Arizona republican., 1919-06-16

mess hall for dinner Afterward we went home and washed up a bit and {. came back to a party. We met Miss | Ridgway. the woman in charge of girls ! in this region.
 We are to work out at Camp 2. 1t !
 is an embarkation camp where most
 of the boys stay for just a few days
 before they are sent home. Two '
 men have been running the canteen
 and we are the first girls to be Tn
 that hut. Yesterday morning. MT. Dawson, one
 of the men from our hut, came down and got a car here at headquarters and We drove about five miles to two canteens. One of them was fixed up
 so attractively and the boys looked so contented playing billiards and writing letters. The man in charge l was most enthusiastic and so was the l girl. l We visited another hut where there
 were three girls and six of them live 1 together and have their own cook and | dining room. They were nicely fixed | up and seem to enjoy their own home. We came back to the Y for luncheon
 and in the afternoon we went out to see our own hut. We met Mir. Allen, the other man at the hut.
 Our hut isn't fixed up at all, just bare tables and chairs and counter to serve chocolate. We looked the place over and will try to fix up sort
 of a writing room where the boys can write and read and play games. We
 are waiting now for the regional d1-
 rector to take us out and we have a
 long list made out of things that we
 want. We want the walls painted, a
 window seat built and some writing
 tables. Then we want to get cretonne
 and make curtains and some pillows
 I'm going to ask for a piano too, but don't know that we'll get it as they have one there now upon the stage of the auditorium where they have movies every night.
 There is a soldier boy who makes the hot chocolate, a colored cook to bake the cakes. and a little French girl to wash the dishes. so I guess we
 won't have a chance to cook much. Am so anxious to get the place cleaned up and painted so the boys will wan, . to come there. I think I'll ask for white oil cloth for all the tables and } the counter.
 The camp is about two miles from
 here. We'll probably go out on the bus about 10:30 every day and stay until evening. We are to have our lunch con and dinner at the officers mess :. l don't know how we'll like it eating at their mess-wilI tell you later. We have quite a nice front room with a French woman. She charges 5 us $10 apiece for the room. $2 extra for hot water and shoe shines and [ then serves us breakfast in our room
 hot chocolate, bread and butter whicr } costs us thirty cents apiece.
 At Canteen, Sunday, May 11th.
 l seem to have hard time getting
 this letter off
 We came out to OUT canteen yester- e day about noon. We had luncheon al o the officers mess and made arrange n ments to have two meals a day there y They only charge us two francs 6 Il meal so our two meals there vii a amount to only about eighty cent. - which is remarkably cheap for ovel = here. The meals there are simply fine e much the best we have had since we struck France.
 n The country out around this camT = is lovely. It fronts on the ocean anG n the old farm houses are so quaint anC [ interesting. The flowers and trees art - perfectly beautiful now
 k There is a lot to be done in thl. r, canteen before it will look at all at
 tractive. The men just come into thi. k camp and are sent out right away Ca. = a rule) and then on the ships for home h The whole place is so dirty, I spent al o yesterday afternoon with the littl 't French girl scrubbing off the table. h They really look nice and white today It Some of the Y men came out yester T day and Miss Whitfield and I are to gt e in tomorrow morning and ask for wha Ii we want to fix up the writing room $ Hope they'll give us what We intent e to ask for
 r Sunday Night # I'll try and finish this time 1 lief IT my letter to go over to Camp 1 (abou st one-half mile away) to Officers clu W to dance from three thirty to five
 thirty. I went with a young lieuten
 ant from our camp. The officers hay L. dandy big club room at Camp l. Tn It German prisoners built it and scrape 1T the floor and waxed it. l will sa le that it was a wonderful floor to fin n. in this part of the country. You'd D e surprised to see what a pretty roor Id they have-yellow shades for tn L. lights and bright cretonne hangin i'd curtains and cushions. There was ., -e army band that played for us and tn is music was simply grand. There wer Id mostly Red Cross nurses, only on h other r girl beside myself-didn't mee le any of the girls. They have a dane
 there every Wednesday night and tn r. lieutenant wants me to go to it but 1e promised to go to a dance given b as the marines on Tuesday night Tn