SOLDIERS' CLUB AT ISMAILIA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3090, 22 May 1917, Page 3

SOLDIERS' CLUB AT ISMAILIA

■ AN APPEAL FOR GIFTS. From M.iss E. A: Eout, hon. secretary of the Volunteer Sisterehood, lias been received the following letter, written from the New Zealand Soldiers' Club, Istnailia (Egypt). In it she makes a strong appeal for donations for this club. She writes-.—"We have got a. real home here for the toys, and we want to make it as nice as possible. I know all sorts of 'plunder' I could get if I were in N.Z.—just go into the liomes and Bay. •I want that, and that, and that!' And the women-folk would have the happiest hopr just because they could give something which was really wanted.'. Often and often I think of the wonderful wealth of generous desire for service of tender anxious care, and sacred feelings too deep for words, filling the hearts of the home >women. . . '. Well, we aro hoping this little home in Egypt. will furnish some outlet for loving service for the New Zealand women, and there is no home-gift thev can send us winch we shall not gladly receive. Plonee he suro to tell them this. Colonel Samuel las given me .£SOO of N.Z. canteen money, as I told you recently, and now wo liave our first subscription cabled from New Zealand (£SO) from the Stratford Scottish Society. , Money, of course, we need, but things too—among them books and pictures, which for the first time we have the chance of looking after properly. Other efforts we have made to proviite these have not been altogether happy, and sometimes I have felt inclined to tell the boys that soldiers are really and truly tlio most destructive of , all wild animals. But sou cannot be cross, no matter what they do. Do all we can for them! How can wo do anything else?"