The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-23
Thomas E. DehOney, of Topeka,
Tells of Experiences.
He Says It's Great To Be an
American and Get Food.
SUGAR-IS 4 SCARCE ARTICLE
Sweeping Fly Legs to Get 1t
Popular Practice.
Atmosphere So Damp All
Matches Are Warped.

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Thomas e. Dehoney, has been writing
some interesting letters to his friends
here. Dehoney is a son of Santa Fe
conductor on the st. Joseph run, and
especially well known and liked
among local railroad people. Young
Dehoney is a Morse telegrapher. a
buzzer operator and wireless operator
| in Admiral Sims's headquarters in
London In a letter to J. w. Hudson.
manager and wire chief of the general
| telegraph office of the Santa Fee, De-
honey tells OF the way Americans live
| in England. and of some of his ex-
| periences and sightseeing adventures.
.. He writes:
Sugar has been on a vacation:
cheese has entirely disappeared and
the butter has meltei. By skillful
manuvering I managed to get a dish
| of chop suey at Chinese shop with
out a meat coupon. When old Josh
/, Perkins drove the cultivator throwing
dirt to and taking weeds away from
the base of a corn stalk, he probably
| knew there was war, because his son
| in France wrote and told him SO, but
| he never dreamed that the corn he
| was nursing would be imprisoned
within the tropical depths oe a tin can
! and sent to feed his oldest son. Here
: in London we line up-soldiers, sail
| ors and Red Cross nurses, officers and
men alike, and buy for a reasonable
! price, american canned. corn, toma-
toes, sweet potatoes, sausage, bacon.
and whenewe carry them home we are
reminded that it is a wonderful thing
to be an American
Fine To Be an American.
"You can never realize how fine 1t
is to know you are backed by won
derful and wealthy country until you
worm your way thro a crowded street.
tightly hugging a twenty-pound can
of Swifts Premium lard in a country
where the ration for lard is one-fourth
pound per week per person. Women
gaze at US aghast: children follow us
, and make fun of our funny little
white hats; dogs scent prosperity and
give chase But nothing can separate
| US from the food
I'VE members of the admirars staff
are living all over the city. in rooms
and flats and must look out for our
selves in the matter of living. This
| idea of buying good1old American gro
| ceries meets with our approval. When
first started to live on a sugarlese
and BUTTERFLIES menu, I thought If the
war didn't end soon. I would. But
, after the canteen started, and my sis-
ter sent mo several hundred pages of
cook books. have decided to keen
| going until Fritz has been pushed from
| behind his mustache.
| This afternoon 1 went out to a mu-
scum called Madame Tussaud's. /
never heard of it before, but evident
ly the madame is well known thruout
the world saw there all the motor
ious and prominent murderers of the
past; all the crowned heads of ancient
, days, and all the boneaeads of modern
times. They We're wax. of course. but
SO nfelike you didn't Know you were
not looking at humans. Woodrow
Wilson, Taft. Teddy, Cleveland. Lin
coin and George Washington all oc-
cupy space alongside Of the kings and
queens One striking feature was the
design of all the old timers to >eyade
the barber shops. Whispkers abound
In luxurious folds. I saw some won
oerIui pen wipers clinging to the china
OF such notables as John the Second
and Henry the same. or John IL i.
noted, 'Surnamed Lakeland, consid.
I cred the meanest king that ever sal
on the English throne. a monster OF
tyrann, rapacity, cowardice and in.
Jusuce' You see he was we'll though,
I Relics of Napoleon.
The chief form of amusement IN
me Iztn century seems to have been
removing the mantel piece of a king OF
queen We have thus descended from
punch OF first class butchers. Ma.
poleon's belongings are shown IN
ereat-profusion- They even have a
piece OF dirt taken from his grave. !,
, looks not unlike the dirt down or
crane street. Go down there some day
and imagine you are somewhere else
Il am going to take a flight in an
American Ell glish airplane this after.
noon, and must go now and prepare
my will.
! I have been promoted to electri.
can. first class You cannot appre-
ciate how really interesting this radio
game is. Berlin sends German D. opa.
ganda by the hour; Moscow spread,
aside his vast growth of shredded
whiskers and transmits his little say;
Rome chews the rag with various
points with reference to the demand
for monkeys and other grind-orgar
accomplices; stations in Spain, France
England, and last but not least, Amer.
lea, are at our finger tips. With such
homelike feeling as this gives me
comes the thought that some day