Show NO SHADOW ON HER FACE Wit Writer r Tells Felts ells of English Woman Who Has Given All She Had to the Country W We English do not read rend our casualty casualty casu casu- alty lists any more Many of us dare not When hen we meet we do not even speak of those who have gone bone away uway A very touching thing was told me by byone byone byone one of my neighbors He was the last of twenty-four twenty officers In one of the Gordon regiments He said that the tho places were just filled up as soon a athey as they were ere emptied and they never spoke of those who had fallen That brings s the reality of the thin thing to you In my own little country country S Scotland country Scotland you ron you will find many man many villages from which the Highland regiments have have- been recruited There are no bo boys s left to come back They are all dead Not many weeks before I came to this country I was up in the Gordon country and on a Sunday night I was speaking in n a church on the spiritual side of f the war At the close a woman woman woman wom wom- an came to me a n little simple country country country coun coun- try woman dressed in the uniform of ot the Gordon Highlanders holding a n yellow missive which I I. I alas knew too well The war office department regrets regrets regrets re re- grets to inform that was killed in action She laid this little missive beside o one c of the portraits portraits portraits por por- traits said That came yesterday That's Jimmie lies lie's the last of the tho thre three I hear you are going to Amer Amer- ica Will wm you tell American mothers I have given all my lads I had only three and I would give six If I had them for forthe the same cause Another friend of mine has hns given iven all her five sons She is a widow and she has none left but she Is working in one of the canteens with no shadow on her face Mrs A. A Smith Burnett-Smith In the Atlantic Monthly r |