Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-11

London, Aug. 1o.-lCorrcspcnd- ence of The Associated Press. )- When the Queen of England on the occasion of the Royal visit to the American Eagle Hut few days ago, sampled the American pancakes, she left part of her portion on the plate. A soldier, after their Majesties had departed, finished it, and went around boasting, "I'm the man that ate the Queens pancake"
 The Eagle Hut boasts three attract ions so typically American that they ar are almost a curio city in London They are an American barber's chair, an American bootblack stand and a pancake griddle.
 The barber's chair was discovered somewhere in England" after long patient search and was bought for $50. When the Y. M. C. A. people hear the American soldier, as he stretches out in it, say "Ah-h, that's the stuff" they know they made a gcod investment. The English barber chairs are upright, with an immovable back.
 In England, when an American wants to have his shoes shined he looks in vain for the familiar perman- ent chair-sands that he was accustom- ed to find in his home city. Here he encounters only an itnerant sidewalk knight of the shoebrush equipped with small box. No seat is provided for the customer. The London branch of an American shoe company presented the Eagle Hut with an American stand which has a marble top-piece and is surmounted by one of those comfortable armchairs in which a sol dier can repose luxuriously.
 The pancake griddle was the hard est nut of all to crack The problem was to obtain metal plate large enough to accomodate batter for all the cakes the hungry soldiers craved. London was searched from end to end and at last a plate was found. But after the cooker had been con- structed, another problem presented itself. What were the cakes to be made of? Enter the wheat ration ques- tion, The Y. M. c. R. cooks had one idea as tc the amount of wheat that should be used for the batter; The British government had another one quite different. The cooks had to capitulate to wars necessities and they mixed enough corn meal and po- tato flour with the wheat to conform to the governments views.
 To be Gin on the first batch' of cakes, soldiers formed a queue in the hut canteen extending all around the room. They ate so many cakes the first week that according to one of the Hut's secretaries, they used up all the maple syrup in England. A big supply of syrup is now on the way from home; also a consignment of buckwheat, the arrival of which will mean other queues.
 The introduction at the Hut recent ly of what is euphuistically known as ice cream caused the quick formation of a line even longer than the pan cake queue, The average afternoon consumption of this favorite Ameri- can dish now amounts to eighty quarts.
 One of the seven secretaries of the American eagle Hut here was snatch ing moments rest in his cubicle on a recent Sunday afternoon when tall American soldier looked in at the open door. It was evident that the SOL dier had request to make, but he hesitated and stammered considerably before he got up the courage to say borrow a suit of underwear.
 "I hate to trouble you for anything like that, sir" he apologized, "but this being Sunday the stores are closed, and Eve been asked out to dinner, so you see-."
 The secretary found he had a suit to spare. A little later, passing thru