WIVES OF THE SECOND DIVISION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 198, 10 May 1918, Page 6

WIVES OF THE SECOND DIVISION

Sir.-In your issue, of Wcdnciv day, in fl* letter signed by Ine. father of TVo' at the Front J. read «• most painful account re moneys to carry on the cost of this war there are people here I blow full well worth, tuousends of pounds awl have not given onfl pound note either U war bonuses or mi subscriptions of any kind.. Again M] states about Second JJiVJSion men and. their wives-what they can live on. -May I .15k how often he has parsed through, a strain of sickness, or his family, and. if he has any idea of the experience of same 5 I myself think exnevietuce teaches, more than reading of others' suflenngs. Mv husband is voung enough Jimv to ho drawn in the ballot, but he cannot boast of having two snns i>r Ibe front. 1 hey were lost in their childhood, and tlio remaining ones arc" -lot old enough, one, being delicate. Now this father j.s willin" to do his duty, as he did in Inc. Row War. I cannot undertake to eo; a-ii do the same work now as I dirt: before; my health does not allow it. hoPlease. "Father of Two Sons at the Wont" do not place ns nil under the same heading as (he people you I™*. because thev are preparing for their loved ones instead of wasting it. I ha™ no doubt there are more SecondDiv.s nn men and women who could write UK) same-as above..-I