Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-08-01
WRITES LETTER
FROM LONDON
Mrs. Arthur Sanderson Tells Of
Conditions in the English Me-
trOpolis SSynp2attAAy for German
Women and Children Who Suffer

women and Children Who Sutfer
Ernest Sanderson, Baraboo, has re-
ceived a letter from his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Arthur Sanderson, which gives
some of the conditions in London. In
previous issue of this paper a let
ter appeared from Mrs. Sanderson.
The present letter is dated July 3,
1918, 4 Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green,
n. p, "Blighty," London, and reads
in part as follows:
First of all let me thank you very
much for the letter and cuttings, as
we'll as for the photograph which we
received last Friday morning. And
thanks also for all the kind things
said, and for the great compliment
paid us in thinking our feeble efforts
with the pen worth recording. AL
most as soon as the letter had gone
I remembered l had omitted to tell
you the price of eggs, which are now,
during the cheapest period of the
year 4 to 5 pence 6 to 10c) each. [
remember when a girl at home they
were sent to the market and sold at
eighteen and sometimes even twenty
for a shilling I also forgot to tell
you how very difficult cheese has been
to obtain. But now, thanks be, there
is a better outlook for nearly every
thing, and that seems so wonderful
after all the weary months of war
and this wicked waste Of valuable
food stuff for which so many innocent
people are starving.
Conditions Improving
AS | have already stated, there
seems to be an improvement in the
condition Of things in general. [ hear
we are to get little dried fruits once
again, and cheese will be fairly plen-
tiful very soon. The labor for the
ingathering of the harvest looks like
being a serious matter, but | suppose
the government knows what they are
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so far, so we must leave it and trust
MY people are all farmers and of
course I hear q good deal of the prac-
tical side of the question, and only
those who have had experience know
how much the skiIful laborer is need
ed. The women are doing great work,
all honor to them for it, but there is
a great deal in the sphere of agri-
culture beyond their strength entirely
Women are in every kind of employ
ment possible noW-the post delivery
tram conducting, and they are to be
seen pushing all kinds Of trucks alorg
the road. They go on the milk rounds,
the parcels delivery, both by hand
and motor power. One IS getting quite
used to seeing every kind O. war work
uniform. I read in one of our papers
the other day that there were hun
dreds of women doing no more now
than in pre-war days, but personally
[ don't know any, as everybody's life
seems to be now filled to the brim.
LdDOI 10 81 OAlO4C III NFSAJ 0OPNNAO
ment that someone else is always
doing, to keep things going at all.
The stores all close now for the din
ner hour on account of shortage Of
labor, and one is always asked to
carry home the parcel when doing
the shopping. The petty pride of the
olden days is gone; one hardly rec
ognizes oneself at times, but it is
bigger, broader minded, more sympa-
thetic England that lis coming out of
all this heartache and sorrow the
whole world over. Even those OPP
posed to us, who are having greater
losses than ourselves, if accounts be
true, have their dear ones, and each
one that falls makes deep wound
in some poor heart. This last comb
out is bringing to light some exceed
ingly hard cases. l heard Of one the
other day in which a husband was
called up who was supporting his
aged parents, and that leaves the
wife with her own living to earn, as
we'll as food, clothing and shelter to
provide for the dear, helpless, old
people, who have won through the
struggle for life, and should now be
receiving the care and attention which
they no doubt lavished on others in
their day of strength. Oh! this is a
cruel war.
Fewer Air Raids
We are so thankful that for the last
three months we have had so few of
those awful air raids I remember so
wildly the awful sensation that
flashed through my childish mind,
when, hearing in school at the COM
ing flying machines, at the bare posi-
bility of there being war in which
those things could be used against us.
The thought made lasting impress
sion, but I never dreamed that l
ch011Id 1.-Two IN rpa1izn If in all IFS awful