The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-08

about That's the Sort of a Girl d Llke hTo Make My Wife, You Bet that is slow Fly driving us insane. But bless their hearts. if they enjoy that noise machine, l can stand it.
 Some of, the boys are such splendid types. They look as if they'd stepped out of the idealized war posters. The Battle of Paris hasn't touched 'em yet and our job is going to be that it doesn |. We will work our heads off to make the canteen the best place in Paris for off time.' It makes me rejoice that they have this place. There is very little for our boys to do that is wholesome in this town. Here are easy chairs, books, writ ing tables, and an open fire and someone to talk to. That's all these boys need to keep 'em safe and they ought to be mighty appreciative of the " and most of them are.
 "If you could only see the lonely American boys in Paris! l think they are lonelier in Paris than in the camps or at the front Paris of the money spending tourist means nothing in their young lives. They are so homesick that they almost die of joy to speak to an American woman.
 "Yesterday I had a boy from Wa1er- bury ask if I'd ever been ;n Connecticut. He was standing alone in a corner, a. great, big, freckle-faced, sandy-haireo kid. just out of three hospitals and his letters were with his regiment and he didn't know how to get them, so l took all the names and turned it in to be strengthened out for him. The work here to be dohe is so tremendous, little things in themselves but awfully impor- tant in a. physiological way.
 Every American woman who can come over and be of use ought to come. cannot tell you how necessary and truly urgent the need is. It's bigger than one can realize without getting on the in side of facts here.
 T can marvel at such big organiza- tion as the Young Mems Christian asso- citation taking so much personal interest in trying to place workers in the most congenial and effective positions.
 Most of the men who come to our canteen have been wounded or gassed but many are quite sound again, though many are minus fingers. The types are almost unbelievable, one wonders where some of them came from, but they are all good Americans and almost weep when they speak of the United States.
 "The hours of " canteen work are long and its hard work but when you are away from it you get terribly impa- tient to get back to the job.
 "The soldiers run to a " woman like clllQren tO IntlT DlOlutI Wlb1i shiA IAiNAA troubles and questions. We have tried to be a perfect information bureau and their confidence that we can solve any problem for them is staggering.
 "One husky came in yesterday ana asked me where he could get bath. l arranged it in a hurry by getting NJ P. who had a room and bath to take him und er his wing. A million things like that are put up to us every day.
 '"The " is needed here more than ever until the last American boy is back home. I feel more convinced every day that it is worth all my own sacrifice to be here to help even the little that one individual may. I get horribly lonely and homesick, but that doesn't matter.
 ''I have lots of the funniest colored soldiers come into the canteen. Really, they are beyond all the, stories that have been repeated and the oldest specimens one ever saw. In their uniforms ana exotic Paris setting, they absolutely beg gar description. One said to me: Lady. if they ever get up any mo wars they gotta have 'em over home if they ex- poets me to participate. Otherwise they won't find mel
 Another said: Please, ma am, do give me a double DO ton of that there choc- olate. I've been frightened so plumb pale over here need 1t to get back man complexion