The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-10

after a while so you hate the sight
OF uniform.
Another thing about the Y. NJ. C. A.
/ could wish that they would have
| more women I'm the huts. Not frlily.
frivolous society girls. hut women
from rs to so. soldier likes kisses
rs we'll as the next. And he takes
them when he fnds them And he
/ finds too many. But what he really
wants though. is the chance 20 sit
down and tell his troubles to come
/ nice, sympathetic woman who ia old
enough 10 be level headed
Nearly every soldier reverts more or
less to 2 huyish point of viAw He
| bankers for some body to mother him,
should he glad TO see many women
Of that type in the r. NJ. G. a work
II r. one Of the great needs Of our
! army that the boys should be amused
and kept clean mentally and morally.
don't believe there ia any organiza-
tlon better qualified TO DO this than
the Y NJ G A
most of our chaps spent their time
, on their own either In the Y NJ c.
A, hut or in the cstaminets while we
we're in Petite Saens, our stop there
WAC hardly typical Of the usual rest
/ IN hillets Usually rest means that
YOU are set 20 mendinr roads or some
such fatigue duty At Petite saens
however. we had II 'oushy'
The routine was about like this In
at 20 we fell in for thrce-ousrters
| of an hour phy~ics drill or bayon~t
/ practice Breakfast Inspection of
ammo and gas masks One hour drirl
After that ON our own" with nothing
! 70 do hut ernoke, read srd gamble
SEND CIG ARTTTElS VERY OFTEN
Tommy is q great smoker He gets
/ q flag issue from the soverume emf. II
/ he is lucky, Of two pack cts or twenty
a week. This lasts him with care
about two DAYS. After that he goes
/ srnok eiess unless he hns friends at
/ home TO send him a supply I had
/ friends in London who sont me about
/ 500 Tags s.. week and WAS consequent.
/ ly popular while they lasted. This
/ took off some OF the clFse Of being
Z. lance corporal
Tommy has his favorite in "fags''
| like anybody else. He likes above AL
! Wild Woodhines. This cigarette is
! conn posed Of glue. cheap paper and
! a poor quality of hay Next in his
affection comes Gold7akes -- pretty
/ near IA bad.
People over here who have BOYS
At the front mustn't forget the Gig
are%e supply. Send them along ear
lv and often. There'll rever he too
. many smoking - one OF the SptVleF
few comforts. Two bits worth OF
/ makn's a week viii help one lad
make life endurshle. It's cheap al
the price. Come through for the
smoke fund whenever YOU get the
chance
Cafe life among us a. Petite So ems
was mostly drinking and gambling
That is not half as bad as it sounds
4 The drinking was mostly confined tC
the slushy French beer sud vim bin NJ
and citron. Whiskey and absinthe
were barred.
The gambling was on small scale
necessarily. the British soldier not he
ing at any time a bloated plutocrat
At the same time the games werr
continuous House was the mos
popular This is a game similar .tc
the lotto" We used 10 play as chill
dren The hackers distribute cards
having fifteen numbers. forming what
they call school Thcn mum bered
cardboard squares arc drawn from a
bag, the numbers being called out
When a number comes out which ap'
pears on your card YOU cover II witt
bit Of match II YOU get all youi
mum bered covered you call out
house winning the pot. If there