The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-05
ENGLAND'S SPIRIT IN WAR.
Her Recruits and Her Helpful Women
Letter to a New Yorker

The German fmpressionsthat England
is finding difficulty in obtaining re-
cruits, an impression ,centradicted by
all the dispatches and letters on the
subject from British territory, is shown
in letter from an EnglishwOman to
her friend, u New York woman, to be
the reverse of the fact. Part of the |
Engishwoman s letter reads:
| don t want TO write Of things that
YOU can readsafar yourselfsin all the |
| dispatches, bot just OF the little things
that no prospecting correspondent
would drealn of writing about. For
| instances. has any one read Of the sort
of menfwho are coming out in their
! thousands to join the colofsA One
might get the notion that, not being
the first batch to enlist in the new
army, they were a scrubby lot. Fari
from it, If anything, they are finer
set of men than the first who joined.
Across the square, in the grounds of
historic Holland House, every morning
thousands of splendidly set up young
men drill, and to Judge by their walk
i should say stride-as they pour out
of the gates, they had their train
ing in the football field. And this
scene is repeated the whole length of
Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park
down to Knightsbridge, and that $ as
far as one can see, from the top of Il
bus.
1t is the spirit of the women which
has made it possible for men to leave
their posts and 90 to their King S and
their country's help, as every woman
/ know has said she would starve
, rather than hold her men back. Many
| of them are taking a man S place AMI
turning over their entire earnings to
| this man 5 dependents. / mean, of
| course. girls and women who can af-
| ford to do this. ...
Another comforting thing to know is
1 that our wounded who have been bacl,
to London are, in the, majority OF
| cases, only slightly wounded, aud out
of hundred perhaps in hospita.
seventeen or eighteen only are seri
Gus cases. They are mostly wounds
in the feet and the legs, and soor
these men will be fit and able to -
to the front again. That they are as
keen as mustard to 20 speaks for i
III sell
II Perhaps the most amusing "rumor,
/ which one hears of on all sides. is tn,
II Russian one. Two hundred Thousand
/ Russians have gone through Scotland
| and England and are now in France
| they say, and their authority is al
ways some one Every high up in thr
war Office Then you hear it con
tradicted by some one who also get
: his information from some one ever,
high up in the war Office Then tn
number varies, and from 100000
: comes down to 10000. But if you as
< me- my dear. | will tell you positiyel
e, that the right number is $4,000, an
that / know.
to I mustn t tell how l know, but it
> not from some one Every high up /
30 the war Office The Russian If
9 fantryman seated in a railway cal
riage looks to the observer on tn
6 platform like our own Tommy, but
Ill YOU looked far enough down, yo
g. would see he wore the high top leatl
- er boots of all Russian soldiers, an
err IF YOU take those off, you would .r1
o. if you could take those off, you wonl
SEE that instead of stockings or sock
H. he wore strips of cotton wound roun
Pm his feet. He is the finest on tn
march of any soldier in the world, an
m rarely entrains, and perhaps this foe
e. covering may account for deal of i