Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-30
sides of the huts and seem to lose
no chance to do me favors.

sides of the huts and seem to lose
no chance to do me favors.
- Thankful for Stature
Oct. 8, 1917.
This afternoon as 1 passed the
French sentry on the way to camT
l passed right under the long ugly
bayonet on the end of his gun.
| felt thankful at the time that
was so short. Tonight Mr.. Chesley
and L were returning from the Y. NJ
Hut to our rooms, talking over the
| problems of the Association. We
were safely by the American guards,
who merely turned their fiashlight AT
our legs and when they saw leather
puttees let us by. l told Mr.. ChesleY
how startled L was the first night
when several of us were returning
from the camp and were halted by
the well-known: "Halt-who goes
there?" Tonight, however, we were
not stopped and we were carefully
picking our way through the mud
puddles with the aid of our pocket
lights, when l heard out of the
darkness, "Halte." / said to Mr..
Chesley, Some one is being chal-
lenged. Can it be we?" He
laughed at the suggestion and we
started on. We had not taken two
steps, however, when a loud "Qui
Vive" came and L could hear that
long bayonet being pointed at us.
At the answer of Americans" he
let us go by, but made us put out
our lights. So it looks as il we could
not use our precious lamps. Just
to-day L bought two new ones from
Miss Wesson and Miss Squibb.
Those two girls are wonders.
| They insist on returning from the
camp unaccompanied after dark
and are perfectly fearless about ev-
erything. A DIR. Cochett is to join
them tomorrow. These three wom-
en- are facing the problem of sup
plying thousands of men with some
of the comforts of home and do not
finch at their task. They have
fixed up the third barrack most at
tractiVely and the red curtains they
have hung against the whitewashed
wall and the pretty posters make a
choice homelike spot.
l must tell you how l arranged my
breakfast the other day when l lett
early in the morning for -. l told
my landlady the day before that |
would be leaving early, so she put
on my table my cafe au lait, bread
as 1 got up 1 put the cafe on my
Sterno and by the time l was dressed
it was all ready. 1 am having too
many of the comforts of home, I'm
afraid.
Oct. 8, 1917.
DR.. Cockett came to-day, bringing
with her a lot of letters from the
headquarters.
Oct. 10, 1917.
Dr. Cochett is a wonderful addi-
ton to our force. She has splendid
personality and the men all have
taken to her at the start. l found
out to-day that she has lived in Bos-
ton and knows our DIR. Palmer and
loves luer as we do. She also knows
Dr. Myrick and the other doctors
at the NJ. E. Hospital. She must
have been doins wonderful work.
She has been over here more than
year, part of the time driving On
ambulance in Salonika and doing, l
am told, the work of three men.
We are fortunate in having a gem
eral who sympathiZes entirely with
us and who does everything in his
power to help us and cuts out much
of the red tape incidental to Army
life. The Y: NJ. c. A. is going to
take over the post exchange, which
will enlarge our field tremendously
and give us much added response
bility.
We are now having stoves in
stalled in the barracks, as it is get
ing rather chilly. They are hard to
get and fuel will be a problem, 1
suppose. ..
made a visit to the quartermas-
ter to-day and came home with soap,
baked beans, lump sugar and con-
densed milk. 1 can also get towels,
candles and sugar and other food
stuffs, so 1 don't see that you need
send many things. 1 forgot to say
that 1 got six khaki colored. hand
kerchiefs at thirteen cents apiece
and they are splendid. The other
prices are lower than in America,
The condensed milk was nine cents
can and seemed twice as large as
the can 1 paid two francs for In
the village the other day. The lump
sugar was nine cents a pound. Hur-
rah for Uncle Sam, say.
told you -ut my French
classes. The officers whom / was
teaching spoke to their colonel and
now the colonel has asked me to
come to the officers school and have
a class of fifty or sixty men an hour
every day. l am to eat at the Off
GERS mess so as tt l axe it possible.