Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-21
HlD GIFTS REACH
MEN A YEAR TOO LATE
Comfort Kits Sent BY Local BED
Cross TO Men Overseas Year
AGO. Just Arrive
FAULT or THE MAILS

How very slow the malls have been
4 ii reaching soldiers and sailors Over-
|seas u illustrated by the following
More than year ago the Annapolis
Surgical Dressings society, q branch
OF the Red Cross, working under the
i Potomac division. Washington, sent 70
the late Brtgadief General Doyen Tor
mis- men 100 c0mfoFt kits. which have
lonIy recently been received and ac-
knowisdged,
These kits we're made and packed
by the Surgical Dressings committee,
lat that AiFna working under the diEec-
\ ton 81 Mics Margaret Walton, III the
EIOwer room Of ST Arlne's chapel They
contained each b khaki shirt. flannel
shirt, buttons, thread needles, soap,
tooth brush, writing material. pencil
4 and few othAr things useful To the
4 men overseas, and were sent In time
Tor Christmas. 1917, but have only
beeh received III tine for Christmas
one yeaF later. agtss Brigadisr General
Doyen has passed away some months
Eago
That they were not received BY the
men for whom intended IL Indicated BY
the following posi- cards and letter.
loniy ona writer oa WHOM IA marine.
One dated December ~, 1913. u. s.
Naval forces IN France. is as follows:
Just line or 80 to thank you for
the lovely Christmas gift, which Was
handed To nae BY tbs nagy officials with
your compliments and good wishes
Il have been moying 10 much lately
Itaaat al my mail from home ii away BE-
hind me, 80 that your gift was the nrst
fone received.
..The day hardly seemed like Christ
mas to me, being so far from home,
i hut when saw so many others around
lrne who were in ths same position !
tEried to ba cheerful and make the best
Iog ii. Your gift. coming all the way
from Maryland, helped me q great
deal, y0u naay be- sure, and vas q sweet
i resnfYader tlaat tlaa folks ~ A1nsraca
were thinking OF us
III had planned ID spend most of my
day at the I. NJ G. 4. with the little
4 French orphans, for Iilye yourself !
land greater pleasure "a giving. than
4 III receiving. However. waa deprived
og that pleasure, becauaas the ofacers
aboye me found II necessary for me 10
work aor part og the sia,r
III suppose should consider myself
& very fortunate to have spent the day
i In Paris, though would have given 9
Il great deal To haye been at my home in
i iPhiiadaiphia Everything WAS very
nice here, and thh presence OF few
j snow 1lurrIss early Id the morning
gave 1t q touch OF real Christmas, al
Il though there WASH enough 10 allow
1.-THE imagination IL see st. Nicholas
4 gliding along ID his deer-sleigh.
Il wherever one turned there we're tree
turkey dinnere III @. A.. Red
Cross, s. and S. club and Christmas
presents from ALI ! think We should
8all be very happy and thankful and
hope that next Chrlstnas We Will all
be home again and forget that war
1 leSer existed
Again thanking you for the gtft and
the good wishes that come with It, and
hoping 10 be- with you I'll ia the good
llOld v. s. a. very soon again.
Your stncere friend
.A STEVENS.
Yeonaan. e S. n. r. F.
NeIrose Park,
Phila, Pa
IN every Kit sent BY Miss Walton's
committee waa self-ad addressad post
card for acknDw lsd agnent to the cum
snittee, none Of mhich has been re-
csivad until now, the three following
having come to hand the Iaat few days:
Paris, France.
sIec 27. 1918.
81 wish 10 thank you Tor the Christ
maa package that received from You
through the navy II Ii very nice and
Ewiii come ID handy Best wishes FOR
= Merry Xmas and ! Happy New
Year.
MOSES COOK.
Chie4 Electrician Radio.
u. 81 Naval Headauar-
ters, Paris, France =
l..slational Surgical Dressings Commit
tee. st Anne's Chapel, Annapolis,
AEd
dear Friends
81 have Just received Comfort Kit
4 packed hy you. TOR which plaaae let
na express my appreciation
VERY aineereiy,
8. Il TAYLOR,
u. IS. Naval Head
Il GmarSaTs, Paris.
Franco
lDec. ~. 1918
Dsc. Us, as1s
Dear Friends.
Yoar most exces Ians pa reach
"a ma, and so say mat Il wMs sincerely
appreciated wonld be pustang Il TOO
lsstay. III y0a 0saaN knew the plaaa-
i uas II gives a. III ghIs tlEns OE the year
81 kn0w that those ii saae 9g,O1 old q.
81 A4 ere Aesrs mF aoua With ~. ycg