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" Letters From A Soldier’s Wife | . T ——— sly Dear: ~ To-night your thoughts, ike mine, traveling backward along the It is our seventh anniversary; first we have been separated, apd only one which has brought me l. I dom’t believe I like anniver es; they are too much like mile : where one stops to look back Vera pleasant road, eternally gone 2 When I opened my eyes this morn most of my bravery and all my erness were gone, I kept think , thinking about our first days to er on the little stretch of wild ore near Fairview. And I was ost forlorn. Mrs. Thomas came and found me. sle is 80 dear! She packed me off ‘adventuring” and took the kiddies home with her. I went straight down to Fairview! At Painesville I rented & dilapidated old Ford which I man aged to coax along the Fairview road to the woodsy ridge around the beach xo called our own. It hasn’t changed uch in seven years. The little sand hollow where we picnicked looked as gowo'd just left. I even found-the ulder, moss-grown and ivy-covered fiow, where we cut the date. It was an exquisite afternoong The beauty of it still is with me. The only imperfect thing was your absense. . . x'o-nlght the wind tears at the win- Ows with dim, grey fingers and whis pers over the wires. It seems as if his spirit is spent in the city streets; as if he longs for open spaces: purple running water and beach sand drift ing thin and white. That stretch of lake shore, with its Plnes and tangled shrubs, always will Tepresent romance to.me. Though there may come a time when I last shall have seen it long age, it always shall be a vivid memory. I came home exhilarated and more than ever sure that all will be well with you. We have been so interested in your impressions of Paris. Through your : o -f 2 f&'l‘?: ( A? r .". o'_\’ 23”\ é):’j‘f’ £ AN 2% 3 ¢ svt A 3 . Ld o ’3o s O S RN ';“"_,fiz._-' o J‘!-;:"%’__ ™, ' \ sk’ 5 3, ‘ g g e i\J; A7 i i : M L w Y gon W ad B ! —a i ,fi{.-,::\-!‘ : | i i/;_-. . e 1 EREIST IR %&‘P J even found the boulder, moss-grown and ivy-covered mow; where we cut the date. : g description we almost see the cosmo gg:itag crowds, and the soldiers with uniforms of many colors. Surely tivilization is just a bit barbaric at heart for the gilded trappings with which it loves to adorn its soldiers. I think before the war is over the com paratively somber uniforms of our own soldiers will be changed. If the war is to go on indefinitely HARD BREAD AND COFFEE MADE IN FRANCE FOR U. S. ARMY/| Uncle Sam abroad is running many fndustries to keep him supplied with’ necessities, and, incidentally, to save much tonnage. His Quartermaster Corps is now operating three cracker factories devoted exclusively to pro ducing hard bread for the emergency _ ration. The corps also operates three coffee-roasting establishments whichl eventually will produce enough prod uct to insure hot coffee for 3,000,000 men three times daily. : Bread and coffee is interesting, but even more so is this seeming inci dental of tonnage. Stars and Stripes, soldierdom’s journalistic organ over seas, has this to say on the subject: The coffee will be brought to France green, -unlike the people who drink it. When coffee is roasted in the States it loses on the way over a lot of the fine aroma which is fifty per cent of any coffee, a statement which will make a whole lot of abused army cooks feel good. But what in the world has all this got to do with tonnage? Just this: Tonnage is not so much a question of weight as it is of room. Flour and the other ingredients of the emergency ration take up far less toom than does the puffy product, es pecially since that product has to be boxed. When coffee is roasted it swells. Also, it has to be shipped with some regard for/ future use. ; O —_— o S . PR Y/ et Ve P eomatots o ; 7:"5 AR T2D s g des. s 5 oatias ul B o S~ o = = R L e q%[ % ST 4 ';;':“' Wx AG S x ‘fm}“ = F b, == A R Ll e A e T S adits SRR v e Bl R S | TV s el L A3B : ) e P A i N AN e Y t e o o hd £ ; i R ~ > P s . 2 ettt | o B <. : o : ‘ i e SRR s e |s % e p -v\q' s ) q-( fi'}..