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- - . * . foe | ¥. be - La 4 ] : . : * > } ; * - WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MAY. 9, 1919, p44 E £ ) 9 . : A Sailor's Shore Leave in Wales E By J. SEYMOUR CURREY Letters from France, written by and then back to the carriage. When our soldiers and sailors have often been printed, each writer seeing things from a different point of view- A letter from Richard Currey to his parents gives somes interesting im- pressions of a visit he made to Paris in March. "Last Saturday," he writes, "we arrived on the Lake Gakoma at Havre and early Sunday morning, the ninth, the news spread about the ship that perhaps we could go to Paris (143 miles from Havre, so every one put his name in for leave. About 6 o'clock the list of the fortunate ones was called off and I was included but with only two hours' notice to get ready. I was standing watch then and had to find a substitute and get dressed in a very short time for the station was quiet far from the ship, and we al- ways have to go through a lot of red tape even at the station." The letter writer's own words are here summarized in great part. "The train left Havre at 12:50 noon," he writes, "and it turned out to be al! slew one though we had expected to, travel on an express. In fact the train did not arrive in Paris until 9:30 p. m. The country we passed through was wonderful. The train, which consisted of twenty to twenty- five coaches crawled along, making two stops at the stations to give the passengers a chance to use the plat- form. The cars were crowded and we stood most of the time so that a view of the scenery could be ob- tained. I was greatly impressed by the vast number of empty tin cans scattered along the way thrown out by the British troops on their pass- age through. It was a perfect litter of cans, rusted and shabby looking indeed. I could not help noticing what a great quantity of them there were. Cans for beans, tomatoes, 'canned willie, salmon, 'everything that travels in cans, was represent- ed in that huge litter, an evidence of the important part the tin can occu- pies in modern warfare. "A number of the stations have cafes in them, and sometimes a very pleasant little boy, always real young, comes out with some ex- tremely highpriced lunches, and that is all that you can get in the line of refreshments for it would have been risky to try to run up to the cafe at length we got to Paris we were tired out. At the station a Y. M. C. A. man met us and from there we were driven over to the Red Cross for the night. I registered imme- diately and got a little lunch there, then went over across the Champs de Mars to the Eiffel tower. It was then nearly 11 o'clock p. m. and everything was quiet, for Paris dozes early nowadays. We came back to the Red Cross, where I found to my surprise that some one had been looking for me even at that late hour. "Whom do you know over here," I said to myself, but quickly all doubts were dispelled by a greeting from Miss Kate Aishton from Evans- ton, who is engaged in Red Cross werk over here. She had seen my name on the register and recognized the family name. She was of great assistance to me in supplying im- portant information about _ Paris. About 7:30 Monday morning three of us boys started out for a sight-seeing trip and succeeded in getting lost the first thing. So we abandoned the effort to pilot ourselves around and hired a taxicab for the rest of the trip of half an hour, costing us three francs: Then we got aboard a sight-seeing bus and a Y. M. C. A. guide told us some of the interesting stories of the places we passed. 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LAME PLEA GETS CRIPPLE IN CELL PLUS $10 FINE A one-legged man can at times be quite willful and difficult fo handle as the police at local headquarters will tell you if you happen to ask them about John Zotz, citizen of the world, who of late has heen making Chicago and suburbs his peg-legging grounds. Zotz, the police will inform you, came into Wilmette via Northwest- ern Elevated Monday afternoon. Assistant chief Samuel Hoth met up!! with the man and his peg-leg near the terminal and forthwith issued orders to take the next train south. Zotz, stamped about a while, then headed for the terminal. Hoth went back to headquarters. 'An hour later came a summons from a provoked housewife appealing to the law to rid the vicinity of her doorstep of a one-legged "pan-hand- ler," who in the king's English is designated a beggar. ; Hoth rushed to the -scene register- ing considerable ire. When he again met up with the acquaintance of an hour previous he found a very defiant man awaiting him. Zotz positively refused to be placed in custody. He gestured incoherently with his hands, and in the excite- ment unhooked the artificial leg and cast it far away. What was there to do but haul him to the station in a taxicab and thence to transport him to the sta- tion house on a stretcher? Chief Sieber found $28.69 in dona- tions. One night in cell and a fine! of $10 and costs on Tuesday and Zotz was again on his way. ) PATRIOTISM By Alice F. Rafferty It's easy to shout, And it's easy to brag, And it looks patriotie To, flourish the flag: It looks very fine--and it's safe and it's fun-- | S- long as the banner is serving the gun. It's harder to save, And down every whim, That the dollars we earn May sing Victory's hymn. : The gunner is brave and his glory is sure: And our savings, in Victory Notes, are secure. a Not Much. The Romans' Thanksgiving was ded- icated to Ceres, goddess of the harvest. It "was a day of worship and rustic sports." 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