The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-01-21
BY KATHLEEN r
7HEN you write to the
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ter need necessarily be long.
Write regularly and briefly. If
he is on foreign service send
the letter by "V-mail," which
is to say by air. Don't let your
boy feel himself forgotten.
These letters to our boys
are not too easy to write. On
one side, we don't want them
to think we are lonely and
gloomy and on the other, moth
ing is so desolating to those far
away from home as to believe that
they aren't loved and missed. 1t is
for you to be ingenious enough to
steer a path between these pitfalls.
Many years ago my father told
me that when writing to a regular
correspondent it was a good idea to
mention time and place. I still find
it helps a letter. You give him the
whole picture. Tell him that lit is
just before dinner; Dad is giving
Bingo a walk around the block and
Sis is setting the table. I cut a lot
of gold and bronze chrysanthemums
today. and with the fire and the
lamps they make the DON look
lovely. I'm wearing my old blue
jersey, but Sis is going to the movies
with Roger-who may be called any
day now, by the way-and looks
lovely in her black velvet. I a
smell cornbread baking and hear
the Watsons' baby rebelling against
bed time, as usual" That sort of
thing takes him back home.
What Not to Write.
On the other hand, what does he
get from pages and pages of stuff
like this? We'll, l suppose you are
surely having an interesting time,
it is all but winter here. we listened
to the Presidents speech and sim
cerely hope this dreadful war will
soon be over. Winter is upon us;
you will probably have no snow
where you are. as climatic condi-
tons differ. There is no news, town
as dull as ever, everything is just
the same, I am going to work with
the Red Cross as usual tomorrow
Make your letter a little home
magazine. Watch the papers for
items that concern the friends he
loved Or the sports that interested
him, and paste the actual clippings.
which are much more interesting
than your mere quotations of them,
in the letter. If there is a good H.
Illustrated joke, or a picture in one
If the illustrated Weeklies that is
striking CT amusing. put those in,
too,
One mother in our town takes the
81 pages Of the Sunday comic sec
tions every week and binds them
with gummed paper so that they
nave some body. and mails them to
an adopted soldier in Alaska. Grown
persons follow comics with avid en-.
jOyment: every man in the family
has his favorl:e series, and the sol.
der to whom these bound pages are
sent reports that they circulate IN
til they are reduced to rags.
Family Record Great Treat.
Another large family made a rec
ord a few months ago and shipped
it to the adored son of the house.
who is far away. Grandfather anG
grand'rothers. cousins, aunts. broth
err, sisters. brothers-in-law and a few
intimate friends brought the partici-
pants to 81; n of the girls in the
group wrote jingles appropriate to
every personality, and the faraway
boy. acknowledging this birthday
gift, said that not only he himself
but every one of his pals liked to
listen 10 it, over and over again.