The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-31
VICTORY WILL
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They hand on our every wish and do
everything they even family imagin-
ed we might want done. Pour Vors
(for YOU Is continually on their lips.
At night, Madame N brings up the
Strawberries Yesterday, G asked her
how much our board and room would
be a day. In utter establishment she
dropped big skillet on the stove and
in an almost injured tone, said. you
bring your own stuff, l only cook 1t.
You risk yourselves for us, why
should We take money from you?" He
explained that we did not bring straw
berries from our commissary nor soft
feather beds but she waived the whole
subject aside and only laughed. Some
how, though. we are going to get some
money into the family Golfers before
we leave.
The other evening when we came
from drill what should we see at the
door. but Muzamo. scrubbing the mud
| dy boots we had left upstairs. She held
up we'll polished shoe and inquired,
Bon? Good l don't know when l
felt SO ashamed. Red to the ears,
took the shoe and did my best to ex-
plain that she must never do such a
thing again, and l sent posthaste for
my man to do the job, but she seemed
considerably crestfallen and did not
understand very well. Luzamo, they
say 'Luz-a" is quite the best looking
little French lady that we have seen.
She, in common with an unusual num-
Der of local bellies, seems to have an
overshare of grace and charm. Her
dark eyes slant little and her bangs
are most becoming. She is simplicity
itself, and first had difficulty in get
ting her to talk at all, but now we are
all good friends. Goeway has given
her an English-Frenchg grammar which
she studies quite alittle. When we
come home at night she has some
new word to spring. "All right, thank
you" What time is it 2" ETC., and then
beams waiting our approval. This
morning at the breakfast, G told her
the band was going to play in front
of the church at five o'clock and she
was to go with him. At dinner she
appeared with a new string of beads,
, (red), a new hair ribbon and little
corkscrew curls at the side of her
bangs. She was all fixed up to go
and had shined our shoes .(Awful)
The other evening on coming from
our work, Monsieur LIE Cure (the
priest) was sitting by the kitchen
stove talking to the family. | had
! seen him on the streets, gray, griz
zled old man. tall and raw boned. his
flowing robes, rusty and patched
| Tapping around his thin ankles. He
poked sharp chin out at you and
squinted through twisted, iron trimmed
spectacles. He took off his black
skull cap tremendously and bowed
like his stiff old bones were about to
crack He talks explosively and his
loose lips puff out, showing jagged
teeth. After talking awhile Che talks
broken English, of which he is very
proud, he. took me gravely by the
shoulders and said that l looked very
much like his uncle who was priest,
and that as long as | was in the vii
Ilage, he would be an uncle to me. 1t
was simply another expression Of
gratitude the people feel toward us.
was reminded again of the French
poilu (their enlisted mem who stuck
his head out of a troop train when our
train had stopped. With outstretched
palms and shining face he cried, "Ah
mes anil" Mes Americoni, ami! My
friends, my American friends; and
then looking fierce and gesturing as if
turning bayonet, yelled, Give EN-
hell Give 'em hell!
What a wonderful day. l shall new
ier forget when General Pershing re-
ceived the regiment. Without any
previous warning the bugle sounded
to call to arms and the company with
all the others double timed into place.
The colonel called us up in front and
broke the news THAT the general would
look us over. We hadn't more than
gotten back in front Of our commands
when the buglers came down the
road sounding attention and the big
limousines began to whirl by us.
Speed laws are not in force in France
We presented arms; the band played