Show FEARED FRED MIGHT BE COLD marine serving in haiti gets comfortable made by his solicitous grandmother rochester N Y fearing the government did not provide sufficiently warm clothing tor for her favorite grandson serving in the united states marine corps an elderly lady brought a fleecy hand worked comfortable to 10 the local recruiting station of the sea soldiers and requested sergt george S fynmore to forward it to him poor fred may be shaking and shivering with cold just like the sol dars in europe she told fynmore and this comfortable will be just the thing send it to him wont you sergeant fynmore assured the old grandmother that it would bo be a privilege and a pleasure to do so but when he forwarded the package to port au prince haiti where the grandson is now serving he a note explaining that the old lady had worked hard in an endeavor to have the comfortable finished in time to come as a christmas present and that he have the heart to disillusion her about the need for such things in haiti but he added in the note just by way of encouragement sometime when youre joure servings serving in alaska ill get her to send you a cake of ice |