Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-19
WRITES FROM PARIS
DR.. Harold Marston
Morse Tells Of Sights
Seen on Furlough

The following letters have been re-
ceived from DR.. Harold Marston
Morse by his mother, Mrs. H. C.
Morse of Western avenue, Waterville.
DR.. Morse tells of the things he has
seen in his ten days leave which he
spent in Paris and the story is very
Interesting:
november %.
Dear Mother.
am at preseItN in the Y. NJ. c. A. at
Faris on my 10 Gays' leave, seeing the
most wonderful scity in the world, 1
Lave been to the Louvre, Trocadero,
Tomb Of Napoleon and dozens of other
places famous ever. Last Sunday
went to the church where the great or
Ganist Alevandre Guimont played.
Next Sunday | am going TO hear Wldor
at St. Sulplice He is perhaps the
greatest living organist. Last evening
| went to the Coincide Franchise and
heard the French translation OF An
dromagne ell Pelee. The minor actors
are stars of the first magnitude there
II was incompatible and unforgetable.
1t is the National theatre and being
soldier | had a great dams Id Parterre
(orchestraO one of the best seats in
the house for less than it would cost
TO sit in the poorest seats of the
theatre ordinarily. / have been to the
Opera Comique and heard La Boheme.
Tho performance was better than any
thing | have heard outside of the
Metropolitan singers.
Paris is full of soldiers and officers
cf all nationalities and very lively.
even now, except that everything
closes up al II at night.
My stay here will cost about $40 but
it is what many people would come
from America to see.
I am in good health, l expect our
section will go into active service soon,
where l don't know, but you can be
fairly safe in guessing that when the
French start their next big offensive
We Will be there.
| wish you were here to enjoy these
wonderful things.
Nov. %.
Dear Ma:
| am still in Paris, yesterday I slept
quite a long while in the afternoon,
| went to the Opera Comique in the
evening and heard Louise. The Opera
cost. me very little as no one knows
me and l sat in the uppermost nook OF
the house, I wish you could have heard
it.
Last night | dined out at neat little
mir ored French restaurant where |
had steak and coffee for 1,75 francs
while it costs five francs at the Y NJ.
c. A.
Today is Thanksgiving. / suppose Ne
roe is home dining with you all. | wish
| could be there too.
It is a rather scarce ration which we
have with the French army and it is
necessary to eat to keep warm A cold
in the army leaves one helpless, | would
rather be wounded than have a bad
cold.
There are many Americans in Paris
now among whom arc the American
Field Service men who must join new
branches or the regular army. l am
going the third time to the Louvre this
afternoon.
On Nov. II sMr. Morse writes: I'VE
are still ZEN repos' although we have
changed our residences three times
during the last few weeks, living at
first in the second story of an old barn,
then in an unused dance hall and now
in a second story of an unused factory
building. We are still eating French ra-
tons and finding them somewhat bet
ter, although it seems to be the rule tc
supplement the army rations with out
side food.
For papers we get the Paris daily
papers and also the Paris copy of the
New York Herald. so we get as good
an idea in a cursory manner of the
news as you do. You see it is the little
things about home that | don't get and
miss. In the New York Herald for
Nov. IA. it was stated that sections IL
and | with their lieutenants had been
cited.