The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-17
FRENCH GIRL
WRITES ANOTHER LETTER

/ st. Denis, June B, 1913.
! have received your letter of the
18th Of May just today and / answer
it as soon as l may. / got your post
cards too and was so pleased with
them.
send you some views Of Paris.
Those Germans are barbarous to
put pieces of glass in your flour and
candy.
Here, beginning of the war, they
put fine pieces of steel like little forks
in the oat and the horses died when
they eat it. But their cruelty is
greater than before.
thank you to want to send me
some silk thread when the war will
be over. You are very kind and
hope to see your brother before
the war will be end if he may have a
furlough.
know a girl who writes to an Am
erican soldier, he is sergeant in one
Engineers Ry. and he came to visit
Par.s while days.
My brother Henry is in the army
since the 10th of April, 1917.
He has been wounded 5 days ago,
the 3rd of June. He is wounded in
the right arm and the right foot.
Henry is now in hospital in Paris,
we may go to see him. / saw my
dear Henry the day after he arrived
in that hospital; it was Wednesday
and / shall go tomorrow to visit him
again. He suffer very much when
the nurse dress his arm. He was
wounded in Villers-C otterets forest.
Very many of his fellows were killed.
/ wish the war would end while he
is in the hospital but am afraid he get
we'll again and go back in the fire line.
You say dear Maude that you reg
istered as Red Cross nurse, but do you
will come in France or remain in
Belding / think you will have more
to do here as nurse than over there.
have received your letters of the
25th and 18th of March and this of the
18th Of May.
The American soldiers are helping
the French and British soldiers in
the front line. We do not know how
to thank those American soldiers who
come in France to defend a country
which is not theirs. l admire that.
You say that when you wrote your
letter at 5:30-p p. m. must be sleeping.
think it must be about 10 p. m. here
but l do not sleep as soon as that. l
go to my bed at quarter to eleven in
the night about, it is a habit and mo-
Their may say. Louise go TO your bed,
it is late" | cannot / answer, II
wait for the gothas, Mother"
Last week they came since the
Tuesday even the Sunday all the
nights. We have the habit of that
we remain in our bed now. In news
papers we read we must go in our
cellars but we are so well in our bed
that many people remain in their
room.
Here we have fine weather these
days.
Say Maude, when do the seasons be-
gin over there? Here spring begins
onthe 21st of March.
Summer the 21st of June.
Autumn comes the 21st of Septem-
Der. Last comes winter the 21st of
December.
In b. Aires when we are in winter
here, they are hot as they are in sum-
mer, it is the opposed.
We do not have meat on the We'd |
nesdays, Thursday and Fridays now.
Before we did not had only on Mon |
DAYS, but now it is changed.
| asked to one of my friends who |
can write English if she would write |
to that young married woman you
said me but she writes to an Ameri- !
can soldier, an English gentleman who |
lives in London and girl who is in |
the middle of France, then she has not |
courage to have another correspond
emit for English. But / said a girl |
my perplexity and she promised me
to find a correspondent. AS soon as
| shall know her name and address \
| shall write to you.
The soldiers brother who writes to
your mother has furlough. He is