ALLEVIATIONS OF WAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 9

ALLEVIATIONS OF WAR.

_ A French surgeon of the nnme of Percy first introduced stretcher-bearers to the battlefield in the first year of the -ninetsenth century, says nn English . paper. What Miss Florence Nightingale'has (lone is top well known to need repetition.' But it wis not till the American Civil War that railway hospital trains eamo into use. As it was the Franco-Austrian war that turned Dunant's thoughts to the Bed Cross system, -it . was somewhat: strange that its value should first" be tested in* the ,campaign of 18G8. : The Bed Cross flag is now in use in practically every civilised country' on' the face' of tho globa. .Tapan, however, by drawing two whito lines through it- at 'rirfit angles, had made it into 'font',red angles, and Turkey is'permitted tq display a red crcscent instead. Landlady: "You did not wear gUssc-s when you first came here.- 'Why do-'you wear them now?" BcardcrV "X want to make tho food look as large as possiblo!" : A young .lady.. who. lias been .canvassing for a women's suffrage petition" has" collected incidentally the following meditations, on tho subject from an old lady .in Bolton.-,—"Aye, I'll sign. . . . 'E 'ad if all. 'is own way when '« wuv alive. (A pause.) Not' that I'm"', sayin' anythin' agin 'jm,. tha knows.' (A longer pause.) Ah, well.v 'o's bettor oil now. And so am I," - s : "Do you tnkq this ; woman for betted or worse?" ;"I; do, ; jedge, I do. But I ■hopes we kin kinder.' strike an average."