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WHAT A LAUGH DID. Staff-Captain Mary Booth, cf tho Solvation Army in France, writes: "Some people in England seem to think' that visitation of hospitals means «oing round with ii handkerchief in both hands wiping tears away, but this is not ?o. True, wo do sometimes wipe tho tears away, but our business is to drive them away. One of our visitinjj officere is gifted in many ways, but J think her greatest gilt is her hearty lautjii and charming smile., Only to hear her laugh makes lone went io join in, before one actually knows what sho is laughing-about. The other day she oven made a boy laugh who was crying because lie could not so to Blighty. And the doctor who happened to-bVin Hie wnid at the timo was so pleased that, turning to the man, ho eaid: " 'Your visitor has brought you luck to-day, and I am g Q i, lB t0 mar fc vm , for -Blighty.' "Needless to snty there mere many loncinir t-yes; they hoped the visitor would stand and laugh by their bedside.' , '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 13
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182MARKED FOR BLIGHTY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 13
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