KHAKI AS A TALISMAN
“ Tho wearing of the khaki ” has brought .about many changes in the English social system. An English "Tommy,” on leave, lost his way among the Welsh hills, where ho had gone to visit some relatives. He arrived at a lonely mountain cottage at about 10 o’clock on a wet night. On applying for shelter he found the only occupant to be an old lady who ‘‘had no English. ’ Noticing his badge, she drew him eagerly into the cottage, and showed him the photograph of a young man, presumably her son, who wore a like badge on bis khaki-clad shoulder. She then" took him into a bedroom, which she gave him to understand was his for the night. Next morning, after a. good breakfast, the visitor departed, his hostess refusing any payment. Neither had understood a word the other spoke, but the language of kindness and sympathy is common to all peoples.
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Evening Star, Issue 16347, 13 February 1917, Page 10
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155KHAKI AS A TALISMAN Evening Star, Issue 16347, 13 February 1917, Page 10
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