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Show onnsAswi 1 iiE AFTER ' BIG BUTTLE A swim In the Rhine is tho ambition of Private W. C. Morrison, who is now in France with Battery B, 59th field artillery. Tho letter received from the soldier by Arnold F. Miller of Ogden, Og-den, is as follows: "France, August 1-1. Dear Arnold and Family: France is quite an interesting inter-esting country, so far as I have seen, and I have been over quite a bit of territory ter-ritory since landing. 1 have had many interesting trips and hope to repeat them soon. Wo are now in billets and no telling when we go again. The little lit-tle place where we are now Is a very nice one compared to some of them. "One thing I can tell you is that I have been in the Marne swimming and also fishing in the same Marne three times, but we haven't caught any fish. There are lots of fish in the creek, but we don't seem able to catch them. The most enjoyable thing we have to do now is the swimming. Every night will see the hole crowded. It is some pleasure to swim in the river riv-er they fought over so much. "It is ray ambition now to have a swim in the Rhine, and if Bill the Hun doesn't watch his step, we will bo doing do-ing it much sooner than the world expects. ex-pects. "General Pershing says, 'It will he hell, Heaven or Iloboken.'by Christmas.' Christ-mas.' And it looks like it will be Ho-bokon, Ho-bokon, all right. We have already whipped Germany's Prussian guards, and if they havo any more we will do the samo by them." 00 NInoty-one hostess houses, both colored and white, are now being operated op-erated by the Young Women's Christian Chris-tian Association in cantonments in this country. Requests for hostess houses are being received at the rate of one a day. No house is established except upon the request of the com-. com-. manding officer of the camp. |