Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-03
HOW BOYS lover THERE.
SPEND DAY OFF IN PARIS
Folks at Home Have No Reason to
Worry as to Soldiers
Conduct.
j, SWAP THEIR WAR EXPERIENCES
Spend Time Seeing Interesting Sights
OF French Capital, Visiting the
Movies Where American Stars Are
Filmed. Ending Trip With Dinner.
by ROBERT wELLEs nlrcnIE.

BY ROBERT WELLES NI1CIIIE.
PARIS, November 2.-Ycs, know
Ma, you and Dad back In Red Oak,
Iowa. have done = heap OF worry
ing over that day when your boy Bill
More than once when the supper dishes
Yer we're cleared away and you sat under
fhe sam mp WIN TN the picture Of Niagara
weekly paper from Chicago, and you
Ma lx.,, rounding, out the toes on that
Tor your boy. in France. more than once
you have said. Ma:
william. do you think Bill will be
and pad has grunted: Why, OF course.
Sadelia. our boy Bill couldn't go wrong. =
about an, p sha remembsrs What he heard
Smiths cash store in Red Oak and
in1aiybbe, after he's wound the clock and
how his boy. Bill would act when he
came TO Paris for the first slime.
.ra 1's, n no foiks 81, fathers and moth;
sonora; Call spent the day with your
boy BIZ yesterday when nc was seeing
inr 70 tor ta, i ne h ,s Tine and I'm go
sides Bill from Red Oak, there were
charlie. whose home is in Sank. Wis
from near Norfolk. Va, ali fresh from
inc firing line out there in the Argonne
and Win not a scratch on them
the lingo.
ANYBODY IS IT WHO
CAN DO BOSTON
i. neadquarters at the Pavilion Hotel
Somewhcrc or other near the Metro
fI'aa dMn on the way to somewhere else
FOUND the place just because can
md my way around Boston. and that
gives fellow leave to think he's a
regular homing pigeon In the mater of
nnOlnR MS way round
Bii and Charlie and Long Peter had
Just dropped their packs and tin hats
OF inc night on jerk-water train from
q station called Somewhere in France
Snd they were tearing into a break
pany and suggested that maybe IL they
wanted to have "A look around Paris I
co "YoG act as as s sof, Of guide
isfaction OF the "Y" secretary in charge
or o,I the III hotel 81, that I was no. a bunch
man. n ana ihat my morals were about
mans town the once over
We got to catch the train back to-
high spots. brother" which We pro-
Secded to do with reverse English
by diving down at the nrst station OF
tho Metro. which IS the subway over
here. and taking n nrst-class carriage
Tor the Place de L'opcra Station. One
ttu IoT almost any place In Paris
from this beautiful plaza and be rea-
Bonably sure OF finding the way back.
Arriving there. we gave the opera
1o,m look; Long Peter said IT was
folk. but he'd bet they didn't have anv
better shows there than his little old
town gets. Wisconsin Charley. from
Sank. allowed the sandbags they hae
piled up around the statues in front Of
the opera Improved the appearance OF
inc Ola place: gave 1t sort OF bust
ncSslike AR.
Right across the plaza from Metro
Station hundred and moro people
were sitting around little sidewalk
tables before popular cafe. slipping
those sticky-iookinE cordials and sir
cps" the French seem TO favor Though
the three boys from the Argonne had
just risen from breakfast. they thought
1t the proper caper to sit down and
have a drink.
TART CHINFEST RIGHT
OFF BAT WITH ANZACS
We picked chairs near a group OF red
raced ACCOMPLISHMENTS these
soldiers from way down yonder pal
with our Americans quicker than with
any OF the others OF the allies-and
before long the chinfest had started for
fair.
Bill and Charley and Long Peter had
precious American smokes for which a
man VIII mortgage his eternal soul over
here; they were passed around. and at
once came the shop talk-stories OF
h FTitds latest tricks: stories OF the
way the Americans had bridged the
Ailette under machine-Sun Are.
We dallied more than an hour at the
cafe dc La PaiN and-oh, yes. Bill from
Red Oak drank two beers and Charley
and Peter had glass OF coffee apiece.
That was a pretty terrible start on a
bad day, wasn't 1t, ma?
Red Oak Bill allowed as how he had
not seen a girl In Paris who could hold
candle TO the Ioway girls. and he
figured these girls of Paris must spend
lot OF change on stockings-they
showed so much OF them. This remark
was delivered after great elaboration
and inspection OF the passing stream
ON the sidewalk.
Well after the drinks at the cafe
Boulevard to the Place de La Con-
corde. whence Paris in it's most beau
tiful and enhancing aspect Is revealed
The boys took it all in, from the dis
tant Arc de Triomphe to the magnifi-
cent bridges across the Seine.
We'll" Long Peter finally admitted,
Il Will allow they go in strong for
masonry and statues and such in this
town. 1t ought to be good place for
a stone cutter to settle down in after
We ali piled on a bus then and rode
to some place; the name OF which l
into movie house and saw Mary Pick
ford at her sweetest and goosiest-
just IKE home folks see her in the
new Saturday night release. Then we
bought some picture post cards to
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