The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-14
SOLDIERS ADORE
COFFEE AND
AMERICAN GIRLS
Young Women with the Red
Cross Can Feed a Sol
der in Eight-tenths
of a Second
CIGARETTES & CANDY
AT LOW PRICES
How the Red Cross Saved
Lives of Gassed Soldiers

The American boy soldering in
\ France has two favorites over there.
One of item is steaming hot coffee,
the Other is the American girl work |
er. They are especially pleased with
their favorites if they are products of
the American Red Cross.
One Of The favorites who puts her
self in the second classification is
\ Louise freeman, of New York, who
a has just returned to this country for a
short rest after a years service as
n assistant 20 chief nurse in base
n hospital and as chief cook. For the
edification of those who have not
been fortunate enough to do their bit
for the winning of the war in over
seas duty J.. O.. c. means line of COM
municaticn; also dish washing and
coffee cooking and waiting on SOL
diers is a work not to be despised if
any one may judge by the enthusiasm
4 of Miss Freeman and the ardor with
\ which she says:-"I'm impatient tc
4 get back. l don't care how hard |
n work rs long as | am doing a slight
A service for our splendid soldiers.
There neycr was such appreciation of
small things as that shown by the
American boy in France to the Amer
lean girl who is helping him behind
n the lines"
Miss Freeman has had unusual cx-
u perience abroad She has had the
glamour and the romance of wartime
~ e,1cn an11,0H +ho ho, |,
and the m0notonous drudgcly that i
includes. She has been on a vessel
that fought q submarine and has
paid a visit to the French trenches
with Papa Joffre-a privilege few
American women have enjoyed.
When Marshal Joffre visited in
America Mss Freeman as represen-
tative New Yorker met him at social
functions. Passing through the town
where ii was stationed the man be-
loved by all France invited her and a
friend tn visit French trench with
him. TncTe she had the unique ex-
pericnce C. seeing Il shot from a can
n non land ten kilometres away from
her in ten seconds after it was fired.
n But on the other hand she has done
Il nurses assistant in Red Cross hos
II pital entails, and with only one helper
d has stood behind a counter in field
canteen f4r ten hours at stretch,
dispensing hot coffee to famished
4 troops on their way to the front.
"The Red Cross house is the next
best place to home for the boy
across the SEAS" tells Miss Freeman.
at is extremely generous in giving
both gifts of the spirit and gifts of
the body Every young fighting
Amelican krows that he can find in
the canteel some woman of his own
kind who will listen to his chatter and
his condolences, and who viii make
him happy with steaming cup and
delicious IL cad and jam. He knows
that there he can find d cigarette
and a magazine and an easy chair ir
which to lest"
It's genel osity doesn't stop at the
soldiers. Red Cross nurses, although
when called into active service, auto
matically come under army rules, re-
ceive Their clothing, their equipment
and the ful niture for their rooms OF
huts from the organization.
"The boy learns of tho good spiri
of the american Red Cross when hi:
troop .rain passes through after land
ing at dcbGrkation point. He meet:
it again IL, the trenches Every di
vision of the army has a Red Cros:
representative who sees to supplying
his division with the tobacco anC
chocolate and the newspapers which
we supply daily to him, the European
edition of the New York Herald an(
their own publication, the Stars ant
Stripes, among them. He meets i
again on his way from the he's
H And always it greets like q devotet
ane (nercuS mother.
@ "We have learned to iced man il
eight-tenths of second Tha
doesn't mean they gulp. But we hat
TO feed item quickly Al1theP gil
and / were managing a canteen in
0 little French town. The canteel
about four hundred feet long, rathe
large for the size of the village, bu
troops were constantly coming
through. We made the coffee our
selves, sutared and creamed it so tha
1t could be served in q hurry. ha
bread and jam ready and waited 70
the men &c come. One day W
worked ten Eours at stretch. Tel
thousand E.ust have come througl
that day. They arrived in ligh
French CATS and formed in four lines
Then thew marched through, reQAzl
ing their share as they passed