Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 3 | Red Cross Stations and Shelters in France Boon to Weary Pollus

I I I Red Cross Stations and Shelters i In France Boon to Weary 1 f n 7 f Y r J f Fr f 1 j r ii t. t rj j i 1 1 WN r 1 t f h d f i. i i I J 1 th J n u t 1 r u i. Ul j i if j f A i j j f t t. t 0 1 ft I 4 n X XI I S z i r is t V 5 J j f c. c v S I s 's 4 t 4 tI I k kf ti Jt t f y j j r t i r 1 I French In American Red Cross canteen near second line trenches By Marian Bonsall Bonsai Davis Of the American Red fled Cross A crowd of or hungry sweaty sweat ir In from the Fifty of or them caked with mud and filth man many of them alive with vermin In a semblance of or order thc they march back from the first line on through the second line and nod out ou into the open country countr Tho rho are or men on leave For the tho first time In six months UJ they have a chance chanco to get het away ay from the ever Impending death and nIl to got get home for Cor a few Cew das daya to their loved ones They Thc are tired and haggard as ns they tl SI along and dirty beyond all aU be belief bel be- be l lief liet Their shoulders lire are bent weighted down b by lr pound eighty packs JJack But I through the grime and smut the jO Joy of 1 anticipation and the tho fine free spirit of Franco shines In their facen i They draw up beside he ld a u little railway I station broken and scarred lJ by German Gennan shells The roof i Is half hair gone and the cold wind Ind blows viciously through the little waiting room After their long I march the they must wait alt for fOt hours In the chill chili of or that thal bitter hitter dirty little room That t was the ol old order o of things which through the agency of or the Amerlean American Amer ATner- lean ican fled Bcd Cross I Is fast passing awa away A long low built low built hut of or whito iIno now sprawls a away wa from the sta station lion toward the tho west Like hungry children the th re returning returning re- re turning scramble and struggle to tobe tobo tolo bo lo first inside Them There they find n. n co cozy y rest rent room with a roaring rOl fire blazing on the hearth nut But best heNt of all nil there ther ar are shower oaths bata In a Jiffy all arc are stripped and revelling like porpoises In the I uro luxury of soap and hot water the tho first they the have seen cen for months monthA After Arter a brisk k krub rub down with clean towels the they hey are arc ready for or the piping hot meal which Is served them In tho the rc rest t room And then there Lucre Is nothing to do but sit lilt around the great fire and smoke and gossip Until train time Thirteen of oC these canteens In and about Paris Palls nn and sc seven n at nt railroad stations and I cars camps arc are directed or ahl aided d b by th the American Red Bed Grogs Cross American America omon I serve ser In manY of them sometimes side tilde sideby sideby h by side Ide with French women The Red fled Cross Cros I also maintaining field canteens to the firing line for or the French and American armies Such canteens canteen are placed in or near tho the second line and hot drinks are arc passed out to the lie i as fla S they the go on and andoff andoff of off trench dut duty Each Ench canteen cl can keep I great quantities of hot drinks on han hand Four thou thousand Id men mente are aie sometimes served trl In a n single day 1130 In ono one month recently oo drinks were passed out A stor story l l told of or a French captain who when In the midst of or a charge chargo hl his hla men men from sheer weariness Pernod co to be he hanging back bakk a n little cried crie Courage mes enfant only a n few e. e feet more moie mo and and then wo go JO back bacle to the ue American canteen fo for Cor coffee and for root with witha a u. last lafOt mighty mIght ru rush h the tho b be bc Mies s were wele tumbled ovit o of their and the Frenchmen earned their coffee corree