WRITE A LETTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 6

WRITE A LETTER.

I Write a letter to a soldier when you haven't much to do; it will brace some homesick fellow who is feeling pretty bine. Oh, our boys are lion-hearted, and they'll whip their weight m "snakes," but they have their lonesome moments when their hearts are full of aches; there are hours when they are longing for the homes so far away, and the girls they left behind them, and the parents old and gray ; and a letter full of sunshine makes their melancholy shrink — therefore, get your pen m action, with a demijohn of ink. Write a letter to a soldier, full of cheerfulness and joy; let the sob stuff go to thunder — it won't help a lonesome boy. Tell the soldier you are betting he will make the Teuton fly, tell him all is hunkydojjy, and the goose is hanging high. Tell him all his friends are banking on the big things he'll achieve, let him know he's not forgotten since he took his final leave. Write a letter to a soldier ere you go to bed to-night; some poor chap is tired of waiting for the letter you don't write. It will take you fifteen minutes such a letter to compose, and you'll hearten up a sol- j dier when he's billed^ to face the foes. I Make it bright and brave and breezy, full of courage, smiles and snap, show the confidence you're feeling m the outcome of the scrap, and some soldier boy will bless you as he takes his little din, and prepares to shoot the gizzard from a lewd, immoral Hun.— Walt, Mason, ., m American paper. J