a piano, some growing plants and
several games.

"I also visited our auxiliary hospital at Sainte-Croix. It would be
impossible to find a more beautiful location, a better organization. I
have not had, to my great regret, the time to visit the other
hospitals, which, however, I already know. That will be, I hope, for
another time.

"The same day I went to Revigny. Oh, never shall I forget the
impressions that I received there. First, the passage through that
poor village in ruins, then the visit to the hospital situated near
the station through which most of the wounded from Verdun pass.

"What was, several months ago, a field at the edge of the road, has
become one big hospital of more than a thousand beds, divided into
baraques. We have twenty-five nurses there. Since the beginning of the
battle they have been subjected to frightful work; every one has to
care for a number of critically wounded--those who have need of
operations and who are not able to travel further. What moved me above
everything was to find our nurses so simple and so modest in their
courage. Not a single complaint about their terrible fatigue--their
one desire is to hold out to the end. When I expressed my admiration,
one of them answered: 'We have only one regret: it is that we have too
much work to give special attention to each of the wounded, and then
above all it is terrible to see so many die.'

"I visited some of the baraques, and I observed that, in spite of the
excessive work, they were not only clean but well cared for, and
flowers everywhere! I also saw a tent where there were about ten
Germans; one of our nurses who spoke their language was in charge;
they seemed to me very well taken care of--'well,' because they were
wounded, not 'too well' because--we cannot forget.

"I tore myself away from Revigny, where I should have liked to remain
longer, and I arrived that night at Jeans d'Heurs, which seemed to me
a small paradise. The wounded were admirably cared for in beautiful
rooms, with windows opening on a ravishing park; the nurses housed
with the greatest care.

"The next day I was at Bar-le-Duc, first at the Central, which is an
immense hospital of three thousand beds. Before the war it was a
caserne (barrack). They reconstructed the buildings and in the courts
they put up sheds; our nurses are at work there--among them the
beloved President of our Association--the Mutual Association of
Nurses. All these buildings seemed to