The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-09-25
TRANSFORMING At THE FRONT.
u.,nr nm Interesting First Hand Ae'
c.un, al ho~ our boys Lived on the
Front Lines in France,
~ r,.nres and Grace Hoyi

Front Lines m ffshss'
n, Frances and Grace Hoy'
Tn. getting away from New YORK
WAS frightful. we ard everybody were
- excited We were given wonder
ful x,eamer.trunk; had 70 get dress
maker. Of course, and to do much
shopping, and then there we're the In
seula,ions. These were the same
which every soldier has TO have, three
for typhoid. a week apart, and wac :
eInation for smallpox, beside a most
thorough physical examination. We
tried our best TO keep the inoculnuon
facts from the family, bu, when one OF
us had high fever from the second,
which is the strongest, and talked
wildly all evening, we had TO explain
the dcssmaker had to be told to keep
her hands of our aching and swollen
arms!
Our friends wrote US lovely good
hive notes which il was almost impos-
sible 10 find time To answer, the teie-
phonc rang almost constantly, ana IN
,,s lull We answered the door-beii'
Packages were delivered every rev
moments, people called, and members
of the family whom We had not seen
for years, stopped in to take a look az
us. stayed to lunch and all day; the
aressmaker was always ready to TRY
things on, we had TO go to y con-
ferences, to have our pictures taken
and always To see something about
our passports; and the weather was
frightfully hot.
The photographs were curiosities
one Of us looked like nice fat colour
ed woman, and the other like a Ger
man spy. A stencgrapher at the oihc'
of the "Y" said when she saw them
ayes, | do think they are the homiies
ones we've hadw One of the men wh'
helped about our passports had al
epormous carbuncie on the back OF nj
neck. and he felt so miserable that h
dropped almost everything which II
touched, we picked them up and help
ed him all we could. II was all yer
sad and very funny.
The day we went to get our UNI
forms was the one on which five snip
had been sunk by U-boats, the Ger
mans were within about eightee
miles Of Paris and one Of our friend
said. "Yes, Paris will probably be TAX
en-. but think they can be stoppe
after that
All the shops got to know us, 10
everything we tried to buy they wei
either just out of but could get In u
days" or the manufacturers had di'
continued making, and they telephone
us to come down and get the "neare'
thing they had to it."
When we didn't sail the day
which we had expected to, many e.
planations had to be made, and Tres
xoodbyes had TO be said. frien'
brought us packages to be deliver'
to boys "over there, names OF men
look up all over France and Engian
and letters to deliver
Our trunk was packed, and 1t VI
hard to pass the time, so the faml
would 80 to the movies IN the ev
ming. They we're all about submarin
and wonderful picture was shown
survivors Of the Tuscania; in othe
the torpedo was shown leaving :
boat. followed by the explosion a
the sinking Of the steamer. Two
.our friends were playing in "Sev
inays Leave" so of course we want
To see /, before we left; in Il was !
most realistic battle with a subms
inc which we had yet seen!
Then we renSed two non-sinka'
e,fe preservers. There was no place
keen thew, where they would not
an unpleasant reminder to the fam
Inn. under one Of our beds, where u
smened Of rubber, and kept us ava
many nights The dressmaker $
she was glad We were going IN sa
mer, for the water would be so M
warmer then, in case We had 10 oe
a a -. al
i, for any length Of time and the g
brought us a bag Of salt for luck
/, rained all the time, ard we W
embarrassed each day to meet
friends. for they were SO plainly
nr;sed that we had not yet san
each Sunday the family had a y
marty" together and il got TO be q
4 task to vary them,
One day government inspe'
came 10 Investigate" one OF US
only one. The following week. W
We expected Of course, to be wen
our way to France, another man @
20 ask the same questions to the 81
who had not been interviewed.
Al this time the hysterieal inte
which the servant had felt for Us