Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — Chivalrous Private. [ARTICLE]

Chivalrous Private.

The wife of a wounded soldier was given a permit to France, to see him before he died, says the London (England) Morning Post. The funeral was on a wet, cold day. At the graveside the chaplain whispered to the woman: “Now l am going to offer up a prayer," “Then I must kneel,” she said." “No nefver mind kneeling: just stand,” he whispered again. But a Tommy understood her distress, slipped off his coat, rolled It pillow-fashion, and laid it for her on the sodden ground, so aha knelt and was comforted.