The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-05-07
ANOTHER INTERESTING
LETTER FROM FRANCE

uidl 0Aiu Nth hnONh
county boy we feel sure will be
quite interesting readings to our
large family of subscribers:
Somewhere in France
March 20, 1918
"My Dear Mother and Dad:
at has been some time since l
have had chance to write you, 50
will do so now. / am still in the
best of health as / hope you and
Dad are. We have had the most
beautiful weather you ever saw for
about two weeks, until yesterday
when it started raining again, ana
when it starts raining here in
France the Lord only knows when
it's going to stop. What in the
world has been wrong with you all
back there? l haven't had a letter
from home in month. You're al
ways 'bawling' me out for not
writing, but if you were where l.
now am, | don't believe you would
write at all.
SCOT letter from Martha Ball
about two weeks ago, and was glad
to hear from her. Wish it were 50
| could tell you of my experiences
and surroundings, but that is inn.
possible Have you received my
latest letters and the paper | sent
you? l hope you have, for that
little paper can tell you more about
our surroundings and life than /
can. Seems funny, too, that every
thing can be printed in "Our Pa
per-" and we cam write dog gone
thing about ourselves. But never
mind, maybe this war will be over
some day, and then l can tell you
personally about things. That will
be much better l think Most of us
feel optimistic about everything.
Seems like you can't dampen a sol
dier's spirits no matter where you
put him or what you do with him.
That spirit is characteristic of
soldier wherever you may find
him. lie may growl little at first,
but he knows he>has to do it, so it
isn't long before he is singing one
of the latest songs, which is of
course about six months old when
it reaches us. Anyhow most of us
can sing old Joe Clark or some
thing like that If you could see
me here now pulling contentedly at
my old pipe you would think | was
the most contented person in the
world, and if l do say it myself, |
don't believe l have many rivals.
Wouldn't | hate to be eating Dads
chow in this crisis I'd much
rather be here, drawing my fifty
per, eating Uncle Sans rations and
having plenty of excitement thrown
in I'll tell you, lots of people don't
know what they're missing. This
idea of being drafted certainly gets
on my nerves. A STACKER has
about as much room in my heart as
an elephant has in 'cOrned Willie
can. Possibly you don't know what
'Corned Willie means, so will tell
you. It's Il collection of scraps Of
beef (they say it's beef, pressed
tightly together so you can't tell
what it is. 1t has all appearances
of being edible but you know the
proyerbial saying - appearances
are something deceitful' This CON
coction is commonly known as
'Corned Beef We also have beans,
both large and small, aud | must
say these are quite satisfying when
one is hungry. We had beans for
supper, by the way. We also have
another dish which is very popular
with soldiers-this is known in
army circles as 'Slum, and which
a few of our more exact colleagues
would fain call beef stew. Anyhow
it is most appetizing just after you
have liked about 80 kilometers in