1918 War Worker Letter to Aero Squad Soldier Brother + FANTASTIC War Worker Poem

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1918 Washington War Worker Letter to Aero Squad Soldier Brother + FANTASTIC War Worker Poem
From this and other correspondence from the same family I know that the sender is Winifred Cox and was sent to Fabian Cox with the 299 Aerosquadron at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh.    The family is from Martinsburg, West Virginia and another brother was with an artillery unit in Funston, Kansas. The war ended before either brother went overseas.
This letter is mostly family news but also mentions Madame Schumann-Heink, a well known singer of the day singing in front of the Treasury Department to a large crowd.  Also mentions the election results will be flashed across the sky with search lights and from aero planes with different colored lights.
There is a hand-written poem included with the title "The Typical War-Worker in Washington".  I rise each morning when seven bells ring out from my alarm, I wait in line to wash my face with a towel upon my arm.  I stand in line to comb my hair, of roomates I have three, by the time I get to breakfast there is never room for me.   I wait in line outside the door for second table serve, I reach the corner just in time to see my car swing round the curve.  I chase a block to catch that car and nearly break my neck, climb through the crown upon the step and gain the upper deck.   I step forward in the aisle please till I see my skip-stop stand, but by the time I reach the door tis a block beyond I land.  And when the ladies of might descend in line I say my prayers, I bet sometime I'll wait in line to climb the "Golden Stairs".
The envelope (FAIR condition with tears, some soiling) has a blue star sticker on the back, similar to the blue star window hangings of families with soldiers in the service.  The letter and poem are in EX condition with normal mailing folds.
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