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Show Boys Clean House And Win Gratitude Of French Women PARIS. Oct. 17.-r-American soldiers billeted in a French village behind the firing lines recently surprised and won tho gratitude of the women of that village vil-lage by giving It a regular house cleaning clean-ing last June. Telling of the Incident in a Red Cross hospital, an American soldier said: "The women and girls were in tho fields cultivating. At night they were too tired to do house work, yet the whole village needed it. One day when they were all in the fields us boys turned to and cleaned up that burg. We washed every window in the place and swept "and scrubbed everything every-thing that would stand it. When the women came that night thqy were so pleased they cried. After that they couldn't do enough for us and wero proud when wo would let them have a shirt to wash." |