The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-06-21
TER IN THE
MORNING MAIL
Mrs. Lane Finally Realized
lat Thousands Of Other
others Sons Are at War
CARED Battle Front.

BY FOSTER
OF the vlgilantes.

~ hN NlAiiaUteb.
athematics teach us that / from /
es nothing, and there is also the
known biological theorem that
cannot get blood from a turnip.
5 also assumed, Sir Isaac Newton
ing demonstrated the law, that
AZ goes up is bound to come down,
this Is only abstract. Mrs. Lane
'babiy would have denied it.
rhe fiat rent, previously $1,000 a
ar, was $1,400, and It showed no
ms whatever Of coming down. The
inc condition applied also to her
ildren's shoes. The shoes now cost
whereas they formerly had cost "a.
ut this was merely a detail. A SINH
y phenomenon occurred as TO beef.
.eaks, potatoes, butter, fish and the
I other varieties Of domestic essen
ais. All had gone up none had
ONE down. About the only thing sta
lie in Mrs. Lanes cosmos was Mr..
.ane's yearly income. This was 81 900
year. Already Mrs. Lane had given
Up one maid. The war literally was at
Ter door. True, Mrs, Lane had no son,
40 brother-no kin Of any kind-in the
war, but the wal still was al her door.
Hard to Make Ends Meet.
Give money for the war? What do
you think she was doing. anyway
She was giving every cent she had,
trying to make both ends meet In her
household. 1t hurt, though. Mrs
Lane was a kindly, warm hearted wo-
man, and she would have liked to give,
The war was dreadful 1t was 50
dreadful she'd stopped reading about It,
But one must read letters. one
must do that when a friend takes th'
trouble to write them.
The letter came In the morning mall
Mrs. Lane read It, then she read 1
again. Afterward she sat there ab
sorbed, silent, rigid. The color had crep
out Of her face, and her breath cam
swiftly from between her parted lips
II have just come back from the
canteensp It read. "Sach an after
aeon! A frainloGd Of seriously
E0uaded to be fed at once, scbich
Is trying, as one has to climb into
all the carriages, one after the 9TH
or. We begin loifh the me- loho
are i0eIl enough 10 sit up and han
die their cups, and those tChO are
too al euen to M their heads, Of
course, zoe hare to III and iced
ourselves. Feeding the ones icith
bad face tCouHds are the hardest.
/ can stand ordinary mounds Of
blood, but UheR u nun ought to
AGve a nose and mouth aud al he
has is-a0hl--it takes all your
courage to get through a feeding.
I managed to get hall O pint Of
milk and a beaten eO0 AID sorne
6rundg dotcn the throat Of a boy Of
ftcentg i5h0 rad no mouth left, aud
had 10 clean II betpeeH every
mOHthful. he had had no food ion
1ffeen hours aud loas so thirsty
that he was nearly insane. held
his head against me. and gagged
al tke time, bAf 7 just kept think
iaO, 'gappOse Il paS my ~ Dho
needed q drink and there cas- no
one to clpe II 10 Aim SO i tcent
through With u, and he finally acent
to sleep. on, Marthd, Aartka Lure,
zoe need evervthing-aH you and
the rest can seHdt'
~ Lawrence Had Gone to War.
One o'clock struck. Mrs. Lane vt
sat With the letter clutched In b
hand. whats for dinnerY" asked Ha
nah. the maid. Mrs. Lane hardly hea
hef she was stlll sitting there VIII
oIC(ia ioundered in. Olivia was fol
teen the conscious age. Mother $
said ffetfully. Il can't go 10 dancl
school again In brown gloves when
the other girls have white ones" a
plant reminded Mrs. Lane that La
renee at boarding school had WRIT
that morning about his socks. He h
only two pairs OF six ones left. "Ar
mother said Olivia. continuing 4
what Olivia said Mrs Lane didn't he
She had dropped her head on the tal
and unaccountabiy was Weeping. III
suppose II was my boy-mine !
was sobbing.
"Why, mother" calculated Olivia,
She hurried toward her moth
'NWhst is it. motherl You're acting J.
as Though Lawrence had gone TO wal
Mrs. lane looked up, the TEL
Arrtking down her face