And you'll have more and more as she gets bigger.

Give her my love and see what she'll say.

You won't get so lonesome, dear Kitty, with little Alice; and I can't keep from thinking as well as hoping that the war will not go on as long as it sometimes seems that it must.

The utter collapse of Russia has given Germany a vast victory on that side and it may turn out that this will make an earlier peace possible than would otherwise have come.

And the Germans may be--in fact, _must_ be, very short of some of the essentials of war in their metals or in cotton.