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Show j "j M' 153 TMYRA MILLS, who has I returned to Salt Lake, after j I! five months iu Trance with the ;! American Eed Cross canteen service. ' - - : 1 1 . ; :- : . - yy. - v . - x y? i IU WORKER iSTK HOI Miss Myra Mills Declares Paris Still Is City of Mourning. Miss Myra Mills returned to Salt Lake Sunday after five months in France with the American Red Cross canteen service. Miss Mills was stationed in the Gare du Nord In Paris most of the time, serving meals for the American and British soldiers sol-diers who came to the canteen, sewing buttons on their clothes, doing first-aid work and directing those who had become be-come confused as to their whereabouts. Meals, ehe says, were served soldiers for the ecphvalent of 10 or 15 cents. The greatest event in her stay, she declares, de-clares, was the great victory parade on July 14, the French national holiday. Millions Mil-lions of people were in Paris, many of them sitting on the curbs all the night before, be-fore, since no hotel accommodations could be obtained. General Pershing,, the first man in the procession, was greeted with wild .shouts of "Vive Pershing!" according accord-ing to Miss Mills, and a frantic ovation was accorded tiie composite "crack" American regiment, chosen from all the overseas forces. An interesting feature of the preparations prepara-tions for the parade was the burning of incense around important monuments the night before and the piling into two great stacks, each seventy-five feet high, on the Champs Elysees of captured German cannon. Great derricks were used in making the piles and large gilded chanticleers chanti-cleers on each side were perched in an attitude of crowing exultation. Mourning is still the prevalent costume cos-tume in Paris, Miss Mills says. Thousands Thou-sands of men, bea ring wounds of every description, are seen on the streets, their numbers being so great, that their appearance appear-ance excites little notice. Miss Mills made a trip Into Belgium, I visiting Antwerp and Brussels. The Bel-) Bel-) gians, she declares, "are just angels to the Americans" and are endeavoring to I hide their sorrow and to face the days of reconstruction bravely. Antwerp, she says, is just as bustling as many large American cities and little effect of the war is to be seen. Referring to the reported failure of ' marriages of American soldiers and French girls, Miss Mills declared tjiat the ! French believed, from the attitude of the I doughboy, that his entire occupation wa. i to draw his pay chock and to spend it. i disillusionment following in the new world. ! Miss Mills made an excellent collection ! of snapshots attesting, sh-e says, to the fact that "France is a place of dirt and horrible smells, but certainly is picturesque." pic-turesque." Miss Mills is staying with Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth H. Coray at the Kensington apartments. |