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- Letters From A Soldier’s Wife ' Pearest John: Home again among all the familiar things, now strangely unfamiliar, Wwith a little pain round my heart. In New York there was the interest of unaccustomed surroundings and ex citement to fill my mind. It is only back here in Cleveland that I realize fll"{ the meaning of our farewell the hight your ship sailed away toward France, Not until tonight could I write what I have found no words to say. : I want you to know, dear, that &way down where I feel the truth I am glad you are wearing the uniform of the United States. And that you Wwill wear it over there. Since you went to the training camp and I com enced to study the war, I feel the Justice of our country going into it. I can’t say I have wanted war; no woman does sincerely, but if it had to come | am glad it is now. These thoughts lie deep, John: deep below feminine fear and grief. I suspect they run in my blood. You hardly would believe, remembering{ me as a timid, ultra-feminine crea ture, that I come of fighting stock: Yet generations ago my family fought in the Revolutionary war; my grand father was one of the heroes of Mis sionary Ridge and my father was with Colonel Roosevelt at the charge up San Juan Hill. Something they sent down to me is coming to the fore: it is the thing which caused you to join the National Guard long ago, and sent you away smiling. Maybe it is love of right. Whatever it is, it is strong er than the happiness of our wonder fully perfect marriage, or love for our children. Perhaps it is part of those things—their foundation. For with out it we should sot know happiness or love. With this better itnderstand ing I shall serve patriotically as you, if less gloriously. For not to me nor to hundreds of other women soldiers throughout the country is it given to joy in the pomp and pageantry of war. So_often I think of our boys as I saw them in New York, bearing themselves pride fully, almost arrogantly, to martial music, beneath their banners. Q\ \ 2 (RIS LV ‘“". . XA \‘ 2 “!‘ l 4 io} 7) ‘ o SNCHES " ) . g N 2. /24 /. v /'/ 4 /W | |/ : / o , i/ ! (e 4 /P 4 /. i >. ‘i? (") , | . EE’ w//’// ]l. iN r ! b / You hardly would believe that I came of fighting stock ; et A e They marched as men have marched sinee the beginning of time. Inconsistently I feel as if war will be the regl business and adventure of men throughout the ages. You see, even with the little pain round my heart I am abie to thinki things over and to find my work. Life all about moves exactly as before, ex cepting that Betty and Ruth, after their “Now I Lay Me’ add a supplica tion that “favver” may land safely in INDIGESTION | - Officer—‘“What’s the matter with‘ you?” | ~“lndigestion, sir. I was afraid the. dispatch I was carryin’ was goin’ to fall into the hands o’ the enemy, an’ I guess mebbe I didn’t chew it thor oughly.”—Judge. | é‘ N' : = = | "\\ ‘ 4 EASILY ATTACHED i 50t ey BEALERS, CANTEERS o POSTASD Che PATHFINDERS CC "R T g g S FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS R i e S R (e 2 G B/ B T - TRy ee B N oL% \ ,‘, 5 S ‘\";t\,:, ‘;;::‘.p'-/ R nggg:gl:l::::::;!i TAB - Gl I) o . ry. - R o %7 80 T= ? e TIT T I -RN : P : : e& 2 la w7, My = 22 SR fa 2 ¥TN qCO T R THHHHH (LI T AR SATLS S. 7 : ; 6. AeSe g‘ 3 i L u“;“!!z.!.". e, GIRS N N e O/4 o"‘ > o:Y}&{ i;‘ I ‘s T '::::’}r&-'? o=t T RSt e N ‘\;"’\‘\s\}\2\‘ RNy ' N W‘l’——n'&'—- a.‘ &{/‘""., Pl A N RBVeNN TLT RN PR, ¢ e : . ket 3 PV 2R Agt i ame Wb ‘:": s!} ‘R:.."'“ S}, 4 1i R t!‘: aTr Jf‘ (/t,',“,‘ v‘T e- rgLS"’ i 3 iy DAI S NS T R ‘; S : ‘& LK FaleA A ' 1} ‘t RS <ll TN e -<Ye .9 "Lt s e o : 98, LL N : : eals -@ | L ‘ i i Cae . —— RR R R . . B R TRENCH AND CAMP France, and that God will bring him home again. I have had a distressing experifence with Betty., Something she heard after sehool so worked upon her imagination that she came home in a frightful gondition, sobbing and | frantic. I called Dr. Hart at once. After he had quieted her she man aged to explain that someone, I pre sume it was that wretched Burton boy, said that her daddy would be ‘“‘shotted’’ in the “ditches.” You see, sensationalism has forced its way even among the babies! I saw that I had made a mistake in not sooner telling them about the war. So in the evening we had a story hour under the shaded light, with : Y ” £ o Zl ! ’\ ' l"‘.