Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-08-15
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omelet instead of the delicious beef
steak our mouths had been watering
for
Our Fourth of July celebration was
safe, sane and very unique. We had
baseball game, and an American
band in the afternoon. After supper
Old Glory and the French flags were
brought onto the field. Major Cabot
made patriotic speech asd he was
splendid, as he always is. President
Wilson's telegram to the men in the
hospitals all over France was read,
and the two national airs were played
by the band After that, there was
boxing, and some of it was very funny
and lively. The donkey race was the
funniest thing of the evening. You
never saw the small funny "asses,"
just like the pictures in the Bible, but
we actually see lots of them over here.
They were hitched into two-wheeled
carts like the one the Moody children
bodies and one seat in the middle.
Two nurses sat on the seat and there
were two teams racing. One donkey
had half a loaf of French bread tied
to string and fastened to his collar.
| think the bets were up on that little
beast. The race began. The donkey
without the bread beat it right straight
along, about like the tortoise. The
other one-weM one hardly knew
which way he was going. The nurses
tried all kinds of stunts to keep from
disgrace, and at least move out of
the starting line. One beat him with
a beautiful Japanese soft sofa cushion,
the other nurse used the whip on the
other side of him. Then one jumped
out and tried to lead him. By the time
the first donkey was two-thirds around
the field, the red-headed nurse could
stand it no longer, so leaving the
lines in the hands Of her partner, she
jumped out and ran around the field,
finishing the distance about two min
utes before the first donkey arrived.
The first prize, a delicious box of
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Cross to the driver of the first donkey.
Another amusing feature was when
half a dozen soldiers partially dis
robed, putting their hats in one line,
their coats in a line ten feet behind
their hats, their Ieggings back ten
feet more and their shoes back anoth-
er ten feet. Then they all lay down
beside their shoes. The bugler blew
many calls, but at reverly (the rising
call which is blown every morning at
5:45) was blown, all were to get up,
put on their shoes, lace them, put on
their leggings so they would stay, put
os their coats and button every but
ton, put on their hats and salute the
judges who stood on the platform only
short distance in front Of their
hats. If one made a move to get up
before the proper CALL he had to go
back of the line ten feet. 1t was one
wild scramble. Only one mistook
'pay" call for the right one. Every
one agreed that that call always
should be responded to, but the man
had to move back just the same.
The Red Cross also gave refresh
NESTS, ice cream and cookies, to all
the patients A good ending for a
perfect day.
This morning l have been for a bi-
cycle ride. The weather is the most
wonderful that New Englander
could ever imagine. Wonderful roads,
dusty but level, smooth and very
shady in long spots. The foliage and
cultivated lands are always treat.
The landscape has it's variations in
trees, houses, vineyards, groves, es-
tates, walls and gates.
We are doing our bit. Sometimes it
is hard and monotonous, discouraging,
and one feels lost in the shuttle, while
at other times we know we are in the
right. War can't always last, and we
have only one life to live, and we will
make every day count what we can.
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