On Half Rations.
"Two officers will be received as paying guests. Comfortable home. Treated as one of the family."—Daily Paper.
The italics emphasize our own feeling with regard to this niggardly arrangement.
"V.A.D.—Required for Shell-shock Hospital under B.R.C.S., Piano, Billiard Table and Gramophone. Will any hospital closing down and having same for sale, kindly communicate with Secretary."—Times.
We do not know what sort of work the V.A.D. is expected to do under the piano and billiard table, but we presume that her consent would be required, and that she would not be sold, so to speak, over her own head.
