Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1918-01-04

ly higher altitude a fur cap with the
earlaps turned down to meet the collar
of the mackinaw.
1t would be easy to infer from this
that the farther down you 90 the
warmer it is, but listen to the next
item.
Not fifty feet behind the barefoot
boy came a colored "gcmmen " who
wore Artics VERY old to be surc), well
ventilated trousers, cotton shirt, an
overall jumper and a straw hat. He
was whistling.
The word leisurely has crept into
this article just naturally. They a:e
so lcisurely here that some of us are
trying to find out what one day in the
year it is that the laundries make a
speciality Of "one day work. - My
first batch of laundry has been at one
of these "quick ORDER laundr1es nine
days and | am told that | will receive
it Gin due time. - The only safe way
is to send one batch of laundry to one
place; buy a complete new outfit; send
a second batch to another; buy anoth-
err complete outfit and repeat once
more. BY this arrangement, now near
ly completed, | hope to be able to re.
ceive once every two or three weeks a
batch of laundry from some one of the
| places. Even the Saturday Post is
two days late here.
We have a swell place for our head
quarters. There are three floors, cleo
trically lighted and heated by the pop
ular southern fallacy, aided by two
husky coal stoves which keep one mig
gen, working at his fall specd)' and
from two to three dcluded northern
white men working over time to stoke
and feed. The electric elevator moves
with the speed popular i'll this district
| but it do move.
Our flying field is about the size Of
| Horton Walkers "plaza' at the foot
Of Main street. It has, however one
| great ADVANTAGE. 4 concrete floor over
this floor was once n guano storehouSc,
but the fire that destroyed the build
| ing took along the odOr as well and
the owner has waited, 10, these many
years, to make some use of that noor.
Our "barracks, unlike those at
Aver and Westfcld, were not built in
Il rush, or cut to fit and then spiked
together. They have the saving grace
of being well ventilated. | am told
that sometime when the south was un-
dcrgong reconstruction the place of
| our present abode was a hotel. AT any
rate there are numbers on some of the
doors-mine is Is, top floor, front ON
the right hand side going southeas~
The room was evidently intended for
summer use. | took Sunday edition
Of tho Atlanta journal and tried to
make it stick i'm crack III the door
leading to the next room in the rear,
but SO RACES were insufficient to fill the
gap, so | spent a nickel for another pa
per and plugged that air space.
We have n combination to the door
Of our room that no one but ourselves
has been able to fathom, with the re-
suit that when we have callers one or
the other Of US is forced to close the
door to conserve what heat we may
have.
Whenever the sun shines, regardless
of the condition of the mercury, all
twelve outer doors of the building are
thrown wide open. This is with the
intent of convincing those inside that
outside is warm and balmy.
That worked all right until one day
all six bathrooms and toilets froz, NJ
light. In another effort to convince
themselves and us that the weather
conditions here are ideal the bathroom.
and toilets are installed on the bach
piazzas although for purposes of evad
ing the law and preventing embarrass
ment they are lightly partitioned of
with something shade more substan
tial than fligree work. Being on thu
back piazzas and our room being il
the front of the barracks, it is some
ramble on one of these warm balmy
evenings through a hallway that close
ly resembles the runway into an ic,
house.
After long and painful experience
in restaurants we have struck n rea
boarding place where a supercilious col
ored individual waits ON your tabl
when he feels like it or immediatel,
after you have depleted your pocket
book sufficiently to win his regard 70
a few moments. When they put sa
looms out of business in Georgia, loc Ike,
the lid down and threw away the key
the former dispensers of liquid refresh
mcnts turned to the next thing in tn
line of necessities and opened restaur
ants. We have here plain restaurants
a cafcnct, n cafeteria, tea room
and some restaurants that are no
plain. The only thing nanimou
about them are the ability of thci
chefs to serve rabbit to fiji the gap i
the bill Of fare which reads "chicl
en-, and the unanimty of opinion o
the part of all that every patron
rolling in wealth.
There is one thing they are goo
J about. That is meatless Tuesday an
wheatless Wednesday. They seel
pleased to obey that mandate and hav