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Show Gifts and Letters I Receive P Stl 116 T e M f N n O lO fc, S 8 Fu o ate v o al r u t tip ti M e 1 ROM a o er he o 1 do T R fte ost of the fron b a gefs ho s gn thn se s our f e Is a d adn Irers a I ej are a weet 1 t o tokens nale a hon e rvo Bern uda I ha e n. Ue a s ore of she e Kla es from Ind a L na a d Japa or amenta t-aned n o j pa nt ed fa a and sandal vood ho es Too three ha e se it me del lous and el fruits fron the Hawaiian a ands a d fron e er or er of the n ap ome sou enlr ards or kodak pic res bach week I am sure to get a I le art galler of original drawings an ong t en many portraits of n e r T ese are especial) Interesting to e as a I mj life I ha e longed to draw pi tures In m spare moments I model lit le laj figures fig-ures and the. other afternoon I felt a gow of pleas re as I finished what i thought a ry sue esafi 1 flgi re of a oung lad in full skirts dancing I saw tl at It was p a.ed in a conspl uoua co ner of m dressing room and there I eyed It proudly But pride goeth before a fall and In came my director I pointed to n j 1 tile statue and he looked at It a long long time before he said anything I can t ulte make out Miss Plckford I e re marked at last "whether It is supposed to be a yacht at full sail or a wlndm II on a storn day But whate er It Is It Is certainly cle er I so agreed with him that It disappeared Into m waste paper basket behind the dressing room table, and I decided I could never be a sculptress That ts why I enjoy the original fSket hes Many drawings have come from across the water right from the war sone Sev era! I have received from young men still boys in years and experience who tried to remember bow I looted on the screen and there in the trenches added to their letters lltjle coat iroed sketches of me They make my heart ache, to be remembered so happily In such dreadful surroundings. 7 read in a scrap of newspaper that you were putting' on Esmeralda, writes a boy from the French frontier Gee but it makes me sick to think we are missing It Say can t ou promise us fellows that admire you to save vour Best pictures until we come marching home again I am sen-ling you a Httle picture I drew of you last night. Tou will excuse thla dirty paper and the pen cii won t you That mud spattered In the corner was made bv a bullet They got so hot around me when I was draw frig I though t I would hit the long trail before I got it finished What would ou B, if you read in tbe newspaper that American soldier fighting for England killed while he was drawing a picture o&Karv Plckford' My girl back in En Khiad wouldn t have got Jealous for she Vyes"yvu too. Tbe gift which affected me most was a little knitted sack and a pair of bed room slippers sent to me r a German mother in. memory of her daughter I read her letter many many times he fore I put it into my treasure box The only one I had in the world to love and to love me waS a daughter Just your age She was so well and strong I never dreamed I would not always have her with me for she came to me late in life and I am getting old One day she caught a dreadful cold Pneumonia developed and after ten days of suffering my little girl left me. We used to go to the theater together jeiery t me you were on the programme While others remarked her resemblance to you, I never saw it until after she had gone Then one night when I saw vou were to play here I went, because I felt she would like to have me do this when you first appeared In the picture you smlleQ. I thought ypu were smiling at me and I held out my arms with a cry Tou looked se much like my poor little girl I wanted to take you right to my breast. Since then I go every time you are On the film and If there are two per 1 h a o p h (iKkHOfU O V flH P p H S npe 1 h h es so op es u e o fo anoafin eft sedgo wo ogfs nrae aoeoo k o o o e st V yo ep hen a o e s ove I spo d n any o s s d a e fa en of e e d en w) He n he ho or ai s an 1 the a h k e e s e I s a h T e erf o e r ( om sa h a en ph a 1 a e e oes of e fo e a po a e H T e oa patriot c g f I hn e o er e e ed as fro a na e P p p efe It waa a ser o bu i o ng hat he had aered n hree ars |