The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-08

obtain q sufficient supply, ! should judge that
russian ponyskin coats, which have often been
So popular In America ought 70 be cheaper than
ever this season II there has been any way OF
curing and transporting the skins of these glossy
coated animals of tho steppes
Womens army kitchens are adequately sup
piled with horse meat. and from ladies OF rank
70 Serts the women soldiers have learned how 60
prepare palutable food They have also learned
not only TO draw their Held pieces. but actually
carry them
An women are enrolled In the infantry division
Of tho army. that theirs are machine guns.
which three or four women can carry together
Some OF these guns Hight enough to be borne
on the shoulders OF ono womun.
While Russians not good marksmen they are
expert az bnyonet work and there IN nothing the
Germans fear moro than a Russian bayonet en-
counter, when the sturdy dwarf Of the North not
"nly sticks his enemy through. but has an appal.
ing habit uf liffing him ny on the bayuuet |
saw one victim OF this shocking act slide off the
keen blade, dead.
And u the Germans fear such attacks OF unln.
Spred Russian men. they dread the savage charge
Of hery Russian women, and when they succeeded
Ia capturing three Ia battle they tortured them 70
death by way Of satisfying spite against those
hundreds Of young women who lay sluin-murtyrs
Ca patriotism,
watched women soldiers dig out their own
trenches, whore rain bomhardmeut had caused
t'Al to Ahit IA pun AROUND thUiT heavy anmuul-
ton wagons and guns well as their ueld kItch.
ems, aud set up their harhedwtre cntnnglrments
Many of thv'u were nobewomen aud wealthy mem
hcrS 81 the upper froth' OF Russia quite mum.
her were wives and mothers whose husbands were
lighting IA another sector ON the line; and every
one was u volunteer
With courage went chcertulncss. In the midst
~ the hardshipS of trench ute-and they can
sCarvoly be overvstimated-t hcSp women sang bal.
lads and catchy songs as they worked at the bust.
ness u death, Some played Oh musical iuStr,,.
mopts that they had brought into the trenches
while most Of them found time Ia attend To the COM
fort Of their pets, especially the battalion mascots
parrot and cat
Al wcrr short ~ elothlng-simplr as was their
uniform. Il consisted % a graytsh Khaki colorpd
material, ike washed-out Khaki. made In ovrryns
and jumper, with tlghtnttlug high collar and
belt They wore the same boots as were us,,l hy
men and some had their feet eucsScd Ia shoes and
puttccN Ouc og the chief difficulties ia equipptng
women has been TO nt the upper rrOth' with
boots, and to the rlEors q trcach lie has been
addcd the discomfort and l fancy pain Of dainty
fvvg Ia Coarse, heavy uaacvuslomed boots stand
luE often In a mirv of mud aud Watrr
Women soldiers had shifts 81 ten DAYS in tlrst.
line trenches 10 the enemy, with four hours un and
four hours or 1s24. AZ the least unusual noise
sudden skirmish the whole 1850 women were
oug and Ina readiness for battle,
Every thirty feet IN the Non,eu's sector stood a
"p0st.~ or sentry. Who rrCd without c-aslng. II
was her duty 10 call cut. OCCASION the soldiers
who rested In their malodorouS dugoutS on shelves
that prOtruded from the walls along each side.
Mere children were many Of these modern Anna.
sons for their ages vary from fifteen to thrty-n,e
years, and Tor ten days on stretch they had no