Show I I DOUGHNUT GIRLS i i GET SOUVENIRS SOUVENIR By Miss Irene Written for the United i- i 4 T THE AMERICAN TROOPS AT THE FRONT July 15 By Mail Mail Mail- American merican boys have the nicest ways i of appreciation of any anyone one Inthe Inthe in inthe the world we have decided We Ve cant can't do anything out here for them without without without with with- out being thanked and thanked In the most surprising and ways ways ways- you would never never guess what some some of them are v We have had a keen collection of notes from the tre trenches hes most of them In answer to batches of doughnuts we sent out to boys on n duty They are written on scraps of oC paper backs of envelopes or anything though some of them are very carefully written on the nicest of p paper per We are surprised to get the latter from the trenches We Ve will have to get up a book of notes from the trenches after atter the war for gems come com In among them Some are in ill poetry Imagine boys out there under shellfire writing poetry to thank us for doughnuts but they do it One note said we girls were Just as necessary necessary sary to the regiment holes were to the doughnuts LOTS OF SOUVENIRS One of the favorite ways among the boys of saying thank you is to gather up souvenirs and send them back to us us We have a collection of them now that we will always delight In and we wouldn't part with any any- of them We have lots of shells of all sizes with the powder removed of course Many of them have been made into vases and when we get back home we will have flowers everywhere if we use all our vases One company has to get each of us a boche helmet the next time it can make a raid We are go going going going go- go ing to see that the members of this company hav have doughnuts doughnuts' to eat Just before the PI sd and the boys say the Doughnuts nuts will make mak them m get geX the Germans Another company has sent us some captured signal balloons and colors i I think the best present we e have had hadIs Is He is lis our little fox I We had mended clothes and baked doughnuts for one of the boys In a machine machine ma maM chine gun company he was always alway I Ia bashful a and got tangled up when ho he tried to make little remarks of thanks OnO One day he came ame in fri with the tiniest cutest little fo fox ever seen Ie He e h had d found the fox ox and said he wanted to give it to us for a mascot W We w were v re re crazy about it right away and arid named named him after atter a general dink h- h 11 h n ft months now and he e Is s Just as tame as a pu Py We never give ive him meat ment and he has kept gentle and tame He plays around with with- the two the two dogs dogS' which other boys have given us and seems to have forgotten entirely that he lie Isa is isa isa a fox ox S THEY LIKE TO W WORK RK Another thing we like about our boys boyd Is their willingness to work When we first moved out oit hero we were assigned as as- as assigned assigned signed a detail of three boys to help us with our work for we could not make fires cut wood and do everything when we had lad to make a thousand doughnuts a a. day But the detail soon proved tinne unnecessary essary for we had more help than we could use In the army no one likes hikes kitchen police w w-e- w had always heard But we I found out otherwise Some boys like It We used to ask sk for volunteers among th the doughboys to help was wash wasi dishes One day some officers came caine along and saw some privates washing dishes for us One of the lieutenants said Run along fresh freshman an were we're go- go J ing to do this work They dl din did I and we had officers for K P. P duty Usually when the boys bOs come Cope come in to tovo vo volunteer to w work rk either washing dishes or cutting wood they say they are homesick They The say working around a kitchen takes them back bac home for a while and they enjoy enjo it a alot alot alot lot because I it itis ls Is so different from duty In the army We Ve are glad th they y ylike like It it S |