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Show American Women Make Aix-Ies-Bains a Real Home for U. S. Boys on Vacation From Trenches i rtrt - Beautiful Watering Place Among French Alps Provides 2000 Tired Soldiers Every Day With Comfortable Quarters, Tasty Food, Sightseeing Tours, Movies,' Mov-ies,' Magazines, Dancing and, Best of All, the Opportunity to Meet and Talk With "Real American Girls." PARIS. Oct. 2. There are nearly 2000 ""'nhyr lnr '""rlnv'ca'tion French'tind Knglieh soldl'rs go home when the time for leave comes. They see their wives., sweethearts and mothers, sleep comfortably In the "Id familiar bed and eat home cooking. They come back to their places In the i army refreehed and renewed. I But the American boy" cannot go i home. Either he must gov without a vacation which would mean unhappl-ness unhappl-ness and reduced efficiency or a home ' must be created f"r him 'In France. ' The T. M. C. A. women have the larg-cat larg-cat part of the ahare In tre success attained. ... When the doughboy arrives at Alx the beautiful and comfortable watering place among the French Alps everything every-thing Is ready for him. The army has furnished him with transportation and xrnined to pay hla hotel bill. The Y. M r. A. finds him a room and arranges ar-ranges for his board. He Is aaalgned to a comfortable room In a good hotel, where he can have French cooking, ae a change from American fare, freedom from nllltHrv discipline, he for elrht ; dnys his own master, and so get a real "Settled In his room, the boy neaila j for the caslro, the center of Interest In the town. This magnificent structure . set down smld handsome garrtena was at once the playground and the gambling gam-bling haven of the arlatocracy of i-u-I rope. : ARISTOCRACY LENDS COLOR. i a few of the aristocracy still come I to Alx to mingle with the dnnehboys ! and lend color to the scene. The pa . I slno bus been taken over hy the T, M. , C. A. and Is operated as a club free to j all enlisted men. it Is here that the ! American women preside. These boys ; may not have seen an American woman 1 for six or eight months, and these , women are to them mothers and sis- i ' tera for- the time being there tn make I I their vacation a real homecoming. j Mrs Helen Bagley Anderson of Colo-I Colo-I rado Springs and -Detroit carries the spirit of the place.. A doughboy doesn't I stay lonr In Alx before "Mother" An- ! dereon finds him. Phe gets hla name, learns where he Is from and welcomea him In lust the manner to put him i completely at home. "Sergeant." she palls to a "voting- veteran who' wanders in late. "Why j Is It I never see vou till 5 o'clock In the afternoon? We have picnics, excursions ex-cursions and hikes. Tou can go up Mount Revard by train and see Mount i Wane You can go for a boat ride on i I the lake; there la the bathing beech j j we have fixed up for you. and you know the tennis courts and the ath- J : letlc fields- are open. There are lots of nice American girls here to talk to. there ere books, msgaxlnea. easy chairs and billiards Why don't you ever : come before ST I "Well, lady." I wakes up maybe about I and then rolls over and sleeps some more. And when Tve finished s sleeping In that nice soft bed. I Just lies there and thinks how lucky I am. But the "younger" boys, who represent repre-sent the mass, gather early for the doing, do-ing, and stay late. They are eager to talk to- the twoeeore American T. M. C A women there to help make their star Pleasant. These-women, old and |