Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-07-04

titled visitor who comes to see if we
are as classy IS reports say we are.
But, anyway, the big boss declared
that a general cleanup of the whole
camp was in order, and l admit that
he was right. These French people are
all right and / love them very much,
but they have the most careless way
of leaving things lying around And
so we shoveled dirt an dtore around in
general until we had this place look
ing like a house dolled up for a we'd
ding. The only thing l objected to
about the work was that it tended to
roughen III hands. No, l am not be-
coming a dude, but we folks who work
around sick people have to keep our
hands in shape as a mere matter Of
business. Let them get a little chap
ped or broken open and we stand ev-
cry chance in the world of getting an
infection, and that, my son, is some
thing far from desirable.
A Pass TO Go to Town.
Things have clammed down for a
while and | shall grab the chance TO
cut down my waiting letter list. | can
not somehow seem to get caught up.
The other day my teammate and !
decided that we could no longer re-
main content with trips to little viii
lagos around about; so we got a pass
to town. We had no reason in the
world for going except that we just
wanted to do something unusual. !
have a swell uniform that I very sell
dom wear. | put this on in honor Of
the occasion, polished my shoes, DOM
ned a brand new pair of good looking
wrap puts, and. with my new little
cap | looked like a million
dollars. So into town we promenaded
or rather rode a rough truck, and set
about finding amusement. We bought
a few little things, visited a barber
shop, and then decided to hunt up the
best hotel in the whole works and
have a real dinner. We soon found the
place-quite a flossy joint-and saun-
tered into the dining room as if we
were in the habit Of taking our meals
there every day. (Shades of the mess
line and mess hut A little French
girl came to wait on us-a most in
dependent young person with a tip
tilted nose, and eyes that fairly talk
ed. We had a wonderful steak,
French fried potatoes that were just
perfect, asparagus, bread and butter,
besides some other junk that was
more or less ornamental. Everything
was cooked as only these French peo-
pie a put things up, and to say that
| enjoyed it would be putting it mild
ly. Army cooking is all right, but
somehow or other ! cant help be-
lieying that its chief value consists in
making you appreciate a real dinner
when you get next to one.
What Queer Dessert
Oh, yesl l nearly forgot
to tell you about the
best part. For dessert BUR fairy
brought in a pot of some kind of pre-.
serves or jam or something, and o
piece Of old, mouldy, musty looking
cheese that looked as If it might have
started in business about a year be.
fore Jonah manned the first U-boat
OF course, not being experts in THU
French eating, we did not know JUS
the prescribed form of attack to use
We had eaten all our bread and butte
and the waitress wouldn't bring u,
any more, and 80 1t looked very mucl
as If it were going to be jam ant
cheese per sc, or no desert at all. M
friends said he positively could no
eat the stuff without bread, and tina
III could eat it If l wanted to. The pre-
served stuff did look a~ppetizing, bu
somehow or other | could not get en-
th~usiastic over the cheese, in spite O
my respect Of French art in foo,
preparation. / hated to turn It down
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