Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1918 — LETTER FROM A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SOLDIER [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SOLDIER

Seventh Co., Fort Coswell, N. C., Dear Mother: I received your letter ; this morning and was gald to hear from you. It was the first letter I got from you since I have been here. I got some from Gladys and one from Fern, but I was insulted when I read “my dear little boy,” when I weight 150 pounds. ’ Why call me little when I weigh almost as much as my dad? lam assigned to the 7th company. Don’t put recruit detatchment, for I am a first class private now. I will soon be working on the big machine guns. It is sure something great. I want Fern to join the coast artillery. If he knew what it was, he would, too. How is my woman getting along? I haven’t heard from her for a week. You know I would naturally be worried. I hardly know what a girl is any more. I don’t care; there is nothing worries me at all as long as I hear from home. lam feeling fine all the time. t After a fellow is in the army he has no debts to worry him. Uncle Sam takes cate of them. Say, there *was just now a negro wash woman in here and you know about how a bunch of soldiers would act. Talk about a time, we surely had it. I was just up-stairs and Cecil was sound asleep. We are going to have a big time at the Y* M. C. A. tonight. I am going to jig Oh, I am not dead here. I have some fun. I used to think I couldn’t have fun without girls, but I have more fun than I ever had with girls. When Igo any place I don’t hear some girl crying all the way home like one girl done every time I went to a dance. Ask Fern if he remembers when he said I wouldn’t be away from home more than a month and it has been almost three months since I left Giffrird. It will be three months the first of July and it will probably be some time yet before I come home. You will know just as much about it as I do. I am going t oeat Xmas dinner in the Kaiser’s palace, and I am going to have him pinned to the ground with my bayonet. Say, I am jurt about as pretty as you ever saw, with my hair all cut off. Well I will have to close for this time and will write a longer letter next time. With love. EARL.

brings his own lunch of just enough food for his meals with no bits of bread, meat, or pie as left-overs. The host could serve some beverage either hot or cold. Whether we adopt this plan of serving the threshers or some other method of “saving food” meals, let us show a spirit of patriotism and divide our rich store house of food with those -*ho are sacrificing everything to save the world from Prussianism. \ Demonstrations. Mrs. Charles Jorodan has arranged for a demonstration on canning at her home for Thursday afternoon, July 18th. A canning demonstration will be given at the home of Mrs. Jay Stockton Friday, July 19th. Miss Reva Smith, from Purdue, will give a canning demonstration at 2:30 at the M, E. church in Remington. ..