The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-24
Tells of Wonderful Chateau
Where the Minister of
Finance and Priests
Were Imprisoned.
,ADIANs FROM OKLAHOMA
French People Very Curious Are
Eager to Learn the English
Language-Men Eager to Talk
to American Girls.

Miss Anna J. Jensen of 815 Newell
street, has received the following let
ter from her sister, Miss Laura Jen-
sen, who is with the Army Nursing
Corps in France.
Nantes, France,
September 16, 1918.
Miss Jensen says:
"We are getting settled beautifully
and are really very comfortable. The
boys have been so very kind to help
us make closets, which consist Of a
wide shelf, with hat shelf underneath
and rod across for coat hangers.
Then with pretty cretonne curtain
it, a very fine closet. We also have
cretonne and net curtains at our win
dows, so we are dressed up indeed. We
were greatly surprised to be able to
get cretonne for two francs and forty
five centimes per meter-which
amounts to about forty-fve cents in
our money, and meter is more than
yard, so that Is not at all bad for
war times and the cretonne is so CHEEKY,
aside from being quite necessary as the
French seem to be very curious. Real
ly they are most amusing to us, and
we to them, am sure. We go across
the way to a little farm to get grapes
and melons, and just have big times,
trying to say something with our books
in our hands, and they talk frantically
and motion, and do wish us to under
stand so badly. We enjoy it greatly
and they seem as anxious to learn Eng
fish as we are to learn French--I pre-
sumo for the one reason--that they can
talk to us then.
We have had about week of won
derful days, and I am sitting out in
this once beautiful yard, now cut up
from putting in sewerage, but the trees
are still very beautiful and the Cha
teau is a lovely place with its high
stone wall surrounding the entire prop,
erty.
You can never realize what a won
derful Joy letter from home is until
you have been away. Now, don't be
rin to think I have been lonesome, fol-
strange to say, with all these depress
ing sights and tales from the front, you
happy right here-even happier
than you would be at home. Just now
as I am writing this q lad is hopping
across the yard on clutches, but he is
singing, and looked around just now
and smiled at him, and such a big
smile returned.
The lads are so grateful to have us
here, it's all real pleasure. We talk
ed with two badly wounded men on
crutches, yesterday, shrapnel eases who
said "My you don't know how good
II does seem to talk with American
Girls. We would rather talk with you
five minutes than Hparley VOC" French
all afternoon with the French Danes. 4
They told of their experiences in camp,
crossing the Atlantic--in rest camps
and at the front. Strange to say the
bows do not like to talk about the front
when they do so it usually when they
are at such nervous tension, that
they Just can It help doing it. They
Get so tired Of it and leave the ward
and love to get to talking with the
nurses so as to talk of something differ
ent--as they say, "it's machine gun
going off and high explosives there all
day.
The boys are certainly appreciative
cheerful and thankful to an extent that
is marvellous.
Miss De Whey told me about how
impressed she was Sunday morning in
their large surgical ward, while the
ward surgeon went down the line doing
the dressings -not one moan or word
from all those badly wounded lads.
We have ever so many Indians from
Oklahoma in Base SO, and some OF
them cannot speak one word Of Eng
fish.
Last week on my half day off, Mis-:
Harris and I visited a very historical
Chateau in Nantes, which was built il
the fifteenth century, Gothic architec
ture. 1t has all the necessary things
for defense, wonderful old draw bridge
parapet with the holes for cannon. W.
were told Of the inside well and saw
doors leading into it which were ma
soned up now. We went into the dun
geons with lighted candle where
priests and the minister of France were
imprisoned during the French revolu
ton. There were large bullet holes il
the walls outside and in. the hallway:
from the time the castle was storme6
during the French revolution. The
Edict Of Nantes was signed here, anG