The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
WAR TWO YEARS LONGER?
Interesting Letter from Firing Line
Written by Miss Elizabeth Perkins
Gives Graphic Account.

Those who remember the appealing
and stirring talk made by Miss Eliza
beth Perkins of New York in the home
of Mrs. Emory Il. Grant in Prairie ave-
nue. last fall, under the auspices of the
American Fund for the French Front
Wounded, will be especially interested.
in the letter recently received by Mrs,
Simmons In which Miss Perkins who is
again in Paris and in close touch with
all that has to do with the wounded
soldiers, gives pictures of the suffer
ings in France which must move those
with hearts to help.
One wonders that the letter reached
Ms. Simmons for it was addressed to
her at "sadow Lawn, H., J" but evil
IDENTIFY the United States postal service
is efficient for it came safely through
from Paris, even though it did have in
red ink, marked on by the New York
post office, Deficiency in Address,
The letter refers to Miss Manly, the
charming young English nurse who will
be remembered as having spoken in the
Guild Hall last spring. It tells of her
work in the hospitals. The letter fol
lows:
My dear Mrs. Simmons:
Your letter of November LIST with the
enclosure of your committees work
from April to November has just come,
and I can't tell you how proud we are
to think you belong to US.
1t is perfectly splendid, and your
supplies are always of the best.
Our one fear is that America may
feel the monotony OF working for
France, and that the supplies may drop
off, but we feel that we MUST NOT
fail in the work we have commenced.
The longer the war lasts, (and we hear
talk Of two years more9, the more we
need, for the more destitute is this
country becoming.
I see great difference between this
year and last. Already has the word
gone forth that all electricity may be
ton. Soon we may be reduced to
candle light and candles are worth their
weight in gold. Sugar is only sold to
old customers and they have to stand
an hour or more in line to get pound
at timel This means cold hospitals,
and the need for all warm things, and
it means no change possible in the diet
of sick men or conyalescents.
There is never word of complaint,
and these details are only pin pricks
compared to the deprivations of the
men at the front.
We hear daily, stories of our things
in the hospitals and the gratitude Of
the recipients. One man with both
arms gone thanked our visitor with
tears streaming down his face for the
fly netting we had sent this summer.
He said he had suffered horribly from
the flies which he was unable to brush
off, and now he had peace.
Things like this make one feel as if
one should buy up all the fly netting in
the world for the hospitals, and then
on the heels of this comes another letter
from Medicin Chef thanking us for
pillows for his Train sanitaire, and say
ing that as the men get well they cry
if their little cushions are taken away,
they want them not only for comfort
but because they are q souvenir from
their friends in America. Then one
wants to make cushions all the rest of
the year, until some other pathetic let
ter or story comes to hand. So it goes
every day.
Miss Manly Il think Miss Vail wrote
you) has gone back to her profession
as masseuse, and is in Lord Mickle-
hams hospital, which was the old
Astoria Hotel on the Champs EIysee,
and one of the richest here She is glad
| think to be working among her own
country people. Her poor hospitals we
of course will look out for, and hope to
prove ourselves as good beggars as she
was.
[ am sending you some pictures of
the destroyed parts of France, and if
anyone ever asks why France doesn It
make her own supplies show them these
as an answer. Fancy, where the poor
wounded soldiers have to go "home"
after the war.
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