Weekly journal-miner., 1921-05-18

services, held the match while our
 heroes slowly started their punk
 sticks into action. The colored boy
 was sorely disappointed when all he
 received was thanks" and he went
 on his way to look up similar vic
 tim on his own account.
 Back to the ward. They went
 slowly but surely and in their wake
 travelled many more of the same class
 where upon the arrival to their bed
 sides they proceeded to swear and
 grunt over the tiresome work of
 making the bed. The bed in lact
 looked fine from the top, where the
 comforter, neatly folded, rested at
 the foot of it, but if one should come
 along and start to take it apart, he
 would find 1t a mess, for the sheet
 would be way down near the foot and the blankets all wrinkled for such
 is bed that we fellows sleep in and
 have to make ourselves. Having over
 an hour to sit around and talk before
 the 9:30 rest period started, our
 heroes adjourned to the locker room, where a discussion concerning the High tariff rate of Peru as com pared with the rates of the island of
 Yap," was in full swing and Freddie having known Peruvian at one time or another in his young life, immedi- ately took the negative end of the debate. But his efforts to make grand-stand play were useless, for a dumb-bell blew in with the Police
 Gazette and the argument went to pot.
 What's the use of trying to be iil- tellectual, anyway! The rest-hour whistle emitted its mournful striek and the boys hit the bed with news
 paper or book, though some just stretched our full length and thought of days gone by. Some thought of the old girls, while most of them did not think at all, it being too much trouble. For two hours there was silence broken only by the efforts ot some fellows taking knitting from the reconstruction bureau, talking to themselves in this fashion: "Knit one drop one, purl one" Then again, an other ambitious youth was trying to do the half-nelson on a reed basket that in the future some girl back east would use to keep old hair or buttons in.
 At II o'clock the ward was again in full swing and many came from other wards to visit or borrow money. Our ward sent forth its quota on similar errands. Somebody started to blink on a banjo and a crowd of q used to sing" fellows gathered around him. They broke up the semi-quiet with an awful vail and the noise reaching out over the road brought forth cries of protest and pleas for a gun. The singers, however, having neither brains nor ears, kept it. up until pail of water sent them flying in all directions. The man who threw the water was voted medal and the boys settled down again to swapping lies, and telling of the girls of yore. Archie, who remained silent during the en- tire conversation, finally came to the conclusion that there never was such thing as homely girl. In fact, he later remarked that every girl must be a Ziegfeld beauty from the way the boys spoke of them.
 Finally the boys start to break away one by one until for several hundred feet there is quite proces- sion strung out on the sidewalk to- wards the mess hall. Oh, yes, it is | time to eat again and our heroes have yet to miss a meal. At Archie's , table there are some of the lower class, those who ask for things with the word please" and it sort of grates on ones nerves to hear some body say, Please pass the butter?" When among the elite they say: Throw us that pin-grease," and Tets have the whitewash before it is all gone" That means, gentle reader, the milk, and the young man desiring 1t does not know that there are still t several hundred thousand COWS in this country today ready at all times to furnish him with milk But he adds that "before it is all gone" simply because he IS aware of the of the other nine men at the table and to be out of luck on milk is beyond all the principles of guest at one of Uncle Sam's hotels. Here we find Freddie having { tough time of it for when he asked for the soup he was passed the coffee and nothing iritates man more than { to be handed something that he does not want, especially if that something happens to be something to eat. He made the best of it, though, and finally captured the soup as 1t stopped to rest a moment after nine hungry men had taken some Poor , Freddie found it all gone, but sum- { morning the universal mess hall Ian guage, Espanol, that the Federal t Board so kindly teaches to the fel- 1 lows, to his command, he loudly I called "Garcon" and at his call a a waiter separated himself from ten t