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r> Letters From A P^rUa morning your letter came, pto scrap of paper in all the world Mould hare occasioned so much Joy. It visualised you in France?country paglc though smiling?from your descriptions. Do you remember how wr-Uaed to make long, long plana , BO go there together? The memory tpx our a reaming la very precious 10 0(e. More eo now that I know never ' wttkln oar time will France be the light-hearted, colorful country of old. rhe thought Is very depressing. .Dear, there is something I want to |Mt . Too see, I have read that When Mere are air raids on Paris, everyone juries (or shelter excepting AmerlfleiMls, and they rush out to see the bombs come down. 1 want to ask won to be careful. I've worried and Worried. You win promise me, won't I / We are getting on very well and Irylng to help. Betty Is selling thrift stamps and iluth is collecting them. 1 don't think she understands what hey are for, but she lores to paste i hem in the "booful" book, and her lasslon for filling books Is becoming t rery expensive. Do yon remember my writing no onger than eight weeks ago that I >ev*r, never was intended to be selfellant or executive or clever? I'm beginning to think the war is | naklng me all of those. Of course may have been clever before the rar wi hout knowing It. Or in time o he something else might have >rought out cleverness. Until now 'di just never thought about it. But sow there's the Odda and Ends AuxJJary Which" Is quite all mine, dear, .nd which the whole city Is taking "She ldaea to paste them iu the 'booful' book." ? ' ; - V IMtSjte clever too! It makes me onder It many women couldn't sort ' discover ungu eased qualities in temselves 11 they'd try! I wrote, you'll remember, that I anned the Auxiliary when 1 was alklngln the mlats on the Battery. ? morning after you sailed. I lought that organising a neigh bor. >od circle to do some of the little lags which bigger organizations Ight* overlook would be part of my t. So 1 rented the little store off strolt,street and telephoned a few dghbors to meet me there_ They were eager to help. We do-1 | ited enough money for Immediate i penses and to lay in a stock of ma1 rials for bandages and such things, d a number of members pledged ! emselves to come over, for two ?! urs every day to work. Some who , uldn't leave home easily promised supply home-made bread and cakes r a bakeshop department. You a, i thought that people would go t of their wav to buy home-cooked ) >d, especially bread. Then I had a ; sign painted for the front of the Ityjag. inrltlng every woman who w-lt to come in and help for a few nutes at least. It has gone .great! That sonnds e a press agent's story, doesn't It? t I am grand of the Auxiliary. {' THREE HERO CHAMPIONS Three great sports have now pro; ed a herd champion. Captain An>ny Wilding, Jr., of Australia, tenchampion of the world, was killed ly in the war. John P. Poe, of i i famous Baltimore family of iaeeton football stars, was a volteer in the Black Watch, and was [1 writing Josh letters abont his | ;hland costume when he met his e in France. Johnny Overton, r|d'a indoor champion. oBe of the stent runners of all time, was led on July 19. 191S. lank Gowdy, the first major gpe ball player to volunteer?he at into an Ohio militia regiment? ' I the first to reach France, was, fees be, still alive at last accounts, uk was a member of the world's I mpion Boston Braves of 1914. V ' -f TRENCH A i Soldier's Wife I've been Invited to tell about it In an address to the Woman's Club, and a society in Columbus has written to ask how to establish one there. Of course nothing can be accomplished without some difficulty and mine has been with women who professionally hunt entertainment. They would have made a social affair of the Auxiliary. They wanted luncheon served, and uniforms?something distinctive and becoming?one of them said. Meanwhile they gossiped about everyone and each other and howled calamftv for the country and the Ir^r! \ "I've even made a little vegetable! garden." .world. Their kind is everywhere, I suppose, and it's a great help to the Kaiser. I refused to consider the uniform on the ground that we hadn't time to plan and make it and were unpretentious anyway^ And I told them quite sweetly that if they wished to wear one they might study nursing and join the Red Cross. Luncheons I conceded, provided they bought their own and from our bakery department. And they soon stopped coming and we're getting out much morel worn. We're trying to do just a little toward dispensing education. One of the members began with her maid, whose Idea was that we are fighting to make the world "safe from Democracy." One can't speak freely always, however. I think .the person most desperately In need of education of any I've seen was a- Red Cross worker who had decked, her uniform with a string of pearls and a huge diamond sunburst. Don't think I am neglecting the kiddies with all of this work. I'm seldom away more than an hour at the time, so much work may be tucked Into odd momenta. I've even made a little vegetable garden, in the plot down back ot the tennis court, and Betty helps me care for It. Please let me know?soon as pos-| aJHl*? 1# uftB nrriered Mr. M&cPh&il! ta redecorate the living room. He declares yon did and he's bringing some wretched colors for me to approve. I don't want it done till next year?maybe you'll be home then? and I want old bine, which I know you love. He Is Insisting and so am I, with all my budding Independence, so don't forget, dear. " , Mr. Ballard has been sending flowers lately. They come with a few kindly words rather wittily phrased. I fancy be thinks they cheer my loneliness, though they only remind me at you. He visited the Auxiliary and' made a substantial donation. I hadn't any idea he is so kind. I've been trying to remember If you were friendly with him when you worked together. Dear, I never shall become accustomed to your absence. Though the work helps a little, there always is a heartgche. Our thoughts and our love are with you. HOPE FOR OKEGONIANB Trench end Camp is Just in receipt of The SoldJers* News Letter, a 40-page paper leaned at Portland. Oregon, by an association of patriotic business men and sent free to til Oregon soldiers add sailors. It contains no ads. the reading matter being the condensed "home town" news from every county In the state, carried under the county headings. It is a unique publication and no matter what part of the state the soldier or sailor may be from, when he picks up a copy be finds in it his home town news. It will be mailed complimentary to Oregon men who write for It, giving their home address and their army address. s^o. s. Help Hoover hold tlio Hun. 1 " 1 11 iND CAMP "The day adds a glowing page of glory to London Graphic's comment on Pershing "The boys have done what we expected of way we most admire."?President Wi cablegram to General Pershing after t "The enemy has made many mistakes in thii than when he underrated the valor an the soldiers from the United States.""The quickness and rapidity with which thi handled the fight at St. Mihiel is attribi staff work which brought it off, but t< himself. It is hot stuff."?General Ma "America is fighting for something loftier t ?she wants not merely to modify the rectify it."?Ignace Paderewski. "Let the Hun whine?against his flimsy sti ception we let loose our armies with r land Plain Dealer's comment on Austi "We have other business on hand at this than passing heed to the protestation bocker Press, of Albany, N. Y., on the r COOKING THE KAiSI . Oa [3 -TIKE f & I ~ \ \ ^ Tl%^ /4fe W J / ' ! - - ' - - ' -- . - ; ? |ppp Jp jfl M" ra 11 11 is&tfn \JU LI I li-i i American history."? r's victory at St. Mihiel. , , lii'liinlmiwwmB I them and done it in a nimnmiiiM ilson in congratulatory he clean-up. iH|P y s war, but none greater d the intrepid spirit of ' ^ -Lloyd George. xyf^ ey (American soldiers) Wis ited not only to the fine s&BOj a the individual soldier F r.ffl rch, Chief of Staff. 1 ;han a temporary peace J map of Europe, but to Q&ll uctures of whining de- /' [tij . enewcd vigor."?Cleve- ji\ Im jfL ia's peace proposal. lime than to pay more ?5' fa822 s of Satan."?Knieker:RS GOOSE-j H m i f*j HP H 1 Ate I
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