TOMMY'S MASCOT.
Apropos of the new mascots sold in Paris—charms against air raids ancf long-rangers—a padre tells me (writes the London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian") that there is one soldier's mascot always in great demand among our own troops. It is a pocket copy of the New Testament, and it must bo a complete copy. That is, a penny pocket edition of one of the Gospels, such as we find largely circulated by some of our' .e----ligious societies, is of no avail according to the men who believe in the charm. And the strange thing is that most of them who put in a request for one have no intention at all of reading it— at any rate in the common way of things "up the line." It is used and cherished simply as a talisman. One famous London society was astonished at the number of New -Testaments asked for in France, and too hopefully drew its religious reassurances from the fact.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16271, 23 July 1918, Page 2
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