The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-06-08

beef stew, and rice pudding was sub
stituted for canned peaches.
No one will get thin on fare like
that, and it may be authoritatively
stated that the men are by no means
growing emaclated. They are the
heaIthiest looking lot Of men to be
seen anywhere. Thin ones are filling
out and fat ones are thinning out.
Cheeks which once were inclined to be
chalky now are tanned. Hollows I'M
der cheek bones have pulled out.
Men Like the Life.
The men with whom I have talked
ike the life although 1t Is by no means
an easy one. So long as food condi-
lions remain good there will be no
grumbling from the men. The army
has been here long enough now to fur
nish added proof Of the truth of Napo-
Icons statement that an army fights
"on its stomach"
At luncheon at an officers casual
mess recently I saw men well known
at the leading hotels in New York.
Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston. One
Of them is considerable Of an epicure
and his messmates say he was inelin-
ed at first to balk at the rough army
food. 1t is all changed now. He eats
beef stew with the same relish he once
ate ~terrapin, and beans he enjoys as
thoroughly as he once enjoyed a de-
licious curry. ! asked him If he would
like to sit down with a Fifth avenue
menu to order from and, pausing in
the midst of a course Of turnips and
mashed potatoes, he said:
"This will do for me, thank'you."
OF course, the matter of appetite
has a great deal to do with II. No one
of all the enlisted men and officers
lacks an appetite. When dinner time
comes at noon the men are there on the
spot, and they are right on the Job
again at six O'Clock in the evening. 1t
might also be said that they are always
hungry. One officer, a major, who is a
very notable figure In the life Of a
middle Western city, leaned back from
his dinner the other day, lighted a
cigar and said:
'This life here Is doing more for me
than any vacation I ever had"
And he looked 1t. He said he suf-
fered from insomnia and loss Of APP
petite at times, but hat he has had
neither since he got u I'm the open
with the army. There are a good many
men Of great wealth I'm the various
American divisions and they are shar-
ing equally with all, of course. In an
officers barracks, about five miles from
the front, / saw a man from PhIladel
phia who was accustomed L every
kind of luxury. Here he was sharing
a tiny room with another man who,
the Philadelphia man said, snores tire.
mendously.
"But / don't mind Il. / don't mind
anything now when / lie down for a
nights sleep"
Can Sleep Anywhere.
The boys in the ranks have already
had far more soldering than they ever
got In the training camps at home,
They have tramped on roads for many
hours or days at a time, have slept in
motor trucks, on crowded trains, have
been billeted In barns and I'm barracks,
have slept In fields and by the roadside,
Yet there Is very little Illness and the
men look in the pink of condition.
They eat regularly and plentifully, and
the only complaint / have heard from
them is that they would prefer fight.
to constant training.
The romance Of war as pictured by
the bOyish mind Is said by the soldiers
to be largely a myth. For instance, in
a muddy roadway / saw a brawny pri.
vate pacing up and down In a driving
rain, rifle In position. guarding some
thing (even he didn't know what II
was) which vas piled up nearby. He
had been on guard for ten hours. ]
asked him how ne liked ii and he
made no reply. The sentrles don't
talk to any one.
In a camp on the American sector
l saw a soldier s~crubblng mud off har,
nesses.
"This isn't quite my idea of what
wal was going to be" he said, "but
with a touch of genuine American
aumor) | have found In my short but