Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-23
.DOUGHNUTS ARE
FILLING A VOID
Soldier Boys in France Even
Eat En- For Break
fast

Pnris. Oct. II (byi MaiD.-Search
through the American EXpeditionary
Force fails to disclose any man who
sees nothing to the doughnut but the
hole. Every fighter over here might
have been born in New England.
where they eat 'em for breakfast, so
profound is the reverence for the
Great American Doughnut. Its popu-
larity has been made unanimous by
the salvation Army. the X. of c.. and
the Y. NJ. c. A., the battlefield repre-
sentatives of the seven service agen-
cles combined in the United War
Work Campaign for Sl70,500,00O. To
impart suggestion of what dough-
nuts mean as gastronomic delights to
American lighting men, let the story
OF Jimmy be told.
Jimmy hadn't eaten n doughnut
since he left America, or rather since
ne had left the ancestral shades of
Pike county for training camp. lie
had dallied with a chunk of indigesti-
bility camouflaged under that name
in restaurant of the town near his
cantonment Just before embarking for
France. 1t looked like a doughnut,
but it was a terrible thing, all weight
and no JOY.
But Jimmy was in France now, in a
large base town that swarmed with
people strange to his alien eyes and
ne was homesick for America, for
Pike county and the folks who had
known him from the cradle up and
who had pampered his tastes in food
with loving understanding. Even the
restaurant doughnuts wouldn't be so
bad now he thought. for the system
attic exercise and healthful life he had
led since joining the Army had trans
formed his usual vigorous appetite
INTO continual obsession for food
then more food. There was plenty o
chow" at mess, but he craved the
finer manifestation of the chefs art
JOll0hnnfG N G
AS he stood there, vagrant breeze
| wandered into the Kitchens of the
Y. NJ. c. a. cafe few doors down the
| street and out again. 1t enveloped
senses reeled. Could it be? No, he
| was simply delirious and soon an am
! bulance would come and take him
away, but he would enjoy that delic-
ious odor of doughnuts while the fan
| tasy lasted. But the frangrance did
not evaporate; it grew stronger, ano
unable to stand the suspense any
| longer Jimmy elevated his nose an6
| followed that aromatic trail as un'
! erringly as any pointer in pursuit oI
| a fat flock of quail.
| 1t led him into the Red Triangle hui
| down the street and there--oh! unbe
| lievable sight was a large platter o
! delicately Drowned, plump doughnut:
/ reposing with proud confidence among
other platters of comestiblcs such al
| only Americans can concoct. rea
American girl stood behind the colin
| ter and passed out cakes, pastries
cream puffs and doughnuts to th'
hungry mob of doughboys who linet
| the stand three deep.
Between bites of the luscious com
! pound Jimmy talked with the girl VIII,
told him about the efforts of the Y. NJ
G. A. to make life more enjoyable 70
the boys in olive drab by running
cafe. maintaining reading and writing
rooms, and staging a movie or "A Vau
deville performance every night.
OF course. there are no records o
individual sales but that night ther
fwas one well-known representatiV
of Pike county who was willing {
admit. with the amiability born of
satisfied stomach. that for once i'm hi
life he had had enough doughnuts.