The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-04-01

This boy Is laid up with rheumatism,
like myself only very much worse.
and IL being sent back 60 the states,
a great hardship 10 him.
Then there Is q Mexican cowboy.
who has a touch Of { b. and has
been told 10 go home ana get well.
whereas ne Just wants g. be well.
and go on with his job i'm the army.
Tie is an artillery man H. and !
have had some fine old talks tespe-
cially in the evening. when We have
quite a while between dark and sleep
timcl about cayIses and tepecs and
round-ups and camp fires.
Finds Letter In Home Pap"r.
a large amount 81 amusement has
come from a six-foot kid named l.
q marine. Of Scotch blood. from near
Philadelphia. He is the rare com
bination OF M irrcpressiblc who .sn't
fresh. The nurses. especially the
night nurses, make a lot OF him-he
half reaents IL and half likes Il. You
should have seen the way he shot
out OF his bed and over 20 mine when
he received a copy OF his first letter
home to his mother. printed In full
In the - Chronicle.
There Is a great. husky looking,
fair haired northwcsterner whom I've
got 10 know recently. a fellow who
looks to be as strong as an ~. has
done hard work all hts life as he
says Che IL Just 22i and has stood up
with the best Of them in the harvest
ing in North Dakota. Now he is be-
ing sent home with the [ b. He does
not know what TO make Of H.
smith is from q Wisconsin region
OF rough rmberland At first, when
he got to talking about his folks. and
the life out there. and the log busi-
ness and the little school house where
everything oJtside OF home life cen
tiers. / couldn't make out why II all
seemed 80 familiar. Then I remem-
bered the early chapters OF Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw's life. Strange TO
think OF almost the same conditions
existing today a. before the civil war
all but the wolves. OF which | hear no
mention. eyes. they ever have
wolves, a few I've just asked him)
81 hadn't realized till ] came "
leave how many friends / had made
among the soldiers here in the hos
pital. Tho half we'll ones in their
wrappers (pink. blue, or lavender, n
rainbow dlvisiouD scramble off their
beads TO say good bye. The really
sick ones sit up In bed, OF JUS, reach
"a hand from under the bed clothes
drawn up under the chins. The al
most cured who are up n dressed
leave their games OF dominoes and
-Ea.n.-r N. t..t4 ggapIsr 10 fnkaE
me an hour or more Ia get away
Some Of them ask me 20 write 20
them. and we exchange addresses.
Write To Your Soldier.
Speaking of e~agcrncss for letters,
| have been appalled,, since I came
10 know So well many Of the boys
who are sick mere. AT tho fact that
some Of Thorn get no letters from
home IA am They over eNpevt-
ing them but they never CONE. ]
hnve been positively ashamed. When
more mail for me arrives Most Of
them get ~ the most % single letter
now and then. often az long intervals.
have no doubt they treat their
families the same way, but then the
families are AZ home. They talk with
their ncighhors over the back fence.
thcy read the newspaper morning ana
c,cniug whereas the letters are every
thing
"pf course that u especially true
when the boys are sick, oy during the
long. TEDIOUS days ~ couvalcscence,
cor waiting for transportation back 20
their regiments. or 20 other hospitals.
OF 10 tho states.