Some of them are taking it terribly hard . Others seem to be in much the same attitude as Mrs. Marshall Elliott has come to be regarding Church Union . `` She was up here last night . She does n't come as often as she used to . She is growing too old to walk this far -- dear old ` Miss Cornelia . ' I hate to think of her growing old -- we have always loved her so and she has always been so good to us Ingleside young fry . `` She used to be so bitterly opposed to Church Union . But last night , when father told her it was practically decided , she said in a resigned tone , ` Well , in a world where everything is being rent and torn what matters one more rending and tearing ? Anyhow , compared with Germans even Methodists seem attractive to me . ' `` Our Junior R.C. goes on quite smoothly , in spite of the fact that Irene has come back to it -- having fallen out with the Lowbridge society , I understand . She gave me a sweet little jab last meeting -- about knowing me across the square in Charlottetown ` by my green velvet hat . ' Everybody knows me by that detestable and detested hat . This will be my fourth season for it . Even mother wanted me to get a new one this fall ; but I said , ` No . ' As long as the war lasts so long do I wear that velvet hat in winter . '' 23rd November 1917 `` The Piave line still holds -- and General Byng has won a splendid victory at Cambrai . I did run up the flag for that -- but Susan only said ' I shall set a kettle of water on the kitchen range tonight . I notice little Kitchener always has an attack of croup after any British victory . I do hope he has no pro-German blood in his veins . Nobody knows much about his father 's people . '
`` Jims has had a few attacks XXXXX croup this fall -- just the ordinary croup -- not that terrible thing he had last year .
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