteered to go into Poland to fight! ing the hig of nurses. headache, drowsiness, disturbed e m ouse ' v But after her four months of serv- the typhus epidemic were themselves' Miss 3 that during her sleep, mental depression, yellow- e the word came to evacuate the taken with the disease, one while| stay of four n in Poland, she saw ish skin—then you are bilious. Macedonian disiviet. The Red Cv working at Beala, a small village not| e only the finest spirit i N 4 At this thne wus taking its nurses out f from Sandomierz d the Polish people. There was Emily Porter Fighting o i whian s veve: diae arer vencnins . fitete e o e ot e et i o0 i SCHIENCKS . rupted state. Wt the wrmy had beg however. A pic nows Miss rter ! pes gness and violence, and cnly a ° [ Hish government and Miss Emma Wil- fellow warker who was il with typhus! public firmly on its feet The people Emily Nightingale Porter, who | Son of Washington, a notable figure there. were pititully poor. for the wealth of radunted from the New britain | 0 the nursing world, had promised Letter of Commendation | Polund had long been exhausted. ng School for Nurses with the ! 10 secure these ten women i Il ir splendid \\ull'l\, « \vlv!nl'] the e —— quickly relieve this disorder, which 7 anc B oA = tor e cleven nurses upon leaving Poland 2 i e "h-\“.l” x:” ‘I iy e m”\\,} : g hedhn s was presented w ielifon el FolibwinE 1o O L D S 1) G nEl ol LA E GLSpemm ¥ as been dolng some excellen Among (he first to enlist was the “US PIES ; A i igesti st e PN Macedonin, ‘where she was | seraier Hridgeport girl. In the unit 1o from ths Polish minister of public Head or chest— Gl (R Gl CLRTES v the Balkan commission after ! \epre women from th north, east, o s I are best treated Purely vezetabie. Plain or Sugar Coated. 8 hrolled for overscus velief work | xouth and west of the United Stat - cont forgathe o “externally” wi X 80 YEARS' CONTINUOUS SALE B i o £ work § south and v G e W] e bai St typhus expires on ly” with y PROVES THEIR MERIT. ¢ 10 (wo from the same state—but all L8 S TR ] vious 1o golng overseas. Miss | eyperienced owersoas workers under :':‘l' ]'““I" 'I’:”"\‘I'“]""";HI’ '1| : ]”(‘””’\“ q é I o Bb B & By AN, Reduced to Annual A B e e = I o8 _ public hes cels impelied to expr 3 Wus engas nowelfare nurs- | gand pubiic health and organiza- ;P HCA 0G0 G e Tndies en Q L Ork (0 Bridgeport and concern- ! (ion work I G saalihe (ionsst Lobiedation or activities in Burope, the In August of 1918 Misd Portes left | (0 "G oteq and fruitful e “YOUR BODYGUARD" - QRO Yost s DWaersaw for a fiftcen hour rai'voad | four v tiiy Nightingale | iy (0 Sundomierz, a quaint old Folish | = i Horlick’s the Original S o pE e forlick s the Origwal ale Prices tafe o public hicalth nurses of i way and the ciiy hall date back to | e = & Visiting Nurse association in e sivteenth century. 1t was the ' i Imitations & Substitutes aport. ‘i'lien came the war and up N Paris for public heaiti It Then' Compietiions | L o T forin out e, | NOW is the time to have B SLOAN’S GETS 'EM! Which temporarily halted the ' pogins some trnces of fts formet ot durses dowa Into ) L sple T 8 4 Jeven churhes Portc el e oo T ESULG B your Motoreyele Over- Famous pain and ache Liniment, "m‘“ 3, W ‘» 5 for the m.-u x" spirit .‘}myl‘ ;Iw* kept handy, hriln:\g[sgrntify- er o e e e sornins |GG Wik i e i hauled. S b ‘ home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. it i RUTRER loawn he city hall with its round RHEL?M.—\T[C twinges e.iscl up V8 stone tower is a remarkably fine ex- 3 < Ri soon. So do_ stiff joints, lame Jeross stormy win AL Ready ¥ HEERIG back, neuralgia, overtaxed mus- dinarily expect to find. This store is the Ne of médineval architecture. o i il 2 . i those pains from weather ex- | setsiekne Only English Speaker. Clessjand *_p ey don’t fight I i 3 3 3 In ik stramee town, with its atc We are prepared to over- [ o o ther donk fhe o | Hats and Shoes are included in this T s ol ssphore of three centuries gone by i fol : S R @ nal hersdin nohMants Liniment produces. e A1 lonly Amcridin) Dut Une enly 1 B Keep this old family friend handy | T club he ool & haul and repair all makes o ) GRS e iy P 34th Annual Sale. I T D LR oo | ithout rubbing, leaving no skin stains, “soviee In this | weeks she st ed with an interpre e s, or clogged pares. You ought to e ive The i tor, und_ then gave It up und declded of machines. e e e od ; yration from the | that it was casier to do her talking N Al druggists. }rhn‘c ‘sizes — 35c., covation which is | With her 1 Iaviey-Davidson a Specialty B 0, $1.40 on tod The hospital fo.whieh she was i N e B T rnrrd ISloan’'s 'FOR QUICK RETURNS USE the Amerlcan Red lo It was la wd picturesqu Work. | liF2552 3 HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS e [t hoyond words, ' Reasonable Prices. ‘ with a curious Water in Barrels. the man o o @ hospital with no water ever-changi Bt | capply-- ot even w1 well ach day | ' by en | the water carvier with his horse and off the map during the { add little cart, bronght barrels of and all th i nts were witer from the bhanks of the Vistula et b 1o where they !