. Letters from Beatrice (to a private in the Medical department) . s, candy andcigarettes. I am also making something which I knowyou will appreciate more than anything else—sometrench candles. The president of our Red Cross coteriehas a new formula. They are made of newspapersdipped in ?/ I havent mastered all the details yet,but, as soon as I do, I shall make you ten or a dozen,and perhaps you can share them with your friends whohave no light to read their letters by. Poor things! I am heart and soul in the prohibition movement. Igive little talks at our church and at our club on thebenefits
. Letters from Beatrice (to a private in the Medical department) . s, candy andcigarettes. I am also making something which I knowyou will appreciate more than anything else—sometrench candles. The president of our Red Cross coteriehas a new formula. They are made of newspapersdipped in ?/ I havent mastered all the details yet,but, as soon as I do, I shall make you ten or a dozen,and perhaps you can share them with your friends whohave no light to read their letters by. Poor things! I am heart and soul in the prohibition movement. Igive little talks at our church and at our club on thebenefits of prohibition. One of my best arguments isthat the barley aand malt should be hoarded. The coun-try will need those products. At all events, our sol-diers come first. If these products are sent them In-stead of being used for such evil purposes as the manu-facture of liquor, the country will be better off and theywill be able to fight all the better for the cause of De-mocracy. With loving regards from mother and myself, I am. Sincerely yours, r :. They say smoking is the soldiers pleasure II. Boston, Mass., Jan. 10, Charles: It is eight oclock, and through my window I can seea full moon out. It is getting colder and colder, and mythoughts are all of you. The heat is getting stingierand stingier, but mother and I have resolved to sacrificeourselves in all the comforts of life, for the sake of ourbrave soldiers. Whenever I think of our brave soldiersfighting in the trenches for democracy, I think also ofyou. I presume at this minute you are sitting aroundthe campfire, trying to keep warm, and telling stories,just as soldiers do in the pictures of the Sunday supple-ments of the newspapers. I have recently read about the hardships Americansoldiers suffered at Valley Forge, and sometimes I readin a history about Napoleon (the little man in thecocked hat, you,know), and his campaign in Prussia orsomewhere. (I do hope it was Prussia, because its allthe Prussi
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