Williston graphic., 1918-11-14

Baer, 18th Training Battery, Camp
Zachery Taylor, that has made sew
eral people smile. If it makes you
all smile, maybe there will be miles
Of smiles.
Camp ZACH, Sept. Something, 1918.
Dear Mae:
I received the wonderful sox and
earmuff that you knitted, but didn't
get the sweater. Either it cvaporated
or you knitted it with dropped stitches
The sox were beautiful, but l can't
understand why you made them both
for the left foot. The first time that
l wore them l was bawled by the
second loot for not standing at at
tention properly. He said that my
feet were at ease, but if they were at
ease, l can tell you that they didn't
feel that way. Furthermore, they
are the first sox which had fingers
knitted in them. Are they wearing
them that way this season?
The earmuff was splendid, but why
only one? You know that both my
ears are in the army. 1t is a trfle
warm for earmuffs at present, but l
can use it for a barracks bag until
cold weather sets in. However, all
the articles were magnificent; the
only thing wrong with them was the
color. The next time you knit me
mittens or ear muffs, don't pick out
cerise or scarlet. They don't do it
that way in the artillery. Try to pick
out some other color, as l can't stand
at inspection with pair of sox or a
sweater that looks like sunset some
where in an Atlantic port.
You tell me that your old sweet
heart, Oville Stacker, was turned
down for broken arches. If that bird
has any broken arches they are under
his hat. I'll never forget the night
that stupid came up to your house
and discovered me eating candy he
had sent you. He was about as hap
py as a dry fish. Now listen, bright
eyes, while 1 am down here eating
three meals day for my country, l
want you to enjoy yourself.
! admit that am a hero, as the
work is very strenuous. L have been
unGe: terrible hard ;hips. having only
gained eleven pounds last week. But
somebody has to suffer for his
country, and if birds like Orville re-
fuse to do their share, then it is up
to fellows like me to enlist, and try
to struggle along on three square
meals a day. We only had turkey
twice this week and ice cream on
Sundays, but don't complain, as l
know l am doing my share to help
defeat the kaiser's gorillas.
Go out with Orville all you want
to. But don't let him hold your hand.
When l first shook hands with that
bird, it felt like shaking hands with
if he tries to sit on the sofa with you
picked herring, and let me tell you
he is. going to get knocked deader
than two barrels of salted mackeral.
You can tell that to the world, and
say said so.
I'll bet he will be glad when the
war is over so that he can take off
his glasses.
l am going to say good-by now,
dear, as it is almost taps.
Remember me to your father, and
ask him whom he gets his cigars from
now that am busy making the world
safe for near-sighted birds and demo-
cracy. Yours until the Atlantic ocean
dries up. Roger.
xxx X xxx @,.s
P. S.-If you can't knit me anything
that will fit me, get your mother to
knit me an apple pie. They always
fit. ,...
Another letter from Bugs" to Mae
says that "the hox, when sent to the
camp laundry, shrunk like an owl in
| the sunlight. Only thing l can use
'em for now is to carry my liver pills
around in"
| We have much to learn from the
boys letters as to cheerfulness, hav-
MT we?
| The more one thinks about it the