El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-26
From
OVER THE OCEAN
Two Ell Paso School Girls
Receive Replies From
Paris and London.

Letters have been received by Isa-
bel Pomeroy and Viola Allen, Of La
mar school, in answer to letters sent
BY them TO a Child in England" and
some Chudin France" on Christmas:
Peggy Sparrow, writing TO Isabel
Pomeroy from the City Of London
school for girls, says:
I'VE all thank you very much for
your letters. Our school almost over
looks the River Thames.
The boys school was founded by
job Carpenter. the town clerk Of
London in the reign Of Henry V, for
the education OF the boys of the citi-
zens Of London. William Ward, the
founder Of the girls school, decided
that Il was not fair that only boys
should be well educated, so the
school was built in 1894.
In the summer We play tennis ana
cricket and in winter hockey and bad
minton. All these games except bad
minton are played in grounds away
from London; for cricket and hockey
we have a train journey OF eight
miles, but we do not mind that, as it
Is such great sport when We get
there.
7 would like to tell you what hap
pens when there is an air raid. I
sincerely hope you Will never expert
ence one. This I'm afraid is as much
as I am allowed TO say about them
as. unfortunately, the censor will not
allow me TO say more
Gould you when you write again
send a photograph OF yourself?
Last week the bells Of many
churches rang to celebrate Gen
Byng's victoryin France, our world
famed cathedral (St. PauPs) among
them. How glad we shall be when
they ring for peace. have two
unicles fighting, one in Salonika and
one In France. Neither has been
wounded. but one has suffered Sc
verely from omsquito bites.
+'Our class sends a parcel every
month to a prisoner Of war in Ger
many; we adopted him and he is our
very own soldier. for he has no one to
send him anything. His name is
Periston-"
From A Paris Child.
The letter to Viola Allen is from
Helene Marmot. in Paris, ~ Rue
Dussoubs- It says:
Il have received your letter which
has given me much pleasure because
It was very interesting. Have you
any French lessons at school?
Would you like to correspond
with me half in French and half IN
English?
nave you BoL any 6AI4 AItNtlu1 " -Au
would like TO correspond with French
girls about the same age2 If so. our
English teacher would be very pleased
10 get their names as soon as posi-
bic to give to other pupils Is not
the war a dreadful thlng7 And how
grateful we are to the Americans for
their coming to help Us. We see
many American soldiers about the
streets here
You ask me TO tell you something
about Paris. It used to be a very
gay city. but now 1t is rather sad on
account Of the war, because many
families have their relatives fighting.
Our city is very large. There are
many fine buildings, among them 2
beautiful gothis cathedral called
l1otre Dame de Paris The river
Seine flows through the town. It is
very pretty.
Il was very pleased to hear about
Texas znd Fl Paso and hope you viii
give me more details about your
town in your next letter. Ny school
is very large and there are 500 pupils
IN it. 1t is situated IN the business
part OF the city near the Exchange,
which is a very fine building"