waldopeircegoestowar: “They are winter k
waldopeircegoestowar: “They are winter kittens”‘Icame back from Paris yesterday. I left in a rain storm, but the sun came out towelcome me. I found my house in “apple-pie order”. A big fire was roaring in the new brick chimney. And we have newkittens! They are winter kittens, and Amélie says that “winter kittensare hard to raise.” But they flourish and make the nicest topics ofconversation. I don’t know how we should get along if it were not for the cats…’Afterthe Armistice, in the Marne, France, Mildred Aldrich, American journalist and writer, who, after the war decidedto “write of many things interesting, of personal comments and opinions, of threadsthat had been neglected in the days of warfare” – When Johnny Comes Marching Home(letters) – Photo: “Fierté maternelle” (Maternal pride) -- source link
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