BEFORE THE DAYS OF THE RED CROSS
Do you suppose that people always felt that they should help everybody in such ways?
No; the Red Cross is not yet sixty years old.
War is thousands of years old.
In olden days when soldiers fought, there were no kind Red Cross nurses to care for the wounded. There were no faithful Red Cross dogs to search for wounded soldiers after the battle was over.
Often the suffering men died of neglect when proper nursing would have saved their lives. But no one ever thought of sending a band of women nurses to wars to help the soldiers, before the days of Florence Nightingale.