From the News

Dated:

WHEN DADDY COMES AGAIN

Boys in Khaki Returned Yesterday to Welcoming Arms.

The quiet happiness, too deep for words, that pervaded the auditorium of the Y.M.C.A. yesterday afternoon, when the returned soldiers met again their loved ones, could be felt at once as one entered.  It was not necessary to be told what was taking place.  All over the place family reunions were to be seen in the making.  Women with tear-filled eyes placing wee babies into the open arms of the khaki-clad daddies, older children clinging to the newly returned long-lost father, young girls with fair faces rosy with joy - all happy together.

One little group attracted attention because of the gladness in the faces of two young girls who stood beside a soldier seated on the sofa, with a tiny little lad in one arm and his other arm around a sweet-faced little woman whose eyes never left his face.

"Whom are you welcoming?" was asked of one of the young girls.

"Father, our father," she said in joyous tones.  "He had shell-shock and trench fever, that's all.  He has been gone a year."