THE ALLIANCE HERALD, MAY 16, 1911
A MOTHERS PROMISE
TO HER SON
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
My Dvur One I'm wrltliiK this very,
very hiiihIJ itml on the thiunest of pa
per, so that tlnhlly folded It may slip
Into one of the olive drah pockets of
your nevv uniform without encroaching
for the tiniest part of an inch upon all
the new things that Von must have
there the passports -find Identifica
tion slips and photograph, the knife
aad pen and writing pad, the Hats
and numhers Hml names nud ciphers,
the address hook nrnl the thin manual
700 have tecn studying so hard and
the slityllttle Hlhle, for this letter Is
a part, of your etpilpment, too, or at
least I like to think that it la.
I'm going to tell yoil In it Just one
or two the tilings we've been try
log not to sny in these last days. You're
said to yourself, haven't you. that
there were possibilities that I, thank
God. hadn't seemed to think of.
Tou've marvelled gratefully, haven't
you, that I could say goodby with
dry eyes and talk about what we
abould do when the war Is over. My
dear, there Is nothing nothlug -that
can haien to you that I haven't fore
aaen In every detail since May, since
the verfrbegtnnlng of It all. I know
that some of our men are not going to
come back. I know as I write this
la the room you love that your An
gers may fumble for this little piece
of paper In some dreadful hour, a
month! Or two months or six months
from ibw, Just to read it over once
Bore for the last time. Just to feel
In yolir Angers out there In a shell
U?hted 1 battlefield something that I
kTe tourht-A for goodbye.
And thinking of all this for almost
a year" while you've been getting
ready to go I've been getting ready to
stay. Just as you plauued 1 planned.
Hill I I. I.1WL . A I ..
1 uu 1 nun 111 iimm'ii . i inn me time
I conies for us to part 1 shall make him
a promise." Dear one, this is my
I promise, and 1 make It for the term
I of your own "for the duration of the
p resent war."
I promise you that while you are
i away, whether It is months or years,
nothing except what 1 can give you
1 ami give all the others shajl 1111 my
life. I promise you thnt I shall de
vote myself, here In safely, to the
i work of making w hat you do easier
and stronger and safer for you I
promise you that I shall give and
give and,. give for the Cause! Not
the money 1 can spare, not the tlifie
I have left when everything else is
done, but all the money, all the time,
all the energy 1 have 1
Your whole life hs been Hltered,
has been set to sterner and craver
music. . So shall mine be. You will
know self denial, privation and fatigue
while the war lasts. So shall I know
them. Even If black news comes, even
If the blackest comes, 1 shall remem
ber that against your brave heart this
promise is resting, and I shall go on.
And while there is one man among our
million atrd anions: the millions of our
allies who needs clothing and nursing
and comfortsAhd solace for your snke
I shall not fall him.
Perhaps in (Jod's goodness this note
will come safely hack to me In the
olive drab pocket, and we will smile
over It together. But, remember, until
that hour comes I shall be always busy
filling my own small plsce In the great
mac ), in.. if mercy and as truly under
the colors over here as you are over
there. Ood bless yon !
WHEN A CUP OF
COFFEE TASTES UKE
A MILLION DOLLARS
He Got Hit Cup and Then
Went on to Death.
letter received from Kd Ilerry In
! forms us that he is soon leaving for
"ov er there." Kd recently passed an
'examination for i commission, of
what rank. It it not yet certain Over
!(ne thousand candidates took the ex
amination with only four hundred
passing.
l-Mwin Mollrlng. of New Castle,
Through the establishment of the
line of communication canteens In i
France the American Ited Cross Is set
ting records in serving hot coffee, co- !
coa and sandwiches to the troops One
Of these refreshment units made an
other new record recently, serving1
more than 00,000 meals in one week.
At another a cup of coffee was served
every ten seconds for a period of two
consecutive hours.
In a single week these lines of com
nnmicatlon canteens often serve 80,000
American and French soldiers.
Soldiers In Box Cars.
I n our soldier audi t heir allies real
ly want this form of Ked Cross serv
ice'.' A letter from a young American
aviator, a 1917 graduute of Princeton
University. Is lirohubly typical. It
might be added thitt this man has since ;
been- reported killed after bringing
down a Jerthati Taube. "A -60 mile
train ride' over' here," he said, "Instead
of taking a few hours may take days.
When we stop at a Ked Cross canteen
you can bet that a cup of coffee tastes
like a million dollars."
It la not always possible for a regi
ment to provide sufficient food and hot
coffee on these long journeys, where
the men must orten be packed stand
ing into unhealed box ears ordinarily
used for carrying horses. So Imagine
for yourself the warmth, the cheer, the
comfort that piping hot coffee and
good sandwiches bring to our boys aft
er a night on such a Journey I You
can just bet that It stiffens a man's
courage. Your lied" CroBS Is handing
out this renewed courage by the piping
hot cupful.
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Wyn, hns Joined his uncle, (lenrge
Mollrlng. in Alliance and will take
up the study of the mercantile busi
ness. .. Bjfl
Ornduatlon exercises for the senior
cIiirs of the high school will be held
in the opera house a week from this
Friday.
Norman Newberry and Dradlaf
Minor will motor down to Heralng
ford Friday evening.
Word received from Mrs Minnie
IVItMf slates that she Joined thw
Canadian Kiddles at Iluttc, Montana,
I'lom tin re she will go to the larger
tOWM In Idaho.
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