The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
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The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
World War, 1914-1918 -- Periodicals; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Periodicals
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YES, HOW DO THEY?
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Private Pat: "Mike, what th' hell kind of fish be them ye're eatin'?"
Corporal Mike: "Hush, Pat; don't be disthplayin' yer ignorance--the ould
Frinch la-ady might hear yeze! Thim's sairdeens!"
Pat: "Sairdeens, is ut? They're a small fish, ain't they? An' where,
pray tell, do they grow?"
Mike: "Pat, I'm asthounded at yer ignorance of gogerfy! Thim little fish
grow in the Atla-antic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Injun Ocean, the
Airctic Ocean, an'--oh, in all them oceans. An' the big fish, such as
the whale, the halleybut, the shairk, an' all o' thim, they live off'n
eatin' th' sairdeens!"
Pat: "They do, do they Mike? Thin phwaht I'd like to know is how th'
hell do they iver open the box?"
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SUPPLIES FIRST AID
TO CHILLY AIRMEN
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Red Cross Canteen Serves
2000 Sandwiches and
Mugs of Coffee Daily.
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The Red Cross does a lot of work over here. Its activities in taking
care of the population of the Hun-devastated districts, in clothing and
feeding the ever-increasing hordes of refugees that pour in over the
Swiss frontier, in supplying French and American military hospitals and
in furnishing the American forces with auxiliary clothing are well
known. It is not known, however, that, somewhere in that nebulous region
known as somewhere in France, the Red Cross has gone in a bit for what
has generally been considered the Y. M. C. A.'s own particular
game--that of running the festive army canteen.
So far as can be found out at present writing, this canteen is the only
one operated by the Red Cross in France. It is run primarily for the
benefit of the young American aviators whose training station is hard
by. And, because aviators, breathing rarer and higher ozone than most of
the rest of us, are in consequence always as hungry as kites and
cormorants, this particular Red Cross canteen does a rushing business.
It is situated in a long barrack-like building of the familiar type,
which is partitioned off into a social room and a combination officers'
dining room and a storeroom kitchen. The kitchen--as always in anything
pertaining to the army--is the all-important part. This kitchen is
noteworthy for two things: It has a real stand-up-and-sit-up lunch
counter, and its products are cooked and served by the deft hands of
American women.
Girls Worked All Night.
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