Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-26
MAIL, MESS AND
MONEY FOR HIM
Soldiers Always Look For
ward to These Three; "Y"
Is Mkt to Home

and Mrs. E. W. Suyoam, 222 Locust
/ street, one of Steeltons well known
boys now in service in France, has
written another interesting letter TO
the folks at home. 1t was written
/ TO his brother Harold. who is stu
dent in the Steelton High school.
The letter follows:
Dear Brother:-I sure was glad
to receive so many letters from home
in the last mail. There are three
ms" a soldier always looks forward
to and they are Mail, Mess and
Money. We certainly do get enough
to eat but it is always the same
thing. Two vegetables leave when
l leave the army are string beans
and carrots.
Get White Bread
I'VE get nice white bread over
here as the government has its own
bakeries. We can get milk also for
S.09 a quart, but we must pay sos
for two tomatoes. We haven't seen
corn since we left the States. 1t
grows in the southern part OF
France, but not around here as the
nights are too cool. You can buy
almost anything you want at the
Y. NJ. Z. A., that is the nearest thing
to a home we have over here.
The way things look we will be
home before long. 1t sure will be
great sight to see the Statue OF
Liberty again. Do not think l am
discontented,-far from it. I'm
feeling great and get plenty of eN-
ercise and enough to eat so why
should l worry, it's a great old life.
Our job is coming along fine.
We are laying railroad tracks and
we work in all kinds of weather. II
il rains we put on our gum boots
and rain coats and keep on work
ing. so Harold, you want TO know
what YOU want to do before you
enlist. l was very much surprised
when I read the names of the boys
who enlisted. You listen to me
and finish you Senior year for you
may never get to France as The war
may be over by the time you are
through training in the States.
Take Long Hike
-Four of us took a hike or hNe
miles and came to an old chateau
that was built in the twelfth CEN
tury. 1t is the largest and most an
cient one l have seen since l am in
crumbling away at many places.
Il was in the hospital to see one
of our boys who had his leg broken.
| was talking with a fellow who was
wounded in the American drive a
round Chateau-Thierry. He has
been at the front since 1914 and
was wounded three times. He GER
tainly has had some experience.
Il now see where l wasted two
wears learning the Hun language
and it only came in good once. That
was when | told a Hun prisoner what
I thought of him. The prisoners
have "P. G." painted in white on the
back of their coats and trousers:
Il haven't seen a trolley car since
the day we left the city where we
landed and that car was ABOUT haitt
the size of our Oberlin cars. All
the streets over here are cooole stone
and you do not see any large stores
or hotels.
Visits French Dentist
"I went into NeVers to see dem
fist about crowning a tooth. They
do no kind of work but for the
French soldiers. l saw the dentist
who is a colonel in the French army.
He has thirty dentists under MN
and he has charge of the hospital.
His office reminds me of barber
shop: the chairs are all in a row and
dentist to each chair. All the
dentists and girls who help them are
dressed in white and all wear white
caps. 1 saw the Colonel who looked
at my tooth. Our army dentlst
isn't allowed to do any crown work
and he advised me to see the French
dentist. He told me it would cost a
civilian SIS but for a soldier he VIII
only charge for the material whlch
is So.
"He received his training in Phil
adeInhia ten wears ago. The French
Government sent five of them to I'm
iyersitv of Pennsylvania to study the
American methods of dental work.
Now each one has charge OF a dem
tai hospital somewhere in France.
"His English is fine. He seems
TO be about 40 years old ana is
nice fellow. He was glad 10 talh
with some one who was in the same
place where he studied four years.
He said he liked the American Gus
toms very much.
His office was the size of ours
nj home only the straight chairs
were hard on the neck. His bed
was in the same room. You should
see the cover on it. 1t was of bright
colors with designs of dragons,
birds. dogs, etc. on it. He had
beautiful hand painted pictures on
the wall and a velvet rug of bright