Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 28, 1917, Page 11

‘Special’ Correspondence ~ - . WASHINGTON, D. C, = - NCLE SAM haw a keen appre- Nciation of the value of a friendly iInterchange of per- sonal lettefrs. His young | Sammies, “somewhére in France.” and his marines and Jack Tars, who see that thelr brothers in khakl arrive on French sofl, Will have adyantages for, getting letters from home scarcely less than those of us who remain §o watch so anxiously thelr selfless efforts to- ward world democracy. Though letters are not to be address- od by American mothers, wives, sweet- hearis and friends, designating or even suggesting the location of the unit where the addressee may be, the olty of Bordeaux is to serve as the baseypost office of the American troops in France. The man most of us would probabiy think of as “the American Army postmaster in France,” but whom the FPostmaster General _calls the Unitéd States Army postad agent in Europe, is Marcus H. Bunn. Mr. Bunn, who is now in Bordeaux, organizing the base office, its possible routes, Its mu- merous details and elastic contingen- cies, is, in the normal course of events, in the office of the second assistant postmaster general * * * Mr. Bunn has had experience with military mail service in nearly all of our island possessions and has associ- ated with him several men as fully ex- perienced as himself, according to in- formation tendered by the Post Office Department. As superintendent of POS7T OFFICE ON U. S, 8. FLORIDA., eradit has been established in Europe, s difficulty is not anticipdtad new,|lains were detailed to duty with i - 2 2 this and this :vern;:;n‘t‘w:\nflxl( Dave, ihe|under & vaster scheme of thinjp. in 22| bronch _of worlk For a)(in‘ial?u“‘y privilege of draw! s the sit- feffor! got to Cubs without delay and {75000 pleces of mail w be mard lads standing at the wicket|send certaf, ts eacl o and send: Uatlon, necessitates * This ‘arrano-|ihere eatablish postal service ‘for ‘the | adily. P Taaftion to_the heln foom | HINdoNs With hoarts hnxious for news areaie ot This attempt ta. Goate’ & nest | Amaited Iattore e : 5 said, w nx- | bon o’ Army and N Louis | the * apmy there were twenty-nine | oM NOmE. roll. ink das has nrrived, nd ment 4t 1= ssle, will prevent all Afx-iEwechc ot the Avmy sa TAy eusifu abnt, ¥ i 2 S e | sl Sebio e U R A L o SRip Eatiing oney to chsh Ssunt for Chiba. was purnicd by Clara ralied mail clorks in attondance. | .nated by ihe scmmanding ofcer and ab- | on balSERIps? | There arc: ami. exacils (o hein one of The men. whg p:ymhn{;:n‘x;}mmmm P —— é-tl:icvab-;an_r(:‘:: t:ymn:dnc‘;r:- solaiers of the expedittonary forees in p:é’-;'%‘xf’d.:fiix";'i 1‘-:1" Gffice Denartient-a | the same as.you see hare and there on the | friend of mine, in this end of the hean of the. postal service agency the | Mimxelf as far as Tamne, Fin, with ng |[Fance should bear the designation of | QUired tp furnieh bond to the foparement | scoraing. T Eehoduro. mo. jeuk thos thocs | v . liked it. Speclal: deliveries Thieh provided for lower rates of post- | haps ten daye. ofRanization” 1t éa. Iniénden. o reach. {oho A0, SUGAOR Lo, thlr, resular bay, In [ aitended to by the cjocilike precision of | in. the aoberal order of thingw on lind o e il “betoveen " this country | Tt 15" understood _that there were’| THIN in addrtion. of course. to the name |month, white his meeistunt Fets 316, 1n | thelr rounda I rmell wagens ehen the | frmuiy "0 st soin s 352 the mistet republic. Post cards, let: | herocs conmected with ipis moeral servs | AN address of the' writer, Postage |addition to the regular Myl they also (men get werd (hat man iy lesvime the | oty oy standing still wiile the fors and printed matter to and from the |ice S0 begun: that moch Hiness yo. | EIVeR proper attention. otc. Al post- (handle n momey hrdar business. A mall | Anips at sueh and sume a e gy | (el work army forces were put on the same basis | sulted, and ope, if. not two. desihs of | Masters have orders to forward mail |clerk off duty for a time, And In WAShing- | passed around and. ail Hands. gor musy | 5 as such mail sont within our own bor'|men who tricd fo make therr appointed | addressed “American Expeditionary [fon recently. old ane of the vouns me In | writing letters. 