The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-30
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Washington, July 3O.-Oyer hun.
bred Salvation Army girls from this
country have discarded the blue poke
bonnet, full skirt, and tambourine for
khaki colored uniform, tin hat, and
Bingham apron. In this costume,
with gas mask convenient, they are
ready to meet shrapnel, mud, and a
roaring hot kitchen fire while they
prepare dOughnuts and coffee for our
men at the front :,
The Salvation Army works unob.
trusively, but effectively. Since
America entered the war, $50 of its
men and women have quietlys gone to
France to supply some of the soldiers
needs, such as homemade pie, buttons
sewed on to stay, place to spend time
off duty, and, not least important, dis
interested advice.
y Close to the front lines, in dugOuts,
cottages, or made-to.Order huts they
set up shop and hang out their sign.
A kitchen stove is the most important
item of equipment. A Salvation Army
unit may struggle along with a we'll
behaved stove and no roof to cover It,
but lacking means Of cooking, the
more elaborate hut Is a failure. Fol-
the Salvation Army specially is cook.
ingT Doughnuts, apple pie cookies,
coffee, and cOcOa-these the capable
young cooks turn out in quantity ev'
cry day for the edification Of the
American soldier to whom life without
pie is calamity. One girls record
for doughnuts rests at $500 in morn,
ing. Even $500 doughnuts do not last
long If line Of hungry soldiers ex-
tending far down the road is waiting
Its turn at the mornings baking
Take Coffee to Boys in Trenches.
At night, about the time when the
soldiers are shifted, Salvation Army
lasses, escorted by officers Of the or,
zation, 60 on expeditions to the
trenches. armed with coffee and bas-
kets of pastry As the men relieved
from duty come out from the trenches
the girls distribute their gifts. AS one
soldier says: "A sup of steaming cot
fee may not look like q luxury to the
civilian, but to the tired, muddy soldier
just out of the trenches it is the last
word in material comfort" If
One fact about these girls which
the soldiers note and appreciate Is
that they are real workers with no
fus sand feathers, going calml about
their work under fire and infusine
the elusive home atmosphere into the
huts where they cook and sew. 1,
There are now % Of these. huts
built by officers of the American Sal
walton Army, and more are being
erected The unit assigned to each hut
consists of a Salvation Army officer
his wife and two young women as
sistants. The young women as well as
the men are usually commissioned, for
the Salvation Army was among the
first to give women equal rights with
men. A commission does not mean
that the officers main duty Is to give
orders. A lieutenant or captain may
be seen any morning removing last
nights mud from the hut floor OF
chopping wood for the kitchen fire
The girls have few comforts and NO
Injuries. If their hut is near a vii
lage they may rent a room in a cot
tage. If they are, stationed near the
front they sleep in tiny unheated
cubbyhole built off the main room OF
the hut. In either case they are cheer
full and make the best of inconyen'
fences and dangers. If cook is IN
terrupted by shell falling through
the roof and demolishing the kitchen
table, she gets the man of the unit
to fix strip of canvas over the gar
in the ceiling. mixes q new batch q