New Britain herald., 1917-02-02
WIFE OF ENGLISH
 SOLDIER LIVES HERE
Mrs. Albert Tee "Waiting for the
 War to Cease"

Somewhere in Europe" facing death on the blood-stained battle
 fields, one of the myriads suffering the
 privations of the trenches camps
 and all the honors of mocern war
 fare, Albert Tee is valiantly doing
 his part" to uphold the honor of Old
 England, champion the cause of Bel
 gium's ravishing by the Teutonic in-
 vaders and repel the attacks of Prus-
 sian militarism. But the men at the front are not the only ones dis playing heroism of the highest type;
 not the only ones making the great
 est of sacrifices in behalf of others;
 not the only ones experiencing all
 the horrors of modern warfare. This is brought home wildly right
 here in New Britain for those for tunate enough to know Mrs. Tee who is living at 56 Winthrop street has
 made, is making every hour out of
 the twenty-four. and the fight she is experiencing so that 'her boy" may come home. if he comes home at all, to reunited family. It is l fortunate to know her for to know her is to know real woman. one willing uncomplainingly to experience the greatest of privations for her loved ones. Her friends are compar- atively few, for she is a comparative stranger in the city. and is not of the type to make known or make cap ital of her heroism. While "her boy" is. making his fight "somewhere'' on the blood-stained fields of Europe,
 she is making her fight for herself "her boy and their baby in a com
 paratively strange city.
 It is hard enough to make such a fight when equipped with all neces-
 sary for it, friends, money and other
 material adjuncts. It is doubly hard when friends are few, money is only what comes m as a remuneration for work and the other comforts and ne- cess;ties are only what can be bought with this money.
 Whatever privations Mrs. Tee has experienced, whatever worry she undergoes, whatever trials have come to Ter are locked in Ter own breast and can Be only surmised by those who know her. She does not want charity, she is not seeking friends, 1 but she does admit that. at times | the struggle seems hard and it is l lonely. But, however dark the out 1 look may be, she has faced it with | brave smile that cannot help cause admiration end has won respect. She 1 feels that it will be all worth while, i if "her boy'' survives the horrors on 1 the other side and comes back to her 1 and "baby' again. Oftentimes the silence from the other side, uncer- 1 tainty as to whether her loved one is
 one of the many reported as "dead" or missing is her heaviest burden. For a time after she was left alone she went out to work ir laundry but lately has had to give this up be- cause, as her few friends understand it, she either could find no competent person to take care of "baby" or could not afford to pay for such care. Since she has supported herself by taking work home.
 Mrs. Tee is boarding; at 56 Winthrop street This is her battlefield, her Gethsemane, and the scene of just as great heroism as "so'newhere in Eu- l rope" where her loved one is cham pioning the cause of the weak and l doing his share to break the mailed
 fist of Teutonic miltarism and op- precision.