Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-06-11

| day of comparative rest In the military
camps and naturally therefore Sun
day is the day on which most Of the
soldiers find 1t convenient to visit
the home and the grave Of the great
George. 1t is hard to understand why
the rule Of peace times has been con-
tinued in war times and visitors still
are shut out from Mount Vernon on
| the Lords Day.
At lite Best In the Spring.
The pilgrimages to the Potomac
mansion still are continuing. In this
spring season Mount Vernon Is at its
best The old hedges which were
planted by the hand OF George, him
self, still are green and fiourishing,
and several great trees which as sap
lings he planted still cast their shade
over the historic mansion.
The soldiers outnumber civilian WIS.,
itOrs to the place today certainly ten
to one, and 1t Is an agreeable thing
to say that virtually every soldier OF
foreign army who has been in Wash
| ington with the various missions here
present has made 1t a matter Of CON
science of heart, and of interest to
go to Mount Vernon as a mark OF
respect to the man under whose hand
the chains of monarchy dropped from
! the limbs of the American colonies.
Living In France to Be Better.
A bulletin just Issued by the de-
partment of labor carries this head
line: British Housewives Want
American Convenlenees."
The department of labor might have
gone farther than this. for 1t truth
fully could have said that the French
housewives and the Belgian house
wives want American conveniences.
The American soldiers ideas OF living
| conditions took hold of the men and
women of France. One thing was set
| down as a truth: When the villages
of France and Belgium are rebuilt.
! bathtubs therein will not be a Curl
| osity as In former days.
The wonder is II Americans who
have not travelled abroad have an un-
derstandlng of housing conditions in
France outside of the big cities, and
to considerable extent In the big
cities themselves.
Everybody read at the beginning Of
the war how amazed the villagers
and the farming people In France
were at the determination of every
81 Egh 20 "a hO
he could get II by hook or by crook.
The water-drinking habit Of the Brit
ish also was hard for the French and
the Belgians to understand.
Getting a Drink in 6rest.
One can speak from personal ex-
| perience of certain things which hap
pened after the American army got In
to French territory. In a hotel In
Brest 1t took me forty-fve minutes to
get n drink of water. | asked young
woman acting as what we would call
u bellhop II she would be good
enough TO get me a drink, or tell me
where 1 could get one. Her answer
was n question In French:
what sort of wine does Monsieur
wIsh?"
When / told her that wanted a
drink of water she looked perfectly
flabbergasted. A request Of that kind
probably had not been heard In that
hotel for many moons.
There was consultation of young
women on the subject of how to get
me drink of water. 1t must be said
that this request was made between
meals. On the French tables there Is
always carafTe for ornamental pur'
poses, but brought into occasional
use by Frenchmen who like to mis-
their water with their light wines
although the wine Is SO innocuouS
that dozen glasses of II will not In
toXicate,
After the consultation was over {
glass of water was produced, but the
young woman who gave it to me sale
, that she didn't think II was quit
. fresh.
No Ventilation for Peasants.
In France the peasants have had tn
centuries long habit of sleeping witt
all their windows and doors tlgh
> closed. This fact probably is respon
sible for some of the tuberculosis
which exists In France. America
= soldiers asked the French people 1
/, the village in which our boys wer
: bllleted why they did not ventilat
| tbeir houses. American doctors, vo
, unteering to care for some of the sic
: among the French peasants. insiste
: on ventilation and many Frenc
g man. woman and child. under the d
e rection of American physicians, sleI
5 with windows open for the first tim
n in their lives The report is that the
liked IL. The word is that the Frenc
people in some sections of the COUNT
: are going to demand American in
o provements and are not only goin
e to demand them, but are going to Z,
e them.
e When once the hathtub. the vent
l. lator, modern washing appliances an
other modern things are taken I'M
n parts of Frapce and put into use. n
a people of the other parts of the coul
Z try will demand them.
on the tradesman and introduce hin