"COMFORTS."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 858, 9 November 1916, Page 6

"COMFORTS."

The other day T went to visit a wounded officer at the hospital in Gray's Inn road (says a writer in an [English paper). He had a broken ankle I but was able to get about on crutches. iln his ward were several other "crutches" cases, and they all comj plained that the War (Mice forbade l their doing away with little strips of ! carpet beside their beds. The War j Office had decided that such strips were ["necessary for officers' comforts, " and I therefore any nurse who winked at the ;"carpets" being rolled, up. and put I away got into trouble. "Why don't (you like them?" I asked. "Because," Ihe answered, "they throw us nearly every time. The floors are highly pol- : b.hed, and we go flying all over the • place when we try to walk. It was a great game when we were kids to slide ion carpets oxer polished floors, but we ;don't like doing it now. It hurts when you've got a 'game' leg or a bad hip ito come down wump through the earI pet running away with you." "And they explained this to the War Officet"' "Yes," he said, "but it said carpets | were comforts and officers needed comforts, and therefore they must keep i their carpets.