Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-28

Mamma works the ground and it is
with difficult. she is able to get
US living. an = years old and for
more than year now have not been
able to go to school. / am at home
to help Mamma. But since I have a
vocation to become priest and since
Mamma permits me to follow my yo-
cation, l am going to leave for the
seminary soon. The reopening has
been delayed because of an epidemic
of grippe which fills France with it's
mischief.
All that / can say to you of my
country is that its morales excellent
in the defeats as in che victories.
The arrival of troops from the United
States has raised enthusiasm to its
highest pitch While | am writing
this l hear the cannon which thun-
der on the occasion of the armistlce,
or of the peace, don't know which.
I'VE are in tine Midi of France. in
the department Of the Landes, about
$50 kilometers from Bordeaux and 50
from the Spanish frontier. We see
some American soldiers who are very
sympathetic or congenial to us
Madame, it is with great pleasure
that l accept your proposal that |
shall write TO you often, at least once
a month. That will give me the JOY
of proving my affectionate gratitude
for your regard. My dear Mamma Is
greatly touched by your solicitude for
her beloved, and she expresses all her
joy. She joins me and my little
Elizabeth in her best sentiments OF
profound respect
Receive, Madame, and dear god
mother, my most respectful senti-
ments of gratitude. Here is my ad.
dress:
MONSIEUR LIMOUX, VINCENT,
"a Coos par Gamarde.
les Bains Landes, France.
P. S. Do net forget to say to
Monsieur B. f. strong that | pray
the good God for his good fortune
and yours. In few days shall have
the pleasure of sending you other de-
tails. VINCENT.
Gratitude to the Americans, not
only for their military aid, but in
financial and other humanitarian
ways, is. written into every line Of
the following excerpt from one of the
lads letters. He says, in part:
ST have today very pleasant duty
TO fulfill toward you that of dc
knowledging the receipt OF the first
assistance of As francs. You lave
sent this to me by means of the
French and American Society. My
dear Mother, so grieyed by the trials
of war, rejoices with me at your great
goodness coming from country so
far away, but which they are teach
ing us to love as our second country.
Thank you and the good God that
cares for you and the people about
you for what you have done for very
grateful young god-son. /"
Commenting further upon the sign
ing of the armistice and the hope of
peace, it is easy to see in the follow
ing paragraph, some of the joy that
must come to the average French
home to know that the awful war is
over and that there is in sight an end
to the sufterings of fours long years of
strife which took so much from the
best of the French republic.
eve are happy to be at peace. They
are preparing at Paris the conditions
of the peace, meanwhile the soldiers
are coming back, section by section.
The good Americans, so numerous at
OAK and in our Landes, are also be-
ginning to leave and we can never be
grateful enough to them for all they
have DONE"
No worthier assistance to the wars
unfortunate victims than the adop-
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