"Ladies from hell," (1918) (14576727768)

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Title: "Ladies from hell,"
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Robert Douglas
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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iate effects of the slight gassinghad worn off, I returned to the front line, but formany days thereafter I was intensely weak, andmy eyesight was badly dimmed. As a rude warn-ing against future attacks, we filled bully-beefcans with stones and hung them up and down thetrench, where a watch could shake them and an-nounce the approach of any sort of gas attack, beit by shell or cloud. After our spell of duty in the front line wereturned to the rest-billets, where the rumble ofcartwheels told us that the post was arriving.The carts were piled mountain high with mail-bags such as you use in your country, each markedfor a certain platoon. Immediately there was ju-bilation. The sergeant distributed the parcelsand letters, and cares and troubles vanished forth-with. Cakes, candy, cocoa, coffee, cheese, butter,books, magazines, and papers were all forthcom-ing, and how welcome they were I Some poorchaps, perhaps not such good correspondents asthe rest of us, were forgotten by the home folks,
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International Film Service Inc. After the days workA bagpiper entertaining his comrades behind the lines MR. FINDLEYS GRAVE 123 and they stole off into lonesome corners to takewhat empty cheer they could from the randombits of cake and candy given them by sympathiz-ing comrades. Let me beseech you never to send a man in thefighting line a case of jam, or even a jar of jam.Jam and mud are synonymous terms in the mindsof fighting men. They are fed up on jam. Whatthey want is some of this ready-prepared cocoa orchocolate to which one need only add hot water.Butter is at a premium. Cheese, likewise, is aluxury. Sweet biscuits, hard enough to stand therough journey, are rare and welcome delicacies.Helmets, trench mirrors, and similar personal ac-cessories are always received with open arms. The arrival of any packet from home is an eventof importance, so don ^t forget the boys whom youknow, when they are on the firing line. The re-ceipt of a letter means as much to them as a tripto the the