Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-07-10
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
Lieutenant Greneker Writes In
terestingly of France to
His Mother, Mrs. H.
N. Greneker.
June 5, 1913.
Tours.
Dearest Mama:

Tours.
dearest Mama:
AS yet I have not heard from you
jbut / am patiently waiting and at the
lsame time very anxiously. 1t is gen.
airally about a month before one hears
but as I landed on the 23rd it should
ibnot> be long. Since I wrote you l have
5been to Blois and St. Agnor.
IS Blois is very beautiful place and
twhile there I went through the Cha
lIGeau de Blois where Napoleon, all the
aHenrys, GATHERINGS and a great many
stmore lived. 1 saw the secret place in
siEhe wall where Catherine kept her
stpoison, her bed room, prayer room,
sldungeon (Which you couldn't even
Iblow up now. I also saw the spot
:Ewhere Duke the Somebody was killed
IEby Henry's order and thousand 9th
Fer historical things which don't
Know a thing about. Some of the
paintings dated as far back as 1900
but were as plain as one of Miss Eliza
Minis which was painted yesterday.
jsThere is very little wood work about
gthe Chateau but such work you nev-
Ter saw. To give you an idea: Each
llwall is covered with figures and no
two figures are alike. How in the
Hworld these people ever did what
ithey did 1 do not see. But it is there
3fand will be there for long, long
iEtime.
Then the cathedrals are wonderful
Tftoo,. and are too beautiful to describe.
1.-THE French are wonderful arch build
sEers and in Blois I was on bridge
(which is 2O1 years old and good as
lever. Yesterday over at St. Agnor
3there was not much to see except the
..liriyer. Get your map and find the Loir
land you will see where l have been.
The other day on little hike l
saw a flock of wild ducks and if l
I lad had a gun could have had more
.i:s's sssay about them. IS
Il 1 suppose you saw IN the papers
where the President Lincoln was sunk
on her way back. Well, this ship came
over right in front of me and l saw
her when she left the port going out.
Of course they will sink few but If
the Kaiser just knew how many were
getting by, he wouldn't be very hap
nv over these results. His day is ap-
preaching. Nobody here is at all wor-
ried about the war because we all
believe that Foch has not even shown
one of his best cards. The Americans
are growing in popularity every day
with the French.
I will tell you what l want you to
start among the school children and
that is, to respect our flag and our
national song. When the French or
American colors pass over here, ev-
cry little boy, no matter how SMALL
takes off his hat. 1t is the same dur
ing the singing or playing of the ma
tional songs. I have seen more than
one grown American just. stand still.
1t is shame.
Another person I would like
to see and very much, is General
Wood over here. The soldiers are bill
lifted with French and in every barn
or house you pass, some red headed
soldier from the South, North, East
or West will stick his head up and say
"Hello, Goodbye, Good Luck. | wish
1 were going to the front instead OF
staying back here" I was talking to
an officer the other day who was try
ing to get officers to transfer to the
Gas Service but I told him l wanted
to fight it out with the boys.
am leaving today for Paris where
I hope to see somebody from home
as nearly everybody in the world
meets somebody else there whom ne
knows. I never have believed that
long range gun was reality but now
I am going to see. I am learning a
little French and can get along very
well but the French seem to learn
English better than l do French. vi
course I do not expect anything TO
happen but if anything ever does, !
don't want any mourning in spirit
or dress because it would not be a
loss but gain to give your life for
your country at time like this.
When you get over here and see
things as they are you are all lnspl-
ration and want to go and do. Ihe
little French girls from about SIX
or seven to IL years are the prettl-
est and dearest girls on earth and my
vacant time finds me playing with