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National Headquarters white with anger against theRed Cross, only
before
to go into her office and find their rage melting away for her quist
strength and clear reasoning. Under her kindly humor, many would
come out laughing;
"I don't know how she did it!
She had made me
believe the Red Cross is right after all, and what's more, I'd just
A
as soon admit
Through the long heat of that summe r, 1918, no
matter how many calls came in or how many decisions had to be made,
she and her associate did not consider the days work done until the
papers of 100 nurses had been sent to the War Department. She was
2
4
constantly on the karex alert to secure comforts for her nurses so
that they might have anxthing everything which would further their
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health and efficiency. She also possessed a capacity for detail which
0
was a constant wonder of her office. Nothing was too unimportant to
interest her. One day a letter arrived from three high school boys
in California :
"We wanted to go to war, but we are too young.
We've just found out that the re are three girls here at high school
who are writing to soldiers. We though you might like to send us the
names and addresses of three Red Cross Nurses so that we could write
to them too, and maybe send them things.
That Back went the
answer under her swinging signature with instructions and names of 3
murses serving at Camp Freemont.
In the late summer afternoons, when the hot breeze
came up from the Tidal Basin, she was never too tired to laugh as she
signed her mail;
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