The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-10

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Cirirsation,' describing the impress
,,ons OF a visit to the dghtinD n ~
yronc., The tourti article iciH dp-
pear merit Monday.
BY RUDYARD kIPLING.
ro,yy,oht. 1915. IN L. \. A. bU RUd- |
yard hiplinD.
s,,c,al Cdbic Despatch to THg SuN.
LoSpoS, Sept. ?.-Travellins with
.n, chauffeurs isn't the luxury 1t
.s,ks TO he, since there is only n of
VIM and there is always another OF
.hese iron men to relieve at the wheel.
Nor can | decide whether an eX-pro-
lessor Of the German tongue. or an
s,.road racer who has lived six years
abroad. or a brigadier makes the most
,br,,ting drives through three-mile
stretches Of military traffic repeated
at half-hour intervals.
sometimes 1t was motor ambulanccs
strung all along a level. or supply
trains, or those stern big guns COM
ing round corners with trees chained
on their long backs to puzzle aero
planes and their lcafy big shell linn
bers snoring behind them. In the
rare breathing spaces men with roll
ers and road metal attacked The road.
In peace the roads of France, thanks
10 the motor. were nom too good. In
war they stand incessant traffic far |
better than they did with the tourist. !
My impression after some 200 miles
... 1s,ta. 80 .A ma 90 -
sixty and seventy kilometres was of
uniform excellence. Nor did / come
upon any sinashes or breakdUwns in
that distance and they certainly were
trying them hard. Nor. which is the
greater marvel, did we kill anybody
though we did miracles down streets
70 avoid babes, kittens and chickens.
Gaicty Amid Horrors.
The land is used TO every detail Of
var and to its CRIME. horror and
makeshift hut also TO wars un-
bounded courtesy. kindness and long
suffering and the gaiety that comes.
thank God. to balance the overwhelm-
ing material loss.
There was a village that had been
stamped fiat till il looked older than
IOmpeii. There were not three roofs
left nor one whole house. In most
places you saw straight into the cell
lars. But hops were ripe in the grave
dotted fields u about. They mad
been brought on and piled. In the
merest outline of a dwelling women
sat on chairs on the pavement pick
Ing over the good smelling bundles.
When they had finished one they
reached back II pulled another
through the window hole behind them,
taking and laughing the while.
A car had to be manpuvred out of
what had been a farmyard to take
the hops to market. A thick, broad,
fair haired wench Of a sort that Millet
drew flung all her weight on a spoke
and brought the cart forward into the
street, when she shook herself and,
hands on hips. danced a defian little
JIG in her sabots. AS she went back
10 get the horse another girl came
across the bridge. She was precisely
Of the opposite type, slender. creamy
skinned and delicate featured. She
carried a brand new broom over her
'ApNAAfi NhiobSh tAio u'oOAihAoii oii'
bore herself with the pride and grace
Of a Catalan. The farm girl came out
leading the horse and as the two
young things passed they nodded and
smiled to -ach other with the delicate
ungle Of the hop vines at their feet.
Crown Princes Ambition.
The guns spoke earnestly in the
: north. That was the Argonne, where
The Crown Prince was busily getting
nd Of a few thousands of his fathers
FAITHFUL subjects in order to secure TO
himself the reversion Of his fathers
Throne. No man likes losing his job.
and when at the long last the inner
history Of this war comes TO be writ
Ten, We may find that people we mis-
TOOK for principals and prime agents
were only average incompetents NOV
ing all hell to avoid dismissal. For 1t Is
absolutely true that when a man sells
MS soul to the devil he does it for the
price Of half nothing.
II must have been a hot fight. A
village, wrecked, as Is usual along this
.he' opened on it from a hillside hat
overlooked an Italian landscape of
carefully drawn hills and studded with
small villages; a plain with a roa
ana a river in the foreground, II an
aA-reVcallng afternoon light upon
everything. The hills smoked and
shook and beloved. An observation
"dHooh climbed up To see while an
seropIano, which had nothing to do
win the strife, but was merely train
lhg a beginner, ducked and swooped
on the edge of the plain. Two rose
PINK pillars of crumpled masonry
guarding some carefully trimmed
evergreen on a lawn half buried in
RUBBISH represented a hotel where
.he crown Prince had once stayed.
Al up the hillside to our right
,ne foundations OF houses lay out
IKE a bit OF tripe with the sun
sn'he IN their square hollows.
suddenly a band began to play up the
"il among some trees and an officer
VI lhe local guards in the new steel
snl-shrdpnel helmet which is like the
seventeenth century sallet, suggested
'na' we should climb and get a better
WV lie was "A kindly man and in
speaKInE English had discovered. as
10 when speaking French, that It is
s,hp!er 10 stick to one gender. His
,"oIce Vas the feminine and the
oo'he Was described to us as she
throughout. He made me think bet
yer OF myself, which is the essence OF
friendship.
""ur" Guns aud "Theirs."