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Show A Boston Bachelor Girl Who Is the Soldiers' Best Friend. Miss Marlon Howard Drazlcr of Dos-ton, Dos-ton, editor of tho Patriotic Review, Is one nf the best friends tho United States soldier has. Whether enlisted man or volunteer, she sympathizes with und hilps him wherever she cun. She sends n free copy of her magazine to every army bat racks In Porto Illco, Hawaii and tho Philippines. She wants ovcry soldier to feel, no matter how far ha Is from home, that he Is not "a man without a countrs'." She does all she inn to stimulate his patriotism and Interest In-terest him in the great nnd stirring events of tho Nation' hlstors'. She (omes of good lighting blood, dnt-Ing dnt-Ing from tolonlnl dass, which may account ac-count for her soldierly ssmpathles nnd bravers' In lighting life's battlo alone slnie girlhood. One ancestor was a member of the famous Tea Pnrtv and wus the first minute man to fall nt the Lexington bridge. Another wan a gunner gun-ner on the fleet commanded by Paul Jones. Her father wns n Civil war veteran. vet-eran. Sho Is State historian nf the Mas-snehusetts Mas-snehusetts Daughters of tho American Revolution. MIsr Drazler makes no claim to beauts, beau-ts, but she has done things worthy of mention and has a versatility possessed by tow women She has made a name for herself during the past s ear as being the only woman In this country to own, edit and publish, single-handed, a magazine, mag-azine, tho Patriotic Itevlew. This magazine mag-azine now goea Into neatly every Stato and Tcnltory of the I'nlon and to most of tho Huropenn countries. Miss llruzler got tho training In journalism jour-nalism which enabled her to launch her magazine enterprise from seven scars' experience In daliv newspaper work, part of that time helnar society editor nf ono of tho ltoston papcis Sho Is a Hoston "bachelor girl." and her home Is Bohemian. It consists of u small suite In Trinity court, under the Minnow of the Art museum und public Miliary In Copley square. Her magazine olllco den is cosy and lilted up nccoiding to a woman's whims, set business-like. Her piess clippings uto kept In tin brief boxes In Manila em elopes, placed on shelves which reach ncarls to the celling. On the shelf topping them ate busts, flags and pictures. Miss Hrazler has a scrapbook wUch no money tan bus-, for sho has willed It to tho Naval and Military Older of the Spunlsh-Amcrlcun win. of whlth the President of tho United States Is com-nander-ln- hlef. It is very large, has S00 pages filled with facts of the war, and illuminated with plctuies, cartoons and letters 'fiom the front," somo of them thanking her foi tho many thou-sand thou-sand books and magazines she collected nnd sent to the soldiers nnd sailors |