The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-11

Mrs. Henry W. Hovey has received
two letters recently from her daughter,
Mrs Clara Hovcy Gilman of Brattle-
boro, who is engaged in Red Cross hos
pital hut, service in France. One was
written Nov 80 and one Dee. 5, and
from them the following extracts are
made:
Ss November 80.
Thanks for the papers and the little
Christmas tags which came few days
ago. insure T shall be glad to use
them
don I. just understand about the
money which is to cone, but whatever
it. is III do the best i can with it. There
will be many men in the hospitals who
will have nothing from home and II
make various inquiries as to What
would please them most OF course fherc
arc many desirable things which are not
obtainablc in France. Real American
candy for instance; is the most longed
for article Ilkn0w of and that ia out
of the question,
We all feel rather unsettled for we
hear such conflicting accounts as to
plans for ,Niehy We are still getting
patients from the hospitals near the
front and are not evacuating at the
same rate. This is well organized
centcr and many people who ought to
know say til VIII be retained to the
end. , irwin be. two, months more be-
fore all the patients. are sept out, at
tho very least New tanteens are be
ing established ut .poipts where troops
are TO be held awaiting sailing orders,
and, lof course, others. must go into
Gernaany.. ANY, and alls of it is very in
terestng ys
II think YOU will like to hear about
OR Thanksgiving. On all sides / hear
glowing itecoiints. OF The dinner. Tur-
keys, cIianbcrries and pumpkins were
given 20 .allSthe hospitals by the Red
Cross must try TO find out how
many that4 meaas Then. we made lee
cream for, the ljPlidjIiet patients and
dbughnuts for men who were unable 10
ret out FOR the day. They certainly dc
luNe tllcmg A sThanksgivihg service was
held iii the Hheater In the morning, q
rabbi, two. Catholic and one Protestant
cbaplainS; ism that true unityf
AT 2 O'Clock there was track meet
aud football game Nichy VS. Clermohd
F6rrdnd. Those who saw it say it was
n good game: score, Q to 0. i was Sc
busy being one of the hostesscs that
| saw very iittle of<it. We gave the
boys hot roasted chest1uts and lemon
adc--all popular We q bought" three
chestnut vendors with their funny
stands for the afternoon aud kept then
busy for several hours. 1t. was sucf
fun distributing them and quite {
problem. The -Erapdstand was packed
too crowded TO admit of walking abou
SO we had Big baskets carried to Ger
tain points of vantage and threw hand
fuls of the nuts into the crowd. 1t va
bowling, happy crowd, assure you
There was fine rain part of the time
but no ono seemed to mind. Most o
thc mon playing were college football
stars Of varying magnitude. Just name
10 mc for We not followed the news o
the gridiron for years.
We had extra 'moyics for thOs
who didn't care to go out to the rae
track and at ) and 3 O'Clock a vaudc
Vile performance. This latter Il say
last evening as il was repeated at tn
request Of many who had been unabl
TO see il 'on Thursday aud it was reall
wonderful A little play, full Of loea
color. and hits some of the men wrot
themselves, and it was truly. clever
though, TO an outsider, it would hay