1t follows that the a Sy e rriBab and o 4 rs for delivery. work have more th terial v ofcor” to New York ci ie Tecruiting division of the Navy who |sistant o 7 haatns e o ond end Bis agmsthor uang k8 Becn 5o informed; and under such & Do | T e Mo ore Shan materigl valuo. | MO Gy o provislon at prament or {Iid been Intatested in the bost office nf- | making folections: bl baR ow his faee [TOFK At night, often until 10 o'clock, vision a letter from Manila to France|diers a mansnamed Brewer, who gave | PATcel post service” Postmaster Gen- |falrs of department that since the[just as if he were on duty on cement | After a heavy mail had come in when wiil"be fearried, for's cents uat as 16 16| up Ria’ llfe. i thia mosta sevwice: st | CTil Buricson announced in a recent{deel fiad been away from shore duly at u |sidewalks instend of' 3" Follink * deck. | we were wwary from a principal port | one time bought a horse for $110, hired | faan ta" nd postmasters should re- jCertain point on one pay day which, fol- | These letters .are -taken dewn. bolaw, ay from a princibal po delphia. , a native wi & 110, hired | fice” to accept for registration letters |lowed the declaration of war with Ger- | wh. 2 oo olow. | The hardships n mail clerk worke Ts"—so Indorsed by fie o 5 e which can be dupli- rom one of the actiye ships 1o relir o otlee waginary B eont i chaplain—may be transmitted to their ;:5:“:«," dmneu away. over {mpossible | cated may be accepted for registration, | tives or as bank e R ba.4a.re i rr%mmmlh::pi' 'rhla"ll:;m; flrslb(f)"u.l'l(.uL {imaginary. The confusien of the closo acifination without the" Vestige of a|Mud roads. in The Fainy season. got |bui patrans should be Informed (haf |the busaciiels have savings accounts, re- | faciis on board by becn Foverichly wiie, [Luerters e in of neccesliy stationed stamp. A C. O. D. delivery of this sort| {heir mail Hie letter to an associate | indemnity will not be paid for lost reg- | gardléss of the prevailifg idea that sail- | irig letters aince o e e Yenany Writ: |in, the constant passing to and fro of i more welcome tWan such packages|in the Washington post office is still | istered mall. . The public should b |ors are “spenders,” and they religiously | was ixsued. and the fanl coneesiom G often are. So if Frank Smith of Corn-| Dreserved. In part, it says: ‘his { warned that it is not safe to inclose wayn swollen. This one i made fown. ‘5. D, or_Sturtevant Van Rens-|mail ia needed at the front. It econ- |currency i letters under any ciroum- . S DoRt e lfeen mumac | I8, Hafle Just| FUN OL_the bogt hgey, sambls salaer of New York, up state, hasn't a | sists of oficial documents from Wash- [ Stances, and, that money orders should a : Teave the. ahtpe oatamy: oy the lotik® | make the job no sinecurc penny to his soldierly mame, thas a|ington. besides family letters that will [ be usod fof transmitting money to e 5 Written furing the Inst Alteen minutes o¢ | “The mail is sorted by divisions,. thy Bmmll matter if he wants (0 Write tobe. appreciated. The Fost Omce De. |members of the expeditionary forces.” : 5 Jritten during the last (teen minuten of | “The o motheror tGe girl he left behind him. | parfment must not be Charged with * T : St 5t Lioy, Porterhelals Tome in the Tor | beportias at the bost office. After an * ailure to deliver mail matter prop- * * = o f o gedorsodh there: | teportingsistohe pnout (ofMico alter gus e erly addressed. He died soon atter | Jack Taf’s post office {s not a new in- e R R e T R T Branch post ofcis nere and there, as | (his trip. &5 8 Tesult of expavure. stitution, though it may take on a new ot ficer ia, In turn, rasponasible for the the war ministry of France advises, will e unfortunate conditions of sani- | furbelow or two because of the exi- ran. dellvery of mafl fo iz men. Of coure s . tation are said o hav x ail” continued this young officer | fellvery of m | purs JOHN H. COLLIER, be directed according to the needs’ of the | witn the: trregetnritics mod L rgads | gencies of the war sithation. . And, tur-| | who has helped the mail glerks on his | inir mril e retiomea by him s the Who ncts as money order cashier of the |troops in the field. The sale of stamps | hardships of post office employes in | boior, OF not. @ battleship post offics training ahip, the Arkaneas, many a |oMce. 80 de not to. 70 Senile United States Army post offiee In|the arrival and departure of mail and|Cuba. Yellow fever, Spreading very | wnamors bomr e o e o s . 