The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-26

m essage to you, you who are to me wife and mother and all. Good night dearest.
 NORMAN" A marine writes as follows:
 My Dear Mother:-If every man here appreciated and was touched as much as y what this lady said. there is a better lot of men in the second division tonigh- No mother knows what she really owes to this woman"
 Another reads:
 Dear Mother:-I have just had the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Booth talk to us boys and she sure put some thoughts of home through my brain. You have always known how much I wanted to travel, but when I once hit Home, Sweet Home again, Eere is one boy that is going to tie himself to your apron strings.
 DAVE" A Maine boy:
 Dear Mother:-Mrs. Booth. who spoke 70 us tonight is so much like you in word and manner that though you are thousands of mllls away l have been with you tonight.
 Your loving son,
 PAT" And a Texas boy writes as follows: Dear Mother:-The Little Mother. Mrs Booth. has just brought us a message from the Mother heart of America and I want to tell you again what you already know that you are the most wonderful mother on earth and that love you more than all the world.
 HAROLD"
 "A Good In1itation.''
 
 Dear Mother:-Its been 10 years since I saw you but it is never too late to come back. I have just met a good imitation of you tonight and I am very thankful
 co" The mothers letters constitute a volume of profound heart-love and devotion to God the war and coun- try. l have read them till my heart has thrilled with a newborn pride Take this one of a dear soul who is made 10 years younger and lots stronger by the message from her soldier-boy on a foreign shore:
 ''I received your beautiful letter which you so kindly sent me. You must indeed be the Little Mother of the A E. F. To me it seems as if an angel had written me those comfort
 
 army and you have written me in re- gards to my baby I have felt near CT to my boy since reading your let ter than at any other time since he has been away. l am 64 years old and since I know that you have seen my boy and that he is alright I feel younger and lots stronger. I will all ways keep your letter and kiss 1t when I read it,
 From another dear mother:
 Words can't express any gratitude 10 you for the service you have rem dored me in sending me my dear sons message that was written in the mothers book It had been almost three months since hearing from him and when you sent me the little note I was so overjoyed that I just had to take good cry. The title that our dear boys have given you The Little Mother of the A. F. F. Is one to be proud of. Your patrio- tism and service for the boys over there will be appreciated by more mothers than one over here in the U. S. Al
 And stiu another writes:
 T do appreciate your kind and sympathetic letter It Is a great sat- isfaction to get a message from one who has seen my dear boy. I did not hear from my boy from August vo the first of March when received your letter. You can imagine how glorious it was to know that he was safe anC we'll I tried everyway I knew to find cut about him. All the War Department could tell me was that he had cen in a hbospitaL Since your letter. get his mail right along" And one more reads as follows: ''I can never find words to tell you how much pleasure and comfort your letter from Coblenz gave me, that wonderful letter with its most precious enclosure.
 q just cried out loud like a baby when it came today While hear often from my boy, your word was the first from one who had seen him fn the 21 months since he left us and I felt like all mothers that he is such a dear boy and only IS when he went away.
 ''I envy you so mQch1 You have seen my boy, his surroundings. his companions and I want to so much. I never will forget your goodness and l shall cherish your letter as long as live. I just can't express what 1t meant to me and to his father, too"
 How Home Influence Works.
 l wish it were possible for ma to gay how tremendously I admire the boys of the A. F. F. in the way they are conducting themselves.
 As I watched them in the devasta- ted regions of France through which I passed their attitude toward wo- manhood, the kindly acts to little children and their general demeahor or in the presence of an emergency over and over again 1t seemed to me to speak of the thorough home in- fuence that has been built up and has produced such fine American manhood. I watched them when policing an enemy country and was especially impressed by their dignified soldierly department in Germany. In talking of 1t to one of the boys concerning rumors that had been circulated that American troops were manifesting a pro-German attitude, I asked him how he felt abotu 1t "Oh," he said, little Mother, I have seen too many of my 'Buddies shot down at my side to feel any sympathy for the