Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-23

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across the market places. the icy
slush splashing to their knees; men
in greasy coats lolling in the dark
doorways; the nth, especially in the
inns, unspeakable. Not even i'm the
most scquestered villages of Belgium
have ] seen such stupid defiance Of
the most elemental rules of santa
tion The caves of wild beasts are
more decent than the courts and
stairways of many a Russian inn.
Hats for Luncheon.
Toward o'clock Of the ride to
LoWiCz the old colonel who occupied
the second auto in the eastward
bound flock gave the signal for a halt
IN the market square of the town Of
klodaWa. He had had his coffee and
bread ana butter in Posen at $50
ana he had made a spacious second
( breakfast of tea and cold meat and
pate and cakes at the chateau of the
ayenger on the German side of the
frontier at 3 o'clock.
At II he had called a halt by the
roadside and partaken of sausage
and black bread extracted from an
overcoat pocket. Three hours later
the pangs seized him again, and Klo-
daWa was his city of refuge For the
fourth time i'm seven hours he ate,
and ate like one who had been a long
time i'm a barren land.
From the black and greasy depths
of the klodaWa tavern, which was
called the Imperial hotel. he ordered
up rich soup, bread veal outlets
tea, and lacines of coguac for the
"a. l. gf Ia
cake for dessert. Everything was sa-
Worry and good especially the outlets,
and il would have been the part of
wisdom to give thanks. leave marks
on the table in payment of the meal,
and then fly the place
Life On the Inside.
was not SO cautious Having no
idea what the food would cost and
having also to make payment for the
food OF my two soldier-C hauffeurs, I
went proving through the inn in
search of the pretty Polish waitress
ana her bill The quest took me
through dark passages and brought
me TO a bedroom occupied by two
sickly babies, two elderly women,
who, like DR.. johnson, apparently
rad no passion for clean linen, and
a comprehensive assortment of both
bedroom and kitchen furniture
The coverlets on the beds We're as
dirty as the pots and pans on the
stove, and the smells in both kinds
We're searching and oppressive. An in
desCribable atmosphere of squalOr,
clutter. and shiftlessness peryaded
the place. As a bedroom it was hope
less, as a kitchen it was deplOrahle,
as both it was appalling.
But the object which gave a man
mental and physical pause was the
half of a dressed calf which hung
against the greasy wall paper and
over the crib of the least progresses
ing of the sickly babies; | thought of
the veal outlets which / had so relish
ed and my thoughts were various
and tumultuous. Later the very rea-
sonable bill having been settled, II
Impaired certain of those thoughts to
the young Lieutenant Won Wogan,
who accompanied old Colonel Won
Keszycki. the champion eater of the
German armies in the eastern theater
of war
Learning to Endure Ii.
Young Lieutenant Won Wogan is
fastidious from spurs to helmet. but
he is also a philosopher, and to my
remarks as to certain phases of the
Russian bedroom and
kitchen system he replied: You will
learn. you Will learn, and one of the
first things YOU learn in a Russian
village is not to go near the kitchen. |
If You want the cook have him come
to YOU.
Ia, ja!7 added the old colonel
comfortably, what you don't know
doesn't do YOU any harm.
But if, as we drew near the battle |
lines, the signs of Russian laxness !
grew more and more disheaTtening |
the signs of German passion for sys- |
tenn and order under the most veXing |
conditions grew more and more inn !
pressiye The very horses who drew |
the long wagon trains loaded with !
food and ammunition were ingenious |
ly hooded SO that they should. as
much IS possible, be protected from |
the cold, and as for the drivers and !
the horse0c who rode alongside the |
cry man wore cleverly de- |
signed novelties in caps and face !
pieces and neckerchiefs and gloves |
and LEGS ngs that could be readily ad-