%‘\ : : . f AR ‘ |&4 l‘ A:‘ | \w, 2 | £TN | LTS \ES = ‘ i "‘—"’ 9 { | il( “mo gt ' ‘ 4 "P" oV) i | BTV e\ = ‘ 2t ¥ | She came home sobbing and frantic et e e O .(e e | Betty still white and ill in my arms | and Ruth crooning ‘‘poor sisser.” | 1 began with an account of the wicked King who kills little children, and makes slaves of their ‘“muvvers |and favvers.” I explained how he |{comes down from the North to burn and destroy just.as the wicked ogre does in their fairy book. And that many brave knights—only we call |them soldiers—have gome to drive him back to his castle. And that “favver’ is one of the knights. I told them that God, who sent the soldiers, will care for them and give them victory, and that never, never must they doubt that he will bring ‘“‘favver’ back to us! John, it was wonderful! _ The story was effective as no amount of argu ment could have been, and they were quite satisfied and happy. They are eager to do something. lam going to let Betty sell Thrift Stamps. Ruth is almost too tiny yet. I think they some way caught my perfect confidence. For, dearest, I cannot believe that you are mnot to come back to us. I feel almost a joy ful assurance. It cannot be that a union so perfect as ours will dissolve into nothing less! Life hasn’t always been smooth-running for us; we have known trial and disappointment. But our faith in each other has held firm and love been strengthened by those things. If it should be that I do not rightly | understand the sense of assurance, and you are not to come here again, 1 | still know you will come back to us, | John! Somewhere, some time, we | shall be together! Our little daugh | ters will be taught to love your mem |ory if it must be so, and to look for ward to meeting you when God shall | find it best. But how I hope we shall | be permitted to go on bzre. r Ido not know when this will reach | you, but hope it will be before you | leave Paris. Remember that our | prayers are with you always. Good | bye, dear—my John!—HOPE. AMBULANCE PLANE NOW Following the successful operation Lof the first ambulance plane at Gerst | ner Field, Lake Charles, La., General Kenly, Commanding the Division of | Military Aeronautics, has had all fly ing field commanding officers supplied with photograpks ana drawings Ofi this new emergency air carrie/r, with | orders to compiete the equipment at once. The nine Texas fields have al ready finished their equipment. The airplane ambulance is used in reaching scenes of accidents occur ring at a distance from the flying field hospitals and in localities difficult to reach quickly with automobile ambu lances. It is in turn followed by an automobile ambulance by road or ‘overland as fast as is possible. A standard training plane is used for }the new airplane ambulance, with the rear cockpit cleared and enlarged suf- | ;ficiently to permit of a combinationl stretcher-seat that allows the injured man to rest easily. ; ’ - NEVER! Put off sending Trench and Camp home to your mother. She is anx ious to get all the news of your camp. —-........... L I LI I e o b | Nvy ¥ /1 | 5 I"""?'r'l""'f""‘ i , et T e 3 §(et iam'\“ ' "flflflbl';"{{'.i ,? v /Al S 2§ ': j 3 ,‘n,vk A"_s i b “rq;‘fi-\\,f&“ e L TS bt . TiAIJA Gt “You have shown that American initiative and energy are as fit. for the tasks of war as for the pursuits of peace.”—General Pershing in an order to the First and Third Corps. “Everything is going well; we have begun our action and we shall continue.”—Marshal Foch. : “Nobody is going to be hungry next year: there will be food enough.”—Food Administrator Herbert Hoover. “They are as good as oar best poilus.”—General Gouraud, of France, commenting on American soldiers. “What the Americans have really done for is, perhaps, best ex pressed in their own idiom: They have put pep into us.”— King George of England. “The Germans have again withdrawn their lines according to pre arranged plans—of Foch.”—New York World. “At present the Germans seem not to be happy.”—Life. “I have placed myself, my resources, my organization, everything 1 have, at the command of the Government—to do everything possible to make this the last war.”—Henry Ford. - “A ‘Gimper’ is a bird who would stick by you through anything.” —Lieut. 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