'YOU WERE SO WHITE, SO SOFT.'
I knew your gentle touch Through all those many years— Unheeding, then, but now How memory endears That :gol|den span of time, And makes me wish anew That, since you could not come, I might have stayed with you. We said good-by, and yet I went without a thought Of what my going meant, Or how you held me taut; And yet the thought of you Each night repose defeats— Oh, would I knew again The luxury of sheets 1 —Sergeant John Pierre Eoche, In 'Ehymes in Olive Drab.'
a Nazol Inhaler. That will remove huskiness and prevent serious trouble. Sixty dosee 1/6. Tlio English superintendent o£ a hospital for Indian women recently deceived the following testimonials to her-efficiency: 'Dear She,—My wife has returned from your hospital cured. Provided males are allowed at your bungalow, I would like to do you the honour of presenting myself there this afternoon, 'but I will not try to repay you, Vengeance belongeth unto God. —Yours noticeably, .' The second letter reads :- Dear and Fair Madame, —I have much pleasure to inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will no longer be under your kind treatment, she having left this world for tho other on tho night of the 27th ult. For your help in this matter I shall ever remain grateful.—Your3 reverently, .' For ooughs and oolds, Woodß' Peppermint dure,
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Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 51, 8 July 1918, Page 1
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231Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 51, 8 July 1918, Page 1
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