The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-26

eals. "
I enough to have a horse dragging
them. But instead Of horse you
will find woman between the shafts,
with another pushing the cart, and
sometimes dog hitched to the axle
pulling for all he is worth. You will
often see two soldier boys, who have
overtaken couple of the old women
pulling the cart for them How such
stunt does tickle the old girls. Can't
seem to savoy why we should do it.
The Frenchmen don't do it. !, l sup
pose they are so used to seeing it,
that it doesn't strike them as it does
U.S. TO most of the fellows the thought
comes, Lord I'd hate to think OF my
mother having to do that I'll give her
lift" .-. ID, .s,.,-r .. 4
Vintages Replace Water. =
We have some great times trying to
talk to the French. The fellows who
took French. in school are certainly
in luck here 1t was especially hard
at first to order meal at the villages
but now they are coming to under
stand little English. and we also
have learned the names of the edibles
we usually wish. But many is the
laugh I've had at the attempts three
or four of us have made to get some
old Frenchman and his wife to under
stand our order. We often ended up
by taking the bottle of wine they put
in front Of US, and then moving on to
seek one OF more understanding
Mon Dieu! All Drink It!
Talking Of wine, they, seem to live
! on It over here honestly believe
they don't drink water In fact a
French women who speaks little
English, told me that they drink very
little water Water is as one of the
Frenchmen in camp told us par bon
(no good). They believe as does one
of the lumber jacks. working with me,
1T is good stuff to put under bridges"
l suppose it. is mostly matter of
being brought up to it. From the wee
toddlers UP wine is the drink at meals
and between meals. They have
all kinds of wine but the kind drunk
most widely lis a white or red wine,
and sour almost to the vinegary stage.
I can't say that Il like it al all, but at
that it Is better than the coffee they
serve Such stuff, just syruppy sort
of stuff with NO resemblance to true
coffee. The restaurant is always con-
nected with the wine-shop, cafe, you
know. Never are the two separated.
The. cafe forms big part of the
French peoples life. It Is there they
meet on a Sunday and with a loaf of
bread, some butter and wine while
away the day or good part of it talk
ing. While families, parties, fiancees,
gather around a table and the talk
fest is on. @E
Epicures, Attention!
Another sergeant and (By the way
have been promoted to sergeant;
now it's Sergeant Moffat, If you
please) have quite stand in with q
woman who. runs q cafe in one of the
villages. She invited US to dinner the
other night, and we surely had some
meal and some time. The military po-
lice have-made ruling that all cafes
shall close at 8 o'clock, and she of
course couldn't eat until after then
So after that hour she put the meal
| on the table, and four of us started
to feed up cher daughter made the
fourth) especially my companion and
myself. We started in with veal
Dreaded. that surely was great, toast
ed TO- a golden brown; then we had
chicken with French fried potatoes
land gravy, next asparagus, then salad
and finally cherry preserves and cook
les with bottle OF wine,- served
in course. The French people are
tgreat on the course, dope We had an
awful time at first getting them to un-
derstand that we wanted our meals
served not by courses. We used to,
when we ordered omelette, potatoes,
bread and jam, get each thing sepa-
rate. But now they give it to us all
in bunch. About midway through
the meal a machine drove up, stopped
at the door, and someone knocked.
What scurry there was! Madame
grabbed US by the arm, whispered po-
lice and hustled us down through a
door and down stairs which evident
ly led to the wine cellar, and left US
there with the girl. She had turned
out the lights in the dining room when
the machine came up, and so with Just
the light in the kitchen burning she
went to the door and let the M. p. in.
They took a look around but seeing
nothing turned around and went out.
You see they close place to soldiers