Mexico Missouri message., 1918-08-29

Tom DeLaporte, who is fighting the
Huns in France Young DeLaporte
is brother of Mrs. w. Clyde John
son of Mexico. What he says makes
most interesting reading. Hear
him:
Pauillac, Gironde, France, Au-
gust 8, 1918.
Dear Ones At Home:
/ have not written a letter for a
long time, Have been enjoying CD
life in a hospital with fever, also
trouble with my feet which were
poisoned last winter from the socks
and a bug in the water; it has given
me quite lot of trouble. 1 am o.
X. now tho and am back at my old
place. was afraid would lose out
with headquarters. My work is for
the "High-ups." The big boys ex-
pect the best and get it, too. 1t is
quite a pleasure to be situated as
am. One is treated like a white
person If he does the work, which
is not hard.
have been on several drafts for
different parts, but so far the Off
GERS have kept me with them. We
shall leave before long. / shall con-
tinue in the same line of work, but
Rogers and l may be separated. If
I 20 to - shall leave them; If 1
go to - - we will go together. l
hope l go to Paris, as there is no
place like it here for me.
am very anxious to hear from
: my Paris godmother. l have reas-
|, sons to be worried about her. She
! is wonderful and was awfully good
to me while in Paris. She is very
: wealthy lady, who is doing all she
can for the cause. She lived be-
!, tween the Offices and my hotel. And
o had to stop in and see her every
day. ! met a number of ladies from
:, the American Embassy at her home
/ and she often took me to the thea
Q ter dinners, and on taxi rides anC
!. rides in the Bois de Bologne, tn,
most famous woods in the world
= She had a piano sent to my room
d and made arrangements with lad!
who has taken first prize as {
. teacher for the past two years, t.
s. give me piano and French lessons
v And, like my mother, she liked flow
ers. Her rooms were filled with tn
ID prettiest flowers, and she had flow
y ers sent to my room every fey
days. She has been twice decorate,
~ for diplomatic relations. She speak
- = Russian, German, Italian, Spanish
IS English, perfectly. Has peopl
come to converse with her ever
"A day. The President of the Arger
- tine Republic is a friend of herr
oe and l shall never forget one lette
n. she wrote him. 1t was in Spanisl
ne but there was an expression in Ell
u glish, as her little friend frol
I'll Missouri says. She was sure gi'
ing him Old Billy about alway
40 sympathizing with the French bl
z: never doing anything and sendin
hn food to other countries than thoi
ii. in the war with France. She hi
De- travelled and studied everywhel
and knows the United States bett'
mt than There wasn't anything t
big or too little for her to do Il
he me, and she was always doing som
er. thing. She told the manager of Il
lt hotel where l was staying she ht
de hundred francs to spend for &C
~, lecting every franc that / was TO
bed of, as she called oyerchargin
~ 1t is 1880 p. m. now. l am us'
ing to sleeping before this. Just f'
s - out of my chair-went to slee
of This is sleepy letter, but no dou
lik you will be glad to get it.
a. / haven't tried to tell you abo
G. my work here, but have made
en- moor attennnt When | first cal