The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-11

knows this from the testimony in letters
sent back from these hospitals, but let
ters are cold as compared to the living
voice. The donors whose gifts OF to-
bacco have frightened hospital days are
aware of this deep feeling also and
through the same medium.
Says II saved His Life.
It's possible that this depth OF graft
tude leads the soldiers 10 indulge in
pretty big. words, but however big they
are these words are not discountable.
Smokes" writes a wounded man who
was IN Base Hospital 100 February H.
saved my life. The 'meds' and nurses
did all they could and sure were kind,
but when the cigarettes turned up from
THE Sun Tobacco Fund I said to my
self: Since anybody back home Is Kind
enough to think of me and send me just
what ! want, TO hell with dying: I'll
get well and go home and thank them !"
Another hospital patient writes to
Josephine Daskam Bacon. fund donor !:
q got cigarettes several times when I was
in the trenches. for have been over here
more than a year, and they were great
help then. IT relieved the strain on a
mans nerves just before going over the
top and Just when we were expecting
Jerry to come over. But that isn't a
circumstance to the help it gives to have
some Gigs handed out to you when
you're lying round a hospital"
w r. Frye of the medical detachment
of Base Hospital So, at Rimaucourt, has
this to say to Helen s. Cunningham,
fund donor, dating his card February S :
ut affords me real pleasure to thank
you for your cigarettes which were de-
livered 10 us by THE Sun Tobacco Fund
to-day; first. because the gift itself was
so acceptable. more go than anybody can
imagine back home where cigarettes are
as thick as files, and, second. because
the wounded boys to whom they we're
issued sat right up and took notice
There's always a lot of crouch around a
hospital, but II you were in here to-day
you wouldn't find any traces of it. The
boys are smoking away and every one
of them is 100 per cent. better for tile
kindness you and THE Sun paper have
shown them.
There are several Of these boys who
have not had any mail from the l.. s.
in two months and they have been with
out money for three months. SO you see
they had some cause to feel blue. The
cigarettes give them the happy feeling
that after all they are not being for
gotten or neglected This gift will help
a whole lot"
February 10 is the date mark on this
card Of acknowledgment for tobacco sent
over by Private Sam Moore Of Company
A. 3l3th Engineers, to donor r. L. Lloyd
He was with the Remount Depot 90
when he wrote about the great satisfac-
ton afforded him by the gift Of tobacco.
Tonight the famous dancer Doraldina.
who introduced the hula hula variety Of
exhibition and characteristics dance TO
this city few seasons ago. is TO carry
n her rT.,
bacco Fund by selling at auction IN her
entertainment at the Paradise Room of
Reisenweher's a new dance which she be-
lieNes will become even more renowned.
Besides she will dance the FIT Bird"
and the "Hindu-Gypsy" dances, which
are new this season. To give the affair
strong SUN party flavor several vol
unteers have said they would appear.
Sergeant Arthur Guy E,mpey among
them. The performance in the Paradise
Room begins at o'clock.
Louise Dresser and her partner. lack
Gardner, will be OF the entertainers at
the party for THE Sun fund TO be given