A BIT OF AMERICA

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 1

A BIT OF AMERICA

, . ■ -\f ..... . ' ■;.'■.: She is an old), wr aib least an elderly, woman. . The place where she lives is a particularly ugly little American mafnufacturmg towri'j its inhabitants are largely what we used to Call foreagmlers. The state had been helping her for nuaiury years: It was .not I'.moh, but that, monthly . allowance, wbioli she called for; reg.ula.rly. at the office ' of..the city clerk, ..was the .feifciider thread ..that kept; both ends of life together.....'.' . ./, „ . .' . ,''."•' , When "she paid heir April call the. city clerk reached for his books and began) to .go through with the monitihily fontnula,. . ■ But., "Pkiase,'A «he said, "I don't thiink I need thei money any n*o>a, eir. My circiixmsitauices haive improived). I'm working, and I think the Gorea-nment ,; nieeds the money more than, I. do." The town is ugly and dirty. It has given the army a little legion of youths most of whose, names are the ban© of niany a companY clerk's existence and ha'.ve< r«!aiy pruwtrated with lookjaiW; maii\ ai Lop sergeant calling the roll." Bi^t it -is a bit of Amerim..