3 > time, “when the fleet 1s away from any | h% men are in il probability, oe- Bordenux. the issuance of money orders have all | JAPIIY at one period, made mail de- | ine wicket for his mail, just.as If he e > L5 DiTneipal Port, Gomes by the Alematen |CUPIZd with duties which demand ‘their x baen worked into. the General plan, to|livery. and collection among the troops |wore in the neighborhood of Park row e Trz s S8, fnasol transportation there is George T. Leake, » toan impossibility for a time. There Was | and Broadway or the Main street Dost - . boat, whose. dutyi¢ fs io.gollect mafl e erk of the railway mail service |the satisfaction of both French andla great deal of discussion when the |office in Stringtown on the Pike, 18 k from all ships. Mail clerks rom the |this kind of mail addressed to them ST Hotiston, “Fexs who was Relocted for American officials, and s it appears now | basis of the present system of military | somathing fo. teucn the ‘fmagination: . 5 ; P iote ahios Bring theit eteor masne | raquired to roporg i the post oflice. the post in France beca of his serv- there will be post offices on wheels. |post offices was made, in 1898, One dis- | “Somewhere in British waters,” some- oot v t " pack-|The mafl clerl 1ike Caecsar, know e P mmected with militagy mail on |These are called by the Army and the|tinguished army ofcer is reported to|where in the blue Mediterrancan, or, ¢ 73 A ake, ele. OVeT tne rall to this boit, |évery ohe of the 1,600 men on board oA S it 1. Wright, as. |PostmasterGeneral ““mobile’ post of. | have announce: *-Our men re nere | mavhe, “whors tha dawn comes p iike| | N . which doesn’t tarrs long—awain Tika (ship, and xg the ‘wddrexiee ’oe "{his SiStant postmaster at Norfolk, Va. is|fices” Various kinds and conditions of | to he taught how to hoot Spaniards, | thunder, outen China ‘cross the bay 5 : {7® postman on lend—but is soon on |class of majl needs no fdentifcation e The War Department 4o ge | convevances may be drawn into the serv- | 10, U0 (FRERL DS 10 SRoot, B e I T : {§8 way (o the next ahip. The U.'R.'S. fas one would naturaily suppose. It (% T s euperintendent. of B |ice. These vehicles will both collbet and 5 by Tt e e i § 3 nkton, f Ban in the feet. was |intarasting . to romember - that the Haneer WRAT A Wathinston post of- |deliver mail intended for or concerned | S S I S o5 e called the mail boat. and when the lclerks, the chief clerk at least, must fice is represented by John H. Collier; | With khaki-clad lads whose home ad- * % D mmi e st i BE recetved oo iix i % 43 3 L5 flect is going away from a aspecial [know not only every man's face and ol o e e dresses are appended with “U. S. A" Field post offices were established in | jatiors and packnges until permittad to o . part the mall must necessarily be re- |the division h ix In. buf his fu1] nam soldiers will hot be paid in gold | During the Spansh. Ametican war It 2| various military camps. the one at the | see a crowd of bluejackets cheerfully o A gelyed at Irregular Intervals, Tt really |as well Yes, mail clorkas are o ehey of the United States. They | s < rable ity w e ing one another in a : : Y B o se excite- | enlisted men’ of the Xav e O L States. Ty | ot some of the military camps in secur- | Chickamauga Nationial Park being the { 105[I0F, 006 SUOIRET, I &\ Jeeminely : e of o maiiboat createn. | Wit Womd ccics ninll amount eI ke of Ok | e quick or regular means of transport- |most important. Rough temporary | dews. which acrecn the mall clerka : B B S | Ty by ks, on the peCmrailed batk