¢ ¢ hospital courtyard. ) ving. eizht o W a roam And throuzh the cobbled strects of SOUTHINGTON ROAD —_— PLAINVILI CONN. A N I : g e 1nck of proper food. and cloth o town. the low thatehed roofed (First House On Left, South of Hart's' Corner) : nd all medical supplic: had lert ouses. went the peasant ' women clble toll of death and suffering | swit their wooden palls of water, 5 Pt within a week Miss Porter, | done in the proud days before Polund the full outtit of supplies fur- had passed under the Russian yoke L d by the Red COrc and the ' The Pol people instantly cn R SNA L T % g T aid of a Greek doctor had themselves to the Bridgeport | F p- hoer dispensary in worki by their cleanliness, their intel- th H ok in. her efforts to improve conditions e house where she llved was of | Tyvhus Lpidemic Rag urkish order built of stone, with The hospital, which was turned | furniture except 1t 4nd | gver to the typhus patient ty, bns. It was heated by little old | hus epidemic was =P ned metal braziers, in - which | jed over by a young Polish doctor, a | burned the hard gnarled. roots wiuate of one of the old medical ranches of the holy plants, cut | vehools ef Furope, in Cracow. He | fveather was cold, bl not in- ! yiofession, and had hoped that during | ly 80, and there was an oeci- | he wir he might have an opportunity | 1 light full of snow 1 1o work shoulder to shoulder with Babics lock In. Furopean and American doctors awd | bles by the dozens were brought , cyrscons of note and learn of the the dispensary by the anxious aoadern pr <5 in medicine. Tnstead ers of Rodolovos, when the word i aL A ek liadibean: enutiam ound of the wonderful (hings ', (he little hospital in Sandomiecrz, H J T d O Jh the nurse at the mayor's house | ignting the tvphus plague. But he as Joine ur doing The very hardest task { as cheerful, just as efficient | b Migs Porter found was to per- | inq is untiving in his cfforts to have these swarthy, stolid looki o ted peasint folk, the sick n, that it wouldn't hurt their | o idjers returning home from the 8 to give them a bath Such o, ks, as he wot have been had he | had never been heard of in the ' 0 his ehined one of the famons @ before rom time immemo- ! opitals established at the front in | 0 baby had n bathed until it 1nce ! t least sixymonths old. And the Owing to his determination to keep ! ees of its getting a bath even at .ipeast of the times and to give hic! J ls mas age were extremely dublous. | patients the ben of all possible Porter unwound many of these .ijlable knowledse, the little hospital ones from their wrappings of | 4 sandomierz was remarkably well i ‘B and gave them their first | o ean Hiis only consisted of ~ of soap and warm water, while | (e Polish girls, cal B pmuthers Jooked on with fear in | with a traininz which was negligibl heart t needless to i compared to that of an American h of these babies, from six we pital nurse. But they had caugbt the d with tiny jewelled earrings. cagerly, sometimes twenty hours out B e e 3 s Adapted to Every Room in the House Bts had decided not to open it. ! (han they could be accommodated fl.)||' P.!lll-..\v.\ In wl ‘.u\n. away | No Ho pital Suppl ‘l) I ] ) -‘ O I_) :“y.‘,‘"‘, '\‘; "":‘ “"\' et ',”I‘ i "‘”‘d They welcomed (he Amefican girl = ®pona Edlibon) with the =z t enthusiasm, and public health nurse P e '“l. ‘,,m, '“\'l > their methods after hers. But it v B3P every L ;““ hat to tewch odern scienti - 2 b . = § begun to axitate through the L0 G0 Gty e same old band- Ot'-- ome in at the six hundred ragged, | Girepent patients, with just a washir out between Here were none of the anxiously set themselves (o pattert purisiicd children who played in ind L of the strects anc | parid and ditt the streets and | veniences of even the poorest Am- of Rodolovos would be bet- here " they | rican hospital. There were not eve ® - " o o ookt aten R e I onl ht Scientifically Designed to Give More s R 1 T | S D Bl o s ¢ Light and Better Light ata VeryLowCost iR sa a1 nowsbenehosito putithol| b AR B R R e o Plidn ordey But the American only way in which typhus can he com b took thelr hreath away by calm- | piicoc by the bite of a louse, plaining that in America the lat T hing was fresh air schools, with r no windows at all, or windows oung n down to the river and in 3 bpens 2ot 'R, | BV, S U A Open 7 to 9 p. m. & Prices are Low and We Offer Them on might be benefitted Further- | their American comrade would go she sald that children frequent- | down and Lathe on warm sumnier aft- t on the Hoor to study in this | ernoons in the broad shallow stretehes :\";‘\.nnwwa.\(wl T o r anal it e e ! . . ‘ Easy Payments it was therefore imperative that no carriers go o in o or L But the Gets Bted Cross Supplies. il decided that if in th at BT LS i S A e Porter did was o got in communi tion once more with the R glorious America people did such ge things, there was no harm in g them in Rodolovos, o that i ,,q rrom them she received as quickly In o few weeks all the children {05 R i R R ) ' TRUS § New Britain Gas Light Co. Yhose praciica warsii I the Polish nurse at tne hear Cled wds and corridors of th b people Miss |'ln“ 1 8 hospita Having some of the mixture 1 1 1 1 BB Avo svers hild . s | [enarier pen e 0 e o] ® Showrooms 25 West Main St. City Hall Building or suit to ‘L“-t' the place of > | ed (heir atiention to the little gate- | | shrods of garments (hey were | keeper's lodge In which they Jived and | ng. mve that o thorough coat of white- | Tuberculosis Spreads, ash inside and out { re, as in. all refugee districts Piey lived in the mast primitive!