New Britain herald., 1918-02-06

1of-war No.\ 3, 1
 first letter from ]
 S Christian assoc1A- l
 ken from the steamer l
 12d held at GustroW,
 ii his letter he says:
 t~Bd the surprise, the par
 LIE are inadequate in trying 1 1EOI1. Sfess my gratitude. RoolnSoh sCEusoe must have been lonesome until he met man Friday. l dont think he had anything on inc until kgot your letter, and that letter and also other letters I expect from you will be my man Friday. 'T am feeling good, experiencing no ill health, thank God. You say for me to state what I need. I need underwear, size 40, socks handker- chiefs, soap, towel, comb, sweater, outside shirt.
 Thanking you for helping me-" Parcels the Mainstay of life. Showing the spirit of the men and telling of the German prisoner of war rations, one writer, whose name is withheld for obvious reasons, man aged to get his letter to this country without having it pass through of- fcial channels. After stating that | the American Red Cross is sending weekly food parcels to the Americans I in his camp, he says, in part: l At the present writing we are | all waiting patiently for the Red | Cross parcels, but we have the Y. 1 M c. A. bacon and oatme cal to fall ) back on, which is much appreciated, i assure you. Should we have to l wait three days more, why, then it's l the German half pound of bread l day-watery soup-twice a day. l Now we know that the British Red Cross is sending the parcels regularly and we are quite sure that l the German postal officials are doing | what they can to let us have the parcels as regularly as possible, be- ! cause a man can do more work with ! a, fair meal than with otherwise, but l lack of facilities, such as men, etc., l delay these parcels very often; too 1 often. in fact to satisfyy our peace 1 of mind.
 'The daily routine of the day IS l enought to unbalance any ones mind besides waiting for parcels. The parcels are the mainstay of our life. We know We are prisoners of-war 1 and the game Americanism within l us has arrested itself more than once l here.
 we are men who look facts ! straight III the ldCc So do not think we complain. We do not know what the word complain means That word is not in the dic- tionary we men handle.'
 The Most Human Letter of All.
 Probably the most human letter of the batch is one from a wife who lives in East Boston, Massachusetts, to her husband in a prison camp in Germany He asked the Young Men S l Christian association to find out why she did not write. Here is what she wrote and what he forwarded to MT. Wilson:
 1T have been writing to you since May and can not understand why you did not receive at least one of 1 the letters. The letters must be held Up somewhere. I hope you will re- ] coivc one of them, at least, this one for luck.
 If you have not received the let ters I sent before, I will have to tell you again that a beautiful baby daughter was born to Us April 18th, 1917. I had her baptized the name of Mary I had her pose for her picture especially to send you Il don't suppose you have received that either.
 Mary is beautiful baby. I could ! write Q DOOR AbO1L otl1 tAIC NuIe things she does, and can you be- lieve. Tom, she is sitting up by her self and wearing soft shoes and only i four months old at present. She has black hair and blue eyes like myself. but I can see you sticking out all over her in her smile and l limbs.
 "She has 9 head shaped like yours and her hands are the very shape oi ! yours She even has a little crooked toe like you ave on your left foot I know you would be wild about hel f you could only see the dear she is such q comfort to me. I love h"r and kiss her for you.''
 My Name on an Enveiope-Gee
 Whiz!
 Your letter to me and my name ~n the envelope-gec w11iz!" writes William M. Fitzgerald, Am merican pris- .Oner No. 10, held at Gustrow, Ger. many. He says:
 Some time ago I wrote you a
 letter and no doubt the answer is
 on the way. Since then I have
 received a parcel from you It
 was 8 good sound sensible one at
 that. and I appreciated it very
 much. After that bacon in the
 morning I go out to work feeling
 fit and in cheerful mood.
 Your letter came to me at a
 time when I was we'll in the
 dumps they say. I am of a 1 cheerful mood as a rule, but I