The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-04-10

There are five such compart-
ments to a car, and the train
carried l, 200 Of us. 1t was jolly
bunch of fellows. We left here
on Friday night and got there
Sunday eve at about 4 o'clock.
Then we began to wonder how
many cows or horses would have
to give up their beds for us, but
in less than two hours we were
all located in nice up to date no.
tells; two men to the room and
separate beds. Next thing to look
to was "chow time" and wonder
ing if the French girls had pre-
pared any potatoes or rabbit for
us. But we were soon called to
supper and it was a pretty good
one for a ''Doughboy.". We had
vegetable soup, stewed potatoes,
roasted beef and a saucer of Ha-
eel nuts for desert. They had
garlic in everything, but the nuts,
and guess they would have put it
in there if they had known how to
about it. We soon gave them to
understand that garlic was not
for human; so after that we
had a swell boarding house.
The town consisted mostly of
hotels and wine rooms. The hotels
were all run by French. There
was any where from ten to fifty
soldiers placed in each one; so
soldiers in the hotel l was in.
1t was a nice clean town ,locat-
ed in the Alp Mountains, near
the Mediterranean coast. The
climate was nice and warm there
and when we left every thing
was frozen hard here. It is a
regular winter resort for people
from this country, also people
from foreign countries go there
to spend the winter and use that
water for their health. Some of
the people were there from the
states. for treatment. It is a
natural hot spring, | suppose
something like the springs in Ark.
Harry R. Thaw spent one sum-
mer there. was in the building
ne was said to have lost ooe mil
lion dollars in gambling. 1t is now
used for a Y. M. C. A. and the
SWEETEST one | was ever in.
Yes as to the water here, it is
no good. All shallow wells and
very unhealthy. It must be med
icated before it ca nbe used and
the lime ruins the taste of it for
me. The good drinking water was
one of the best things l found
while on my furlough.
The mountain farming offered
some Of the most amusing things
| have ever seen over here. They
did not use horses for farming,
but used picks and shovels and
lots of hard work.
Some of the mountains looked
as if they had steps up them from
distance, for they had stone
wall fences about ten feet high,
and any where from 10 to SO feet
apart, owing to the encline. And
they graded it off from the bot
tom Of one wall to the top of
the hill and so on down between
the fences in order to farm it.
They don't grow anything
there but grapes and few vege-
tables, and lots of pretty girls;
but the latter is not grown on
sides. They don't have
farm houses every where along
the road as we do in America, but
the houses are always in group
or villages.
Well, it is Sunday and the
Companies all went out to work
the roads today. / went out with
them but sneaked back in to my
French Mammals and told her
what / was doing. So now it is
1890 and / have just finished
dinner. She had fried potatoes,
fried eggs, fried ham, butter jam
and some egg pie. It certainly was
good. She seemed to be almost
as glad to have me back as / was
to get back. | usually come up
every night or ever other any
way; so I didn't have chance to
tell her | was going off on a fur
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