What They Want

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 September 1915, Page 3

What They Want

Oi<R Buid Al 111 L X RO-M.

Conuorts comnutiees need no longer work in me uark and with tiie iear liiac perhaps iliey are not sending tne most suuaOie goods forward for use among the men, ior now we have to put only a lew questions and we shall get answers that go straight U> the point "What about socks jou ask. "Socks't Well, 1 don't know about some, Li lit me and my mates hate the sight of the heelicss sock. It's uo good. Thore's no comfort in it. The slurt s ma'am, liave been very nice and a blessing, but 1 might cay" (with an amused eye-twinkle) ''that they would have held two' of any of us, and that they might easily be shorter iu the tail! 1 lie sleeves, too, are always quite two inches over length. .Balaclava caps? Well, now, you're coiuingtu tile thing we could not do without. 1 cannot recommend any special shape for so long as it's a .Balaclava, we'll thank you for it. Seems as if wnen you lose everything else the '.Balaclavas keep you -warm at night. And 1 cau tell you it's .-bit/tea", bitter cold at the Dardanelles. The days are hot, but the the water oozing, through the earth of the trench, and a cold iwiind blowing—well, unless you've experienced it you-can have no idea how cold it is. And then wo get .ret weather, too. 11' you're ever stuck lor something to send let It be a Balaclava. "And, while I'm talking on the subject of comforts, we don t like sweaters, they're too much of a nuisance pulling on; a jacket, now Ave can slip on easy over everything else, but a sweater, if you'll excuse me saving so, is the very diclcensl "Mufflers? Yes, they're acceptable, so long as they are coloured. You know they won't let us take even a white handkerchief into the firing-line lor fear of making a target of ourselves. "Cholera belts!" he groanod, "Oh