beme for |ing mail, priyate conveyances finally hav- | buildings were erected for this purpose | WOrking llke the proverbial Trojans to e ouer the Tall or holding on to a fellow |avernie, Tor cach ehip, under normai cashing by relatives or for deposit in|ing to be resorted to by the Post Office; "\ 00 (U F Lt bl S D get the mail stamped and delivered. e ot oF | eircumsiances. In port mnil coived Rome. banke in the Sender's name, For | Department. and contracts mpde with|ln (he vnrious trainh mps at & coat | Kug nosw. " tna businass of wir, wher |4 MAIL CLERIC O ONm oF THE | 100 e T e A mnBthd about stxiiimen i 0ax the o ont o Hhis piam % vast |he owners of these for stated periods.| of $250°or $300. A number of chap- | the N: £ pi . 2 wifng W 3 n the | When shipa are in the navy yard the z | p- | the Navy'is greatly increased. there will | SHIFS OF THE ATLANTIC FLERT. |center. When ahe comes steaming up [maii serviee 14 reguiar.” 3y g | |the men, the irregulsr hours and the o to |presonce elsewhere. Far resistored mail a ligt is posted, and men having American Woman Called “The Madonna of the Wooden Legs” BY ALICE ROHE. their feet again. And when they stand g : : ¢ ; inelr foot again_ And wien they st ; ; ; - — brought at another time by Mrs. Greon | {he war, an ally of the Pdtria. Thore Lt i o ; i ; o =] | to the villa. " But, alas, it was for | a Serlaed pope | heatts, Yoo ROME, * % g . 2 4 7 , 3 m‘;;‘mos; leg had dheEfn amputated {and that Is that tie erican soldiers ) 2 : " : _ o ; g : Abowe the knee in of below: won't naed wooden leg OR three successive nights Ig-| It was Ignazio's prayer that made wa S : ‘ > Y And_TLorenzo Lorense, Dozued | - W ot 1 oe b it Amertth HEBt nazio Sapelii prayed to the Ma. |Mrs. Green a specialist in artificial L - . - = ; - With all"the passion ‘of ils TraMan meut | ail” er wooten 16 nome?” Tate donpa that ho might walk |llmbs. Indeed. what she does not . i o ol o8 R i S St the artl{eupted cong who wting, It can't again. Kknow on the subject is scarcely worth S . ; : 00 e 2 Aitrican log which ‘hie erevors Had | Srn" S augh, now were ollise.” On the morning of the fourth day, | knowing. p - 4 s o . . 2 3 ¢ S ¥ brought him. bl it G TR R G M R s e R e LI B R i I _ . % . . s 7 “Do you wonder I love thesé boys and | find, and, fccor to recent Infors f ; g ; | want to put them on their feets" i Ton, forty ariificinl legs have been & 2 ) auired Mra. Green as she wag leaving dered from America gherita, his prayer was answered. Crockers, a daughter of Clarke Crock- > 4 3 4 . % $821 | tbe villa where she haa taken long bath ‘robes or dressing gowns for the R T The answer came in the person of |er, a cousin of Mrs. Charles B. Alexan- Z g : a “slgnora Americana,” and from the|ger ana Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett of New iin 5 3 - > er ana Mrs. J. s = . . ¢ . e | lexl vho are = u moment she looked upon Ignazio's poor, | York. In Rome, where she has been a ’ > - ; - - . their mutiiated stumpe. e “vout It Was Time. mutilated limbs, feet frozen in the |prominent member of the American - 4 y et ‘ . 3 F5 y . We had just visited the workshop TONGRESSMAN sald the other day Adamello and then amputated, she has | colony Yor the past four years, she is ” 3 : |izhere Director Bull; an Amorican, who| £ o¢ the omharwo on r 1o food seeing the nmking of wooden lems on consecrated her time to artificial | considered a most capable and effica-| § v “ - e 5 3 4 A n ¥ 2 {the American plan. Director Bull has/that w, . two wooden legs, having lost both in ahint th “It wnm tim ce, more than time— save the Weutrals . strong t we wanted them to stop feed- cious organizer and executor of relief : - : v ’ 3 : paliraad aesidept. but he absolutely fc-jing our enemics o't work. AT e T e : | Bes detection. Raurany! the lonkine of the Belgians; then, when g i o an seldiers to Mave Ameficin th confiict and Mrs. Thomas Nelson| EZ £ A £ wooden legs Is all the stronger since . : ‘ . 