Arizona republican., 1918-09-08
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

department of a training camp for men In the American Field Ambulance ser vice. She is a shrewd and wise ob server, with a real sense of humor, and Heaven knows a sense of humor is necessary if one gets the truth out of the veneer of tragedy that surfaces the situation. It seems that she was riding into Paris from her training camp recently. and being tired went to sleep in her compartment, in which were two civilians. too old for military service. She was awakened by a wrangle and then-but let her tell it:
 Dorothy Canfield's Story
 Then l saw couple of poilus stick Ing their heads in our window shaking beret and asking for contributions to help them enjoy their weeks leave of absence in Paris My two. elderly trenchmen had given a little, under protest, saying (what was perfectly true) that it would go for drink and wouldn't do the poilus any good. And one of the soldiers was declaiming about the fat bourgeois who stayed at home and let himself be defended and then wouldn't give helping hand to the poor soldier on rest leave! To get rid of them, 1 put franc in the beret This was received with acclamations, and they inquired to whom should they drink toast with the money. l said Oh, give a good Vive rAmerique That'H suit me best.' They both shout ed, Oh, is Madame an American?' And to the dismay of the two bourgeois put first one long leg and then another through the window and come in noisi- ly to sit down (they were standing on the running board all this time with the train going forty miles an hour . thing which was simply un- heard-of in France before the war l.. one of the privileges which the poilus take!). Well, they shook hands with me two or three times over and assured me they had never seen an American before and indeed the two bourgeois looked at me curious ly. Then one of them began to talk boisterously, expressing himself with great fluency and occasionally with a liberty of phrase which wasn't con- ventional at all, another poilu privilege. They sat down, evidently for a long visit.
 Typical of Class
 They were typical specimens: one was noisy, fluent, slangy, coarse, quite eloquent at times a real Parisian of the lower classes, the kind which leaves its shirt open at the neck over a hairy chest and calls itself proudly the pro- letariat.' The other was fresh faced vigorous country man from Bourgogne l the type that corresponds to the middle western American, a kind of Elm porian. He hadn't much to say, but when he did speak, spoke to the pur- pose. They both, through all theil roughness and coarseness and evident excitement over starting on their per. mission,' had that French instinctivt social tact and amenity (of sort which keeps decent women from being afraid of them or from hesitating tc afraid of them; and they were botf very sincere, and desperately trying tt express something of the strange con. fusion that is in everybody's mind evel since the war what are we al doing anyhow!
 Here are some of the things tn, fluent Paris 'cockney' said fol the type corresponds in Paris to tn, lower-class cockney of London.
 He Had Enough
 See here, you know. we've ha, enough of it we can't stand any morel I'm just back from tn Chemin des Danes you knov what that's been for the last month |. then he gave me terrible de scription of that battle 'hoy do you expect men to go back to tta |. do you know what happens t
 you when you live for twenty thirt
 days like that? you go mad
 Yes, that'sswhat happens to you
 that's what's the trouble with me noN I know sound wild. I am vii I can't stand any more :.
 it's more than flesh and blood can en dure to go back into that! Why don the Americans get in it if they are goin , to? Oh, yes, I know they can't an sooner but why didn't they ge
 in. before! Oh. yes, I know why
 know .. but when you are ma you can't stop to reason. We look 8 it this way When we're nc mad, from having been too many day under fire we say, as we tai it over. There are the Englis they've done splendidly
 they've taken two years, it is true, get their army really in shape but they didn't have anything to begi : with they're fine a l that we could expect But all the sam during the two years, Frenchmen wei dying like flies . just waterir 5 the whole North with blood : yes, I've seen a brook run red just lil [ the silly poems that nobody believe 5 And the Americans -. yes .. ] suppose this man and I should get
 quarreling. Of course you can't jun
 right in and decide which is to blam
 if you don't know much about the b, ginning.
 "France Is Dying"
 . You have to stand off and watch, al '. see which fights fair, and all the re