Mrs. C.C. Marsh Speaks at Carolina
On Sunday last, Pinehurst had the pleasure of hearing a talk on the Small Hospitals of Avignon, in the Carolina ball-room, the lecturer being Mrs. C.C. Evans, (Marsh?) daughter of the late Admiral Robley D. Evans and wife of the Chief of Staff of the First Naval Division.
Mrs. Marsh has devoted her entire time to these small hospitals at Avignon, ever since the first days of the war, in 1914, ad was nursing there when our country went into the war. During the past two years she has spent most of her time in raising sorely needed funds for the care and comfort of the sick and the wounded, which have constantly taxed the 2,000 bed capacity of the Avignon hospitals. Mrs. Evans (Marsh?) has met with generous response to her appeals, at Pinehurst and elsewhere, but she said on Sunday night: “It is sadly true that since the 11th of November there has been a slowing up of the contributions to all the war charities that his very noticeable, and very regrettable, because sick and wounded men do not get well just because the armistice is signed; and they go on needing the same old round of sheets and blankets and pajamas and shirts and handkerchiefs and socks and slippers, which you have given and sent till I know you feel that every need must have been filled!”
The Outlook would like to give Mrs. Marsh’s interesting an eloquent address in full, for the benefit of those who were unable to hear the speaker on Sunday, but the exigencies of the space do not permit to add anything to the suggestion that contributions for this most worthy cause are still very much in order and should be addressed to The Avignon Hospitals War Fund, 324 Indiana Avenue, Washington, D.C.
(The article was immediately followed by a list of birds
seen from the veranda of the Carolina over the last 15 days.)
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