Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-28

Continued from Last TssueD

Although, as I have said, l suf
fered greatly from hunger while
! occupying this house there were
one or two things l observed
through the keyhole or from the
windows which made me laugh and
some of the incidents that occurred
I during my voluntary Imprisonment
were really rather funny.
From the keyhole could see,
| for instance, a shop window on the
other side of the street, several
| houses down the block. All day
| long German soldiers would be
passing in front of the house and
I noticed that practically every one
of them would stop in front of this
store window and look in.
Occasionally a soldier on duty
/ bent would hurry past, but l think
/ nine out of ten of them were suffi-
GENTLY interested to spend at least
| a minute, and some of them three
/ or four minutes, gazing at what
ever was being exhibited in that
| window, although 1 noticed that it
| failed to attract the Belgians.
Sausages as Magnets.
have 2 considerable streak of
curiosity in me, and l couldn't help
wondering what it could be in that
window which almost without ex-
ception seemed to interest German
soldiers but failed to hold the Bel
/ gians, and, after conjuring my
/ brains for a while on the problem,
| came to the conclusion that the
shop must have been a book-shop
and the window contained German
magazines, which naturally enough,
would be of the greatest interest
/ to the Germans but of none to the
Belgians.
At any rate, l resolved that as
soon as night came / would go out
and investigate the window. When
/ | got the answer l laughed so loud
/ that | was afraid for the moment
must have attracted the attention
of the neighbors, but I couldn't
/ help it.
The window was filled with huge
quantities of sausage The store
was a butcher shop and one of the
principal things they sold, appar-
emily, was sausage. The display
/ they made, although it consisted
merely of quantities of saUsages
piled in the windows, certainly had
plenty of pulling" power. 1t
! pulled nine Germans out, of ten
out of their course and indirectly
/ pulled" me right across the
\ street!
! The idea of those Germans be-
| ing so interested in that window
| display as to stand in front of the
window for two, three or four
/ minutes at a time, however, GER
4 tainly seemed funny to me, and
when l got back to the house l
sat at the keyhole again and
/ found just as much interest as be-
/ fore in watching the Germans
! stop in their tracks when they
reached the window, even though
l was now aware of what the at
traction was.
Fly-Catching as a Sport
One of my chief occupations
. during these days was catching
flies l would catch a fly, put him
in a spiders web (there were
| plenty of them in the old housed
and sit down for the spider to
come down and get him. But al
ways l pictured myself in the
same predicament and rescued the
! fly just as the spider was about to
| grab aim.
! Several times when things were
| dull / was tempted to see the trag-
| edy through, but perhaps the same
/ Providence that guided me safely
/ through all DeriIs was guarding too
| the destiny of those flies, for / al
ways weakened and the flies never
| did suffer from my lust for .amuse-
ment.
The house was we'll supplied with
boOks-in fact, one of the choicest
| libraries / think l ever saw-but
| they were all written either in Elem
| ish u French. / could read no Flem-
! ish and very little French. I might
| have made a little Roadway with the
latter. hut the books all seemed too
deem for me and / gave it up.
There was one thing. though, that
| did read and re-read from begin
ming to end; that was a New York
Herald which must have arrived Just
about the time war was declared.
Several things in there interested
me, and particularly the baseball
scores, which l studied with as much
care as a real fan possibly could an
up-to-date score.
Laughs Mt ''Heinie Zim''
! couldn't refrain from laughing
when | came to an account of Zim-
norman (of the Cubs being bench
ed for some spat with the umpire,