New Britain herald., 1915-08-06

o>-SS HI DSO, dIIIIS Soac, 1SSS 6o@S and one thing and another, sort of bounce on the bed. It doesn't sound pleasant but there are few places i'll the world cheerier than the English hospitals.
 : I remember one man with neither arms nor legs. His comrades were !, passing him around in sort of game .|QY, I'm very lucky, Miss he said to tfnesWith' 8 cock of his cookery eye, l xmonght so easily ben fellow got shlind9 with this war EfAyou told them fool yarns about theEwar, they used to laugh, but they always shrugged up, as if to say, on \ SEielloa~you haven't been there > @'Dutchy'' and the York Regiment. # "One of the yarns I liked best about the trenches was of the way the Germans and one of the York regi- ments got chummy. Things went along for weeks, with a kind of clay pigeon pot shooting for cans going on, when headquarters put stop to this 'friendlying' among the soldiers.
 'The very next day a head came out of the German trenches and voice shouted:
 " Is there anybody there from Birmingham
 NO answer.
 "A little more impatiently the question came again in German Eng fish.
 Is anybody there from Birming- ham?'
 "No answer.
 ' T say, came from the German trenches, is there anybody there from Birmingham I've wife and two children, so back in Birmingham
 And the English answer sang back:
 That's all right, Dutchy, hunch yer bloomin' cad down or you'll ave a widow and two orphans, so, back in Birmingham
 Did the army did Miss Janis think get drink rations before bayonet charge as some one had told Miss Addams in one of the hospitals? Spring Comes and the Canteen Goes.
 '"Oh, drink they get, but it was more to keep them from getting cold this winter. Two dreams each day before going into the trenches, so my friends told me, and jolly much CUTS ing among the men when spring came and the canteen quit.
 You couldn't get men to talk much above bayoneting. They laughed it off. Four days is the most an, aver age soldier can stand in a trench, sev- eral friends told me. fortnight makes wild things of the men, ready to kill anybody. They get disgusted all that. they wouldn't. But come back to Lon ton : th es' q just get plenty of hot baths and good clothes, sit ir theater or oira srestaiuraf1t f1t looking as though they hadn't a care on earth and with life and death two days behind them and two days in front of them say in their game English way. This is the life!
 And they all admit how scared they were the first time under fire. Always brave as anything, you know, bounding into charge with shouts of 'sixpense for front row two and six for stalls and pals dropping right and left and not a flicker.
 Keep London Smiling.
 "They pull lot of English casual stuffs when they get back to London and joke and keep London smiling. It happens to be the English way of bearing the unbearable and I'm mighty keen on the way they do' it" Then Elsie Janis, with no com mentary, fell to talking of the tram way strike.
 Everybody walked in the same game way when the trans stopped When the men went back, of course, with their demands granted, it was discovered that the company had made a rule refusing employment to men under thirty eight. Nothing to do, of course, said Miss Janis, but for those to enlist.
 "No" said Elsie Janis, game her self to the end about London in war. I've never knit a stitch or a stock ing, not one all year."