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Show oo INSECT POWDER IN THE WAR. Soldier letters occupy a largo part of the English papers these days and the sidelights they throw on the war aTO often amusing. One Tommy Atkins writes to thank his mothor for sending Insect powder, adding: he powder comes in useful because be-cause wo get a few 'lodgers' when we have been in tho trenches." Tho younger generation may not grasp tho full meaning of the paragraph, para-graph, but any old veteran of the Civil war can elucidate tho subject with a wealth of detail. War today, in at least one aspect, is what it was when Sherman marched down to tho sea and his soldiers rejoiced over an opportunity to scrub themselves and renovate their clothes. oo |