The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-11-09
FAIRY STORY FROM
DADDY LOVER THERE
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France, and there are many little wine
shops all along the roads, but if you
could see the people you would see
that it is not good for them, because
they do not look healthy like Ameri-
cans, and the Americans can do many
times as much work as these people.
You can lever tell from the way the
outside of a house looks what it is like
inside. A house with a little wine
shop looking on to the street may
have a very interesting back yard-a
sort of old garden or some quaint shed
where clothes are washed and dried.
| must tell you how the people wash
their clothes: AT many places there are
large stone basins as big as our dining
room and living room, full of water,
and the sides are stones IS inches
thick. All the women come down
with their washing. They rub them
On the stones and scrub them with a
brush and hang them on the bushes to
dry. This daddy has washed his
clothes in n of these funny places, for
he stayed 7 days in an old place where
there were several long stone build
ings as long as our lot all enclosed in
one of those high stone walls. 1t was
where priests used to stay and the old
wash place was where they used to
wash their clothes-maybe 200 years
ago. Down in the city there is an old
building, like a giant fort, called the
chateau, and it has dungeons where
prisoners were kept till they died, and
one cell where the princess was i'm
prisoned until her maid managed to
cut the iron bars to the only little
window and let her out to the water
far below, where she escaped to anoth-
er country. And there is another
tower of this chateau built to COM
memOrate the marriage of another
princess of this (their Independent
country province to a king of
Franco think it was Charles TX.
Now this daddy has slept in the very
room once occupied by monks. There
is an old cross on this building which
is the original of the groupe I told
you about earlier in the story. Daddy
has to go to bed now in this very
place.
Dear Betty and Bobby: I'm going to
finish the story started 8 or 4 nights
ago. So to continue: This daddy |
have been telling you about has not
been feeling very well, so he stayed in
the city close by 2 nights ago in a
hotel for officers run by the Y. M. C.
A. and he took some medicine and
slept in a bed for the first time in
more than a month-think of that.
Suppose you had to wear big shoes
with hob-nails like the railroad labor
ers do, and sleep in a place where it
rains on you, and in a thing called a
bedding-roll in blankets, and at meal
time eat YOU meals from a tin dish
and drink from a tin cup, and never
had any of the good things that your
mother cooks, nearly all of the time,
just meat and potatoes and bread and
jam for your breakfast, dinner and
supper, and no light but a candle at
night; and NO newspapers to look at
and no books to read. So this daddy
paid 7 francs to stay in the hotel and
4 or 5 francs for each meal until he
felt better. because some of the officers
die of this disease as we'll as the sol
diers. For the story of the sickness
and suffering of the soldiers can not
be told except by those who have seen
it like this daddy-man has. The day
this story was written and for several
days more he has been working with
these men to try to help them, but
there is not much he can do because