The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-22

American Field Headquarters in FrAnce-Surely the pace the major has set is too hot to last. No bat taAon--not even the Ed Battalion of the regiment which modestly holds it. self the f1ghtingest, tumpingest, out howiingest battalion in the American -Army-can expect to spend that sort pe a Sunday every weekend. TAlS Is what happened when the boys took their Sunday off:
 A- Georges Clemenceau, Premier of 3fance, for the fifth time now, and fZhe man who has upset more political 1pplecarts in France than any other editor of his day, made a rousing speech to them.
 Three American Generals, headed h4 Gen. Sibert and Gen. Bordeaux of the French army, visited them.
 There was a basket picnic, military istyIe, in which extra special good &hings to eat were served and plenty pf themA
 Schramm of Go. G, weight 162, Rnd looking 1t, down to the tattoed butterflies on his arms, made his op- kponent quit in the last of a four round bout
 The Jackass battery did such fancy work in getting their machine guns h1nIlmbered and then in pumping lead through three targets at range of l200 yards that the French officers lWho looked on slapped American of- Ifcers on the back and told them how mood the jackass battery men are.
 And in additioon there was a mixed 4<ogram of races and bayonet exer- nd Ia fhrnxrfro hot IWoxfh any mans Sunday afternoon And this was just the first of other H8undAys that are to be spent in the lnme way. The major has theory {&b0uk such things.
 Look at 'em,r he said fondly, re- k8nr1Ang the men Of his battalion }Look af 'em. Their chest measures inwUEage three inches more than they l<l1d when they came to France and t<keyve put on 10 to 15 pounds oi tmuecie each They're just busting with health and good spirits If H1on't amuse them they'n amuse them. tss2yese~
 So fast night a notice was posted ia< the correspondentS headquarters ithAf tho 5d Battalion of the regimen would hold exercises at 10:30 o'cloci this Sunday morning and that VI were invited. No ono ea1d what sor I of exercises they were to bo, but theI |--gpe know the major.
 W So we piled into the cars thi mogufng and ran through 40 miles O. <hn sort of scenery you see hanging $6n the Hne when the academy holds f1<B annual, and never sec anywhere e7we excepE In France.
 Tho wide bottoms were, dotted witl hnyznakers, men and women, for Sun fdax does not disturb. harvest opera. <1on8 fn France.
 The big wagons rumbled along tn .I roads, drawn by teams of two to foul horses string fashion, and against tn hf7EB the dark green of the forests wal Ishnt through with golden sunshine il a way to force an artist to despair.
 Sometimes a pretty French girl in { pink waist and 2 hat that somehow oonbined flowers and ribbons ant etsrnal youth waived her hand at u on the way to mass
 Sometimes an old woman, bowet by many years of carrying heavy laden oaskets upon her back. leane' upon her stick as she took the COW to pnstures
 A shaphsrd led his sheep-just a {dhepherds lead sheep tn the picture 1an the odd Blbaes-and against tn 1nEyz1ne shcne the round towers of chabean that was odd when tha rcEue Erancuas of vSlaon first put hi xnrnss together and hEs hands in oth ~ peopls'H pUckets.
 10 rsaoh the exarcise ground iron I 11s zttfie village that the men of tn 0opond Battalion have 50 scrubbe |. N01, Ir1nr onep1ts the burned match i |1n. pccket rathe- than throw it O. <ho pub1zo road we first crossed tn uz11R-crossed 1t on an old arche 6110gs from which we saw the moth <r of a canal boat family wash he &16eukS brooches on deck while h
 yod, white and giimmering and we {xcom 6eside her chair into the brow ID1tex ovefside.
 Iheu there was wa1low and rvnsh through which the cars splatter sd unff1 we reached the little valley E11e men were already there, in com pnuy 1orunAfznn- One could hear tn old non-coms of the old Army bel 16wfng-
 ~8knnd-at-eases''
 Then af was Break ranks" and tn 1yUwn figures flowed over the gras \ ffak wes s0Il fresh and green, i rcf<n of the daal-- trampling for tn 1n1t two months
 For the moment there were n r1z1es. The boys laughed and sky f1ax3ned and played the sort of joke tba< husky youngsters always va play on each other and yelled tn pef names that grow up in soldie { cl<c3eaL
 'sBz<kerr was greatly in deman and some one wanted the '.railahoc cha K1d," and they borrowed cagaz