Twice a day helpers patrol the wards with cigarettes, fruit, chocolates, and note paper.
They wear special badges. These are shaped like shields and carry the words—"Ask For What You Want" and "Demandez Toutes Choses."
Acting on the advice of the medical superintendent, who encourages. convalescent men to take part in games as a form of occupational therapy, the welfare department is trying to make contacts wih the French soldiers so that it can encourage them to develop their own interests, One of the hospital's patients is M. Camille Seillier, the well-known Belgian tenor. He is to sing at a hospital concert as soon as he is well enough.
The department has bought all the equipment for another sólülér to carry on his trade as à hairdresser. He has promised to act as barber to all his comrades.
"He was delighted to have something to do," a welfare department worker said. The French soldiers want to read, play games, and work—anything, in fact, but think. We always take peneN& and paper from ~r stork now whi we go to the French wards. Though it is too pitiful to hear—Thank you, madame, but what is the use'
Nobody's sweetheart because she's not sweet
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