Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-02
lIFTTER FROM
. - D DAN W TOMPkINS.

written by Dan Tompkins to his
mother, from France, under date of
J,ne 22nd.
The Journey we made through Eng
ls,d was a very enjoyable. if a hur-
ricd one, and the right little, tight
little island" is quite a nice place,
everything being so spick and span.
ard we'll kept, quite in contrast to
ru .eed, and sometimes i'll kept
America. l was struck with the
vast amount of farming and garden
ins, for so small place as England,
as was in evidence everywhere.
have seen quite a number of
the Tommy Waacs' or eirl soldiers
Of England, about whom you prob
ably read in Mr.. Cobb's article in
the Saturday Evening Post some
time ago. OF course they don't do
any real fighting. but as l under
stand the idea, they do a lot of work
that women can easily do, and
which would have to be done by
men who Can be used advantageous
ly elsewhere.
If do nothing else while am in
France. have at least acquired one
accomplishment, that strange to say
Ihad never learned to do before,
and that is that I have learned to
ride wheel. which by the way is
no mean accomplishment, consider
Ing the fact that that seems to be
quite the common means of loco
motion both in France and England.
lam not very adept in the art as
yet, but of course the main thing is
practice. and perhaps | will get quite
deal, ,sfAasat. "fyet outside, either
riding or walking, every chance
ae.. and have just returned from q
little spin along the country roads
On our way through England we
stepped for a short while at the
town that is famous in the annals
Of football and were served with
Gales and coffee by the British Rec
Cross. There is one habit which thu
English have that fails to meet thu
approval of fmy astronomical sens
eS, and that is of serving tea, yer!
frequently instead of coffee, and ther
When they do make coffee it doesn'
taste like the kind that mothe
used to make"
The last American newspaper tina
saw was dated May 20, an Ashe
Vile Citizen that was fOrwarde,
irom Camp Sewer, and which / re
celved before left the States.
would certainly like to see one Q
more recent date, especially tn
Jackson County Journal or one G
'ne Asheville papers.
reckon Sylvia is getting lively fo
'ne summer by now. as l suppos
'he girls have all returned fro1
school and are getting busy wit
parties, picnics and one thing an
another. though they must be rattle
snort Of boys. Also, l reckon til
summer school at Cullowhee is
iull swing by now.
Snce writing the above l hay
;ecrlved two letters from you, bot
we same mail, and one MALE
Su'.e S. ., the other the 7th. Take
ho., hulll me | was sure glad to &
b' pO'a' as they are the first thing
Ie 1Sn gotten from home since IL
t," uil oi May. take it h0weve
sh"ne v'll ine tone of your letters, that
hIu.o hsI' u have several more, write
le tho these, wandering around ov'
w;I, I world somewhere. Ireckon
tha sct them in a few days now.
tima fir, '"o got today made very fot
s, Yort, coming all the way up to Ne
'V'A and across the Atlantic.
ve,s saw Major Rhinehart while ,
oh Long Island.
be. .o9 os = had best leave off the nul
adtratne y, the Division hereafter VIII,
i,;ifesslne !, !. letters, as | understa1
il ,ion.a @ against the censorship reeuj
ss';s s'ls to connect the name of an
di;ldatlon and the number of t
o, ,,n "nl write again in the next 4