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1!P| - Letters From A - < * My D?ar: ? To-n!ght your thoughts, like nflne, are trsrellng backward along the i: yearn. It la oar seventh anniversary; ?f ; the first we bare bees separated, and W?rf~-. ' tbe only one wbicb bas brought me kxc... ?al. t Ja.u KatlAwa T Ilka onn{oav. yam. * uuu v uciidtc A ??? auuitvi Barf63; they ere too much like mlleSfc ; - stones where one stops to look back orer a pleasant road, eternally gone When I opened my eyes this mornMkfc. lng most of my bravery and all my L.; cleverness were gone. I kept think3 . lng, thinking about our first days tojy. gether on the little stretch of wild Wf : shore near Falrvlew. And I was E.;^ most forlorn. - . Mrs. Thomas came and found me. She is so dear! She packed me off "adventuring" and took the kiddles '"i. home with her. I went straight down ?. to Falrvlew! At Palnesrille 1 rented JV. s dilapidated old Ford which I manEtjr aged to coax along the Falrvlew read to the woodsy ridge around the beach we called our own. It hasn't changed much In seven years. The little sandhollow where we picnicked looked as If we'd just left. I even found the boulder, moss-grown and Ivy-covefed ' t now, where we cut the date. Y It was an exquisite afternoon. The si J beauty of it still is with me. The only imperfect thing was your absense. . ^To-night the wind tears at the win-S dows with dim, grey fingers and whls1 pers over the wires. It seems as it V his spirit is spent in the city streets; ~ \ as If be longs for open spaces; purple running water and beach sand driftHa lng thin and white. That stretch of lake shore, with lta pines and tangled shrubs, always will .1 reDresent romance to me. Thonah there may come a time when I last shall hare seen it long ago, it always shall be a vivid memory. I came home exhilarated and more than ever sure that all will be well v with you. We have been so Interested in your Impressions of Paris. Through your I r>mm- i I even found the boulder, moss-grown and ivy-covered now, where we cut the date. , description we almost see the cosmopolitan crowds, and the soldiers with uniforms of many colors. Surely Hp,civilization 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 comparatively somber uniforms of our own soldiers will be changed. If the war is to go on indefinitely HARD BREAD AND COFFEE MAI Uncle Sam abroad is running many , industries to keep him supplied with necessities, and, incidentally, to save much tonnage. His Quartermaster Corps is now operating three cracker factories devoted ezclusively to producing hard bread for the emergency ? mlvev nnena alon nnnrnfPQ " ihuuu.? !i\;.v.' codec-roasting establishments which eventually will produce enough pro<iuct to Insure hot coffee for 3,000,000 men three times dally. Bread and coffee Is interesting, but '&% even more so Is this seeming lncldental of tonnage. Stars and Stripes, if'-- soldlerdom's journalistic organ over|S. seas, has this to say on the subject: The coffee will be brought to s ": France green, unlike the people who ? drink It. When coffee, ft roasted In K?. the States It loses on the way over giiip a lot of the fine aroma which" Is fifty |,. . per cent of any copee, a statement which will make a whole lot of ' abused army cooks feel good, fcr But what In the world has all this fcsgj got to do with tonnage? Just this: BE?' Tonnage Is not so much a question of weight as It is of room. Flour iand the other ingredients of the - emergency ration take up far leas room than does the pnffy product, ea c""-r T^i Sfe ; ' y&Stf. -' : T 7 TRENCH ; t Soldier's Wife as you Indicate, woolda't yen like me to dispose of some of the clothes yon left? Yon'see, if yon are In ant form even tvo- years the clothes yon left won't be very wearable when yon return, and they would mean so much to someone In the meantime. Please write what you wish me to do. I would like to-'send some things to the Belgian relief, but some I would give to the needy at home. 1 fear they are being overlooked now that the demand from aeroes the water la so insistent. _ I suppose some of your numerous and highly odorous pipes might be disposed of. But I can't bring mysell to more one of tbem. Indeed 1 am filled with regret for not trying to like them. 1 wonder if all women But I can't bring myself to more one of them. whose men are waging the good Bght Over There feel as I do about such things. Dear. In the words of DaTld Copperfleld's mother, "remember me at my best!" 4 I have renewed the insurance on the household goods. The agent wanted1 to raise the amount eight hundred dollars, but I had taken inventory and we required only Ave hundred additional. Our little daughters 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 yonr wife! Doesn't it prove I am progressing? Don't laugh at me, dear, for I must tell you this, even though you say it is unworthy such an advanced woman as myself. I met Luela Carr the other day and she actually had the effrontery 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 number of times. I know yon'll say you liked only to teaae 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 hussy! The wind is rising steadily, coming In from the lake. Direct from Fairview, it seems, rushing .under the stars. I wonder if the same wind which tears at my window is knocking at yours?thrusting dim. grey fingers against the panes? I hope so. And so I am giving him a message to you. I am 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! HOPE. IE IN FRANCE FOB U. S. ARMY .Green coffee, far less bulky In itself, can he dumped into a vessel as un1 ceremoniously as coal. The quartermaster is also having the raw material for army hardware sent over rather than the finished product. Sheet metal takes up considerably less room as sheet metal than it does as galvanised iron pails or 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 pressure, so that summer undershirts now come over in 600-pound packages as big as an office desk. Nothing Is boxed tbat can be bundled; boxes are thick, and thickness means lost space. Speaking ot desks, the field desk now comes orer already filled with all the necessary equipment. The Inside isn't allowed to come empty. Shoes are coming unboxed, making a saving of 20 per cent In room. Syrup cans are no longer 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 S,000,000 seedlings and INP CAMP I ^UTTITTtaxm Tit T t i I i i n "Let the Teuton surrender, then we Pomerene, of Ohio. "It is a system we are fighting and not tion of that system will satisf) William Howard Taft. "By its valor, ardor and its spirit it hs tinguished itself."?Gen. Naulin, o ferring to tjie Rainbow Division o! "It is a splendid thing to die in the sti hood that onr brothers mav live ai higher ideals."?General John J. 1 "We have beaten the German war mat ?Secretary of War Baker. "Send some American troops to r*..- Ma< their dash and bravery, they will ii soldiers."?Nicholas Kyriankides, 1 to the United States. -A M O D^^DO " Tbtreis nothinp jc subject to (tie CervaitesmmmmmmammmmtMi ^ iW, . ir\i if <il ilia will talk peace."?Senator ;hing short of the destrucr us."?Former President is very particularly distinrength of our young man- 1 ' nd march on to nobler and rhine from the beginning." edonian front, where, with ispire tne i*reea ana Aiuea 7. lead of the Greek Mission y/mHHI N QUIXOTE illa S ?
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