3 Director Bull rides a bicyele, jumps and m'its hird r—it was quite Page, wite of the United States am. : 3 ; £ Qances ahout and walks as nonchalantly | tme for s to speal 1 A bassador at Rome, opened her splen: % H a8 i a8 though his nether limbs were of flesh | “We war foct, In the positi ouvroir for the Italian wounded, Mrs.| [&7 L o, § £ s, o5 ang borle, ingteud of wood the host Rodlars s Y sion Green becamre its director. Her man- - 4 ~ { Ly e 2 4 el R o O L Vil hho £ pclociiiniihe morni swsient 5o thiEqnier (Uaome et . 4 E ! Ea oS | was turmed over fo the Ifallan wov. |ihc positively milit but far-reachjng work, supervising the = : * § St S0 iy ernmen s used nx a convalescent |done, o he lurned to hix wife wit S o Aot ican helpgrs. dispensing 4 e . S : iy #8 |noma for the mutilated who are trained|a pléasant laugh and sl 8y sewing to the soldiers’ Wives, oversee- 7 7 5 “ Y %4 |in variaus occupations. Cameo earving| ‘Hadn't we botter kot to hed, my ing shipmnts, has been a notable rec-| - - 2 i s T Sy and bookbinding are among the trades,|love? Our friends may want to be ] J S . but the wooden leg Industry is tha onc|golrfi.’ " 4 > i : . which Inspires the soldiers. orli of efficiency. ¢ A But one day Mrs. Green: visited the o g Fa e ; : X B ; Hospital Regina Margherita, where the 3 e 4 B = 5t * o bova who have lost limba on the bat- con : = o o - | 30 The Point tleflelds are treated before being moved . - z ‘ % - S & < Here Dr. Della Vedova teaches the s 2 to the Villa Miraflori to become trained | L o . ;. ,. boya to_work on artificial limbs to the "PREMIBR RENE V NT of the n some useful occupation. She saw ' = 2 i A 2t ady French commission has impr ’ {three handsome young fellows, one L i A e r ERRCACYERIRES RCABIDIS. WIL the k| e e ) 1 e o with both feet amputated, the other : = : i : ; i terfal at hand. The original plan was| N3 sountrs with his eloqugnce, two with their right legs gone Irom 3 i BB d |l introduce on American artificia|yourh. iie nia's S R gne of them ‘she heard of linazios S “IHRER MUSKRTRORS7—FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: GIOVANNI ARIOKL IGNAZIO SAPELLI AND | can wood.and other ohetacies s mado | 1gunehed into hie maiden wpsech” b #imply in answer to her questions as LORFYNZO D CAPO. that project m bit difficult. Despite the| trepidation, But he carried all beforn 2o thelr hopes for the future. B fact that the Ameriean wooden legs|him and when he purnosed to st g 'nll\[r Grelnhlnnlked ltdlhe“flne TR ol . e il . = s — ————— | are_the lightest and n‘;un desived, cer-( there were loud eries of L] allow, a hopeless erelict, whose - n slip of- paper.| wooden lezs is unquenchable. ere is| for my wood. o1 tain red tape has made it exceedinglyl “Go Senp up! Go ont" B - e e e Wi Caes Sk % Ml e ] vt D muoneiile. [Thesk M Teu s waodon 19f Drlt Americs thet|[ir8 Tor Dlrecter Bull tn, g0 ABVEA on PR e T SR e edonne. Then and there she dectded * any other knowledge on the subject of | want to have it from her.” 5 reai American progressive principles. | said M. Viviani 5 {Thet the Magonna wewla answes his o artificial limba cxcept such as comen| The devotion of Lorenzo De Capo is|An objéction fo having an American| “Yesi YVes! Go on! Go on!” shouted pravar. , The nexf day an American woman at{{rom his American signora. Giovan: pathetic. He has such a longing for DNamed plant and American named legs| the andience. ’ o _ But the wisttul look of Giovanni and|'the embassy came up ‘to.her. - 7}1ee_was torn away by an Austrian|his Abruzzi home, but without his|has caused hitches In the work of fit-}_ “Then this Is the exact point saia e e ke nTon i P ate el s e e & ol ShEapnel on Cor™ M1 Lana, ana he, Mrst| promised Americar leg Mo docs mot wint | U out the boya. Mrs. Green. however.