Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1918 — EVENT IN A SOLDIER’S LIFE. [ARTICLE]

EVENT IN A SOLDIER’S LIFE.

Just to' show what makes an event in a soldier’s life that—as the soldiers see it —is really worth recording, here is a bit out of a letter from Harley Johnson, a Butler boy, printed in the Bates County (Missouri) Democrat: “Well, I am sure going to have something good for dinner. The cook told me that if I would get enough gooseberries to make two pies he would make them. So I started out to look for gooseberries and found them. I asked an old French woman to sell me some, and, don’t you know, she said they were no good and I had to laugh. She would not sell me any, but gave me all I could carry away and they were big ones, about the size of my thumb. So I had a pie all to myself.” What are bursting shrapnel and red blood to write about when a man has gooseberry pie?—St. Louis Republic.