The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-27
CONNECTICUT SOLDIERS AT MORALES, USE COFFEE FOR
 THEIR DAILY SHAVING LATTER
Water Is Conserved for Drinking Or Washing and Men Often Go Thirsty Through Hot Days.

Through Hot Days.
 | The variety which that dear Noh- gah-lez is capable of furnishing for our boys erstwhile of the effete East, is strikingly shown in the latest condi- ton which has arisen in the. new camp of the Connecticut regiments, where every thing was to have been so home Ike and comfy. The change to the new camp was made because an in- considerable thunder shower from the East, which had contracted elephanto- sis before it reached Noh-gah-lez, flooded the former camp and drowned it under six feet of swirling torrent. That was few days ago.
 Now just to show what it can do in the line of quick changes, the dear old Arizona climate has absorbed all the aqua pura in sight, and thei boys walk around with their little red ton gues hanging out wondering how they ever managed to grow so contemptuous of the precious fluid when they were back home There is really a water famine in the camp. to judge from the reports that are now coming in.
 Here is the way conditions are de- scribed by one eye witness: "The heat is all the harder to bear because of the lack of water in the camp, either for drinking or washing purposes. On- fly on occasions is there any water at all flowing, and then it only runs a minute or two at intervals of an hour or more."
 Sitting in your nice, cool office with K he electric fan bathing your com fortable carcass in cooling zephyrs, and with the ice water tank only two feet away, and your favorite cafe but three, you cannot perhaps grasp what this means. To get the proper perspective -ou should, instead of going down to the shore tonight take trip down to the gas-house. When yod get there step into the furnace room, strip to the waist, and don pair of overalls. Then grab heavy stoke bar and get busy for about 10 hours in the stif1ing heat with the rest of the gnomes untr the 115 degrees feels to you like some thing you read of in Dante. And when you get all through have it ar ranged with someone to bring in a half glass of rusty-looking water, so that you may quench your thirst. Then come back and read again about the water>and heat at Camp Holcomb. Maybe you will appreciate it. C
 Or if that doesn't quite do the trick get up tomorrow morning and drain the coffee pot into your shaving mug before getting busy with the old face scraper. When you get through. ask yourself: Was that father better than the one usually get with nice clean hot water?" 'Is that the best shave I could give, myself?" You will, of course, answer both questions in the emphatic negative, register. Just about that time, before your hot night grouch has been driven out of your system by some real coffee, ta- ken in the regular manner, read this written by one of the boys at camp: To-day is Sunday and is known as a day of rest. We are in our new camp and being short of water some of the boys found it difficult to get water to shave with. Just to show that it is not s.lwsys necessary to have water to use in shaving many of the boys used their coffee to make a lather, it being softer than the water we have down here" After that, if you can- not find it in your heart to sympathize with the tcys at the border you will probably show your true nature by walking out and hitting some, poor in- offensive bull dog on the hind leg.
 In the words of the prophet: "Sum git theah rewahd avn this heah in- ikwitus spear, an sum gifts hit in heven." The boys at the border are to get theirs in Heaven, it seems, while we are getting our here. Some of us, however, may lay up a heavenly reward by shipping a few len1ons, or anges, or anything else that may be used in making thirst quenching bever- ages, to the lads whose condition re- minds one of the close of Kipling's "Gunga Din" There are no fred hot coals" in Nogales, but Arizona can al- ways offer something "just as Eood" and your gift is sure to bring the boys back shouting: You're a better man than I am"
 Other than a few little matters of this sort everything at Nogales is in the most pleasing condition. All the soldiers that are expected for the pres ent now in camp and work has settled down to a routine. Getting used to the climate is the main ambition of all just now, but as soon as that has been reasonably accomplished there will be more strenuous drilling on the list of the days events. The general belief of the men is that while there is to be no trouble with Mexico the government now that it has raised the army, is not going to. let it disband until it has managed to give it some good training. At least seven months is looked for-