The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-03-13

one who has good work for then
and how they do enjoy and chew u
those cookies.
December 18th.
1 Another trip to lie Mans has give
me supply Of books and magazines
Is soon as ] returned put them Z
work, and they surely did change tn
spirit of the men. More of ther
wanted such magazines as the Allan
&c, Scribners, ETC., than l had thought
Iso have written for more of that kind
! have let lots of magazines 20 TO tn
outlying camps; they do help to keel
up the spirits Of the men, and that i
worth while during this period of un
rest, and uncertainty about goins
home.
/ can now tell the Westerner from
the Easterner by his speech, and the
Southerner by his "that-a-way" and
BY some other things that mark time
The French youngsters are going tc
have something to look back to, ane
talk about, all their lives time
when the American soldat was in
town. Sometimes they will stand al
attention and gravely salute, when ]
pass.--a salute which as seriously
return. They would be regular little
nuisances if we let them into the Y,
but when they begin to cluster Mr.. p.
calls out "Allez!" That is enough.
| wish you could see the soldiers buy
and eat chocolate. ! stood at the
counter this forenoon and sold four
225-bar cases, along with stack of
other things, and changing French
notes Of all sizes from five, ten,
twenty, fifty, and one hundred francs,
but mostly one and two franc pieces
in silver, as fast as | could take the
money and pass out the goods, while
the soldier boy who helps us kept me
supplied with the goods to sell.
Believe me, this army that is COM
ing back from France, is going to
the U. S. as never before.
Each hour is SO full of active SER
vice that l have no time to write the
letters that / would like to. There are
many official letters to be written, and
for the rest-there is no chance, ex-
cept my home letters. ! wish l could
tell you a great deal more than / do,
must wait until l get home.
December 9th.
Yesterday my M. p. friend, Wood,
asked me If | would like some prac-
tice with his automatic, SO we went
out along the Il. r. to a place where
q bullet, which might go two miles,
would have to stop. AS we went
along, l saw behind a hedge, big
coal black Percheron, and going
through to look at it, found French
girl blowing. The horse was afraid of
ne, being used only TO woman, but
| motioned to her that if she would
urn it around | would plow; she did
%, and on the day after Christmas, in
france, with a French girl leading
zig black Percheron in its native
plowed furrow, and quite
Won her favor when in my limited
french praised her hopse.
We have started a reading room
lere and given out some magazines
here were not enough to go around,
,ut the tone Of the hall was changed.
December 28th.
| have been to LIE Mans to get books,
and supplies of various
orts-and now am back at Noyens.
Today two soldier boys came for
eading matter; they were college fel-
ows Syracuse who had been
through the heavy fighting in Flan-
ers with the British. gave them a
OK full of Atlantics, Scribners, Amer
cans, etc. and they went away, two
appy boys, and friends Of the Y. M.
!. A.
Next l met captain who told me
Is troubles; his troops were all sent
n, and he had been left with lot of
thletic stuff on his hands, more than
e could dispose Of, and no papers to
ettle up his army business properly,
nd directed him to a Y. M. c. A.
D you can see what the Y. uniform
clips one to do.
January, 1919.
La Suze is now our source of sup !
lies, with LIE Mans, and yesterday
'ent down on the big army truck to {
ct what could. The truck can carry ;
900 lbs, and weighs, loaded 1880, s
nd is able to do II miles an hour. /.
or time we ran through well kept ,
Inc forest; in the wood was fine
rye chateau, with drives leading ,
ON it in various directions. The 1
ork that the women do here is be- ,
,nd belief; a woman is old, at thirty. I
II Is said that rainy season is now