Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . Newport is not forgetting that thenan at the front loves his smokes. Those jwho return from the trenches:ay that when loafing the men likelOthing better than a cigarette .andvhen they ? are convalescent the first:hing- they ask for is something tosmoke. Among the prominent women who are providing cigarettesfor the soldiers are Mrs. Herbert , Mrs. R. S. Reynolds Hitt,Mrs. Craig Biddle, Mrs. Oliver G. Jen-nings and Mrs. William Payne Thomp-son. Last week they presented 20,000cigarettes to the Eighth Provis
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . Newport is not forgetting that thenan at the front loves his smokes. Those jwho return from the trenches:ay that when loafing the men likelOthing better than a cigarette .andvhen they ? are convalescent the first:hing- they ask for is something tosmoke. Among the prominent women who are providing cigarettesfor the soldiers are Mrs. Herbert , Mrs. R. S. Reynolds Hitt,Mrs. Craig Biddle, Mrs. Oliver G. Jen-nings and Mrs. William Payne Thomp-son. Last week they presented 20,000cigarettes to the Eighth ProvisionalRegiment before it changed camp. A woman of the summer colony,whose name is withheld, has given520,000 for a permanent building atFort Adams, Newport. The building isto be under direction of the Y. M. C. Other good war work is being doneat Newport by Mrs. Ogden L. Mills. her residence on Sept. 1, Mrs. Millsis giving what she calls a tiny en-tertainment for tiny children. Thismtertainment will benefit the Alliesiestitute children and blinded NEW BOOKS SEPTEMBER1917 t^e Old Corner Book Store 27-29 Bromfield Street BOSTON, MASS. 7069 Main 7070 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, whose Understood Betsyis among the months publications, has been doingwar work in France for over a year. She has beenassisting Miss Winifred Holts work for soldiersblinded in battle in which she has had charge ofpublishing a magazine and running a printing estab-lishment to print it, as well as books in raised recently breakfasted with General Pershing whowas her instructor in mathematics in her girlhooddays at Lawrence, Kansas. jjjstow, Ma^ss., Grtob<^. TO RAISE $100,000 FORBLINDEDAMERICAN SOLDIERS A campaign to raise $100,000 as a warfund to be used in caring for, reeducat-ing and rehabiting American soldierswho may have the misfortune to losetheir eyesight during the war has beenstarted by the Massachusetts BlindWelfare Union, Inc, which has head-quarters at 1234 Washington st.
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