The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-11-30
News from Khaki Boys

| Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson nave
received the following letter from their
son, Ernest, who is in the medical corps,
Base Hospital 202 in Orleans, France ::
Orleans, Oct %, 1918.
| Dead Folks: Well, | finally arrived
to my destination and let me tell you
| its a mighty nice French town. It's
about like Spokane, very citified and a
busy place.
Marie, you remember reading about
loan of Arc Well, this is the home
town of that old girl. The buildings
that are used for hospitals now were
formerly great library, holding sew
eral thousand volumes. | can tell you
more about this place when | come
back than | can write about now, but
it's certainly a historical old town.
was surprised to see how UP TO
date and modern the show windows
are in the stores They are trimmed
very similar to ours in the states. |
have been in two or three French drug
stores (Pharnacies) since coming here.
They are different to our American
drug stores as they do not keep any
thing but drugs, surgical supplies and
patent medicines. There are special
perfume shops that handle only toilet
goods of all kinds. and one buys sta
tionery only at book stores and similar
places. asp
tried to read their drug labels, but
instead of being labeled in Latin, their
drugs and bottles were all labeled III
French. I could read some of them but
some of them | couldn't make out what
it was.
| had some nice bath yesterday after
noon. The French have regular bath
houses, where one can get tub or
shower bath, just like in America, for
about | II franc go cents). 1t was
the best bath | have had since leaving |
the states.
| received my winter underwear is |
sued to me the other day, but it is still /
very nice fall weather here. They are I
about the same material that I wore at
home. so they suit me just right. We
can get anything we need in the line
Of clothes here very easily.
Since coming here | have been doing
orderly work in one of the wards, but
.wo other druggists and myself were
to the operating room this
morning, so | expect to get some med
ical experience now that I've never
lad before It is very interesting work,
md after getting used to it ! think iii
ike it all right expect to learn
lutte a bit Of surgery and bandagmg
lere.
We have no ~ here, but we have the ;
Red Cross in place of it. We can get
igs.. etc. here 1t is located i'll
uilding with big auditorium room, {
where American moving pictures are |
hown nearly every evening. ii
1t isn't hard TO spend ones spare time {
i this place, and money also, if one {
,n't careful but you know ! was al /
rays careful, ha ha
The dickens OF it is that my mail d
aav not reach me for two or three
-eel<s yet But then ! am hoping that f
OH are all O.. K. there at home. !
ill get my mail sooner or later a
7 am going to send you a Nmas card
hich entities you to send me lit t,
c Xmas package. will get it and r.
lail it in a separate envelope and
axe a list of the things you can send i,
e may not get it by Xmas. but Al
lat does not make so very much dill y
renee. al
have read lot about cathedrals, w
1t have never seen a real one before Ii
ming to this town. The Joan Of Arc fl
thedral is indeed some church. It's
lie of the biggest ones in France. SC
i've not been inside of it yet, but GER
inly will the first chance get. Well,
am going to get me some more
,thes. and then 20 to work at noon,
will say goodbye for this time.
With love, n