Deseret Evening News | 1900-05-05 | Page 15 | The American Soldier's Wife

Tim 1110 wire Wife Yet terrible as war I Is with Its Hs weary marches march battle batU sickness wounds slaughter death and knowing that the tn soldier must endure it H all yet I repeat my heart sheds not its Ita keenest blood of oC sympathy for tor him No It le II to fo the woman he leaves woman whose province It le II to watt walt and who In that waiting must endure the tor tore turee of R a lost loet IOU Ito whom my m kt kett set eat sympathy cries crill out There are no braver braer women In the world today than Ihan the wives ot of our army officers and alid those of our private soldier as well for the heart under the rough woolen jacket can ache a at iii as that under the silken robe To fo th their lr honor be It fl said Id that In the path of dut duty no sac NC sacrifice Is too loo great for them no loved one too dear tar to yield Six seemingly Interminable weeks week mull mut clap elapse before It a I letter fro front the Philippines can an reach the eastern part ot of th lb United States and eVer every soldiers rl wife knows knowl when she r read ad th the letter that In the intervening weeks Inee It was wal Written th the loved hand that penned th the word may hn have fallen tallen palsied by It a Mauler tauer bullet What too ot of the women who hare haro no nomore nomore more to watt walt for tor who alt no longer at al atthe althe the window lit of hope thy they from Crom whom war cruel avarice has robbed all life held widowed WI WIthe the bereft mothers and th sorrowing U S Orant In Harper nazar Dazar