The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-03
WAR GR|EFS At A MARKET
ARMY AND NAVY WOMEN IN EyI-
DENCE IN WASHINGTON.
Talk When Marketing to sympa-
thetic Listener-Onc Lived for
Two Days on n klondike Diet, SO
as to Realize Husbands Hardxatps

There are lots OF army and navy women
in Washington these hot days Few OF
them. since their husbands went down TO
Cuba. have had the heart to go anywhere
for the summer. They do very little visit
ing among their friends. so one seldom
meets them save shopping az marketing.
Center market is great rendezvous for
Washington women. You wouldn't think
that market with it's butchers stalls.
it's baskets Of cabhages and onions. It's
buriy Germans with their saasages and
bland smiles. was a good background for
dramatic effects. but tragic talks occur
there these sultry mornings. The SYM
pathetic woman who goes there could tell
you some thrilling stories abou, her army
friends who have confided their emotions
over the cheese and butter.
The sympathetic woman says she has
often 10 laugh 10 keep from crying when
at ;he market. While she was keeping
up a pleasant expression there the other
morning She caught the eye Of a woman
from Fort Myer who vas accompanied by
her two little girls. She hardly knew the
woman When she had seen her In the
winter her face was rosy and happy Now
there was suspense ard anxiety written In
every feature-the kind OF suppressed an
guKh thai watches and prays with tight
caught lips and ciasped hands in the dark
ness. The sympathetic woman pressed the
hand Of the captains Wife. 1T ~ 90
awful" said the latter beneath her breath
''You know We can't talk muca out there
AT the fort We are all Suffering. but We
don't dare talk
That was all the captains wife said. and
the little children locked sadly az their
mother while the sympathetic woman went
on 10 the fru.. and vegetable stand near
by There she met army woman Of
generous and Jovtai proportions-the best
eomrade in the barracks.
On" burs. out the por:iy matron. ito
think, my dear. OF our eating ali these
good things, and-and" lips were
vering-"thelr NOT having anything nice
10 eat down there MY husband was in
Skaters engagement Oh, know he will
catch yellow fever He has always been 50
wei! fed AZ home
But they have pretty good fare" sug-
gessed she sympathetic woman.
Good fare, Well. you ought 10 read
Toms last letter. Do you know that for
two days he had to ssfbsIs: or-oh. It's 100
dreadfulf--on Pill footf'
Ion WHAT" exclaimed the sympathetic
woman
PHI food KIonaGke diet. k you will
bUt KS nothing but pill food; lis awful
"But'--objec;ed the sympathetic wo-
man.
on. I know yon are going 30 tell ne
that ten pots 81 tea and a dozen leaves OK
bread ard hind quarter OF beef can De
condensed In a thiu,ble, I'll. you need rot
say one word: Il cant be- done When
Tom wrote me- about thar ksond!ke fare
went right Ia the war department. and
bought llttje duplicate box % the Kind
that had FED s4-n for two 6ays. ard tried
20 i've on IL two lays myself"
And you di3n't ike it7-'
Tie arxt aEswer was a wstheriny glance.
''Aii Of IL was bad enough" said the
rss-tfy rsatron. ''It rs-sr1ed me 81 these
nstIs hits oE japanese wood that you drop
in the water and watch spread cut inss