The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-09-11

That afternoon will stand out in my
mind even when other events that
occur over here are forgotten. Must
stop for tonight.
Sunday A. NJ. Just receievd LIS
letter telling of SIS visit home.
! should like to be there and visit
with you all. Still if | were at home
now I'd be turning things upside
down to get over here. And l GER
tainly wouldn't miss being here for
anything. As Sherman said, "War
! is HELP, more so now than in the
sixties. | had letter from Mildred
II. this morning. | appreciate all
my letters but | simply can't answer
them all. | always try to thank the
strangers who send me books and
papers Have been getting the
Literary Digest from a Mrs. Rock
hill from Roanoke, Virginia. | don't
know who she is, but it is nice of
her.
am going to write to Stewart
Bethune today. ! am afraid | shall
not see the home boys at alias they
ere too near the front. They are
ifear Calaist Please let me know
what Chas. Patrick's address is
I've met so many aviators. Danced
with the incest, youngest one last
week. He had just been decorated
by the French for sinking Sub.
| also danced with the Lieut. Com
| mander of mine sweeper The
'. first dance he had in nine months
and he only stayed for one dance
You can't imagine how much our
men appreciate having a few nurses
hereto talk to and little social life
once in while. In England it isn't
so bad, but in France there are only
the French mademoiselles.
| have met some charming French
girls. One in particular, the one
who was with us on the picnic. She
spent two nights with us for thePa-
5eant. She is very pretty, and
quite the aristocrat, but she likes
American ideas of freedom. She
wants to work and be allowed to
live her own life, but instead, she
lives in very quiet village with
! very old grandmother VINO is aw-
fully strict in her ideas Miss Ms
father is very famous French
journalist-has been in Petrograd
tor four years. She says he is an
Egoist, and wants her to help him
in his work. He is very strict as
to her associates-guess he belongs
to the old regime all right. | met
two Russian girls last week. who
were also charming.s They were
refugees here in IA and have to
stay
You see what Cosmopolitan life
this is even in the provincial city in
the rear
My favorite L. S. soldat is in the
Intelligence section. Is only q
years old, but very we'll educated
speaks French and German fluent by
studied both in Paris and Berlin
His Scotch blood makes him t he
sturdy, level headed type and his
American mother makes him charm
ing. few years business life in
New York and Chicago have made
him wide-awake young American
He only had measles, not very i'll,
so we used to talk heaps. The other
boys sat and listened when Camp
bell talked. His family had read
and travelled extensively. so that he
was most entertaining Last week
he sent me tiny copy of the Light
ming Conductor. He and his mo-
Their had met the authorize VIII.
liamsons-on the Isle of Capri when
he was about IS. You see he is not
the type who has idled his time
away so enjoyed the fact that
could talk to him about some of the
things he loves. Then too he was
awfully fond of the apple pies used
to steal from my own table for the
measles shack.
Just here word came that my room
mate and my other best friend have
been ordered to report to England
for service. We are going out for
the afternoon and dinner A Hos
pital train is coming in this evening
too. We manage to go serenelv on
no matter what happens.
Love to the entire county and the
ked cross. Loyalty yours.
MARY A. HERRING.