HUMOUR A LA CARTE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 23, 22 October 1917, Page 4

HUMOUR A LA CARTE

AN AMUSING SATIRE. Almost everyone is familiar with the field service card which contains certain sterotyped phrases. The soldier deletes those which are not applicable to his circumstances and allows to remain those which describe his condition at the time of sending. The official phraseology of y.fe cards has been cleverly satirised, and the idea underlying it has been amplified, evidently by 'a soldier who knows something of service conditions, in a "letter form," presumably to bo issued to husbands when writing to their wives. By crossing out the words in brackets, which aro not wanted, a connected statement is obtained. A copy of this "letter form" came into the hands of the Australian Minister for Befenco {Senator Pearcc). who was greatly amused at the sl-fit. It reads ns follow:— In tho Reid. , 1917. (dear My -J dourest Uarlinß I can't write much to day r.s (overworked Uaay (■quite well Thin 63 are going on '■] much as usual (.pas wal U> „ I put up a bit of a show 1110 nuns I last night J wilh j tolerable [success yesterday J ■ (.out any ) The German offen- [ °*™^ y ]l mme sivois ( we will hope 3 failure fthia year I really begin to think the war 1 next year will end } soruo time v sever (flien ") are ( vilo The-! rations > ■! execrable (.weather ) is (. much tho same C ohecry weary The division is { languid sore distressed I at rest ( chateau We are now living in a j ™™$ tarm v. dug-out I hoping soon to come \ "^ übout due for !. !vhk e h l> overdue ror I is I „ not yet in I lie now | ! running for ' ' '1 am suilcrins f slight twound-(s.he)l from a i severe ) shock) (frijht)

's wife (' presented him "1 ] with ; has just C eeiit him J What I should really like is r letter. Many thanks for your ■* parcel. I good intentions ("potatoes ") „ ,u I poultry (inchiding (. Rctlinu Ilowarethoj pou y CO vs) on? (.children ' fiycll .. I ucLter Ihopoyou up ' nr " ! not eiicndins 100 nuicli niouer 1 "Cttin" on hct'c.v with, mother liL-fti-t li«rc Tirotestajions of f afl'cotion-KOT TO tX- ■) OBBD 'I'BiN WORUS. <-. '.siato wuat over) xKxxxiixxmiiix (llclele or add, ae maybe necessary). •Or stuto disease. If tho wholo of this snntonce is struol; out., the writer muy be proeiinied lo lie well or deceased.