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Show vMICN Ifll 1D HUNS As Bad for France to Have Teutons, Woman Says. Wools Are Pretty Scarce in the Fatherland Just Now. By DAMON RUNYON, Univoisal Service Staff Correspondent. . Special Cable Dispatch. WITH TUB AMFUICAN A KM V OF OCC C PA TIUN I X T RICK, G K U MA N V -I ec. 1. ( iy Courier to Nancy, France.) Fran Fleiner conducts a store In Trier. V e were in there today buying socks. IV e bought the cheapest she had al 1 S jr-nnrks per pair, about four dollars and a half, under the present rate of German money. Frau Kleiner explained in English that wools are pretty scarce In Germany. Did v.e know her brother, Henry Belis-who Belis-who runs a saloon in Melrose Park, Chi-eago? Chi-eago? Excuse her English, please; it hadn't been used much in over four years. Would we like to look at some Vnlee woolen u ndersarmenis at about ten dollars per garment? Had Visited Chicago. She had visited her brother at the time of the World's fair. Would we be interested inter-ested in chopped silk underwear at ?2U per copy? It would wear well. No, she didn't have shirts and drawers to match in either wool or silk case. There had been lots of military around in the last four years; they had bought it up in assorted as-sorted lots pretty much. She hadn't heard from Henry for a Ions time. It was hard to get mail in or out of Trier during the war. Tid we know R. C. Riehter of Denver, Colo., who has a ranch? He visited in Trier years ao. Lots of Americans used to come to Trier, but they were mainly tourists. Yes, those garments did look like violet bathing suits, but people don't wear their undergarments where they can be seen. Two Sons in War. - She had two sons in the war. One of 1 them was killed in a battle in France. I The other is now a prisoner in France- I She hadn't heard from him for a long time, either. What about some silk socks? She had a few left. The war had been very hard on the poor people of Germany. What did they think about the Americans Amer-icans belns here? Well, they were not bitter against the Americans being here. The Americans would understand the Germans better. Xo, she didn't think there would be any trouble between the soldiers and the civilian population; but, of course, it was '' hard on Germany to have a foreign army within her borders. As Hard on France. Yes. it would probably he just as hard on France when Germany's soldiers were over there. About this time Junius Brutus Wood of the Chicago Daily News drifted in to assist us in. the purchase of socks. Junius owns a little fat do and lives in -constant, mortal terror of ,the small boys of Trier, who are constant- Ty running their hands over 'the canine In a most suggestive manner. Junius feels sure they are contemplating from the standpoint of a potential sausage. When Frau Fleiner heard that Junius was from Chicago she asked him if it was possible to get word to her brother Henry. Junius said he would do it, at which the old lady wept tears of joy. |