| M. Viviani, “where a canable Speaiter The next 4ay, at the American em- wt oW show that story offof all of these three mutilated soldiers, | to return. having at heart the welfase of her| site down. bassy ouvgoir, whe fold of the boys| th® Praver to the Madonna touched me,” | WAS to be fitted to a leg. But he re- ¢ * charges, says a leg by any other name| And down he sat amid greater a MRA CARGZLINE CROCKEY GREBN,| vhose si bt faith was bringing an|she €aid. “Plsase take this hundred-lire | fuS¢d- .A-. * % would serve as well, and she gots het| plause than ever before, il answer to hia prayer. p nota to It must be . -| At last. one aa cen arri American_lega for. her, bPys oné after limbs, The “sigmors Amerisana® s | ~Enetoouble Tlar, thouhyt satd Mra | e 0 heID B4t a lex for one ot your| e D e P malial at the ville witn e eeines e ve| ngther; Dells Vedova hax gone much N carotine chrorer craerieana” 15| Grean: T have ouly encugh money. for | PoYs:” The same.day another mots Was! in these war times 15 1o ensy Htte ST el Hb - Slisudt e nie iearnker deats oiseo it The Dessert e e ere boratry a3t 18 | one of iny threo Soldiers and there are| Eiven Mrs. Grlen. “I keep thinkingOne day an American woman whe was! W48 @ fine American leg that worked|plant perfécted on American lines and q SutaRert Tannat. promounces Tesvenss | (hors other two longini for American|about that prayer fo the Madonna” the| Interssted. through the American clenr. (0 perfection. Lorenzo, quivering with [to teach the beys the trade of malking| AN ofcial sald ¢ @ dinner, apropos they call her “The Madonna of the |!°8% and [ have not the heart to dis-| donor sald, “how I.wish all those boye’ (IS house of the Italian mutilated, |anticipation, was lifted from'his chair “American legs. of a skip controversy : Wooden Legs” Mrs. Green's friends | #PPoInt them. £ wonder if I should pray | prayers could be answered. came to the Vi v X - 5 So far the Italian government has These wooden whi | e o the Madonna ™ . | e Villa Mirafiori with aland the leg was ftted on. It was the|mad vision t i . ship champions show latgh At the tit'e until they xmow the onna.’ o And so it went on until within three| Wooden leg. Tt was for one of her made no provision to supply artificial|an jgnorance of aetunl conditions e ihe "parhon betaoy ho | That nixRt wh envelops was slipped|days, without asicing for & Panniv. e | Special. charmes but, aqas: If was x| LEDf, lenkth, but when poor Lorenso|limbe to its armiess and legiess Hem|Whigh reminds me of the tarmers wite name - given her by boys from the Ilfld’ the door of Mrs. Green's room| Green had 1,500 lire, With that money | right leg, and her patient had lost his ES L o Fre JUinS Shatawiy ahors fie | And dor AL STSRNRHL thel worler OF Mrs. “Phe farmer eribing t his T ey encin oho Taee feom the|in her hotel. " On it was written, “From or mutilated soldiers becams “her | 1eft leg. Bhe approached Glovann! and | fopnd oG jand Jere s ‘where one|Green has been infleed like a prayer|wifs a supper that their city daughter Ttalian trenches, who have iest their | the Sadonna. Inside was o fifty-lire | boys" and: forever more, the prayer io| Offerad to give Wi her precians wopi, | JeArna that Ttallans are shorter In the lanswered by the Madonna. Bag, given: 3 ghter fpase o joan this bix-henrteq | Bote. There ‘was no card, Lit Mrs|the Madomna and wooden legs, un-|en leg. which was a fit for him, since | tams OFf coarse. Tornin commnit tame Y1 was given a sum by friends inj “‘The gal' he said. ‘told_me the af- Pl B SR St Gresp_knew that an American girl|poetic but practical, will be assoctated| his had not arrived from Americk. Glo. | cAns. Of course, Lorenzo couldn’t take| America to dispose pf as T thought best.” | tair wound Up with eciaw. What's selaw Bmoriean, woman Who i oCloved,BY [studying abroad had officiated in ‘the|in Rome with rs. Green. vanni gamed at the menfamcrics: Gloo| the American wooden les, and has to|said Mrs. Green, “and I Intend to piit|de fou know, flannah? e O e Ttatinn boye Giterally on | p2me of the Madonna. The next morn- | The devotion of these Italian soldiers | Shook his head firmiy: d walt for one especially made for him.|lt all In artificial legs. “Of course I know, Hiram,' sald el i o 2 y ing came another letter with the same| to thelr Americin Madon: “Signora,” Still another misadventure was to| The bovs at Mirafiorl are all en-|‘Belaw's n dessert. DIdn't you neves hons &n0ra,” he sald. “I prefer to wait befall him. A fine artificial leg was |thusiastic thal America has enterodjof chocolate eclaw?'" § b e ng