Show WRITE LETTERS THAT CHEER I Why Epistles Epistle Written to Soldiers Should Contain Maximum of News New That Is Agreeable Do you rou give as os good as you get geU Does your soldier boy fill fiU his letters with accounts of ot the disagreeable things he Is meeting or does he lie cheerfully cheer cheer- cheer 1 fully Ignore them and try to make you I I believe that he Is having hu the best time ever He lie knows that you can do nothing noth I I ing to change conditions as he finds them so in his fine philosophy why I pass the worrying on to you Turn the picture around and look at the boys boy's side of it t. t You will never know the half of the things s he endures ho wont won't tell teU you now and when he comes back he will wave them aside M a of ot no Importance As you cant can't help him he ho cant can't help hell you A grumbling letter or Che bhe he full of ot discouragement gem bt wilt will on only I make a soldier a less em efficient l it l id lit his bis Job you oU will situ han the h home ine problems to tackle Tho need Is not so much inch for tor more letters but for tor more cheerful letters Is the word that comes from the camps The mud soaked Old Bills Bills' of the trenches cheerfully Ignoring ignoring ing vermin rain and shell fire continue continue continue con con- to wind up their epistles with Hoping ing this finds you In the pink as 08 asit asit it leaves me at present sa says s 's Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Daw Dawson on They are ore always In Inthe inthe n the pink of ot epistolary purposes whatever whatever what what- ever the strafing or the weather Wo We at home should be In the pink We should do more than keep the home fires burning we should let them shine on and ond in the letters that we send to camp William William Frederick Bigelow In Good Housekeeping r |