Show L i Pity Pity the War Bride J e new newspapers paper are full of praise and nd co condolence for ol for the t s of soldiers over there j but not a word wordis IS s ld d' d a about out t the e W y t r brides over her here t var g v r over over i g t This was the lament uttered a few days ago by a sad eyed young ung woman whose look of utter desolation bespoke the fact that thai sh she was one of many whose thoughts by day and prayers and dreams byg by ni night ht are of those who may be suffering the privations and diso dis- dis o of trench life lying prone up upon m hospital cots or perhaps i giving iving their all their all their very existence to existence to the cause cause- of world word lib lib- i a And perhaps her criticism is' is all too true Not too much g I braise praise or condolence has been bee i showered upon American mothers who hays have given their sons as an offering to human happiness and n I progress ogress s and peace but perhaps not enough of f s such ch praise and con- con nce has been been- awarded award d the war brides and the young wives of ofu young u ung patriots The war has come to her as the most serious thing in the world g Me Methis fc this sundering of ties of love just completed th this s giving up of f I t the c young young robust man with whom the girl had expected in the inear r future happily to journey along long lifes life's pathway and upon whom she he would to clear the depend away rough places 1 I The flie marriage ceremony performed perhaps months before the date o originally set is followed by the only too brief honeymoon I arid and t then n comes ome the sep separation ration which tries the so souls o of both beS be- be S cause caus they realize that it may never have an ending upon earth ge 1 gand i that hope of a reunion must rest upon the promise promis of life after death I Already in some instances there have passed months of f anxious waiting and there will be many more such months And eventually childish lips may join in the prayer pray r at twilight for twilight for the repose of one who even then may be enshrouded in the the Stars Stats and Stripes for the recovery of one who may be lying between life and nd death or for the safe r return hirn of one ole whose coming is assured when victory is gained and who will wilt be greeted not only by the loyal and self elf sacrificing wife but by the harming charming bit of humanity the h to token loken n noLa of oLa ofa a true love who will Upon the occasion of their first meeting in lisping tone repeat the prayer at twilight And there will be others who ho in later late y years years rs must mutt tell t l' l again gain and again in tear-stifled tear tones why daddy nev never r comes ho home hoe e. e All honor to the patriotic and he torn heart torn rt-torn mothers of pf American boys who are over t there ere but all all honor too to the the lonely little H ar brides ov over here i tf v t |