Hospital Humours
It is one of the strange outcomes of this wonderful time that there is more gaiety as well as more suffering in hospitals during the War than in peace. Certainly such a request would never have been heard in normal years as that recently made by a nurse to a roomful of irrepressible Tommies at a private hospital:
Visitor (at Private Hospital): "Can I see Lieutenant Barker, please?"
Matron: "We do not allow ordinary visiting. May I ask if you are a relative?"
Visitor (boldly): "Oh, yes! I'm his sister."
Matron: "Dear me! I'm very glad to meet you. I'm his mother."
"A message has just come in to ask if the hospital will make a little less noise as the lady next door has a touch of headache."
For shouting "The Zepps are coming!" a Grimsby girl has been fined £1. It was urged in defence that the girl suffered from hallucinations, one being that she was a daily newspaper proprietor. But the recent Zeppelin raids have not been without their advantages. In a spirit of emulation an ambitious hen at Acton has laid an egg weighing 51⁄4 oz.
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