‘d{ ‘b"/" & : o, BT IR PO o i-f ¥ mmm T = o .. ™ e o b e e e o o, e e = R SR ) " TRENCH AND CAMP:- as you indicate, wouldn’t you like me to dispose of some of the clothes you left? You see, if you are {n uniform even two years the clothes you left won’t be very wearable when you re turn, and they would mean so much to someone in the meantime. Please write what you wish me to do. 1 would like to send some things to the Belgian relief, but some I would give to the needy at home. I fear they are being overlooked mow that the demand from across the water is 80 llnshtoat. suppose some of your numerous and highly odorous pipes might be disposed of. But I can’t bring myself to move one of them. Indeed I am filled with regret for not trying to like them. I wonder if all women| ¥ ~ : S | R i 14 ¥ I LY ’\\ | SA3 4(‘ &) “' "\ - d "' i " I P filire >Rk f ; - ,z;,,u" ; b e’; “ = R \W ¢M ¥ VAR Y A P ) '\. v '\‘ ) - Qg i P A g L 2 i Vi v But I can't bring myself to move one of them. whose men are waging the good fight Over There feel as I do about such things. Dear, in the words of David Cepperfleld’s mother, “remember me at my best!” I have renewed the insurance on the household goods. The agent wanted to raise the amount eight hundred dollars, but I had taken in ventory and we required omly five hundred additional. Our little daugh ters helped me go through everything and I wrote down values and added the column FIVE times and it came out the SAME each time! Now be proud of your wife! Doesn’t it prove I am progressing? Don’t laugh at me, dear, for I must tell ygu this, even though you say it is unworthy suth an advanced woman as myself. I met Lucia Carr the other day and she actually had the effron tery to cry—think of it!—because you are gone! She did it effectively, too, with an Irish lace handkerchief and said, “Dear old John” any num ber of times. I know you'll say you liked only to tease me about her, but I can’t forget you were engaged to her before you were to me, and that she’s acted as though she owns you ever since. Little huzzy! The wind is rising steadily, coming in from the lake. Direct from Fair -1 view, it seems, rushing under the stars. I wonder if the same wind which tears at my window is knock ing at yours—thrusting dim, grey fingers against the panes? I hope so. And so lam giving him a message to you. lam asking him to carry a vision of the purple lake |and the giant pines as I saw them this afternoon, to you for a dream! i HOPE. , Green coffee, far less bulky in ftself, 'can be dumped into a vessel as un ceremoniously as coal. . Phe-gquartermaster is also having the raw material for army hardware sent over rather than the finished product. Sheet metal takes up con siderably less room as sheet metal than it does as galvanized iron pails lor field ranges. Clothing is being made and bought in England and France as far as is practicable. When it has to be shipped, it is baled by hydraulic pres sure, so that summer undershirts now come over in 600-pound packages as big as an office desk. Nothing is boxed that can be bundled; boxes are thick, and thickness means lost space. Speaking of desks, the field desk now comes over already filled wWh| all the necessary equipment. The in side isn’t allowed to come empty. Shoes are coming unboxed, mak ing a saving of 20 per cent in room. Syrup cans are no loager round; they are square. Round cans leave a lot of space between when they are piled together. - Vegetables are not imported; they are grown in France. The Versailles garden, for instance, has turned out this year 4,000,000 seedlings and 6,000 kilograms of seeds. And s year ago most of the gardeners didn’t know the difference between a kilo gram and a caulifiower. . 1 —F.-..Q.-fn-....-_-...,.-. . ' *‘,fii Lt TA2 ST T R X BN eEs™ (et ™ ' 'v"’/l!"-‘ ’/!' A (”.;” ‘\ .‘\‘\k\“ . ’)‘d ; ;‘\,‘Q il R TR . i 1" '!‘ AR, . il - : > . . E “Let the Teuton surrender, then we will talk peace.”—Senator Pomerene, of Ohio. : “It is a system we are fighting and nothing short of the destruc ~ tion of that system will satisfy us”—Former President " William Howard Taft. 2 : ' ' “By its valor, ardor and its spirit it has very particularly distin ; tinguished itself.”—Gen. Naulin, of the French Army, in re ferring to the~ Rainbow Division of the American Army. “It is'a splendid thing to die in the strength of our young man hood that our brothers may live and march on to nobler and higher ideals.”—General John J. Pershing. “We have beaten the German war machine from the beginning.” ' —Secretary of War Baker. “Send some American troops to the Macédonian front, where, with their dash and bravery, they will inspire the Greek and Allied ‘ soldiers.”—Nicholas Kyriankides, head of the Greek Mission to the United States. ~AMODERN DON QUIXOTE: o | LI S %7z = KR o E X ¥, V. - A Y Q\Q\“ 4;1/ 4L (I T e W 5 Tz~ £ N : 1 'fi‘n. —/%/'7/ '/ ) =\ H 7 572 Z L ‘ AN/ J\\.;/ L. T £ R %" zZ 20 ‘ AT \ ’/’f%"f/l /fzé;, ? ' \ W /f//’Z“"- iz, G 0%/ v B g Lozt ‘ ~Q"¢' ; ¥ ’,'Q’. 2 2/9 | YA 7 e- == ¥ ; / /I;/ o 4 Z 44 : -e p : P A | ‘4 P - i 4 i (gfl 5 :_:— a ‘ . = o N //}'7 ey B \v. 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