Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — War’s Little Tragedies. [ARTICLE]

War’s Little Tragedies.

“It’s all right for them to counsel the stay-at-home woman to sit tight and economize and thus do her part to help the - nation,” complained a boardinghouse keeper in Forty-second street. “But what are you going to do, I want to know, when you depend for a living on running a boarding and rooming house, and five of your best young men go off to the training camp? And it does seem as if it was the spunkiest and most likable that go first! I got one solemn, long-faced bookkeeper with me that never did shed a ray of sunshine round the place, but do you think he’d go? Not him! It takes the very best. Oh, dear!”—New York Herald.