Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — Joy in Homely Happenings. [ARTICLE]

Joy in Homely Happenings.

Curiously enough, as one reads letters and * reports that come to on© personally, one finds that the interest of our boys in France is centered on the quaint and homely happenings of —life, death, immortality, God—they Joyously take for granted, with their strange, new insight into things spiritual, their prescience of reality; but perhaps for the first time they ar* realizing every-day joys, know what quiet' means, and rest and needed sleep; are aware of the holiness of clean clothing, the exquisite flavor of coarse food, the divine loveliness of dawn, and noontime and night. And so, having found out about Life, they know all there is for us to know about Death. Instead of losing its strange distinction, death for them has taken op A" new splendor, as have the comjpdn things of life. And as to their losing tbu vision, forgetting —those who live to come back —they may. But they have known reality, those boys, and one does not easily drop into materialism u/ter one has attained that knowledge. —Atlantic Monthly.