Evening star., 1918-08-04
FINISHED PANCAKES
BRITISH QUEEN LEFT
Soldier Has Unique Expert
! ence at American Y. M.
| C.. A. Hut.
LINEUP FOR ICE CREAM
Correspondence o, the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 20.-When the Queen
of England, on the occasion OF the
royal visit to the American Eagle HUT
n few days ago, sampled the American
pancakes she left part of her portion
on the plate A soldier. after their
majesties had departed. finished it,
and went around boasting: I'm the
man that ate the queens pancake"
The Eagle Hut boasts three attrac-
tions so typically American that they
are almost a curiosity in London.
They are an American BARRIERS chair,
an American bootblack stand and
pancake griddle.
The BARRIERS chair was discovered
Somewhere in England" after long,
patient search and was bought for
S5e. When the y. NJ. c. A. people hear
the American soldier, as he stretches
cut in it, say "Ah-h, that's the stuff"
they know they made good invest
ment The English barber chairs are
upright, with an immovable back.
In England, when an American
wants TO have his shoes shined he
looks in vain for the familiar per-
manent chair-StandS that he was ac-
customed to find in his home city.
Here he encounters only an itinerant
equipped with 4 small box. No seat is
provided for the customer. The Lon
don branch of an American shoe COM
pany presented the Eagle Hut with an
American stand which has a marble
top piece, and is surmounted by one
Of those comfortable armchairs in
which soldier can repoSe luNuri
ously.
Pancake Griddle Hard to Find.
: The pancake griddle was the hard
est nut of all to crack. The problem
was to obtain metal plate laSge
enough TO accommodate batter for ali
the cakes the hungry soldiers craved.
London was searched from end to end,
and at last a plate was found. But
after the cooker had been constructed
another problem presented r itself
What were the cakes to be made of?
Enter the wheat ration question. The
y. NJ. G. \. cooks had one idea as to
the amount of wheat that should be
used for the batter. the British gov
ernment had another-one quite diff
fe-ent. The cooks had 10 capitulate to
wars necessities, and they mixed
enough corn meal and potato flour
with the wheat to conform to the gov
ernment'S views.
To be lin on the first batch" of
cakes. soldiers formed a queue in the
hut canteen extending all around the
room They ate SO many cakes the
1rSt week tnat. according to one of
the hut'S secretaries. they used up
all the maple siTup in England. \
big supply of sirup is; now on the
way from homo: also Il consignment
of buckwheat. the arrival of which
will mean other queues.
so Quarts Ice Cream an Afternoon.
The Introduction at the hut re-
Gently OF what is euphuistically
known as ice cream caused the quick
formation of line even longer than
the pancake queue. The average aft
ernoon consumption of this favorite
American dish now amounts to eighty
quarts.
One of the seven secretaries of the
American Eagle Hut here was snatch
ing moments rest in his cubicle on
a recent sunday afternoon. when a
tall American soldier looked in at
the open door. 1t was evident that
the soldier had n request to make
siderably before nc got up the cour-
age to say he wanted to borrow a suit
of underwear.
'I hate to trouble you for anything
like that. sir he apologized. but
this being sunday the stores are
closed and I've been asked out to
dinner, so you SEQ"
The secretary found he had a suit
to spare. \ little later. passing
through the bathroom. he saw the big
fellow splashinE under shower.
SAY" the soldier greeted him. "I be-
lieve YOU can get anything here if
you ask for it