Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-08
Correspondence of The Associated

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 LONDON, July 20.-When the queen of England, on the occasion of the royal visit to the American Eagle hut a few days ago, sampled the American pancakes. she left part of her portion on the plate. A soldier, after their majesties had departed, finished it. and went around bOasting, I'm the man that ate the queens pancakei"
 The Eagle hut boasts three attrac- tions so typically American that they are almost a curiosity in London. They are an American barber's chair. an American bootblack stand and a pancake griddle
 The barber's chair was discovered
 somewhere in England" after long, patient search and was bought for $50. When the Y. NJ. c. A. people hear the American soldier. as he stretches out in it, say "Ah-h, that's the stuff" they know they made a good invest ment. The English barber chairs are upright, with an immovable. back.
 In England, when an American wants his shoes shined he looks in vain for the familiar permanent chair stands that he was accustomed to find in his home city Here he encounters only an itinerant sidewalk knight O. the shoebrush equipped with a small box. No seat is provided for the GUS toner The London branch of an American shoe company presented the Eagle hut with an American stand which has a marble top-piece and is surmounted by one of those comfart- able armchairs in which a soldier can TepOse luxuriously.
 The pancake griddle was the hardest nut of all to crack. The problem was to abtain a metal plate large enough to accommodate batter for all the cakes the hunghy soldiers craved. Lon don was searched from end to end and at last a plate was found. But alter the cooker had been constructed, an other problem presented itself. Wn2, were the cakes to be made of? Enter the wheat rations question. The I. NJ. c. A. cooks had one idea as to the amount of wheat that should be used for the batter; the British government had anOther-one quite different. The cooks had to capitulate to wars neees- sities and they mixed enough corn meal and potato flour with the wheat to conform to the governments views.
 To be in on the first batch O. cakes, soldiers formed a queue in the hut canteen extending all around the room. They ate so many cakes the first week that according to one of the huts secretanes, they used up all the maple syrup in England. A big supply of syrup IS now on the way from home; also a consignment or buckwheat, the arrival or which wlii mean other queues.
 The introduction at the hut recently of what is euphuistically known as ice cream caused the quick formation of a line even longer than the pancake queue The average afternoon COZ sumption of this Iavorite American dish now amounts to eighty quarts.
 One of the seven secretaries Of the American Eagle hut here was snatch ing a moments rest in his cubicle on a recent Sunday afternoon when a tall American soldier looked in at the open door. It was evident that the soldier had a request to make, but he hesitat- ed and stammered considerably before he got up the courage to say he want ed to borrow a suit of underwear.
 T hate to trouble you for anything like that, sir" he apOiogized, but this being Sunday the stores are closed, and I've been asked out to dinner, so you sec
 The secretary found he had a suit to spare. A little later, passing through the bath room, he saw the big fellow splashing under a shower. Say" the soldier greeted him, T be- heve you can get anything here if you ask for it."
 The soldiers and sailors ask for all kinds of things at the Eagle hut, and rarely are they disappointed. One ar ticle in great demand is advice, which is consantly on tap at the informa- tion window.
 A lad in khaki will hang about un- til the window is clear. Then he will edge up to it and in bashful whisper say:
 Do you think it would be all right if I married an English girl?"
 Before the puzzled official can form ulate an answer, another soldier will dash up breathlessly and demand to know how he can get out of the Can; adian army into the American. Stiln another will press forward for infor- nation as to why mail from his Aunt Hetty in Sycamore Center. Kansas, hasn't reached him fin camp and when he may expect it.
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