The Archive · 1940

War Effort

Part; Middle-Aged Mothers

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Should not lose touch with what [after Xil are the bow rbp as Ue change terests and so that their children Jo of neglect. embarked upon two undertakings, one of which shows, to my mind, a touching thoughtfulness and of which the Other "peculiarly interests me as a professional writer.

"Men "6H leave; or transferred from one post to another, often arrive at d a station where they have to spend the best part of the night before the train starts. They are tired and hungry, maybe wet through, and they have perhaps little money in their pockets. L'Union des Femmes de France offers them shelter.

A woman opens the door and inyes the weary soldier to come in. He finds a warm room, with beds in it} rugs to cover him and hot coffee. There are paper and pencils on a table so that he can write to his 0. s are, many who have set lone tind obscure, to alleviate the aistvéss, finañciat and moral, of th Red nearly 20,000 beds, and has plad trained xep de fe Men L'Union des Femmes de France sends parcels to the soldiers and has Neg a host of women and girls to family or his girl, and the fact that in one station alone from 250 to 300 letters are written every night shows that he is glad of the 1 Next door is a lavatory where he cat wash his feet and püt on a clean pair of socks; his own are washed and mended and passed on to another rap. He gets a godd "auf a kindly woman wakes" him When his train is due. He leaves rested mot Only in body but in spirit.

For months now the French soldier has had to stand-the possible trial to one of his ardétit temper—he has had to wait; and his spi Fumigators "BEWISE"

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