SOCIETE ANONYME DES FILATURES, CORDERIES & TISSAGES D'ANGER BESSONNEAU Administrateur. BESSONNEAU is the creator of Aeroplane Sheds Ambulance Tents Hospital Sheds Sanitary Huts The BESSONNEAU constructions have stood their tests for many years in several campaigns on all fronts and in all climates. The BESSONNEAU constructions are now being imitated, but only BESSONNEAU makes his canvas properly waterproof and does the whole of his constructing himself: Tents, sheds and huts. To have every real GUARANTEE one must have the trade-mark: BESSONNEAU ---- MY FIRST NIGHT IN THE ARMY. ---- I'm there with two thin blankets, As thin as a slice of ham, A German spy was likely the guy Who made them for Uncle Sam. How did I sleep? Don't kid me-- My bed-tick's filled with straw, And lumps and humps and big fat bumps That pinched till I was raw. Me and my two thin blankets As thin as my last thin dime, As thin, I guess, as a chorus girl's dress, Well, I had a dandy time. I'd pull 'em up from the bottom, Whenever I started to sneeze, A couple of yanks to cover my shanks, And then how my "dogs" did freeze. You could use 'em for porous plasters, Or maybe to strain the soup,-- My pillows my shoes when I tried to snooze-- And I've chilblains, a cough and croup. Me and my two thin blankets, Bundled up under my chin; Yes, a German spy was likely the guy, And--MY--but they were thin. AMERICAN EYE CLASSES ED. B. Meyrowitz OPTICIAN LONDON PARIS 1A, Old Bond St. 3, Rue Scribe. ---- HEARD IN THE CAFE. ---- "So you were down at El Paso the same time we were? Bum town, wasn't it?" "Let's see,--I knew a lad out in Kansas City and his name was--" "No, I haven't been up in Alaska since 1908, but there's a guy in our comp'ny who--" "By the way, where did you say you came from in New Hampshire?" "Sure enough. We hung around there at Tampa until--" "Yes, I got a paper from my home town in Nevada that said--" And, in spite of talk like that, there are some people back home that think their own communities' men are doing all the fighting. ---- CAN YOU BLAME HER? ---- Teacher in French School: "Marie, what is the national anthem of La Patrie?" Little Marie: "La Marseillaise."