WRITE A LETTER
WALT MASON S APPEAL. Write ;i letter to is soldier when you haven't much to do; it w ill brace some homesiek fellow who is tooling prouy blue. Oh, our hoys arc lion-hearted, and they'll whip their weight in snakes, hut tiny have Uvir iom.-ome I 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 In-hind them, and the parents oid and gray; ami a letter full of sunshine makes their melancholy shrink—therefore, get your pen in action, with a demijohn of ink. Write a letter to a soldier, full of cheerfulness and joy: let t':e sob stuff go to thunder—it won't help ;v lonesome boy. Tell the soldier you are betting lie will make tiie Teuton fly, teli him all is hunkydory, and the goose is imaging high. Tell him all his friends are hanking on the big things he'll achieve, let him know he's not forgotten since he took his final have. Write a letter to a soldier ere you go to bed tonight; some poor chap is tired 01 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 soldier when lie's hilled to face the foes. Make it bright and brave and l-i-er-y, full of courage. smil. ■■ .:>., ! snap, show the confidence you're feeling in the outcome of the scrap, and some soldier hoy will bless you as Intakes his little gun, and prepares to shoot the gizzard from a lewd, immoral Hun. D. and J. McCallum's *'Perfection" is a genuine Scotch whisky, pure naturally aged, and possessing that smoothness of maturity that tenuis to make this famous blend so appreciate I in the home, and indispensible for all medicinal purposes. Avoid imitations. Cooke and Co., Albert street, Auckland. (13) Don't judge Cornflour fiy the packet. It's quality that counts—DUß YEA MAIZENA is first quality. (7)
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 23 July 1918, Page 2
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332WRITE A LETTER Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13817, 23 July 1918, Page 2
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