Helen Woodrow Bones to Woodrow Wilson
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Dear Big Chief
The enclosed from Wilson Howe was received this morning. I am going to write him that it was delayed by following me to , then here, as it did. He asked me to give it to you without delay, as it is importantof course!
I hated to send you Anne MacIlwaines' communication, but as it approved to petition, I didn't dare not do so. I sent you her letter to me also because I thought you ought to see what she said about Percy Pyne. The name Pyne suggest disloyalty, so I felt what she charged him with might easily be true. She never has seemed to be a liar, whatever her other faults may be! Yesterday I went with Sister to see the Great Lakes Training Station, where I'm told ten thousand Jackies are being trained. It is a perfectly enormous stationa whole town of tents and buildingsand very interesting. We saw the Wednesday drill. Someone said there were six thousand men in the drill, but I can't vouch for it. They did fine work and are a nice, clean, manly-looking lot of boys.
Lately I have seen some signs that would have entertained you. On the way down to the Zoo from I saw this:
"Molloney's Store"Honest Clothing and Shoes."
A sign here offers"Collegian Clothes," which sound "more than merely natty" don't you think? But the most amusing one of all is one I saw the other day in an elevator:
"If you spit on the floor at home
SPIT ON THE FLOOR HERE
We want you to feel at home."
Don't you love that? It is needed in a Chicago elevator, too!
Next Tuesday I am going to Dayton, then home. It will seem pretty wonderful to have time again, with you dear people. I am really getting mighty homesick for my Washington family. If it hadn't been for Edith's letters (she has been so dear about writing!) I'd have felt very forlorn often. Lots and lots of love to you and her from
Your loving cousinHelen
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