Part 31 (1/2)

To theives instant relief In one day in Paris alone it provides 80,000 free meals Six cents pays for one of these meals One dollar from you will for a week keep a woman or child alive

”The story is that one man said, 'In this war the women and children suffer most I'm awfully sorry for them!' and the other man said, 'Yes I'm five dollars sorry How sorry are you?'

”If ever you intend paying that debt you owe to France do not wait until the war is ended Nohile you still owe it, do not again impose yourself upon her hospitality, her courtesy, her friendshi+p

”But, pay the debt now

”And then, when next in Paris you sit at your favorite table and your favorite waiter hands you the menu, will you not theon the Aisne, it was your privilege to help a little in keeping his wife and child alive”

The winter of 1914-15 Richard and his wife spent in New York, and on January 4, 1915, their baby, Hope, was born No event in ht hi the short fifteen months that rehts, and no father ever planned more carefully for a child's future than Richard did for his little daughter

On April 11 my brother and his wife took Hope to Crossroads for the first time In his diary of this time he writes, ”Only hos It is so comfortable and the lake and the streaet your feet wet

The thrill of thinking a stump is a trespasser! You can't do that on ten acres”

A cause in which Richard was enormously interested at this time was that of the preparedness of his own country, and for it he worked unre, where he took a ust, 1915

DEAR OLD MAN:

This is a very real thing, and STRENUOUS I knohy God invented Sunday The first two days were hty hard, and I had to work extra to catch up I don't know a darned thing, and after watching soldiers for years, find that I have picked up nothing that they have to learn

The only things I have learned don't count here, as they ood, and so isAs you could always beatused to the army saddle helps me a lot I have a steeple chaser on one side and a M F H on the other, and they can't keep in the saddle, and hate it with bitter oaths The camp comentlemen jockeys and polo players on account of the saddle, were sore, in every sense Yesterday I rose at 5-30, assembled for breakfast at six, took down tent to ventilate it, when a cloud ain Then in heavyand hurling ourselves at the earth, like falling on the ball, and I always seeround We got back in time to clean ourselves for dinner at noon And then practised firing at targets At tere drilled as cavalry in extended order We galloped to a point, advanced on foot, were driven back by an ialloped as a squadron, and the sight was really reether only four days But the horses had been doing it for years All I had to do to mine was to keep on He kneas wanted as well as did the Captain After that we put on our packs and paraded at retreat to the band Then had supper and listened to a lecture I ache in every bone,has not botheredthe damned rifle at reat experience, and, all theeach other and the spirit is splendid The s coe kids to several who are great grand fathers

Russell Colt turned up and was very funny over his experiences He said he saluted everybody and one eneral and stood at attention to salute was a Pullood I've had nothing to drink, but sarsaparilla, but with the thirst we get it is the best drink I know

I have asked to have no letters forwarded and if I don't write I hope you will understand as during the day there is not a ht I am too stiff and sleepy to write

All love to you

dick

DEAREST:

It is now seven-thirty, and I have had twelve busy hours They , then a ht pounds and then twenty He s with it, such as sentries used to do to un to keep, and packs, beds, blankets, and I made myself at home in a tent; then I was ot a horse and they galloped us up and down a field for two hours I lost ten pounds Then ere eant on either side ofin every bone and with ot into the lake and escaped You can believe I enjoyed that bath It certainly is a fine thing, and I alad I enrolled (for every one has been as nice as could be), but I miss you and Hope terribly It see to ht o'clock, and I feel like I had been beaten in a stone crusher Kiss Hope's foot forhusband,

dick

Monday

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