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    "ocrText": "- 11 -\n\"Emmeline,\" her electric; lhe tob ogganed over her beautiful Persian\nxegga rugs; he unravelled stitch by stitch the seater which she had\njust presented him. He alsó knew, however, just how far to go and that\nafter he had been \"out of bounds,\" no amount of wagging his crooked\ntail or crawling on his stomach would save him.\nDuring the year and a half of war pressure the routine\nof her home was her only relaxation. Many a night she would roll up\nher sleeves and make a pie for dinner. When her colored maid got\nparticularly haughty one day she stopped in themiddle of the kitchen\nand surveyed; herl\n\"Now don't you think for a minute Lizzie, that just\nbecause you take care of the furnace, I can't get along without you,\n4\nI can! And I rather think I'd enjoy myself!\"\nAbout the last of September came the influenza epidemica at\nW\n0\nthe sametime that the Surgeon General asked the Red Cross to furnish\nfifteen hundred nurses' aids for immediate service in the military\nhospitals overseas. Almost entirely stripped of nursing power the Red\nCross took up the familiar routine of recruiting and moboliging nurses\nfor emergency service in fighting the epidemic. Many times after\nworking until nine at night she and her associates would invesitage\nemergency calls as long as their strength lasted. On one such visit\nchown with\nshe found a family of 13 3 nine of whom were dying of pneumonia. Tak-\ning off her hat, she went to work herself - the first actual nursing\nshe had done in twenty years.\nLipon the signing of the Armistice Washington went mad with\njoy. She stood on the steps of the Red Cross building, watching the\nwar orkers surge across the park towards the White Housex. On"
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